Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1906-09-21
A RINGING STATEMENT.
Extract from Mr.. Bryan's RAD
ford Speech.

81 want TO state situation that 1
believe Is without parallel in our DO.
litical histrry. Ten years ago the Re
publican party came into power. 1t
h I'd an enormous majority, and for
I ten years that party has had the
President, the Senate, and the House
OF Representatives. 1t has had the
Supreme Court OF the United States;
1t has had nearly all the subordinate
judges OF the federal court; it has had
control OF the State governments Of
large majority OF the States; it has
been In absolute power. 1t has been
able TO repeal every law that it did not
like, and eract any law it thought
necessary. When il come into power,
there were any number OF Republicans
who were put forward as men WHO
could win on a Republican platform.
Ten years OF success, ten years OF
power, and the Republican party has
fallen so low that there is but one Re
publican in that party today, accord
ing to leading Republican papers, who
would stand a chance OF election, il the
election were now. Republicans will
tell you that the President must run,
because ne Is the only man they have
got to put up. Now, isn't ii strange
that after ten years of power, there is
no other Republican TO whom they can
look, as promiaing candidate? Do
they lack ahility9 No; they are just as
able as they ever were. Aren't they
well known? Yes, too well knowpl ZAP
plause). Why is it that there is only
one man in that party upon whom
they can hang their hopes. "A voice.
sits because they have got to run
against Bryan."l (Applause). No, my
friends, it does not matter who the
Democratic candidate is, provided he
Is one IN whom the Democrats have
confidence. The Republicans do not
feel sure Of victory. Why is it that
President Roosevelt is the only popu-
lar Republican today in national poll.
| ties? II Is because he has adopted so
many plants OF the Democratic party.
(Applause). Talk about the Democratic
party being deadl Can you call party
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form, and provide one for its oppo.
nents? Is there any Democrat who
thinks Of receding? AT the time when
the Republicans are trying to get credit
for doing things that were pointed out
TO them by a Democratic platform,
What has the President done to make
him popular? challenge you to find
one evidence of popularity that Is not
traoeable to his following Democratic
rather than Republican doctrine. Do
any OF you remember the convention
at which he was nominated two years
ago? II you remember the speech made
by Ex-Governor Black Of New York, in
putting him is nomination, you will
remember that that speech contained
an eulogy of war. Yes, it is the only
speech ever read of prominent man
in the United States that ever seemed
to challenge the Christian religion!
Because in that speech this man de-
clared that men can preach and
women pray, but that ut last questions
must be settled on the battlefield. And,
then, having eulogized war, this man
presented Mr.. Roosevelt as the man
of blood and iron, to represent his
eulogy. And now, my friends, is 1t not
strange that the most popular thing
that President Roosevelt has done was,
not to justify the eulogy Of war, but to
bring peace between Russia and ia
pan. He has been praised because he
settled dispute between labor and
capital by arbitration. ! am glad he
did it. 1 think 1t was a noble act. Yes,
he brought peace between labor and
capital-settled rtrike-after a loss
of ninety-nine millions OF dollars to
employees and employers. But where
| did he get the idea of arbitration? Nof
from the Republican platform. He got
it from the Democratic platform, and
my friends, am little proud OF the
fact that / wrote that plank myself.