West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-10-29
Most Important Branch Of Our State
Government.
SEE THAT GOOD MEN ARB ELECTED
Virginia Debt Question VIII Come BE.
fore 10 for SettIemcnt--How Does
Your Candidate standl

careful whom they vote for as MEM
ber' of the Legislature. 1t stands
them in hand to think thrice before
they vote. For the next few years
the legislature will be the most I'M
portant branch of our state govern
ment. Herculean efforts will be
made to saddle the Sss. 900, coo of
SO called West Virginia bonds upon
the taxpayers of this state.
Already suit is pending in the
United States supreme court, and
from the way things look now This
suit will be decided against the state.
But the mere fact that the court
deoldes that West Virginia owes this
deb, amounts TO nothing. There is
no court that can compel West Vir-
g'nia to pay There is only one
way in which the bondholders can
get the state TO pay it and that il
for the legislature to pass an ap.
preparation and the governor to an.
prove it, So long as we can elect
a Legislature that will not make an
appropriation, so long will this un-
just debt remain unpaid.
This Virginia debt is not a politi-
cal issue. but the Republican ma.
chine Mas made IL one by its failure
to mention il in the Republican
platform. This failure has been ex-
planned by those in a position to
know that certain Republicans high
up IN the councils of the party have
good sized bunch OF those bonds 3
aud they are necessarily anxious that
the state pay them. Now the Demo-
cratic party deLounces the West
virginia bonds as unjust and pledges
itself to not pay them il gwen con-
troll of the state government. The
Hon. Louis Bennett has stated in
every one of his speeches that if he
is elected governor the bonds will
never he paid as long as he is gov.
ernor of the state.
What does w. T.. Glasscock saw
about the old Virginia debt2 lie is
as mum as an oyster on that sub.
ject He never mentions it. He
is the candidate of the Republican
machine and the machine wants 20
pay them because 1t would be money
IN the pockets of the members Of
the machine.
II this unjust debt is saddled
on the state of West Virginia the
state could not pay the interest and
principal in ONE HUNDRED years.
The election OF Bryan or Taft is
OF no moment to the taxpayers of
West Virginia compared to this Vir-
ginia debt. IL the republic endures
we will elect twenty FIVE Presidents
before we would finish paying this
debt DO the Republican taxpayers
Of Preston county realize the gravity
and seriousness OF this Virginia debt.
If they do they will have to vote the
Democratic state ticket and for the
Democratic candidates for the house
Of delegates and the state senate,
for up TO the present time the Re.
publican party and its Candidates
have been as mute as the dead and
as silent as the grave on the Vir-
ginia debt.
Al the eleventh hour, with defeat
staring them in the face, they may
declare that they are opposed to
the payment OF the Virginia debt.
Bat as taxpayers can you believe
them1 Why have they failed to de.
clare their positions up to the pres.
ent timer Simply because they have
been IN favor OF paying the Vir.
ginia debt because the bosses OF the
Republican party are heavy bond.
holders OF the Virgins debt variety.
The only safe way is TO vote for the
Democratic candidates.