Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-08-18
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

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Did he have it four years ago under Dem
ocrAtic administration
So, Mr.. Bryan has gone in partnership
with the Octopuswith the hope that he may
be landed in the United States Senate.
The farmer should compare the prices
for corn now with those that prevailed
eight years ago under a Democratic ad-
ministration.
Mr.. Wysor is running on the platform
that says Protection is robbery. Protec-
ton is developing and making Southwest
Virginia great and rish.
Colonel SIemp is meeting with large and
enthusiastic crowds wherever he goes to
speak in the Ninth District. Let him have
large one at Tszewel next Monday.
Judge Parker says the Philippines must
have selfgovernment The st Louis plat
form says they must have independence.
Now, which plank does the Democracy
stand on2
General Felix Angus, of the Baltimore
American, says Maryland will,be Republi-
can in the Presidential election. He is a
man of sound judgment and careful in
expressing an opinion.
Parker may be clean man, but the
company he keeps will soon make it a
doubtful question. Dave Hill, Tom Tag
CART, August Belmont, Boss Murphy and
Mr. Sheehan. They are enough to con-
taminate an angel.
How does Democratic enthusiasm now
compare with that which was shown eight
years ago when William Jennings Bryan
was for the first time the Presidential can
didate OF the party? Just answer this
question to youself.
Twenty-seven cents a pound for wool
this year under a protective tariff. Ten
cents pound for wool eight years ago un-
der free trade tariff. Protection the St.
Louis platform says is robbery. 1t don't
seem to rob the sheep raisers.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch says:
"We have been puzzling over the word
Esopus, and have just discovered that it
isonly an every day word spelt backwards.
Which means, of course, that Democrats
suppose they have chance to win.
Nearly ten thousand white voters have
been disfranchised in the Ninth District
by the new Constitution. Mr.. Wysor
helped to frame and signed that Constitu-
ton. He now undertakes to defend it
and the results that have followed its
proclamation.
The Democrats announce their determi-
nation to beat Colonel Slemp for Congress.
They can't do it with an honest vote and
fair count. The very fact that the Demo
Gratis have determined to concentrate all
their effort in Virginia an this district is
Acknowledgement that it is Republican and
can only bemade otherwise by some extra
ordinary method of campaigning.
Protective Tariff restored, gold stan
dard made permanent, Cuba freed,
Panama Canal building, labor employed,
wages advanced, Expansisa, trusts made
to halt, postal and land frauds investiga-
ted and offenders being punished, rural
free delivery, irrigation and Prosperity.
These make splendid record for the Re-
publican parLy. A record that will win
the support of the conservative, thinking
men Of the country.
After the Democrats got control Of Con.
gress and elected their candidate for Presi-
dent they passed the Wison-Gorman
tariff bill 1t put wool and lumber, two Of
the most important products OF the Ninth
District, on the free list. The result was
that wool sold for ten cents a pound and
our lumber was run out of the markets.
The Wilson bill also reduced the duty on
coal, and our coal mines were nearly all
closed. Mr.. Bryan, free trader, wrote
the tariff plank in the National Democratic
platform OF 1904. He is for putting all
raw materials on the free list. Will the
people of this district be SO blind to their
own interests as to support the candidates
who are running on the tariff plank written
by Mr.. Bryan?