Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-03-21
FIGURES SHOW
G. 0.P. WASTE
Nearly $7,O0o, 900 Added to State
Expense, Mostly in Increased
Salaries, BY Last Repabli-
can Legislature.

.WIduBliuB H H. pun uoEHO, WMSSH
has characterized the Republican ad-
ministrations in state and nation since
the g. o. P. assembled to power in
Charleston and Washington March 4.
1921, has broken on. afresA In both
northern and southern West Virginia
over the district marshalshtps.
In the northern district, Lewis
Buckwald, of Wheeling. who has al
ready been confirmed for the position
by the senate, has threatened to re-
sign unless he is given permission to
drag the office from one city to anOth-
er to suit his own Sweet VIII. He
wants to take the office to Wheeling
now so as to have it close home and
he Is meeting with strenuous opposi-
ton. A. T. Barrett, who Is slated for
the job of chief deputy under Buck
wald, resides at Parkersburg, and he
wants the office close home, also. Guy
D. Golf, assistant to the attorney gen
eral, has said that Parkersburg is the
place And while the fight goes no
merrily, the Parkersburg News, Re-
publican newspaper, enters the battle
In behalf Of Parkersburg and declares
ditorially that ''those fellows in Wheel
ing appear to think that they are not
ony entitled to all the offices in the
northern district of the state, or of the
state at large, but that they should
have their headquarters by their own
fireside."
Senators Al Odds
In the marshalship fight In the
southern district, West Virginia's two
senators are reported to be at logger
heads, with little possibility Ut agree
ing on man before the tern of Mar
shall william Osborne expires April 6.
Senator Sutherland Is holding out for
the appointment of Greenway Hatfield,
Of Williamson, while Senator Elkins In
sists that ]. H. Harshbarger, of Mil
ton, is the man for the Job and deserves
the place for looming to the aid of the
party"
In state affairs, the Public Servic.
Commission, bone of contention since
its creation by the Republicans nearly
10 years ago, has bobbed up to haunt
Governor Morgan, who himself was a
member of the commission until he
resigned to become a candidate for the
governorship. The news leaked out In
Charleston recently, without official
approval, that Governor Morgan was
undertaking to reorganlze the commits.
sion and In that connection had TO
Quested the resignation Of George r.
G. Wiles and that he intended to name
a successor to E. G. Rider, Republican,
whose term expired nearly year ago,
nut who has been permitted to continue
on the state payroll The third mem
Der of the commission, z. c. Lewis,
Democrat, Is to be permitted to re-
main, under the plan, until his term
expires. Since announcement of his
reported plan In the newspapers. Gov
ernor Morgan has been besieged with
applications from Republican lawyers
In all corners of the state, who are
anxious to Land the $d0O0a-year
berths.
HaIIanan Curtafls Activities
AS the outcome Of the storm of gen
eral criticism on the art Of both Demo
Gratis and Republicans alike from vir-
tually every county Of the st&fe, Of the
plan of State Tax Commissioner Wal
ter s. Hallanan to get the money" to
meet the increased appropriations of
nearly 100000 saddled upon ths
people already overburdened by state
and federal taxes by the last Republi-
can legislature, through Increasing as
sesslnents, the tax commissioner has
curtailed his speaking campaign In an
effort to persuade the dear cOnstitu-
ents to come across" without mur-
mer. The enlightening statement of
facts and figures complied from the ap-
preparations bill by R. f. Dunlap,
Democratic state chairman, showing
that the increased appropriations went
largely for higher salaries Of Repub-
lican office holders and hangers-on
dIOuuu kiC bIdtC AouoO a. SALox Ao0S->zxV
at a time when deflation is being uA-
versally demanded, has been the
wrench In the machinery of the Repub-
lican organization and its program to
live on the fat of the land.
State Faces Deficit
Where the 100000 to make up the
deficit In state operating expenses,
which Governor Morgan Ia quoted as
saying will exist at the end Of the fie-
cal year, is to come from, has not
been clearly explained by the admins
tration. The only plan advanced 80
far by the executive officers Of the
state Is to take surplus money from
one department to meet the deficit in
another; in other words by "robbiAS
Peter to pay Paul"