Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-09-21

by those who will have the best in
forests of the people at heart when
they do it.
REPUBLICAN RESPONSIBILITY,
The Republican party has long
been in complete control Of every
department of our government. and
not having revised these laws be-
fore this time as they might and
should have done, the people may
we'll doubt their sincerity when
they now promise to do SO "after
the election" But no one doubts
the sincerity OF the Democratic
party when they say that II placed
In power they VIII endeavor TO do
equal justice to all people and to
all inerests alike. and to this end
they VIII enact and revise our laws
SO as 10 carry out the doctrines
pronounced in their platform.
THE TARIFF
Among all OF these laws that are
TO be revised. know OF mono that
needs it more than our tariff law.
The very ,dea that a government
can exact more monsy from its Deo-
pie than is necessary TO meet it's
expenses when economically admin
istsrSd-that under the guise OF
protection IL can turn over to man
ufactoriec, corporations ard trusts
$500 of the peoples money for
every $1.00 that goes into the treas
ury,-that will permit protected
industries to sell their products
abroad N competition with the
cheapest of labor at less than YOU
are compelled To pay for it at their
very door. IS utterly incompreha en-
sible TO all Democrats, AMI they
have always fought the system with
persistence born fconviction.
And in this fight ti.ey now Lave the
assistance OF so many OF the masses
OF the Republican party, that at las
even their leaders promise us re-
VislSsll<pter the election" But
cog ktS'om them, we are natural
ly lett N doubt as TO whether o.
not. If done at all, it be done up
ward or downward. or in the inter.
est OF the people. or in the interest
OF those wIo furnish the s.news OF
war TO keep those who revise It in
Office. But Democrats tell you Just
how they viii do il. Trey tell you
and you can rely on what they tell
you, that they will revise 1t down
ward,-that they will place upon
the free list all articles entering
into comps tition with trust controll-
ed artlcles, that they will make
material reductions in the tarfr
upon the neCessaIies OF life, espec-
tally upon articles competing with
such American manufactures as are
sold abroad more cheaply than at
home,-and that gradually they
VIII restore it to a revenue basis
TRIAL BY JURY
Other planks in our platform pro-
VIDE for trial b. jury in cases OF
Indirect contempt, and that "injunc-
tons should not be issued in any
d2ses N which injunctIons would
not issue If no industrial dispure
We're involved Jude Taft takes
occasion to attack this plank on in
direct contempts, and says that Il
is most insiduous attack upon our
courts. Yot It has Lad the APPROX
al of many of the most distinguished
leaders of the Republican rarty. in
Guiding Senator Sherman, senator
Allison and others Bat | do not
l Understand that this is either I'M
precedented or revolutionary IN
either Virginia or West Virginia.
Such preceding is criminal in its
nature, and falls withfa tho spirit
If not the letter of Section IA of
Article 3 of the Constitution OF
W-st Virginia, which guarantees
the right Of trial by jury in all
cases Of persons charged with
crimes and misdemeanors. This
right of trial by jury i'm Contempt
cases is provided for IN Section %
OF Cnapt'r 147 OF the Code, and has
been upheld by our court in num-
erous cases.
EXTRAVAGANCE
| refer to other plants In the ma
tional platform OF the Democratic
party because in effect they find par
allel conditions In our own state.
and are expressed in our own plat
form. mean that plank in the
national platform which condemns
the administration for its extrava-
ganca which in spite Of the immense
revenues received, left n deficit of
over 0,O00,OO0.O0 for the fiscal
year just ended. And also that
plank that condemns il for adding
within the last year 23,7S4 office
holders to the great army already
fed at the public crib, 99,319 with
in the last years at an additional
expense of $70.OOO.OOO, denouncing
it as not only unnecessary and
wasteful, but as a means OF keep
ing the dominant party I'm power
For every office holder means