Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1908-09-29


ward or downward, or in the interest
OF the people, or in the interest of
those who furnish the sinews of war
to keep those who revise it in Office.
But Democrats tell you just how they
will do it. They tell you and you
can rely on what they tell you, that
they will revise it downward, that
they will place upon the free list all
articles entering into competition
with trust controlled articles, that
they will make material reductions
in the tariff upon the necessaries Of
life, especially upon articles compet-
ing with such American manufac-
lures as. are sold abroad more cheap
ly than at home,-and that gradually
they will restore it to revenue basis.
Other planks in our platform pro
vide for trial by jury in cases of
indirect contempt, and that "injuc-
tons should not be issued in any
cases in which injunctions would not
issue If no industrial dispute were in
volyed." Judge Taft takes occasion
to attack this plank on indirect con-
tempts, and says that it is most in
siduous attack upon our courts. Yet
it has had the approval of many Of
the most distinguished leaders of the
Republican party, including Senator
Sherman, Senator Allison and Others
But do not understand that this is
either unprecedent or revolutionary
in either Virginia or West Virginia
Such a proceeding is criminal in its
nature, and falls within the spirit if
not the letter of Section Ia of Ar
ticle of the Constitution of West
Virginia, which guarantees the right
of a trial by jury in all cases of per-
sons charged with crimes and mis-
demeanors. This right of trial by
| jury in contempt cases is provided
for in Section % of Chapter lat of
the Code, and has been upheld by
our courts in numerous cases.
l refer to another plank 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 platform.
l mean that plank in the national
platform which condemns the admin
istration for its extravaganza, which,
in spite of the immense revenue re-
ceived, left a deficit of over $60,000,-
900 for the fiscal year just ended
And also that plank that condemns it
for adding within the last year 23,7S4
officeholders to the great army al
l y 20 of In ofsh
within the last six years at an addi-
tional expense of $70,000,000, de-
lnouncing it as not only unnecessary
| and wasteful, but as a means of keep
ing the dominant party in power
For every officeholder means a voter
for that party and worker to per-
petuate that administration. Do you
wonder that Roosevelt, when he got
taking unto itself every emolumenc
and every Office and every honor that
otherwise all should have full and
equal opportunity to aspire to and at
tain. Tell me, my good Republican
friends, and it is to you I would
Ispeak. and | hope, speak without of
Tense even if l speak frankly, what
chance has honesty and ability and
cleanly methods against the power Of
such combination? Wherein lies
the reward of fidelity and loyalty to
party principles? Wherein the hopes
this powerful machine in motion,
was able to name his successor in of
flee?
| say that we have it's strong par
allel here in West Virginia. For
here also we have constant and UNI
necessary increase in the already
great hoard of officeholdes appoint
ed apparently for the deliberate pur-
pose of keeping the administration in
power and making it not an admins
tration having the best interests of
the people at heart, but close cor
poration, or machine, or whatever it
may be called, whose sole purpose
seems to be to waste the peoples
money and thwart the peoples will,
of personal ambition?
1t has, always been the policy of
the people of this land to hold as
contrary to the fundamental prin-
ciples of our government that any
head of its affairs should have con-
tinuous lease upon his Office Great
as was the popularity and power of
President Grant, it was not sufficient
to give him a third term Nor do
II believe that Roosevelt could have
been so nominated, or, if nominated,
elected. But I can see only little
difference in ones succeeding himself
and in his being able to name his
successor in Office. The successor
of Roosevelt has been named through
the immense power and influence of
j the national government. 1t re-
mains to be seen if the people will
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