The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-05-23

81 patronage that. they didn't
caught the outgoing trains
terdSy and today tor their re.
Stetfve homes. And they lett 2
4 Iot of other West virginians whose
45uhiness Is here for the present,
ceiling Just as sore as they.
THE turndown Of George ". Nc.
Ciintic for judicial appointment
VAS the second jolt that the ad'
nninistration has given them
turned them down cold for a can.
dtdate from another Democratic
soathern state that never gave a
Republican majority and, they as
ssrts never will.
twas Virginia that won this time
OYER West Virginia = Judge "a.
rnund Waddill, Jr., Of Norfolk, Va,
Won over Mr.. McClinttc, the agreed
I'm candidate OF West Virginia. Be.
f-tofe this, Il was Blair, Of North
Carolina, who won the commission.
efEof internal fevenueshtp over Col.
u y. McDermott, OF Morgantowti.
The West Virginia delegation
made hard fight to land their
Candidates In both instances. In
the case. lot McClintic, the delega-
ti6n went to the front for him,
backed up by Republican leaders,
and by leading members Of the bar
OF the htAte belonging TO both par.
Hes notwithstanding and never.
thSless, Attorney General Dapgh.
efty said he would recommend TO
the President the appointment Of
another, namely, Judge Waddill, OF
virginia.
the administration, the West
vifstnia politicians asserted. could
have done a heap for Republican
politics in Southern West Virginia
by selecting Mr.. Mcclintfc. His
splendid qualifications and right
age for the appointment were new.
er questioned.
Besides the congressional dele.
CATION, there were in the party that
made the final call on the Attor.
r,es General when he broke the dis.
appointing news to them that Nc.
ciintic was not to be recommended
by him were such well known men
90 the state as e. NJ. Keatley,
George q. Price, Judge Dell Rum.
neil Ex-Governor MacCofkle, Fed.
sral Court Clerk FitSwater, Her.
bert Fitzpatrick, Edw. w. Knight,
Judge Thomas a. Brown, c. NJ.
Hanna, Senator Carl Coulter, j. W.
vanderyort, Col. James Fleetwood
Jones Capt. M. S. Crockett and 9th.
erss-the lawyers being divided
about equally between both politi.
cal parties.
Among these men were friends
Oh Elliott Northcott and Judge
French Strother, candidates for the
distftct judgeship In the southern.
y aiktfict Part of their interest In
Nj. McCliptic's candidacy vas 20.
IiticAl strategical inasmuch as they
hoped by securing his appointment
tosthe higher judicial position, the
eifclit Court OF Appeals for the
Fourth district. TO simplify the con.
tast over the district judgeship con-
test. For It was understood that
when Mr.. McClintic consented to
ailow$his name to be presented for
Tie higher place he did not consent
to step out OF the district contest
should he fail, as he did. to land
khe more important Of the two judi
ciaI Jobs. He became a candidate
for the district judgship and for a
long time refused to consider the
other: 1T was only By an under
standing that he would not, so to
sneak, sign away any Of his rights
al candidate for the district
3ndseship that he consented to have
hi name presented for the other
Place
For the district judgeship the
Candidates are nov, therefore, Nc
Clintic, Strother and Northcott.
The Senators have not agreed on
any one Of the three. The talk
here isfthat Senator Sutherland IA
vofs4 Clinuc, but Senator Suther.
land has given no inkling as to who
his preference is now or may be
later on. This Is stiff and hard
fought contest, and there are visit.
tors here almost every, day from
counties in the southern district
advocating the appointment OF first
one and then another OF the trio.
Every Immigrant landing in the
United States will have TO register
az the port Of entry; must file a
declaration of his purpose to be
come an American citizen before
the expiration Of two years after
he registers; must have become a
naturallsed citizen before the ex.
piratior of five years after his reg.
istration, arc salient outstanding
ana novel features contained In a
bilI introduced In Congress by Rep.
resentatiye Ben l.. Rosenbloom, Of
j West Virginia, Failure upon the
immigrants part to fulfill these and
ether requirements contained 10 the
iii will be sufficient cause to auto
ffatically return him to the port
rom which he set sail for the Uni.
tea States.
This measure was forecasted by
Re6teaentatiYe Rosenhloom In a
speech he delivered in the House
~ Representatives on April II,
whith attracted national attention
and discussion at that time and
since. 1t was Of such a character
III 10 impress the members OF the
House that the man who was de.
iiyeting It had expended much timo
and study upon the subject treated.
they were correct In that deduc.
ton for the representative from the
Wheeling district has been a stu.
dent OF tho immigration question
since his attention was drawn to II
BY his experience as a member OF