The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-06
GLIAssG0G SPEEGR
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the greatest coal predicting state in
the union. We should have con-
stantIy in mind the building up and
! eneoura cement OF this branch OF In
tdustry so important to the state West
I virginia has he best coal IN the Unit
/ ed States and must not fall behind In
4 its production. because It Is we1 lo-
| Gated to reach the markets, east and
! west
Every thing should be done 10 pro-
tect the health and lives Of our peo-
4 pie working In the coal mines.
The threatened Acknowledgement
/ by the Democratic party of the Negro
1 by a law, which would also include a
large number OF white voters OF the
state, is an outrage and viii work in-
H justice and wrong to a large body of
good and worthy citizens entitled to
all the rights and privileges of other
posed by the Republican party.
Opposes Compromise.
4 I believe West Virginia does not
owe anything to the state OF Virginia,
or to the holders OF the pretended
certificates issued by that state
against this state, and If elected Gov
ernor I pledge to the people my best
efforts in seeing that our interests are
fully protected. We have already
Eemployed some Of the best lawyers
in this state and in the whole country
| to defend us in the suit instituted In
the name of Virginia against us now
pending in the Supreme Court of the
United States, and we should employ
all honorable means to succeed in our
defense of that suit. am not in
favor of compromise, but am in favor,
to use a homely expression, of de-
! tending the suit to the bitter end"
Since the 18th day of March, 1897,
the Republican party has been in con-
troll of the executive and legislative
departments OF the government of
West Virginia, and take it the ques-
ton before us today is not how much
we may have differed among our
selves as to what ought or ought not
to have been done, but rather how
well have we served the whole people.
Has our stewardship been satfsfac-
tory? Have we made good our prom
fses to the people? Has the state
prospeFed under our administration
of affairs? FIave we been good and
faithful servants and is it better for
the people of this g4eat and growing
commonwealth to continue us I'M
power or would 1t be to their best in
terests to place in power the party
that has opposed that which we have
done and now says to you that thei
Republican party has been unfaithful
fr 10 TyFN Ff wi
of your confidence and support2 II
would not and, do not say that our
Democratic friends would have us goj
back to the days of~Democratic rulel
in this state, because 1 know they
past II years, but they insist that
our mistakes have been such and our
administration of affairs so unsatis-
factory that we are no longer worthy
of the confidence and support of theI
yoemanry of the state.
Citizens Are SoVereigns.
In the past decade great and rapid
strides have been made in this coun-
try. In many ways we do not think
and act as we did a few years ago.
The public conscience has been sol
arohsed under the administration OIL
our great President, Theodore Roose-
welt, that many things which we're
either looked upon as all right or at
least permitted to pass without criti-
cism few years ago is now con-
demned and the people applaud the
condemnation. A few years ago peo-
pie only inquired whether you had a !
good boss or a bad one. Now they
insist If you stand In the public lime
light, that you be completely disrobed
and If your garments OF official or
private life show blot or stain; or the
man free from the garments does not
present the strongest evidence of in
tegrity and character and of promise
for the future that he he condemned
as unworthy of their confidence and
support. -
A few years ago the whole coun-
try applauded when one man stood
up in great convention and dra-
maticalIy declared that he carried
his sovereignty under the crown of
his hat Today every citizen in this
country knows he Is a sovereign and
he does not hesitate to exercise that
sovereignty as seems best to him, and
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