Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-09-08
REPUBLICAN HOSTS
MAKE WELKIN RING
Congressman SIemp Is Greeted by Immense
IhrOng in Opening Speech at JOnesviIIe
Monday When Henry C. Stuah'S PO-
Iitical Death KneII Was Sounded.

Jonesville, Va, Sept. 5.-After q
heavy rain last night, this morning
dawned bright and clear and the crowd
tegan arriving early. Candidates were
out at the first peep of day to minole
with the gathering thronR. II was
noticeable that Mr.. Slemp was far more
eagerly sought than Mr.. Stuart and the
demonstration that greeted him on ey-
cry hand was hearty and genuine. The
aggressive spirit of the Lee county Re-
publlcans has been happily evidenced in
every way and their enthusiastic conf.
dence as well. The speaking began at
little after IL o'clock. The Reuubli
can speaking was in front of the court
house and the Democratic in the large
shed of hardware store.
Mr. Slemp was introduced by Hon.
John G. Noel, whose address was a
spirited and scathing arraignment of
the Democratic policies and party.
When Mr.. Slemp arose to speak he was
greeted by a demonstration never
equalied here and his speech was listen
ed to with tbs closest attention through
out. His many telling points were
greeted with enthusiastic applause. He
olo not adhere strictly to his prepared
speech, but covered every salient point.
The hold that MIR. Slemp has on the af-
fections and good will of the people of
this county seems quite without paral-
lei. Mr.. Slemp was followed by Hon.
j. l.. Gleaves, of Wytheville, and Hon.
l.; L. Summers, of Abingdon, closed
Ihe speeches of these splendid orators
were greeted with a continuous wave of
enthusiasm.
STRIKING POINTS OF MR.. SLEMP'S
SPEECH.
] From n coraft,l rooI;-~-
, nent's speech in this campaign, | have
come to the conclusion that he is going
to try to crowd me off my tariff plat
form, but | am going stick to it. | was
elected on 1t; served on it in congress.
and am going TO be elected again on il |.
and am gong to stand on it in spite of
all my opponent may say or do. He
can stand on it with me if he will do so
| There is plenty of room for us both. and
other repentsnt democrats, and / will
welcome him; but L want him to stand
on 1t as republican.
His party declared for sound monev
by telegraph" in 1904-but when did
1t ever declare for tariff sufficient to
cover the difference in the cost of pro-
duction in this and foreign countries?
NEVER. That is republican doctrine.
Having worn to a frazzle and aban-
doned free silver, the income tax. and
other issues, they were looking around
for something las the hart panteth for
the running brook"-so they eagerly
attacked the schedules of the Pavne
tariff law.
Our opponents revised the tariff once
within the memory of most of you, and
have you ever heard any of them say
ing this year that they wanted to re-
wise it again along the lines laid down
in their Wilson, German bill?
When it comes to telling the people
what they did do for them when thew
had chance, their memories fail them.
and they are dumb as oysters.
was present in congress during the
entire time of the consideration of the
bill, helped frame certain features of
the bill, and voted for the bill on its
passage. In doing this | felt that we
secured the best bill that we could get
under the present system of making
tariff bills, and a far better bill than
any that had preceded it.
In passing, let me remark that was
somewhat astonished at the activity
shown by some of our democratic breth-
rem in asking for increased duties. In
that way, learned what the democrat
ic attitude for tariff for revenue really
IS. 1t can be defined as PROTECTION
for what you have to SELL, and FREE
TRADE on what you have to BUY"
/ had my own district to look after.
and every other congressman was ap-