Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-10-28
STUART MARCHING
ON TO VICTORY

greSS, as ever crowned the daShing
gallantry of his illustrious uncle in
war, or shed glory and lustre upon the
immortal name of Fitzhugh Lee,
alike in war and in peace.
His gallant and inspiring leadership
has aroused and awakened the people
of this great district to realization
of the fact that their best interests
lie in the destruction of Cannonism,
Aldrichism, Standpatism and Slemp-
ism, and return TO power in our ma
tional government of the old Demo
cratic party, which is now, and ever
has been, the friend of all the peo-
pie.
His triumphal march from county
to county and from hamlet to hamlet,
has been an unbroken series of glori-
Gus victories, and the enthusiastic le-
gions that have followed and greeted
him everywhere have been likened I'M
to that determined band of sturdy
men of the mountains, who % years
ago, followed the white plume of
Fitzhugh Lee in his ever memorable
and victorious battle for Governor.
Many of them are the self same
men, while thousands of others are
their sons, and in spite of all the
vile ISLANDERS of the opposition; in
spite of the underground system"
operated by the ''pie brigade" and
all the power of Federal patronage
employed to defeat him, these people
are going to do for Henry Stuart
what they did for Fitzhugh Lee in
18S5-elect him to the office he is
contending for, by an old fashioned,
far reaching, overwhelming majority.
The day of Standpatism is DOOM
ed in this country, and when it goes
down on the 9Th of November, as it
surely will, it is going TO carry it's
advocates and supporters and agent
and representatives, including the
Hon. c. Bascom Slemp, down with it.
The people of this district are OPP
posed to the evils of "Cannonism, -
which 4 former President of the Unit
ed States bitterly denounces as stand
ing in the way and preventing the
passage of legislation demanded i'm
the interest of all the people and they
do not longer desire as their Repre-
sentative in Congress, man whose,
only answer to his constituents on
this subject is: Il was with Uncle
joe from beginning TO end" They
az no ~, 4
through a Sc tof rules drafted by the
Speaker at the behest of the protect
ed interests of this country, which
shuts the mouths of the representa-
tives of the people on the floor of
Congress and denies them either
speech or vote upon any measure
which has not the approval of the ty-
rant behind the gavel, and therefore
they do not wish to continue in Con-
gress as their representative man
who voted for these very rules, the
effect of which has been to shut his
own mouth, and to prevent the con-
sideration of bills demanded by his
own people.
They are opposed to the glaring
inequalities and whitening burdens of
the Payne-Aldrich-Slemp tariff bill,
which is fattening the trusts and
bleeding the consumer of the fruits
of his honest toll, and they not only
arraign their Representative for vot-
ing for it, but for coming back to his
district while this bill was being
framed according to his own public
statement-and asking an already
heavily protected class: How much
more do you want?" and then glee-
fully asserting, "They said how much
they wanted and they got it..
They do not wish to continue in
Congress as their representative a
man who believes in, votes for and
advocates a policy of guaranteeing
a reasonable protfi' to an already in
ordinately rich and more than amply
protected class, and which leaves
wholly out of consideration the great
consuming mass of our citizenship
who toll and sweat to keep body and
soul together, and who are forced un
der the ever increasing cost of living
to surrender their scant earnings 70
the benefit of a favored few.
These are some of the reasons VIII,
the Slemp power has dwindled an
waned in this district, and some O
the admitted charges upon which h
stands indicted before brave an
independent, liberty loving and FIRE
: thinking. constituency.
? Henry Stuart has made the mos
= magnificent campaign witnessed i
the recent history of this state, an
his strong, clear, ..forceful. argument.
combined with..his wonderful popular
ityIand the absolute. Confidence of II