Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-08-01
STRONG ENDORSEMENTS
FOR MAJOR ELKINS
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 FL
k1ns 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 a suspension,
even for day. The mining rate paid
at the Elkins mines is eight cents per
ton more than the scale in District
Seventeen, the prevailing rate. On the
NJ. & X. railroad, owned by the Elkins
interests, the following wage scale is
in effect: Engineers, $6.3S; conductors.
s5.9S; fremen, $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: 4
cast my lot with Major Elkins My
chief reason for so doing is the fact
that he is in the army. So is my son
how in France. | feel there is SYM
| pathetic chord between them and my
self, though they have never seen each
| other About every father who has
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 name
! reaches back to the days of the
strength and power of the Republican
party when the only speculative ele-
ment in each election was the size of
the Republican majority. He has never
| been factionalist, nor has he at
| tempted to control primaries or con-
| ventions through party machinery He
has not frequented the state legsla-
tive halls seeking to organize the Sen
| ate for this or that interest, or to
throttle progressive legislation He
| could not wage a campaign of abuse,
nor would he permit his friends to
do So
From the East Side Of Preston County.
| Hon William Henry Glover, presi.
dent of the Terra Alta National Bank,
member of the State Legislature and
for years postmaster in his city, Terra
Alta, says: I'VE Republicans, each
and every one of us. regardless of any
hard feelings in the past, ought to get
together and straighten out our politi
Gal IACooCS ny cicGliuk MaJOT DdflS
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,
fca ants, -, Ia
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 greater part
in its 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-
tude as to the conservation of Oil and
gas here in West Virginia has been
seriously questioned. | would hate to
think that we Republicans, looking to-
the best interests of the state, would
fail to elect Davis Elkins as our stand.
ard-bearer. and l think each and every
one will wake up early in the morning
on August 9th, ready to vote for Ell
kins."
Ex-Governor GIasscock, Too.
Former Governor William E. Glass.
cock, Morgantown: las to West Vir-
ginia's senatorial race, I am willing
that every voter in this state should
know where l stand and why. Major
Davis Elkins. whom | have known as
lad. 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 I, as
Governor. appointed him 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 prin.
ciples and manhood came. In all his
political activities he has been one OF
the staunches Republicans | 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 Republicanism. In healing
party differences, settling factional dis
putes, harmonizing the misunderstood
ings of various party leaders, he has
been of invaluable aid to the cause in
West Virginia. His Republicanism is
deep-rooted, strongly founded in prin-
ciple, and he never allowed personal
preferences 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 H. Marshall, Deputy of Ohio
county, Wheeling: wheeling being
the largest city in the state, with her
large industries, especially iron and
glass, potteries and iron and steel
mills is especially interested in the
election of a United States Senator
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