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COMPROMISE CANDIDATE WINSWilliam E. Glasscock is the Republican governor-elect of West Virginia. He was the third man named as a candidate for the place within four months by the Republicans, and he achieved his position at the head of the ticket of the dominant party wthout the trouble of carrying on a tiresome and expensive state-wide campaign. He wasn't even required to waste any time or worry over a state convention. There were no critical delegates to be satisfied or appeased. and while West Virginia had a number of other ambitious Republicans who had a hankering to be governor for the coming four years. Glasscock was nominated by the unanimous vote of the state central committee of his party. Two popular men sought the nomination for governor. Charles M. Swisher, secretary of state, and Arnold C. Scherr. auditor of state. The preliminary campaign was hot. bitter and so close that neither man could get an uucontested majority of the delegates. The Swisher element finally secured the whip hand and nominated him. The Scherr end of the convention bolted, held another session and nominated the state auditor. Efforts of the national leaders to bring about a truce and induce one man or the other to withdraw were futile. Then the national committee placed its seal on the Swisher candidacy, declaring him the regular nominee. Scherr refused to withdraw, and his faction christened themselves the Lincoln Republicans.This factional warfare continued foi several weeks before the national party conditions became so uncertain that an insistent demand for the withdrawal of both men came from the Taft forces. Swisher promptly complied. Scherr did so reluctantly a short time afterward.So Glasscock, who had been identified with neither faction, was placed on the ticket as a compromise candidate with the consent of both factions and every effort was made to heal the breach. That the requisite harmony was finally secured and the white dove of political peace caught and tied securely in the back woodshed with a trunk strap is attested by the fact of Glasscock's election by a safe majority.
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Loup City Northwestern
Loup City, Nebraska, US
Thu, Nov 26, 1908
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