Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-08-01
STRONG ENDORSEMENTS
FOR MAJOR ELNINS
Prominent Republicans Of Many Sections Of the
State Vie With One Another In Paying
Tribute to Popular Candidate

Labor has, and can have, no better
truer friend than Major Davis Elkins,
The same was true of his father the
late Stephen b Elkins. Senator El-
kins never got out an injunction
against his employees in his lifetime
Since Major Elkins took control of the
Elkins mines and railroads there has
never been a strike or suspense
even for a day. The mining rate pa /
at the Elkins mines is eight cents per
ton more than the scale in District
Seventeen, the prevailing rate. On the
M. & K railroad, owned by the Elkins
interests, the following wage scale is
in effect: Engineers, S6.3S; conductors
$5.98; firemen, $462; brakemen. SAIL;
trackmen, 1925" my
friend Mr. S. S. Buzzard, in the Nor
gan Messenger, expresses my thought
with reference to Major Elkins at
tachment for the soldier. He says: Z
cast my lot with Major Elkins My
chief reason for so doing is the fac
that he is in the army So is my son
now in France | feel there is a sym
pathetic chord between them and my
self, though they have never seen each
other About every father who has 81
son in the army feels the same way ="
/. -. other candidates may
have better working crew because Of
their presence and personal work, but
none of them have the sentiment that
exists for Major Elkins His mar
reaches back to the days of tn
strength and power Of the Republics
party when the only speculative e,
ment in each election was the size OF
q INC " Ia 4
been a factionalist, nor has he at
tempted to control primaries or cor
yentions through party machir cry II
has not frequented the state
tive halls seeking to organize the Sc
ate for this or that interest, or
throttle progressive legislation. 7
could not wage a campaign Of abr
nor would he permit his friends
do so.
From the East Side of Preston Court.
Hon William Henry Glover, pres.
dent of the Terra Alta National BanG
member Of the State Legislature am
for years postmaster in his city, Tern
Alta, says: I'VE Republicans eae
and every one Of us, regardless of any
hard feelings in the past ought to &c
together and straighten out our politi-
cal messes by e.ecting Major Davis
Elkins to the United States Senate
His father, Stephen b. Elkins, was the
very man that made the state Re
publican when it was Democratic we
want no Stacker for the United States
Sentative want no brain-storm artist
delivering the goods in a halfway
fashion-we want man who stands
for progressive Republican ideas,
whose experience fits him to develop
those ideas, who can keep right on en-
dorsing woman's suffrage-and we are
glad to see Davis Elkins appreciate
what the women are doing in this
war! West Virginia has got a lot to
learn in the recognition of her women
and in the future generation when
women will play even a greater part
in it's development, And right here,
without meaning to arouse any antag-
onistic feeling, feel it my duty to en-
phatically endorse Major Elkins be-
cause he is willing that West Virginia
should first enjoy and commercialize
her oil and gas before sending it to
the four corners of the earth in order
that individuals and corporations
should prosper Mr.. Highlands atti-
gas here in West Virginia has been
seriously questioned. | would hate to
ink that we Republicans, looking to
best interests of the state, would
fail to elect Davis Elkins as our stand.
ard-bearer, and think each and every
one will wake up early in the morning
on August 9Th, ready to vote for Ell
kiRs."
Ex-Governor Glasscock, Too.
Former Governor William E. Glass
cock, Morgantown: 'As to West Vir-
ginia's senatorial race, l am willing
that every voter in this state should
know where l stand and why. Major
Davis Elkins, whom | have known as
lad, a boy and a man for more than
% years, possesses such attributes as
are necessary to enable him to dis
charge the duties of the high position
which he seeks. When l. as
Governor, appointed him a member of
the United States Senate, I had no
doubt whatever that he would fill the
place with honor to himself and state
and with the respect and esteem OF
his more experienced colleagues. His
record shows that my belief in him
was fully justified. Davis Elkins has
never failed when the true test of prfn-
ciples and manhood came In all his
political activities he has been one Of
the staunches Republicans I have ever
known. He is always for party soil
darity, willing to make any concession
and personal sacrifice in order to pre-
serve and sustain the principles and
policies of Republcanism. In healing
party differences, settling fractional dis
putes, harmonizing the misunderstan3
ings of various party leaders, he has
been Of invaluable aid to the cause IN
West Virginia His Republicanism II
deep-rooted, strongly founded in pri7-
ciple, and he never allowed personal.
or preferment to stand in
the way Of measures he believed nee
essary to party success. 1t
is my sincere conviction that we can
not do better for the state and for the
nation than to elect him"
Wheeling Industrial
Willis II Marshall Deputy of Ohio
county. Wheeling: Wheeling being
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