Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-07-09
MAJOR DAVIS ELKINS
CAN WIN ELECTION


party of success at the November
poll?
Bearing in mind that the Demo
cratic nominee is wearing the uni
form of his country how can the
Republican party get the soldiers
vote so interested as to vote aga
inst Colonel Watson and for some
civilian? To ask this question is
equivalent to answering it. Unless
the Republicans take the changed
conditions brought about by the
pending war into consideration and,
in the person of their candidate,
meet the patriotic spirit of our peo-
pie so that the Republicans can
point to their leader and to their
support of the government in this
crisis without any eamoutage or
evasion. we are certainly showing
less political sense than our Demo.
cratic opponents
IAN the Republicans need to do
IS to realize the changed conditions
and to meet them squarely and fair
1y. and they will not have to ask
the 10000 absent West Virginians to
vote for United States Senator, ex-
oept for one of their own number,
one who enlisted 20 years ago and
served through the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, and who last year enlisted
in the fighting infantry service Of
the United States.
Il am earnestly of the opinion
that the Republican party is to be
congratulated that it has candi-
date for the high office of Senator
in the midst of this great war who
twice voluntarily offered his life and
his services to his mai ion-in the
war of 90 years ago and today. His
nomination is 2 platform in itself
1t will provoke enthusiasm add AS
sure victory. and that istwFffat every
earnest, loyal Republicans down
deep in his heaEx wants.
Measure In Every Way
major Davis Elkins, adjutant of
the Thirteenth Regular United
States Infantry Brigade, is a man
who measures up in every way to
the requirements of the hour. He
has been tested and proven his
worth in the great business deyel-
opments of our state. He is the con-
trolling executor in the two largest
estates in West Virginia. The inter-
ests he represents cover large pro-
ducing coal operations in eight diff
ferent counties in West Virginia, as
well as important railroad, banks,
manufacturing and other interests
He is a typically representative Of
West Virginia as any man in it and
knows the state and its people thor
OuSuiy. lnClO IS HO iCooou Why oAAI
Republican could not support him,
for he has never been factional-
list and always an earnest and con-
sistent supporter of his party and
its principles.
However, I am not going to ar
que his many merits or his availa-
bility as a candidate for him as a
man to carry the party to victory in
November of that is what Republic
cans in West Virginia wish
"The man Or men who undestl-
mate the war influences and the
psychology of the war bearing on
the November election are beyond
argument. The old order has chang
ed. The change is now here and will
be in evidence this fall and for Az
wears to come. Other things being
equal, the man who served his coun'
try in this, her hour of peril, and
volunteered his life and services will
have a preference with the voting
population over the civilian. He is a
poor politician, to say nothing OF
his patriotism, who does not realize
this obvious fact and cannot or does
not sense" the psychology of the
war as effecting the November cleo
ton
81 have been in many counties II
the state in recent weeks. ! find re
fleeing and thinking Republicans
and especially those of Us who have
sons and relatives in the war, have
little difficulty in reaching the con
clusion that the safe, the sane, the
reasonable and the evident choice
of the hour for Republican candidate
for United States Senator is Majol
/ Davis Elkins. We reach this con
clusion without reflection upon 9th