Evening star., 1923-09-23
)AWS PRESIDENCY
!. BOOM IS OPPOSED
Senator Nicely Mentioned as
States Choice as Democrat
Z Favorite Son.

SSSecal Dispatch TO The Star.
@aCHARLESToN. w. Va. September
sZe.-An incipient boom for United
sStates Senator NJ. NJ. Neely for the
democratic nomination tor President
ahas the Charleston Gazette and the
aFaifmont Times to thank. The Times
SIS published in Senator Neely's home
Aetty. and it's recent suggestion of a
presidential candidacy for It's towns
man was merely complimentary The
editorial on the subject appeared be-
Aow ticket-aFor President 1894,
sTohn w. Davis of West Virginia"--
;Which has been running in the Fair
aaxont paper for some time.
n The Gazette's Nicely proposal is a
different matter. This paper is owned
Eby former United States Senator w.
%Js Chiffon. 1t has until recently been
sfauding W. u. McAdoo and studiously
sayoiding any recognition of the
sssaovement 10 make John w. Davis of
<tslarksburg the democratic nominee
Tor President.
- This week the Gazette reprinted a
1etter which a Chicago man wrote
the Chicago Herald Examiner, pro-
and declaring that the latter's recent
speech before the Tammany Society
4in New York, "arraigning the steel
ltrust for it's enslavement of its work
@efs was a masterpiece and ranks
alongside Bryan's great Crown of
srhorns and a Cross of Gold speech,
Sssss3 SsSsish won him the "0"'na''0" !"
S"wherever 8 the change from the
Gwelve to the eight-hour day is dis
40 IN
part, Nicely looms up as the man
<sTho made the closing speech against
the twelve-hour day, for within q
few days, less than week, after his
Fourth of July speech, the United
States steel Corporation came
ACROSS Since no one else in this
state is a candidate, would it not be
She neat thing to do to give him
SNest yirginia's delegation"
9s*The since no one else in this state
Sas a candidate" statement in the Ga
&ette's editorial has been receiving
7satirical treatment from the papers
sWhich are boosting Davis, and from
sR6me OF the G. o. p. journals as well.
.A6The Wheeling Register, which vies
with the Charleston Gazette for first
aSaace in the democratic state press,
1sAlieves that Davis qualities above
<sfai" as a democratic leader. "McAdoo,
@Bnderwood and Smith will meet
with opposition" says the Register.
4
of convention rage In event of a
deadlock, and no candidate will go
AMto the convention with two
eIhirds delegation, the political lead
Sbsst dark horse, ,@and the choice will,
enc doubt, lie between Davis and
ASalston and, possibly, Ford, with the
4iyst-named the natural favorite."
9QWest Virginia republicans are as
FAR removed as ever from harmony
ia
candidate. but the leaders are not dis
Gouraged. One of their best argu-
Inents for unity is that three of the
ave judges of the state supreme
court of appeals are to be nominated
4and elected next year, majority of
tAhat tribunal.
$@The prospective republican primary
feld for the governorship underwent
eA.few changes during the week. An
SSddition to the list was former Rep
resentative Wells Goodykoontz of the
NTH district. The boom for him was
initiated by tie Logan Banner and
supplemented byrthe, Mingo Repub-
slican, beth influential party organs
Gin the district.
The appointment this week of
Howard NJ. Gore of Clarksburg as
sfrst assistant secretary of the United
Estates Department of Agriculture
Edoes not eliminate him as a repub-
1lcan governor possibility, the writer
4 lis informed
B Judge Jake Fisher of Sutton is the
latest democratic possibility for the
4 Eovernorship. He has been APP
preached by some influential leaders
Of the Chilton-Neely wing. who are
now awaiting his decision. Judge
Fisher, who presides over the four
teenth judicial circuit. is an ex-
state senator. He was a warm and
! Steadfast supporter of the late John
4 T. McGraw of Grafton. for many
years democratic. national commit
teeman- from West Virginia. While
& serving in the senate in the 1911
I session he bolted tie party caucus
which decided upon Chiffon and
Z Watson for the national Senate. Col.
McGraw was an aspirant at that
Z The Fisher proposition complicates
the democratic gubernatorial eitua-
tion. Indications were a while back
that Representative George w. John
son of the fourth district might be
the harmony" selection of the DEM
socrRts for governor.
sF LYNN KIRTT,aND