The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-10
WEST VIRGINIA
RETURNS SLOW
Woodyard's Victory Made
Certain by Delayed
Figures
LABOR LEADERS ACTIVE
Local Contests Are Keen and
Party Lines Threatened in
Final Election

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Sept. e.
putnam county delayed completion
Of primary election returns for more
than four weeks. II was not until
Tuesday 20 days after the state pri-
mary election, that tabulation OF Of
iiciaI returns for congress was fin
ished by Secretary OF State Houston
@. Young. For some unexplained
reason, Putnam county, which Is in
the Fourth congressional district,
was unable TO get It's vote for the
congressional candidates on the re-
publican ticket Representative
Harry C. woodward OF Spencer,
state Senator Edgar r. Staats OF
parkersburg. and o. j. Deegan OF
Huntington-straightened out. The
final corrected returns did not ma
terially affect the result, as Wood
yard ran away from his opponent
in all but two of the other eight
counties of the district.
In the first official returns from
Putnam county, Woodyard WAS
omitted altogether from the count.
and DeeEan with 235. Then a de-
layed report was received by the
secretary OF state from j. NJ. Henson,
county clerk of Putnam, that Wood
yard and not Staats had received the
g95 votes. This report, however. did
not give tie actual vote for the
Parkersburg senator; that did not
come until this week. when the
Staats total was reported az 372.
Fourth District Results.
There were 233,422 ballots cast
by the two major parties In the
August ! primary for congress. or
these the republicans cast 134,757
and the democrats 9S S.465, or 36,492
fewer than the other party. In only
one congressional district. the Sixth
were the parties close together with
their vote. In this diCtrict the re-
publican total was 21.S52 and the
democratic 21.702, a difference In
favor OF the former of $50 votes.
Speculation on how organized la
Dor will form its ranks for the No
vetnber election in West Virginia is
being INDUCED in largely. II is un-
derstood that no special effort will
be made in this strong labor county
--Kanawha--for either Of the
United States senatorial candidates,
that the laborites, particularly the
miners, have no marked choice as
between Senator Howard Sutherland
the republican nominee. and former
Representative Matthew ". Nicely,
the democratic standard bearer.
Unless tentative plans are changed
j. Alfred Taylor OF Fayetteville, n
member of the house of delegates
from Fayette county and the demo-
cratic nominee for congress in the
Sixth district, will be the preference
OF most Of the labor unions I'm the
district, 1t Is said. and instructions
for him are likely to issue In many
instances. Taylor has always been
strong with organized labor. and that
tact probably accounts for his ability
TO decisively defeat DR.. G. f.. McClin-
tic of Greenbrier county who was
generally conceded TO be one Of the
ablest members OF the last legls-
lature II Milton Curtis OF Beckley,
another favorite with organized la
Dor, had not been a third candidate,
Taylor would have beaten McCliptic
by much greater majority, observ-
ers believe.
kanawha Is battle-ground.
The legislative ticket in Kanawha
county probably will receive more
"tAtHtlon from lne ia DOR people IMAM
any other. Two officials of the
miners are among the six republican
candidates for the house OF dele
gates and the miners naturally will
exert every effort in behalf OF these
Two. The two miner candidates are
FRED Mooney, secretary-treasurer of
district No. II. United Mine Workers
or America, with headquarters IN
charleston, and william Blizzard OF
81. Albans, president OF subdistrict
No l.
Blizzard was acquitted at his trial
at Charleston for treason, in con-
nection with the armed march on
Logan county, but several other in
uictments, one for murder. are hang
ms over him Mooney WAS also in
dicted several times for alleged COM
phcity In this uprising. II is under
STOOD that if republican leaders make
an open fight against these two labor
candidates, there is likelihood of the
miners limiting their ballots 10 the
candidates OF their own choice. II
such a course should be pursued It
might spell disaster for the rest OF
me republican county ticket. Dr. NJ.
" Godbey, the republican candidate
Ior reelection as state senator IN the
Eighth district, viii get a large
measure of labor support.