Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-08-26
TURN ON THE LIGHT

No matter what Big Diciators
Roosevelt and Bryan may or may
not 90, whether they sulk or wheth-
er they fight, the next House of
Representatives is TO be Democratic.
1t is to be Democratic not because
of the superior virtue OF Democrats
or because the Democrats arc in the
majority or because there is the ut
most public confidence i'm Democrats,
but because there are tens of thou
sands of Republicans OF independ-
ence and courage who want a change
and who will vote To bring 1t about.
a Democratic Congress is neceSsa-
ry to open the books and TO turn on
the light. 1t is necessary 10 ascertain
what Senator Aldrich meant when
he said that good business man in
charge of the National Government
could save $500, 600, 600 year. IT is
Necessary to establish onte more the
principle of OF publicity and account
ability in place OF the existing prac-
tice OF secrecy, waste, rccklessness
and privilege.
1t is not by accident that this is
the most corrupt and extravaganL
government on earth. These condi-
lions have appeared rs the result of
downright incapacity and neglect in
high places, of false ideas, of prollli-
gate habits, OF low morals and of
plain stealing and grating on the
part OF crowd of favorites ever
increasing in numbers and rapacity.
Republicans as we'll as Democrats
want TO know the truth.
Democratic Congress will in
vestigate, expose and so far as posi-
BILE punish those who are response
BILE for these scandals and injustices
The colossal sugar frauds.
The Panama Canal corruptions
The cost OF living as affected by
the extraordinary tariff and the
trusts.
The extravaganza OF Government
expenditures, amounting now TO
$l,09S, S47, 1S4 in one year.
The part played by Mr.. Wicker
sham i'm the sale OF the friar lands
is the Philippines.
The amount of money that CoItel-
you and other Cabinet members for
corporations squeezed out OF the plu-
tocrats for campaign purposes when
Roosevelt ran in 1904 and how much
Hitchcock raised for Taft four wears
later.
The efforts of trusts and syndi-
Gates TO grab timber and mineral
lands and water power sites, and
Ballingers relations thereto.
The enormous expense OF jingoism,
wars past and to come, now costing
S43l, 600, 600 year.
The reason why President Taft
joins the Guggenheims in denying
TO Alaska territorial government.
The influences that we've behind
the rubber schedule, the cotton SEIZED
ule and the wool schedule OF the ex-
tortionate Payne Aldrich tariff.
The part played by national OFF,
GERS in promoting the plundering of
the civilized Indians of Oklahoma
lawyers, claim agents and politi-
clans.
The members of Congress who had
pecunlary interest in the Panye
Aldrich traiff and what they made
by it.
The country wants facts. The peo-
pie want truth. They can get neith-
er from a Republican Congress. They
Will elect a democratic House of
Representatives in the belief that it
will open the books, that it will at
least check obvious wrongs and that
In some degree it will promote hon
esty and Justice. Their is no parti-
sanship in publicity. Only rascals
fear ii or suffer for il.
Turn on the light Turn out the
rascals!