Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1910-10-26
(Charles Brooke Smith

Charleston. w. Va.-(Special.)- AT
the very beginning of this campaign
the prediction was made that the fight
between the two big parties would be
started and waged for awhile. and
then abandoned by the Democratic
managers, on these three propositions.
Q) Opposition to the tax laws; or
Attack on the protective tariff policy.
charging the high cost of living to IL A.;
CD Charge the party in power in this
State with wasteful extravaganza OF
the peoples money. That this predic-
ton has been fulfilled completely, per
sons watchful of the present political
panorama in West Virginia, and of
fair mind and equally poised judg-
ment, will agree.
There is no studied plan of that
Democratic attack on the Republican
stronghold being worked out now. 1t
has been abandoned by the campaign
managers OF that party and whatever
of these subjects is being put forward
amounts to a desultory firing from
scattered troopers who have not heard
from headquarters that the original
plans of campaign have been aban-
doned When the Democratic generals
started out to make the three promo
sitions mentioned above a paramount
triumvirate of issues, they walked into
a nicely set and finely adjusted trap.
When the spring snapped and they
were caught, they realized the pres
ence and preparedness of the enemy.
Each and every charge was met
promptly, with evidence overwhelm-
ingly convincing, and successfully
disproven to the entire satisfaction of
the voting public.
They found their own candidates for
Congress trying to play pussy-in-the.
corner with the tariff issue, and run
ming for the cyclone cellars when such
questions were popped as: Would
you vote to take the tariff off coal?
OFF timber? OFF glass and pottery:"
etc. They found this year. as in for
mer years, that West Virginians are
favorable to the maintenance of a pro
-tective policy, recognizing and appre-
ciating that 1t has done more than
anything else to promote their indi-
vidual prosperity, and their States
great growth and industrial develop
ment.
High Living Cost Universal.
These same campaign directors of
Democracy also realized about the
same time that they couldn't couple
up the high cost of living with pro
tective tariff-not with the Intelligent
thinking voter, because the high cost
of living is not indigenous to one coun-
try nor one cline. II is universal
throughout the civilized world. and
tariff or free trade have nothing what
soever to do with it. So they dropped
that like 1t were the hot end of a
poker
Simultaneously, the blow Jared
them TO full realization that fighting
the tax laws wasn't getting them any
thing; i'm fact. IL was losing them sup
port, as II did in the other disastrous
campaigns that they conducted along
that line. So they dropped that. The
tax system isn't a new thing any long.
CT II is old and tried and found to
be the best system Of taxation this
State ever had. The Republicans this
year have flooded the state with an
infinite array Of impressive and con.
vincing testimony Of the efficient and
just operation Of this system. all OF
which fully satisfies the most incredu.
lous. If they be not stepped i'm preju-
dice and narrowminded partisanism
TO such an extent that they are blind
10 truth or do not want TO hear and
heed the truth. Along with the elm.
ination Of the tax laws as an issue.
the Democrats gave one more blast
about extravaganza I'm state govern
ment. The falsity and the absurdity
OF this charge have been shown and.
save here and there. not much is being
said about that The Honorable Jim
mic Weir Of the publicity stan Of the
Democratic organization. is the last to
let go. Another member of that staff.
George Summers. "dOgged" IL a fort
night since George is now trying to
win Republican votes I'm West Virginia
with some such rather unique appeals
as: There are 200 Republicans hold.
Ing jobs connected with the House Of
Representatives, and If Republicans I'm
West Virginia keep Carrigan. stureiss
Gaines woodward and Hughes at
home. these 800 Republicans will be
kicked out of employment and their
places given 10 900 Democrats"-or
words to that effect How eficacious
such an argument will prove with Re