Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-09-22
WHO WANTS A CHANGE9


An the interests of the people of the
Ninth Congressional District are identlhed
with the succefs and continuance OF the
policy Of the Republican party. The past
twenty-four years have brought wOndet-
fol changes IN the industrial and business
conditions Of this section. They have Wit
nes:el partial development of our great
wealth in minerals and timber, and have
made agriculture as profitable as it can be
found anywhere in the Union. Since 1851
there have been four Republican and two
Democratic administrations in this
country-in all fifteen years of Republican
rule and eight years OF Democratic rule.
The business men of the Ninth District
who have lived and worked through the
last twenty years know from actual exper-
fence when they have bad their seasons OF
good times and when their bad times. 1t
is unnecessary for us TO draw comparison
between the conditions that prevailed I'M
der MIR. Cleyeland's last administration
and those that have come and continued
since MIR. Mckinley was elected in 1896.
Which class Of our people wish to return
to what has been known as CLEVELAND
times? Who would be willing to take the
risk of having another such period Of de-
preston as was seen from 1898 to 1897?
The men who have been investing their
capital in this section and developing the
vast mineral resources surely do not want
a recurrence Ct hard times. 1t is reason
able to conclude that the laborne men
who have been proftably employed for the
past seven years do not wish to return to
ide1e>s and suffering. They can well re-
member how their families were made des'
ti,ute and their children and wives suffer
ed for the necessaries of life Is 1t posi-
bic that the farmers are so Indifferent to
their interests that they are willing to take
any chances for changing the present con-
dions? Have they gotten tired Of the
good markets and the fine prices they have
b zen receiving for their products? DO they
wish to sell their wheat for sixty cents and
their corn for thirty or forty cents bushel
as THEY did in 1896? Do they want wool
to 90 back 10 ten or twelve cents pound
and the sheep industry to be ruined as 1t
was under the Wilson-Gorman tariff law?
Ta,ss are questions that .should receive i
careful consideration from the voters OF
tn Ninth District The Richmond Times
Dispatch in its issue OF the 10th inst, writ
inz about politics and Business says;
the Republican party lie business or
gapization and therefore deals largely with |
materialism. In this campaign as IN other
campaigns of the past it appeals to the
greed and selfshness of the voters. 1t
tells them under Republican rule the
country is prosperous and that it would be
poor business to make change in the adj
mlnlstration of public affairs because such
change might disturb business and check
prosperity"
Our Richmond contemporary says this; |
sis cunning plea" but does not, be-
cause it cannot, dispute the right OF the
Republican party to make the plea and its
ability to SUSTAIN it. The Times-Dispatch
declares that material prosperity is sweet"
aud that 'commercalism makes us rich
and powerful nation and enables us to
maintain our institutions" But our con-
temporary tries to reflect upon the Repub1774
licau party by saying: "We deny that it
Is the main purpose of government to pro-
mote material prosperity. The function
of government is to establish liberty to
protect men in their individual rights, to
promote public morals and to maintain
Justice
Has not the party Of Lincoln, Grant,
Garfield, Mckinley and Roosevelt filled
al these requirements more courageously ]
and successfully than any political organi-
cation the word has ever known 1t has
been a patriotic, liberty-loving party;
and because it is business party it does
not justify the charge made by the
Times Dispatch that its plea for prosperity !
sis base aud debasiug." (
Here in the Southwest our people want
continuance of prosperity. They want
no change 10 business conditions. This
desire on their part is not "base and de-
basiug," X