The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-29
SUPPOSED ADDRESS OF THE
DEMOCRATIC STATE
z COMMITTEE.
TO the voters Of the State of Yves
Virginia:

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We the chosen representatives OF
the untcrriiled and ever hopeful dem
ocracy of West Virginia set forth the
8 following declaration for the people
to think about before casting their
ballots at the coming November cleo.
ton:
We deplore the present condition OF
our party for we have had no Offices
Of Importance either State or National
since 1896 and the mention of that
date fairly makes us shudder for 1t
was insthat memorable year that Will
liam Jennings Bryan took control OF
our party affairs. We called him the
boy orator of the Platte" because
he was young then and we are sorry
TO say that he is not old yet. The
spectre of Organism has frightened
the voters now for fourteen years and
who mowsSthat he may not again be
the Democratic candidate for Presi.
dent? But we do not deem 1t neces.
gary or desirable to say more about
Organism now as this is an of year
and he Is not running for President
now; at least he is NOT Oh the tickle,
this fall. y
We think 1t unfortunate that the
Democratic party is held responsible
Tor the dark, dismal and depressing
days from 1893 to 1896, following the
{ passage OF the Wilson.Gorman tariff
bill. 1t was passed by Democratic
Congress and signed by Democratic
President but we have always main.
tanned. do now and forever shall main.
tain that the Democrats had nothing
! to do with the hard times under Glove.
lands administration. The hard times
OF 1S9S-1S06 just happened, there was
X no cause for them. With the panic OF
1907 however, 1t was different After
along period of prosperity, much long.
err than we ever thought could be
4 maintained, o crash in the money mar
ket came, called by some a rich mans
panic It started on Wall street In
New York and 1t was currently re-
ported that 1t was set In motion by
the millionaires as rebukc to Presi-
: dent. Roosevelt and the Republican
party because they had been going
4 after the malefactors OF great wealth
\ IN "a very ugly way. We encouraged
< the panicky situation all we could MS
y We thought 1t was Democratic op.
4 portunity but alas, alack, Mr.. Bryan
was still on deck and our hopes were
Hhattered when he was again placed
on the ticket. TAFT was elected, bust.
! ness at once began to revive and II
has been booming ever since, We
are not certain just what we would do
: If the people should put us into the
s Offices but we would like to have the
Offices anyway.
In State affairs our party has Jared
fully as badly as in National affairs
The Republicans passed new set of
\ tax laws which we maintained
wouldn't work. We claimed that the
! farmers taxes would be doubled and
that the property OF corporations
would almost escape taxation but We
acknowledge that we were slightly
mistaken in this matter. We hardly
know what We would do TO the new
tax laws II our party should win, but
\ We would surely do something to
them. AT least We would like to be
I given chance at them. For while
we said that the Democrats would
7 repeal the. tax laws In toto IL given an
Y opportunity but the opportunity was
not given and the chances are that
we would not attempt more than
slight revision for the new laws seem
to be working fairly well. One of the
Z reasons our party opposed the pas.
sage OF the new tax laws in the first
place was that n change is likely to
unsettle business so 10 be consistent
we hardly think the new system ought
to be changed all at once. However
We are not certain about that. 1t is
settled policy of our party not to
make any promises beforehand and
then We can do as we please after
election.
3f There are many things we should
I like to say to the voters but we fear
this address may become too long for
busy readers and therefore will not
say much more. We are sorry the
people arc so busy this fall for 1t is
a bad time to hold an election.
We denounce the Republican party
for raising so much money for public
Improvements.
We also denounce the Republican
party for its failure TO submit the pro.
/ hibttion amendment to a vote of the
people. The amendment could have
been submitted il the Democrats had
helped do 1t but anybody can see that
that would have been bad politics.
AS We said above we hardly ever make
any promises but we might submit
Z the amendment IL We had q chance.
We would like to have the Offices any.
way.
Yours as ever.