Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-10-19
NO. 80
ROOSEvELT'S
Insulting Remarks to
laborerS.

'nB Heu' put uOtning mas gone
straighter home TO them than a
paragraph written by Col Roosevelt
..Id published in the Century Maga-
zine of February, 1883, the article
'Ranch Life in the Far West"
In this article Colonel Roosevelt
makes the following statement:
when drunk on the yillainous
whiskey of the frontier towns they
(the cowboys and rough riders) cut
mad antics, riding their horses into
the saloons, firing their pistols right
and left, from boisterous light heart
edness rather than any viciousness,
and indulging too often in deadly
shooting affays brought on either by
accidental contact OF the moment or
on accout of some long standing
grudge, or perhaps because of bad
blood between the ranches or locali-
ties.
"But they are much better fellows
and pleasanter companions than the
small farmer or agricultural laborers;
nor are the mechanics Of great city
TO be mentioned in the breath with
them.r
To compare honest, Industrious
aud respectable mechanics and farm
era with drunken cowboys is an insult
to American citizenship.
No matter whether he be Demo
crat or Republican, what does the
workingman think fiti On Novem-
ber he will have an OPT ortunity to
express himself at the polls.
The above extract was sent To ns
by our Falls Mills correspondent.
The correspondent continues
Call the attention OF your farmer
and mechanic readers TO the fact
that. in case Mckinley il elected and
should die, the man who desci ibed
thom as far beneath the drunken
cowboys and rough-rideIs would be-
como the Chief Executive of the
United States. 1t may be said that
he made this expression twelve years
ago. True, he did, but he was GER
tainly old enough to be responsible
forihis utterances. IL was not made
in heated discussion, upon the spur
OF the moment, but was deliberately
written for publication. Aud his
attitude aimee then hasn't shown that
he has materially changed his opin
ion. Will the class OF voters whom
he thus insulted let it go unavengedT
Nov. 9th will speak. ] notice that
one Republican organ says that the
person who takes oArense at Roose-
veltS statement is a fool, and that
that any one who allows it To infu-
ence his vote is an ediot. This re-
minds me OF the "Tazewell Repub-
lican's" assertion that "the working.
man who votes for Bryan is simply
FOOL Is this the argument by
which the Republican party hopes to
re-elect Mckinley Must they stop
to wholesale abuse and calumny TO
carry the pointf
/ desire to give another extract
which can be found 10 Washington
dispatch to the Baltimore Sun:
On the 3rd day of last April Pres
ident David Starr Jordo /, of Leland
Stanford University, said in au inter
view when asked which view of the
issue OF Imperialism, McKinley's OF
Bryan's was gaining most among the
people. Let me quote you Roose-
Yelt on that. He said TO me last
week: ''JordOn, i wish to God we
were off the Philippines and had
them off our hands, and many 9th. r
Republicans are thinking the same. -
am free to quote Roosevelt be-
cause j consider him in many re-.
spects one OF the greatest men in tbs
hepuDhcan party.
How do you like Mckinley? WIS
asked President Jordon. Let me
quote you Roosevelt again was his
reply. He said to me: mckinley
has about as much backbone as toy
I chocolate man that you can see. on
8 the confectioners stand. He is q
b. terrible disappointment"
Now Roosevelt asks US to retain
the Philippines and also to elect a,
] President q man who "has no MOI
] backbone than toy chocolate man,
8 and who is a terrible disappoint
y ment.'
/ regard this as a very critica
point in our history. ] think Brvan',
3 election is far more essential roy
than 1t was in 1896. Let us stan,
together and elect Bryan, Stevenson
O and Rhea n h0na m aaa Honno;s nr