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Says West Va. Voters Must Seek Out Men Having Brains CHARLESTON, W. Va., June 1. (#)—Raymond J. Funkhouser, of Shepherdstown, oftenmentioned as a Candidate, formerly announced here that he would seek the Re publican nomination for United States Senate in the August pri mary. His statement came after an address before an independent political gathering here, during which he asserted West Virginia voters must ‘‘seek out men with brains and ability” to represent the state, “even if they have to go into the mines and factories to find them.” The 52-year-old Jefferson coun ty resident is president of the Pankhouser Company of Hagers town, Md., state manufacturing concern with operations in Ver mont, president of Victor Produc ts, a refrigerating concern, and head of the O'Sullivan Rubber Company. A native of Morgan county, he returned to West Virginia about five years ago to make his home in Shepherdstown. In announcing he would seek the Senate seat now held by Jos eph Rosier of Fairmont, Funk houser asserted that he “did not choose to be in politics; neither did I wish to be a U.S. senator; but in view of the present neces sity for a strong Congress xxx I shall file my certificate of an nouncement.” Others In Race Others mentioned ,as_ possible Republican aspirants for the post are W. Chapman Bevercomb, Charleston attorney, and T. C. Townsend, gubernatorial nominee in 1932, former state tax commis sioner and now counsel for the United Mine Workers. Governor Neely is expected to announce on the Democratic side before the filing deadline. Former Governor H. G. Kump already has made public his intentions to enter the race, while Washington Custis Lee Campion, of Jefferson county, has already filed. Funkhouser told the rally that the record of West Virginia's pres ent Representatives in Washing ton did not warrant their reelec tion. He said the voters must for get party lines because of the war emergency and find the men who will “put aside political expedien cy and assume leadership.” He the New Deal as “close kin to dictatorship,”, and declared that “if we do not re strict government, it will ruin us economically by its waste.”
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Winchester Evening Star
Winchester, Virginia, US
Mon, Jun 01, 1942
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