The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-07-05

WASHINGTON, D. C.,.July s.
The favorite light reading for
these torrid times of the states
highly-wrousht politicians attend
/, ing the summer school in the CAPT
tai is Houston G. Young's match
less collection Of the names OF
those native and adopted sons who
would serve their country and
countrywomen by holding public
office. AS a first step in that
direction, they must weather
rough and stormy voyage through
the party primaries.
Secretary. Young's authoritative
list Of courageous candidates is
being scanned with great care
from top to bottom. From every
angle that is being scanned with
great care from top to bottom.
from top. to bottom Firm every
angle that it has it Is
being subjected to the acid test.
The Republican part of it. which
is the larger part of it. is more
discussed than the Democratic
doubtless because the Republican
is at present the dominant party
in power, many more candidates
have filed under its eagle emblem
than under the rooster of the op-
position. and the contests within
that party are more numerous,
more spirited, and further advan-
ced.
The comment heard here today
is that if the well known and
much-mooted condition. OF unrest
has also invaded the sacred pre-
cincts of the political parties,
those in the Grand Old Party who
Just can't make themselves be
have, should not feel called upon
to go outside of Mr. Ycung.s entry
list to satisfy Whatever impulse OF
unrest that may be surGinS IN
their restless souls
Checking up the party records
of each and every aspirant for the
present. at least, listed under the
Republican banner. one veteran
party historian announced this
morning that there are as many
different kinds of Republicans,
with as many different degrees OF
party loyalty attaching to them,
as to be sufflcientto satisfy all the
varying and opposing tastes OF the
party voter who may be suffering
4to fl1ShPASAAs " -
most malignant stages.
According to him, the long list
is made up Of Republicans. near
Republicans Cone half of one per
cent?. occasional Republicans,
Republicans with Bull Moose
past, Republican Socialists, Re
publicans who voted for Woodrow
Wilson. Republican Soviets, Re
public Borers-from-With with
here and there one who, in a
pinch, might throw a. bomb, and
few others who have tender
sympathy for Russian Sovietism.
Each has a platform of his own
Invention, which he announces is
the Republican party's and lets 1t
go at that with an air of propr1e-
tory finality.
Into the melting pot of the pri-
mary this rare collection Will go,
and what sort of brew will re
suit from the boiling has the pro-
phets and political trance-me-
dfums so cosfused that, right now,
they are runnin around In
circles.
Mr.. Young's midnight-launched
list contained few announcements
that could be called surprises for
the West Virginia politicians in
Washington. The nearest ap-
proach to one was name or Two
hung up against Congressman
Stuart F. Reed. It was believed
here, up to the receipt of the for
NAL, legal list, that he was to es-
cape the annoyance of opposition
no matter low weak and trivial LII
might be. Up tothe beginning OF
last week. the same opinion helo
here as to Congressman Leonard
S. Echols, the representative from
the sixth district. Then word was
waited that Mike Matheny had
decided it was about time he was
running for office, land he hit on
Congress as something that about
suited him. Congressman Wells
Goodykoontz's horseshoe connn:
ued to work its magic to sthe end
of the last and fatal hour, and he
alone of the six members of the
House from the war-born-state-
that-never-got-over stands on,
from the rest in lone and solitary
grandeur unopposed-
If the story being retailed in
our smart political set today has
any foundation Of truth to get q
toe-hold on. Republican party
leaders seem to have actionable
grounds upon which to swear out
a warrant against the Chiffon fac.
tion of the Democratic party
charging them with unlawful tres
pass upon G.. o. P. territory. As
itSis spun, the story is to the gen,
eral effect that that never inactive
group of politicians, working
through Republican allies, fnduc
ed into the field at a late hour Z
candidate for the congress1ona