Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-10-11
Address of Cabinet Officer to
ROckbridge Republicans

Address of Cabinet Officer t,
Rockbridge Republicans
= For the first time in many year
Z a Rockbridge audience last Monda,
listened to a presentation of politl
cal issues by member of the Pres
= ldent's cabinet. The speaker wa
Hon. Leslie NJ Shaw, secretary O.
! the United States Treasury, a mar
OF force and magnetism, and al
astute politician and political ora.
. tor as well. Secretary Shaw has
made number of speeches in Vir.
ginia during the present campaign
and ne has always proved draw
ing card. Instead of discussing
State politics he devotes his time
to the presentation of national
issues, especially defense Of Re-
publican tariff laws. He is a can
didate for the Republican nomina-
tion for President to succeed Pres.
ident Roosevelt, and no effort is
made to conceal the object of his
visit to Virginia. While not posses
sing a striking personality, in
other respects Mr.. Shaw measures
up to the requirements of Presi-
Dental timber.
His address Monday afternoon
in the Courthouse was listened to
with great interest by the large
audience present. Many of those
present had heard the addresses
OF the Democratic speakers, yet |
they remained for two hours long
or to hear the Republican side
from Secretary Shaw and District
Attorney Thomas Lee Moore of
Montgomery county.
Mr.. Shaw in beginning his ad-
dress laid down the proposition
that Democratic principles were
wrong and Republican principles
were right, hence Democratic adj
of national affairs
always ended in disaster ard Re-
publican administration in sue
TESS. Such results, he said, were
lot due to the dishonesty of Dem
'crats but to wrong policies; not q
o the honesty of Republicans but $
o right policies. He then pro- q
eeded to argue from the Repub- a
lean standpoint that a high politi- o
al tariff brings the greatest pros
'erity to the country, in which L
he farmer, the manufacturer and Ia
very other producer participated. d
lie declared the times of greatest Il
epression were the two years of
892 to 1894, under Democratic D
ontrol, when "tariff for revenue nj
nly" was the principle of govern tr
ent. During those years the 81
or capita consumption of wheat
as less than three end one-half c.
lshels, although two years pre- N
ously it was nearly six bushels, tr
ID for the last four years has ia
zen six and Cne-fifth bushels. 80
lslness was stagnant and idle
en- tramped the streets begging LIE
r work. Wrong principle Of III
'Vernment> No such condition
IS ever existed under Republican W
because Republi- in
n policies prevent such. /
The Republican meeting was J.
lied TO order by q County Repub- in
an Chairman Thomas Shewey. tor
introduced District Attorney Y
tomas Lee Moore Of Christians Grl
re-, who spoke for some time Hill
d then introduced Secretary De,
aw. Mr.. Moore devoted the F
st of his peeeh ,to4a discussion Phi,
providing free books fer the 500
olic schools. He cited a mum. VIII
of cases of Republican States ton
which free books were furnish
and this plan was eminently
lsfactory to the States named. Gag.
Washington, where free books O.
furnished, the cost is SO cents end,
Ear per Eupil, while in Virginia scbe
cost is $I.58, three times as dav
At. The poor white children boii,
the rural districts, he said, emit
lid be benefciarles of the plan NJ,
Ter than the negroes. bav
lusic was furnished by the Vir- yisit
Ia Military Institute band. w