Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-10-26


bonds held abroad, but to make foreign
loans, and all this without any drair
upon our gold.
All this has not been accidental. Il
has been due to certain fiscal policies
which have been maintained for nearly
half century.
Since the advent of the Republican
party to power in 1861, it has not beer
wholly superseded by the Democratic
party except for two years. In those
two years the country was plunged into
ruin and poverty by the enactment Of
the Wilson-Gorman tariff law, which
was a measure of such "perfidy and dis
honor" that even Grover Cleveland
could not sign it. But the people came
to the rescue in 1896 and elected VIM.
Mckinley and a Republican Senate anc
House. The result was the Dingley
law, under which we have prosperec
as never before, and as no other Nation
of the earth has ever prospered. Mr..
Mckinley was spared for full term
and reelection, but Providence de-
signed that his grand work should be
given to Theodore Roosevelt, whose
splendid administration was so emphati-
cally endorsed by the people last No
vember. The great South contributed
but little towards the election of Roose-
velt, and yet today it joins with the
North and West and with the whole
world in paying tribute to the greatest
man of the age.
Theodore Roosevelt is doing today
what Virginia's son, James Monroe, die
85 years ago. He is uniting the people
He is showing breadth of statesman
ship and a depth of purpose that not
only covers the wide area of the United
States, but of the entire world. 1t was
most fitting, then, that Virginia and its
capital city, the Capital of the Confed-
eracy, should set the pace in doing him
honor in his visit to the South. His
welcome was unstinted, hearty and uni
versal, and it can be said that if an
election for President could be had on
November 7th, 1905, Theodore Roose-
welt would undoubtedly receive the en-
tire electoral vote of the United States,
unless some single man should vote, as
did a single man, for John Quincy
Adams in 1920, to preserve the honor
given alone to Virginia's greatest son,
George Washington.
Theodore Roosevelt is first of all the
man, then the statesman, the scholar,
the diplomat, the friend of every race
and every class. In Theodore Roose-
velt we find, too, the .exemplifcation OF
Republicanism, which means progress
and prosperity for our people, education
for our youth, peace to all the world.
The Republicanism that would bury and
forget past issues, and look only to a
grand and glorious future for areunited
people. A Republicanism that would
say to the South, let US forget the war,
and the reconstruction years, deplora-
bic as they were because of the untime-
ly death of the immortal Lincoln. A
Republicanism that says, give us honest
elections and good schools and State ad-
ministrations that will enable US to join
our capital with your resources and
bring prosperity to the people from the
lakes to the gulf. A Republicanism
that included the Confederate Generals,
Longstreet and Malone and Wickam
and Walker and thousands of those who
wore the gray, and which today includes
Gen. Rosser, Gen. Boiling, Col. Mosby,
Col. Lamb, Col. Slemp, Col. Hubbard,
and thousands of others found both in
and out of Virginia, who fought under
Robert E. Lee. Theodore Roosevelt
stands for a Republicanism that does
not tolerate the perpetuation of preju-
dice and passion. 1t does not approve
of the words Of Claude A. Swanson, in
which he would inhame the passions of
a people by illusions to the past. 1t
does not approve of the attempt of the
Democratic candidate for Lieutenant
Governor, and the leader of the party,
to excite the prejudice of the people by
CHASING all present Republicans as de-
serters and disloyalists, for the Repub-
lican ticket Of Virginia has more than
one man who fought for the stars and
bars, and in the ranks are thousands
more. But the war is over and the re-
construction period past. 1t is to the
present and future that Virginia must
look to gain her lost prestige. 1t is to
Theodore Roosevelt and his party that
we must look for the glorious future
that is waiting for the Old Dominion.
1t is to the young man, who must ally
themselves with the party of progress,
the party of the future, the party which
possesses as its leader a man of the
people, man of honor, a man of purity,
man of courage, a man Of justice and
right, man whose motto is "a square
deal for every man, " who knows neith-
er East nor West, North nor South,
who is as high above prejudice and hate
as the sky above the earth.
For or against the principles Of Theo-
dore Roosevelt viii the people of Vif-