West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-09-13
COOLING THE PEOPLE.

Inc hepuDllcan party IS up to
It's same old trick of fooling the
people, and now it is up to the
people TO see if they will continue
to let it do it.
There was conference over at
Oyster Bay few days ago between
the President, Mr.. Speaker Joe
Cannon, Jim Sherman, chairman
of the Republican Congressional
Committee, and several lesser
lights in the Republican organiza.
ton. They discussed the ways
and means of the next Congress
sional campaign, agreed TO fool
the people by asking for one dol
lar subscriptions, when they knew
they had half million still in
Cortelyou's "kick"which had been
filched from the people by the in
surance robbers and grafters, and
all that Jim Sherman had to do
was to follow Teddy's advice and
let him run things and he could
have as much of that stolen
money as he wanted for the cam
paign.
That was trick number one.
Now comes the Secretary of the
Republican National Committee,
one Elmer Dover, who was the
private secretary to Mark Hanna,
and he gives the Republicans some
sage advice. While the Oyster
Bay conference had agreed to
"stand pat" as one of the slogans
of the Republican campaign, and
tell the tariff revisionists to 90
to, and the cry of stand pat was
echoing from every fence corner,
this Mr.. Secretary Dover comes
out and tells the Republicans that
they must stand pat only where it
will do the most good to stand
pat, and cry for tariff revision
where that cry will gather in the
votes of the faithful. In other
words the Republican campaign
will be pitched along the lines
laid down by the late lamented
General Hancock, who said that
the tariff issue was local ques-
ton. How does that advice iibe
with the utterances of the Oyster
Bay conference and the words of
all the leaders of the Republican
party in Congress ? What is the
Republican party going to do?
Is it going to stand pat in some
districts as advised by Mr.. Dover
and howl for tariff revision out i'm
Iowa and up in Massachusetts
Is 1t going to go back on its own
platform which says that protec-
ton is the cardinal principle of
the Republican party, in some
States and districts, and stand by
that principle in others? That is
just exactly what it is going to do
and you may as we'll begin to
watch its antics.
The Republican party cares no
more for principle than tom cat
does for the marriage relation. 1t
will lie or steal just as the "chances
mought be-" and do anything
once in order to get the votes to
keep it in power in the House of
Representatives in the Goth Con-
gress that will be elected next
November. 1t is after the votes,
and it does not care how or where
1T gets them. After it gets them
1t then will keep it's promises to
the stand pat people and go back
on those it promised revision. 1t
has no more idea of revising the
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tariff than it has of being decent.
1t is simply out to fool the people
once more and get the votes, and
stay in office where it can con-
tinue to rob the people in the in
terest of the protected monopolies.
1t knows full we'll that the Demo.
Gratis will revise the tariff, and
that it will also uncover the mas
tiest mess in all the departments
OF this government that ever
smelled to high heaven. 1t is
plumb" scared, and that is why
1t IS wearing the skin of the ass
in one district and that of the
lion in the other Will the people
be fooled?
This is damned wicked