The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-01-11
WASHINGTON
West Virginia News - Notes
and Gossip at the Nations
Capital.

Special Dispatch TO The 1ntefnScnccr'
WASHINGTON. D. c.. Jan. io.-His
eertifica.e of election 70 tho Si1ty-SlNtn
congress was lied today with the clHrk
OF the house by Congressman Harry I.
Woodward. He received IN November
majority Of $500 over his Democratic
cpponcnt, S. II. Bowman. OF HuhtinEt"n'
I. vas the largest majority recclF'o oF
any Of the successful cnnETeSSlohaI ''tn-
didatcs in West Virginia. the next 10 TIC
largest ever received by MI. " oouSAlu
The had 1850 in 1000 and was Wl'n'n
six Of being 1000 more than N" next
highest among The Yictors AZ inc last
election. Mr. woodward has been con-
rressional candidate eight times. once
for an unexplred term. and won seven 81
Them TIL, one time h. WAS defeated X
took = Democratic landslid" 20 put HIM
out or business That waS n 1910. AS d
r,,nner tho Fourth district representa-
tive ranks high. Hc IS u TecHru-oreaKeF'
in ,ha, res Hct. n West Virginia poll
tics
Failure OF some Democratic leaders in
:hc Fourth district I" 2sre" I" entS' ana
their influence over members or the
stats committee Of their party. resulted
In the loss Of oar "nnEveSSrEan-'he ~
t:renent Of Congressman Adam r. LIZ
tlenaSe: BY the same token III" political
Judgment Of {. burgess Taylor. OIL
Wheeling. was vtndicat.ei. It was Mr..
Taylor. it will be remembered. who pro-
posed tho resolution I" the democratic
State committee. In session Al tslrScrS-
burg to undertake. to enter INTO An agree
mont with The Republicans to lot inc
congressional. delegation from the S''''
remain as il was without any contest;
RepuSlicans ara . Democrats. Wood
~ n N~h ~
broke. He had showed much inGepein-
ence in his talk and his votes. n" had
shown himself anything else except
representative Of the rubber stamp va
rietv and thus being the case. by that
strange process 81 reasoning oE "nicn
the Democratic politicians so woclul!E
rrisicad themselves n the last campaign.
woodward was d!Sl"yal- p-o-tfcrTnan an"
worse cr,nls Of aIl IN their rnind-anti-
Wilson. The last Indictment was I'M
Soubtedly 4 tn" hill: woodward an"
Wilson wcr. found t"ccth"r only wnen
the latter proposed something whtce was
!, line with Wood Yards opinion On tnc
subject. The Democratic leaders looked
rr,,- yt-ncdv>rd'S wa: record rs vulner-
aSla and thu: thc voters Of IN" tnurta
district would surely repudiatc him.
Tho or,-osnC cnr:l promise hy NJ. Taylor
was, therefore. turned down ny me stat"
.crcljt:.r which. !; is now known 10
have hccn most unfcrtrrat'. acted upon
the advice ~ c"r.aiU Democratic leaders
in and ahcu; Huntington and Parkors-
burg. especially IN" !at;"r "ity. WI"
claimed with Dragging "onf:d"Hc" that
woodward could DO defeated. and that
Nicely and II:t:Is?a2". FOR the sam" rsa-
sons were hound ~ he reelected.
II was the old fails OF the dog WIN
,ha bono that saw 'hn reflection Of the
hone il, tn, water ard grabbed f"r Il.
losing both the St!hstarc" ard N" shao-
Nv. Woodward WAS tho shadow and lit
,lcpage proved 10 b. the lost -e"nH he
h-ht against woodward rro""d 70 ~ inc
only real. bitter fight OF tho campaign.
Ths five Other contests for seats III tnH
House. as VOL as that for III" Scn2s"
place. were mild by cnmrl-iSnn HOW
u ,urccd oti- everybody knows. wood
Yards victory was smashing and over
Nhclrn:nE FTn s-r"nc "v"r%thinS hst"r"
Elrd car1e within -. votes or car
Nfs opponents own homo county.
And in the terrific effort mad" n beat
min, CONGRESSMAN Adam r. Li'cepaSA
los, his seat. Their will ~ buzz one lone
Democrat on the delegation II n" next
Congress and G. Burgess Taylor Is above
PAR as wise i!arty adviser VINO sure
had the right dope.