The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-07-08
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There is an unusually large-num-
bersof old familiars in the politics
of quondam times listed up to try
com eback to the State Senate
this year. This fact was pointed
out today by state politicians here.
with a few added "reminiscences
by the way of spicy comment on
this interestign situation.
In the Republican roster ap-
pears the names of such well
known former state senators as
5Milt Lowther Of Petersburg,
Mont White and William York Of
Williamson, Joe Sanders of Blue
field, Martin Van Buren, Cooley
4 of Charleston, Charley Coffman
and Harve Harmer of Clarksburs,
aHerm Johnson Of Elkins, and Jim
Flynn OF Kingwood. Over in the
Democratic lineup loom large the
widely known patronymics of
Robert F. Kidd of Glenville. and
G.. Warren Hays Of Charleston,
formerly of Parkersburg, and
more formerly still than that from
Chenille. It was while citizen
of Chenille that he was elected to
the State Senate as a candidate of
the Populist party, whom thu Re-
pub1icans Endorsed. Tia. was
twenty-seven years ago, or about
the beginning of the paleoZolc
period of politics. Capt. Milt Low
-. 10 ba h
Indians occupied the Valley OF the
Little Kanawha, was a menber of
the State Senate in the wake of e.
Warren, who is brother of Sam
A. Hays, ex-collectoT OF the in
come and other federal taxes in
West Virginia.
It turns out that it was the
State Senate and not the United
States Senate that Clyde B. John
County, was aiming at all tue
time, and it was the House Of
Delegates and not tho House OF
Represen tatives that ex-Marsha1
Ned Smith of Fairmont had in
mind to run for all along. They
outguessed the writer's Of the uu :.
official dope sheet. In the twelfth
district, a pretty race is predicted
as between Harvey Harrner and
Charles G.. Coffman, Clarksburg's
two former state senators. Har-
mer is also Clarksburs's greatest
reformer; there mag De others in
that sin-encrusted corporation,
but they just naturally fade away
into nothingness when compared
to Mr.. Harmer. The fact tllas he
is a candidate again this year is
quite naturally interpreted to
mean that here are lot more
things and folks in West Virginia
that still need reforming, and
Senator Harmer full well Eleaus
to reform them if given the
chance.
It's sac congressional list that
has the majority of unfamiliar
names in it, and observers are
guessing who a numer of them
are, where they come from. how
they got that way, and what they
represent in a political way. There
is Elmore NJ. Club registered
from Clarksburg, who has enlist
ed for the nifty little job of taking
the nomination away from Con-
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perhaps, the unknownest unknow
of the bunch of unknown vo1un-
teers. To overcome that will pro-
badly be the chief aim of the first
Club Club that is organized. The
only particulars about Mr.. Club
that have arrived in Washington
came via the Clarksburg Exponent
local Democratic newspaper,
which says that if the November
race for Congress in the third dis
trict should be between Mr.. Club
and the Hon. Joe Craddock, which
ever won, it couldn't be told
which party achieved the victory.
So much for their party member
ship and regularity.
Senator Myers of Montana the
other day, IN terrific deaun ia
ton of the murders recently COM
mitted in the Illinois coal ficlJs,
e1pr essed a thsusnt that has been
uppermost in the minds of think
ink citizens for many a day,
when he alluded to the perils that
are apt to come in this country by
reason of the intimidation of the
national law-making body by or
ganized minorities. Under the
ba1eful workings of this system,
Senator Myers emphatically de-
MED that we are living in free
America. He asserted that men
have been brutally murdered for
exercising their simple rights as
citizens or residents. and that
there could be no free America as
long as an American citizen does
not have the free and untrammel-
ed right to work when and where
and for whom and upon such
terms and at such wages as he
may please without asking leave
of any invisible power or organic
ed minority or organization.
Further, it had been asserted
that 70 per cent of the laws made
were enacted at the behest and