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HON C. W. WATSONOF FAIRMONT. CANDIDATE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE.Among the candidates who will be before the Democratic caucus of the | ensuing Legislature seeking the nomination for the United States'Senate to succeed N. B. Scott, will be C. W, Watson, of Fairmont, a native I and typical West Virgininn, one of the State’s ablest business men and . most prominent Democrats.Clarence W. Watson was born.at Fairmont, Marion County, in 1864. He is the son of the late James Oiis Watson, a hnrdv pioneeer of the Monongahela Valley. The father of Clarence Watson also, was born in Marion County, and was the first I Circuit Clerk of that county. His mother was a Haymond,-a family I prominent in the political life of. the two Virginia’s. The older Watson was one of the pioneer coal men of West Virginia. He saw the responsibility of the development of the coal industry u|on the completion-of the Baltimore Ohio Railroad and operated one of the first mines in that Valley.In his youth Clarence Watson worked in his father’s mine as a mule driver, and as a.clcrkin the company store. He received an education .'in the Fairmont Normal school and the. West Virginia University. His first business venture was the organization of the Briar Hill Coal Company and from that little mine lias grown the Consolidation Coal Company, producing several millions tons of coal annually and giving employment to more people than any other organization in West Virginia.• I n his treatment of his employes■ Mr. Watson has been fair and considerate and any one of the thousands of men in his employ will beat out the statement that he has been hon- • est in meting out a square deal'to his employes. As the largest shipperj in West Virginia, Mr. Watson believes the inequality in railroad rates giving other states an artificial advan-| tage over West Virginia, which they should not enjoy, should be eliminated, and as a through student of transportation problems his friends i assert that he would be of great ser-i vice to the State in the event of his j election. On the tariff question Mr.! Watson has expressed himself in favor of a tariff which will represent the difference in cost of production at■ home and abroad and believes in a j distribution of those^duties on thenecessities of life.Because Mr. Watson is the head .! of a gigantic industrial enterprise he •| has been charged with being a can-j didate of the special interests. Nothing, his friends assert, could be further from the fact. It can he truthfully stated that Mr. Watson | has no connection with any corporation other than the business founded by his father back in the early ?50s and so successfully established bv i himself and brothers.Mr. C. C. Bowyer and Mr. Virgie -Lewis returned Sunday from a business trip to Washington.; Deceased was honest and upright i in his dealings with his fellow man and lived pretty close to the Golden : Rule.The funeral services were held at the late home, Monday afternoon,. Rev. O. F. Jackson officiating. The remains were tenderly laid to rest in beautiful Lone Oak cemghery.| “Peace to his ashes.”
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The Point Pleasant Register
Point Pleasant, West Virginia, US
Wed, Dec 21, 1910
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