Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-06-12
REPUBLICAN
PROSPERITY.
Aunty Spec Answers the RepubIi.
can Congressional Committee.

can Congressional Committee.
EDITOR CITIzEN-The following clip
ping is taken from the Richmond News
Leader, and as / want and need thai
$3.50 bad I'm going to bust trace try.
ing to get it, and viii incidentally say 8
few words on Republican prosperity
VS.. Democratic Jackassedness:
''The Republican congressional com.
mittee offers $3.50 for the best article.
not exceeding ZOO words, on the sub
ject: Why the Republican party
should be successful next November.
1t would take much more than a
thousand words to carry the necessary
sophistry to argue that out, but why il
should not be successful could be told in
very few words"
was talking with some Democratic
gentlemen not long ago and was asked
If l thought Bryan stood any chance OF
being elected President. My answer
was certainly" The reply was,
"Well. hope not. hope that 1 may
never see another Democratic presi-
dent"
asked "why?'
The reply-''We will all starve to
death, for the hardest times that we
ever saw was when Cleveland was presi-
dent, and times are getting awful hard
now because it is a presidential year
and the Republican business men are
laying their men off for the purpose of
defeating Bryan, and if he should be
elected they will shut down their bust
ness and it will be the hardest time
that man ever saw
Well, let's see. That Argument is
what has kept the Republican party in
power for 10 these many years. Every
thing good that happens to the Ameri-
can people comes through the benefi-
cence of the Republican party, every
thing bad through the assaninity of the
Democrats-according to the Republi-
can doctrine, When the Almighty and
Ailwise sends bountiful seasons and the
farmers barns are bursting with the
golden grain, his bank account swell
ling. his mortgage paid off, his family
well. and nature showering down bles-
sings on him, then it is our beautiful
Republican prosperity that is the cause
of 1t. When oysters. peas, corn, wheat,
potatoes. stock and all produce are
bringing good prices and your face is
carrying the grin that won't come off,
it is Republican prosperity. When
High schools are established to educate
your children, churches built to wor-
ship God, the power to wipe out the
saloon evil, houses painted and homes
beautitied in a Democratic State it is
caused by Republican prosperity. But
when you have droughts and no crops,
tornadoes. destroying your property,
getting 80 cents a barrel for peas, so
cents for potatoes, oysters don't pay to
ship, asparagus, Strawberries and all
trucks don't pay the freight, although
bountiful Republican prosperity
crop. then it is caused by the Demo-
cratic party, When the farmer is get
ting 20 cents per bushel for his corn, the
speculative gambler gething 50. the poor
man at this time having to pay SLIP
per bushel for meal, $l.s5 for bran, Ii
cepts for shoulder meat, IL cents for fat
back, beef selling on the hoof at 4 cents,
porter-house steak 20 and %. cents
cotton goods out of sight; send shoats
to town get 81 per piece, buy them back
for 81; get 10 cents per dozen for soft
crabs. go in q restaurant pay 10 each
for them-or in other words if you are
so fortunate as to have any thing to
sell the Republican party is the cause
of it, but if you don't get any thing for
it and have to pay a big price for what
you buy, why, that is caused by the
Democratic free trade scare.
The success of the Republican party
has been caused in the past by claiming
every thing that has been for the bet
terment of the American people and
charging the Democrats with all adver-
sity, poverty and suffering that we have
to put up with. Why they even claim
that Pharoah was Democrat and the
Republican Moses led Gods people
through the Red Sea, and Pontius Pi-
late, the Democratic governor of Judea,
did not have backbone enough to re-
lease the Savior, and that if there had
been Republican governor at that time
it would have been different. If that is
fact we are pretty lucky that he was
a Democrat. 1t would have knocked
out the plan of salvation like most of
their acts. We are not sure of Plate s
party afiiiia tions, but know that he
was a One-horse politician all right
and with a great deal more self respect
than the average Republican Office
holding politician of today-and would
not be far out of the way to add Dem
ocratic politician too.
What is the cause of the hard times
of today. Is it because the money that
was in circulation last year is not here
now? Mol 1t is because of the great
money panic last year under our Great
Republican prosperity administration,
when Morgan, Rockefeller and Cortel.
you the poor mans friends had to dump
millions into the banks of New York tc
keep the speculatis gamblers from
busting them, and the money is in the
banks today and business men can't
get money to carry on business, move
crops, etc. The consequence is that mer
have to be laid off, business shut down
Why has produce been so cheap ever
since the panic? has it been overpro