Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1903-06-19
A STUMPING TOUR.

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you will do me the justice TO say that /
do not say what 1 do not mean. 4
never said any thing off the stump that
L would not say on the stump. So
what l say now you can take as sincere"
So, you admit, Mr.. President, that
your two months swing around the
circle was a stumping tour pure and
simple. Now, then, in view OF your
article, written in 1900 and published
in the Youths Companion last Novem-
Der, on the duties and responsibilities
OF the President OF the United States.
in which you said "there are few hard
er tasks than that OF filling well and
ably" this high Office, do you think II
entirely proper for a President to leave
his post for more than two months at a
time to stump the country for his own
nomination and election? Had YOU
presidential stamping tours in mind
when you said at that time "the Presi-
dent should be held to strict accoun-
tobility alike for what he does and for
what he leaves undone?"
Were you sincere free trader when
you were a member OF the New York
Trade Club in the early SOS and when
you said you would Idle for free trade?"
II so, how do you explain your letter
OF resignation to the Secretary, Mr..
Poulteny Bigelow, written after you
had decided to desert the Indepen-
dents, who had elected you to the
New York Legislature, and when you
had decided to go over to the enemy.
Platt and the professional politicians"
whom you were elected to fight and
against whom you expressed great
hatred? Was it not purely and simply
TO promote your political ambitions?
Are you willing now TO repeat your free
trade speeches on the stump? You
say you are always willing TO say on
the stump what you say off Of it. You
are now playing the republican; when
VIII the free trade performance begin?
One year ago DIR. Schurman. one of
your good republican friends, gave us
the campaign slogan for 1904 OF the
three Rs-roosevelt, Reciprocity and
Revision" OF the tariff. If, as generally
supposed, DIR. Schurman then correctly
summarized your position on the tariff.
as gathered from your New England
speeches, are you willing to repeat
those speeches now? If not, why not?
If there any truth in the widely pub
lished statements that the Protective
Tariff League people "changed" your
views when they informed you, just be-
fore you left Washington on April l.
that If you did not cease to talk revisit
on they would prevent your nomina.
ton?
Are you now willing, NJ. President
to say on the stump what you said of
union workmen in the Review OF Re
Views of September. 1896? You then
said: THE men who object to what
they style Government by Injunction
are, rs regards the essential principles
OF government, in hearty sympathy
with their remote skin-clad ancestors
who lived in caves, fought one another
with stone-headed axes, and ate the
mammoth and woolly rhinoceros." They
are interesting as representing a geol-
ogical survival, but they ale dangerous
whenever there is the least chance of
their making the principles Of this
ages buried past living factors In our
present life.
"They are not in sympathy with man
OF good minds and sound civic morali-
ty.
Why were you not repeating on
your recent stamping tour what you
said of the fames and mechanics and
workmen in your Ranch Life and
Hunting Trail?"
You there said that although the
cowboys and roughriders might be
"brokcn by weeks ofbrutal dissipation, !"
yet "they are much better fellows and
pleasanter companions than small
farmers or agricultural laborers; nor
are the mechanics and workmen of a
great city TO be mentioned in the same
BREATH"
If you WI show your sincerity by
repeating on the stump what you have
said OF free trade, Of union workmen
and farmers, we will not ask you about
your sincerity us a civil service reform
er when you appointed Payne and
Clarkson to high Office. or if you think
1t entirely proper for the President.
who every year must sign many bills
affecting the railroads, to ride in private
cars at the expense of these same rail
| roads.