The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1906-11-27
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.

come home to the people with added
force and effect, simply bacause they
did not exert their pIeroga,ive as q
voter aud akiller, therefore, Of viciou,
practices and political evils. The
Democracy has lost the lloufe 10y
between forty and fifty, in tie Six
10th Congress. 1t should have won.
AS said some time ago, ll6 maj
GRITTY Republican in the House of
Representatives was an herculean
task to overcome. 1t coull have
been overcome if the Democrats of
the United States, who really are
Democrats, who believe in Democrat.
&c principles, had come out and voted
iheil honest convictions, because
there we've enough men defeated -
Democratic candidates-by less than
800 majority, to have won tho House.
The tronble with the Democratic
party in this country is that they do
not go TO the polls and vote. The
reason they do not vote is because
they are satisfied Satisfaction
means contentmont, and contentment
means indifference to the political ills
that disturb this country, and make
it a couutrytO for and by the Trusts,
and not the people. 1t seems to me,
after leu years of service in Wash
ingtOn as q newspaper correspondent,
aud six years serv ce as Secretary Of
the Democratic Congressional Com
mittee, there is nothing which will
overcome the Republican minority in
the House or the Republican, majority
in the nation from Presidential
standpoint, except absolute poverty,
nnd pinchlng IN the belly which
will make men think of the cruel
wrongs being wrought by the Trusts
and combinations, absorbing the
money of the masses When a man
has all he wants, he dues not think,
He wants to sleep, and rest. He is
utterly indifferent to anything that
compels HIM to take himself out of
his lethargy and becme active.
| have the profoundest consider
alton, the kindest thought, for the
people as a whole, in the Unitsd
States. 1t is not the people that
am angry with. They do not mean
to BIO neglecful of their own interests,
but when they are prosperous, when
they feel that they are cOrten ted,
they will not go to the polls and they
will not vote to relieve their fellow
citizens who are not in the same con-
Gilion they find themselves IN.
In the case Of high prices for food !
ard raimeut the farmer is gamer |
He is the man who usually settles
oil disputes at the polls. The man
with the fixed income, like the labor
ing man and clerk, is the man who
buffers because of high prices, Thous-
ands Of farmets who naturally are
Democrats welt to the polls aud
voted against their own party because
they believed it was trying 10 do
something t. disturb the present
conditions, which were prosperous
conditions 81 far as they are concern
ed. Thousands OF clerks and work.
men went to the polls and voted
against the Republican party because
IL stood pat" and refused TO do any
thing 60 help them cut down the
price Of things in this country to an
equality with those prices at whrch
ihey we're selling TO foreigners 1t
should be a pride "a national paide--
20 know they are buying their own
homemade goods as cheaply here az
they arc sold 10 a foreigner, but
when he condition aiiscs that the
average American is satisfied, they
vote their satisfaction, and the fact
ni discrimination in prices has no
effect upon them because they have
the price asked by American man
manufacturers
Nov then, what ls the remedy and
how and when will the Democrats
~~f"2 II THE thing continues # only
can result in one thing ond that is
q financial crisis that will bring every
man VIM has a family, to his krees.
end c'mpeii him 90 recognise aho fact
fhat aIl Che wealth O. this nation o.
cling ooncenlered 10 the hands Of The
few
When hU has been drained TO 90
lass drop sud he sees The pincbod
and van faces Of his ramiyf ard bis
VFn belly begins % hurt from cruel
vsbl be lbsa viii go 70 Vie polls and