Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-08-19

the district as stand
patter pure and simple.
The election OF Mr.. Stuart would
not only mean that the Ninth dis
trict would have Representative
i'm Congress who would be resDon-
sive at all times To the will of his
people, and who would spurr the
suggestion o. atliilating with men of
the stripe of Joe Cannon, even if
there were any such high up i'm Dem
ocratIc circles, but il would mean
that the Nation would have man
who would be ready TO join i'm bring
ing about of those reforms which
long years of Republican misrule
have made SO necessary To "A renewal
OF the prosperity and happiness of
the people, and To the restoration OF
policy which shall "restrain men
from ihjuring one another, which
shall leave them otherwise free 10
conduct their own pursuits of indus
try and im provement, and which
shall not take from the mouth OF la
Dor the bread il has earned"
Perhaps some of the Office holding
shouters of Mr. Slemp have not real
ize that with such man, With
such record, on such platform,
pitted against him and his record,
in the last session of Congress espec-
iallv, he is in the throes Of "a battle
which Will most likely result in his
utter overthrow by the people, but
we have no doubt that the Young
Republican leader himself appreci-
ates the seriousness of the situation,
and that it is "up to him. to do a
great deal of explaining, in order 10
set himself straight with the voters
of the district.
lie appears to have gotten into
deep water" 10y Dragging about sit
thug up with Uncle Joe" last win
ter, when that old tyrant and auto
crat, now thoroughly repudiated ny
the best leaders of his own party and
heartily despised by the public at
large, was openly defying the ex-
pressed Will of the sovereign people
and standing in the way OF legisla-
ton demanded by them.
Again, he will have a rough vow
age before him when he undertakes
to explain why he voted against re-
committing the Payne tariff bill to
the Committee on Ways and Means,
so that il might have been amended
in the interests OF the farmers, the
consumers and the laboring people
generally, and then voted for the pas
sage OF the bill which has been de-
nounced in unmeasured terms by
prominent leaders OF his own party,
as having been passed in the inter
ests OF the trusts, and not in the in
terests OF the people. The records
show that the resolution TO recon-
nit the bill was based upon de-
mand from the Democrats of the
House TO so amend ms To place all
agricultural implements on the free
list, 10 cut out the increases on hos
ieTy and gloves and generally speak
ing 10 readjust it in such manner
rs TO make the revision "downard. -
instead Of upward" ssas is the case
with the law rs it was finally pass
ed.
There were fourteen important
amendments-all i'm the interests OF
the plain people, suggested i'm this
resolution, and Mr. Slemp voted
squarely against them all, when he
ans Tered may ON the motion Of MI
Clark, Dem. TO recommit. MI
Slemp knows what these amend.
ments were, and they need not bC
reciIed here. They will be elaborated
upon in the campaign, however, and
he Will be asked TO tell the people OF
the district why he voted against
them, and with the "standpatters'
on nearly every proposition thai
came before the last session of Con.
gress.
Mr. Stem may be able to satisfac.
torily defend this record before The
people, but If he is, he Will at once
be set down rs the most wonderful
defender that ever aspired TO office in
Virginia in his day and generation
at least.