West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-05-11
REFUSED TO INDORSE.

There was a chapter of Harmony"
in the Republican Congressional
convention which has not been dis
closed by the representatives. of the
press who attended the convention.
This harmony" was very pronouno-
ed with the committee on resolu.
tons. A careful reading of the res
olutions which were adopted by the
Republican Congressional Conven-
ton will show that they Endorsed
President Roosevelt and his admin.
istration and threw few boquets at
the President for the elevation of
Dayton to the judicial bench. The
resolutions are short and sweet.
There is a cause for the brevity.
When the question of indorsing the
Republican State Administration
came up in the committee on reso.
lutions there was storm OF protests.
They were vigorous and could be
heard in every nook of the room.
They said it would never do to in
dorse the Republican State Admin
istration. They cited that a large
element of their party were in open
revolt against the State administra-
ton on account of the NeaO tax lars.
They claimed that an Endorsement
of the State administration would
drive thousands Of the heretofore
loyal Republicans away from the
party. The assessor had been
around and they had learned some
thing about the new tax laws. 1t
was FINALLY declared that if the State
administration was Endorsed that
minority report would be made de-
nouncing the State administration
and its tax laws and they would
carry it into the convention and
fight it out. This was more than
the State administration favorites
had bargained for. They knew that
an open fight in the convention
would spoil the "'harmony" and give
the State administration and its tax
laws a solor plexus blow from which
they would not recover by the time
they would have to face the people
at the next State election. This
throws the lime light on why the
State administration was not indors-
ed by the Republican Congressional
Convention, and further explains
the harmony of the convention.
Now we would like to ask the Re-
publicans of Preston county if they
need any further evidence of the in
EQUITIES of the new tax laws when a
convention of representative Rebu5-
HfaRS refuse to indorse their State
administration because they believed
in the injustice of the tax laws.
They were fresh from the rank and
file of their party and they knew if
they Endorsed the Republican State
administration, which would have
been an Endorsement of the new tax
laws, that the farmers, the laboring-
men and all other small taxpayers
would vote against their party. If
the Republicans in convention can
not indorse the new tax laws how
can they expect the common people
to indorse them or vote for a politi-
cal party that Will saddle such in
famous tax laws upon them ? Is not
the action of the Republican Con-
gressional convention an Endorsement
of the position of THE ARGUS that
the tax issue must be fought on a
non-PartisOn basis ? Is not the re-
fusal of the Republican Congresslon-
al convention to indorse the Repub-
lican State administration an en-
phauc Endorsement of The ARGUS
and its position on the new tax lawsp
Let the impartial and unprejudic-
ed taxpayers of Preston county con-
slider the refusal of the Congression-
al convention to indorse the State
administration and decide for them
selves who has been miSrebYeSeHfiRe
the new tax laws, The ARGUS, or
the Journal, the poll-parrot Of the
Ring.