Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-11-02
Melville DAWSON Post, Noted
Writer, of Lost Creek, Harri-
County, Tells Why All Voters
Should Rally to Support OF
Fairm0nt Statesman
UpheavaI Of Gigantic Reconstruction
/ to Demand Man With Vision and
| Ability to Accomplish Things in U.
I 8. Senate - Support Of President
| imperative.
(By Melville parisson POST

This Is no mere political contest.
Every citizen when he marks his bal
lot on the 5th Of November will be
voting in great directors meeting
He will be voting for a man to repre-
sent his business in the immense in
dustrial adjustment that Is before us.
Every interest that we have has been
affected by this war It's necessities
have been extended In every direction.
Trade, production, manufacture labor
OF every class come under its disturb
ing influence. Coal, iron, lumber, rail-
roads, oil, gas, mercantile pursuits,
agriculture - everything upon which
our people depend for the means Of
life have been disarranged and must
be fitted to new conditions. This adj
5ustment is vital to you. You must
have the best business intelligence
that you possess to undertake It; the
soundest, the sanest intelligence.
Think about the man you want.
Wilson Needs Watson and You Need
Watson.
On any day the barbarian assault
on the world may go to pieces. And
Immediately the whole business of the
United States will be in the upheavai
of gigantic reconstruction. War
production will cease Thousands of
acres of machinery willsbe scrap iron.
Millions of people will be released
from employment. Old conditions will |
be gone. new ones will be undeter.
mined. And the capital and the labor |
Of the country alike will be unsteady
and bewildered West Virginia, more |
than any other state, will be shaken. |
And more than any other state her |
hope of emerging from this chaos.
with her many varied businesses, |
sound and prosperous, will depend on |
the man who stands for her in the |
United States Senate II that man is |
a mere receptive person whose inter |
est in affairs is taken by inheritance |
and whose leadership in his party fol. |
lows the autocracy Of birth, we must |
receive what the chance OF undirected |
affairs may assign to u.s.. But If that
representative is man who by his in. I
dividual efforts, his sound sense, his
grasp of conditions, his will to make
West Virginia factor in the business
affairs of the world, has equipped him
for national leadership-then, for US, |
there will be no industrial debacle. I
And whatever may happen to other
states represented in their political
leadership by the weakling, the Boil
shevilzi or the demagogae, no strange,
disturbing, revolutionary thing will
happen to us.
No Sentiment Concerned.
The reluctance of our fathers to adj
vance men into positions of RESPONSE
bility because of birth or Inheritance
does not lie in a mere sentiment. 1t
is not vain prejudice It has its origin |
in the fact that no accurate measure
can be taken Of such men. Having /
received his position from another, i'm
stead of venture in the world on his
own energies for it, we have no test
by which such man can be deter. /
mined. And so, following our fathers, I
we are doubtful of such INFESTED men I
in the necessity Of great affairs. We
are before the most unsettled epoch /
in the history of the world. And in
the face of it we must choose man
to stand for us In the United States
Senate We are forced, driven by I
necessity. TO think about the man we
will select. We must make our choice
of two candidates. What do we know
about the men? Davis Elkins took
his property interests in this state By I
the accident OF birth and his promin-
ence in his party by inheritance from
his father We know what has been
done for him but nothing of what he
could do for us. We know his ability
to receive but not his ability to accom-
plish. This is one of the men; what
about the other? Clarence W. Watson
has built up his varied business in.
teTests by his own individual efforts. Z
With vision, with faith in the re-
sources OF his state that never failed l
him, with a will to accomplish some-
thing in the world that no adverse for
tune could bludgeon into servility. the
man true to the best American tradi-
tions, has put himself at the head OF L
cur affairs Before us. smoke-screened L
by this war, Is new, unknown world. 1
All men are fearful of it. Shall we
trust ourselves in It's obscurities to the
autocracy of birth or to the democracy
of merit2 Shall we select Davis FL
kins or Clarence Watson to care for 4
this commonwealth In the greatest
economic uncertainty OF all time?
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