Evening star., 1922-10-22
Campaign HOTTER
IN WEST VIRGINIA
Leaders of Both Parties
Have Speakers Touring
the State.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

CHARLESTON, w. va, OcLoDer IL
Much Of the lethargy which attended
the opening weeks Of the campaign
in this state is disappearing in the
face Of redoubled effort by. the two
party organizations. Both sides now
have many speakers touring the state
and there will be steady augmenta-
tion in this respect until the cam
paign ends. There has been no en-
largement of moment in the cross
debate. Former Representative Mat
thew NJ. Neely. democratic nominee
for the United states Senate, and the
lesser speakers under his standard
are attacking unsparing national and
state administered lions and policies,
with the new tariff law foremost in
discussion: while Senator Howard
stump are stanchly defending both.
Drops League. as Topic.
Mr.. Neely. who gave the league OF
ing his. fight in the primary. has
since been letting that subject
pretty much alone. This neglect is
being capitalized by the opposition
Chairman M. z. White of the repub-
lican state committee is calling at
statements from headquarters and
the disposition seems to be in that
quarter to make the league AN issue
with or without the consent of Mr.
Nicely.
Mai. Neely was in Charleston the
Roane county to Fayette county. ~
am greatly cheered." he said. II have
never seen such a change in senti-
ment among people in all Of my polit-
cal experience. l am going to be
elected along with the rest of the
ticket. l was never SO encouraged
before an election in my life and you
know that / have tasted success be-
fore"
Sutherland Not Less Confident.
Senator Sutherland is not whit less
confident than the man who is con-
testing for his seat. The senior sena-
tor from this state is several weeks
behind Maj. Neely in the matter of
spellbinding, but he is now doing his
speaking campaign may be said to
have begun last Saturday night in
Wheeling when Col. Theodore Roose-
welt. assistant secretary of the Navy.
and the senator addressed large
republican gathering at the Carroll
Club. Since then he has been max
ing from one to three speeches a day
and expects to keep up that gait con-
tiEuously until election unless called
to Washington by important official
business.
There is every Indication" said
Senator Sutherland. both nationally
and in West Virginia. that the drift
Of public sentiment is toward an en-
phatice Endorsement of the republi-
can party at the approaching cleo
tion. Within the comparatively short
time since President Harding was in
augurated a wonderful record has
been made toward the resumption of
normal business conditions. The
process is still going on.
81 enter the campaign in west Nir-
pi,f;a confident that upon the record
81 accomplishment of the members of
the delegation in both houses. vote
of Endorsement Will he given to each
and every one of US.
se.vHtary Hughes May Speak.
Senator Sutherland said before leav-
ing this city that Secretary of state
Charles E. Hughes may come into the
state to mike a speech or two during
the campa Ign. Senator James f.
watson Of Indiana is another prob
ability. Col Roosevelt confined his
west Virginia. trip to the Wheeling
speech. , y
Secretary of 1'mmerce Herbert e
Hoover had been scheouleo IoI W.
meetings in the u ate. one at Hunt
;nr,on last nigh, and the other in
charleston CHI lIe on this Avening. Illness
caused cancellation of these dates.
huntington had com> ensation by
substitution. at a meeting Wednes-
day night. of Sacretar." OF Laoor
James ]. Davis. This way the open
ing Of the republican cam oaign for
Cabell county and the event passed
off to the full satisfaction Of Nhe pro
moters. Secretary Davis MADE the
first of his two speeches in WeAt VT
ginia at Parkersburg Tuesday n ignt.
The success of the Davis meAIns
at Huntington was fairly matched oE
one last evening with Maj. Neely as
the prime attraction. One ADVANTAGE
that Secretary Davis had over the
other came from his leadership with
bers of the Huntington Moose Lodge
and a goodly percentage of these
turned out as a body to welcome the
supreme director of their order.
Democratic Chairman's Claim.
Chairman R. F. Dunlap of the DEM
ocratic state committee announces
from the Hinton headquarters that
Mai. Neely is now attracting uniform
ly large crowds and that the enthu-
Siasm for him grows apace. The
turning point was in Charleston last
week when some 1000 people well
coined the senatorial candidate on his
meeting of the campaign was held in
the. Summers county courthouse at
Hinton Monday afternoon. Senator
Sutherland. Representative Wells
Goodykoonts and others held up the
republican end while Maj. Neely and
Mrs. Izetta Jewell Brown, whom he
defeated in the. primary, were the
principal opposing speakers. Mrs
Brown Is to speak in Charleston and
elsewhere in Kanawha county next
Monday and Tuesday.
Noteworthy Development.
One noteworthy development Of the
re publican campaign ia the activity
of two of Senator Sutherland's pri-
mary opponents. These are Herschel
{. ogden. the Wheeling publisher.
and former Attorney General A. A.
Lilly of Charleston. Both offered
their services to Chairman White and
were put to work on the hustings.
Former Gov. II. D. Hatfield opens the
G. o. P. campaign in Mason county
with speech at Point Pleasant to-
day. Judge Ira E. Robinson of Graf
ton, who was defeated for governor
in 1916 by John ]. Cornwell. and who
is being mentioned prominently for
as federal judge in the
fourth circuit. will begin a two-
week speaking trip Monday. At
torney General E. T. England and
Samuel B. Montgomery, labor's politi-