Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-09-10 | Page 11 | Swisher Forces Win West Virginia Fight |

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Date	1908-09-10
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Swisher Forces Win West Virginia Fight
Type	article
Date	1908-09-10
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	11
OCR Text	Show SWISHER FORCES WIN WEST VIRGINIA FIGHT NEW YORK, Sept. 9. The involved political situation in West Virginia, whore the factions led respectively by Arnold Sclierr. now serving a second torm as auditor, and Charles R. Swisher, secretary secre-tary of state, havo each been claiming recognition as the only regular and authorized au-thorized representative of the regular Republican Re-publican organization, was cleared today by the recognition ns a regular ticket of tho convention presided over by Representative Represent-ative Joseph II. Gaines, loader of the Swisher forces. The fight had been carried car-ried up to Chairman Frank H. Hitchcock, who appointed National Committeemen W. L. Ward. T. Dupont and Charles F. Brooker as a subcommittee to hear both sldos and pass on the respective merits ot the claims advanced.
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