Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-10-28
NlH. TAY'S RECORD ON THE
WAR QUESTION.


floor of Congress, and as Champ
Clark says, gave Mr.. Hay an inter
national reputation as an orator ~, ut
which Daniel Webster's bust, in the
rallery Of the House, turned green
with jealousy. Following this speech,
Mr.. Hay voted to dec fare war, show
inc that he not only favored and adj
vocated it by his speech, but that he
voted to declare for and bring this
war on, and is responsible for 1t. In
voting to declare war, he knew that
the Republican party was in control
of the government, and would have
to conduct the war, and he thus
elected the Republican party as lns
agent to wage the war, which he hi M
self voted TO declare. After voting to
declare war, Mr.. Hay voted to pay the
soldiers off in greenbacks instead of
gold and silver money, and for this
purpose voted against the issuance
of bonds, and against such democrats
and patriots as Gen. Joseph Wheeler,
who voted TO issue bonds to raise
good money with which TO pay the
soldiers. Who will say that Mr.. Hay
is \ better Democrat or n greater
statesman and patriot than Joe
Wheeler? Wheeler did not vote to
send other men from their homes to
foreign territory to wage war, but
went himself among the first OF the
volunteers. There was a certain Con-
gresham, who represented a certain
18th. District, of a certain state Of
Virginia, who also announced, with
flourish and blare oftrumpets, that
he was "a-going to the war;" and
would fight as he voted. But Colo.
nels' commissions were scarce, VIII lie
there was plenty Of room III the ranks
of the privAtes, and none OF Mr.. Hays
staunchest friends will say that Mr..
IIay ever saw Cuban soil, where
other men spent their blood and
fought the battles of the war, which
he, Mr.. Hay, voted to declare. After
doing all this, Mr.. Hay comes back
TO this District, and travels all over
it with Hon. Tom Martin as his cam
paign partner, introduces Mr.. Mar
tin to his friends, and gives Mr.. Mar
tin the benefit ofhis personal acqualnt-
ance and influence, and thus tries to
elect the Hon. Tom Martin to the
United States Senate, and defeat
Fitz Lee, "the greatest living Nir-
g7nian, the peer of Washington and
Jefferson" Mr.. Hay tells the pco-
ple of this District that he himself
did not believe in the war; that he
was opposed to it; that when he vol
ed to declare war and that $50, 600 of
our citizens should be torn from their
homes and lives of peace and secun-
ty, and sent to Cuba, Porto Rico, and
the PHILIPPINES, infested as they
were with Spanards, Mauser rifles,
and all the engines of destruction
known to modern warfare and H.
tested with yellow fever, disease and
death, that he did not vote for the
war because he believe it right or
just, but that he aPted for it sat the
request of Mr.. Mckinley, the Repub-
lican President" who he Mr.. Hay ]
says, was elected by a corruption
fund of $l6,OOO,OOO. What woful
cord this is What an admission
In the first place, If Mr.. Hay did not
believe in this war, he should not
have abdicated his position as 4 con-
gresham, and his position as Demo
cratic Congressman, and voted at the
will and dictate of a Republican presl
dent. but like an honest and faithful
representative and a true Democrat,
he should not have voted against his
conscience's convictions of right, for
war he believed to be unjust and
wrong; but knowing the right, he
should have dared to vote for it and
maintain it.
In the second place if Mr.. Hay did
not believe in this war and join the
iingocs and yellow journals, and by
his above referred to speech sought
to bring it on. lie knew that 1t
would increase the taxes of his dis
trict hundreds ofthousands Of dollars;
and instead of bringing the relief he
he'd promised to his people, increase
their burdens. 1t Is said that tie
war tax to be paid by this district is,
one million, four hundred thousand
dollars, or over ten dollars to every
man, woman and child within this
district, and all this to be paid to car
ny on war which Mr. Hay said he
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