The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-21
n1EsnYl sruAars OPENING GUN.

SUNDAY, AUGUST Fl, 1910.
HENRY sTuARrs OPENING GUN.
Henry Stuart, the man who never
Sforsook friend or feared foe. who.
In the strength Of his own self-re.
lance and intelligent industry. has.
passed through poverty to affluence'
as free as the air OF his native noun
.tains ana as true. began the lighting
In the Ninth District at Gate City
yesterday. Els keynote speech rings
with defiance to his political enemies
and with courage for his friends who.
have. much against his Will, called
him into service for the, red emption
OF the Ninth District from the hands
Of the common enemy. It is not Henry
Stuart's fight, as such; but the fight
sof the people of the Ninth District,
the white people OF the Ninth District
the white Republicans as well as the
white Democrats who would be repre-
,sented at washington by q Congress-
man who would esteem himself the
sseryant Of the people rather than the
servant OF party. who would regard
4 his work for them OF higher concern
than the distribution Of political pat
fronage, who would not BIO subservient
TO the power and influences'of great.
n
sterests of his constituents.
Stuart does not leave any room for
misunderstanding or MISREPRESENTATION
of his position on any. question OF
public moments He does not dissemble
aor cloak himself ingmystery. He makes
the tariff one OF tho leading issues OF
q the contest; he leaves no room for
doubt as to his views on the race
question; he would prefer q campaign
free from personalities-.I have in
augurated no such issues; shall in
yite no such issues. but shall shun
no such issues"
He would have the tariff revised
not by its friends and beneficiaries. but
by the friends OF the American people
In the revision OF the tariff he would
take into consideration the question
OF guarding the wages OF the work.
ingmen In this country, and the differ
{ sence in the cost Of producti lion here
and abroad. not as ascertained by the
trusts. but as determined by men who
a would a
the interests OF fthe people who are
compelled to use the manufa ctures Of
steel and iron his concern rather than
the interests OF the Steel Trust, which
of 100000 dividends amounting TO
15s,0O0,0oO. He would give the peo-
pie cheaper woollen clothing instead
of requiring them, as they are now
forced to do under the Payne-Aldrich
bill, "the best tarifr bill the Republi-
can party has ever passed. to pay
$12O,OoooOO more for their woollen
clothing than ever before. He would
make the tariff protect the many in
istead Of enriching the few. He would
make the tariff a national not d sec
sttonal thing. He would look after the
Interests Of the Southern consumer
frather than after the enrichment OF
the Northern manufacturer. He would
give the people cheaper woollen and cot
ton clothing and he would give the
Farmers OF the South cheaper bagging
= o,,dE oLa tiaC II
would drive out the trusts which pro-
Ftcct foreign competition by sitting
home competition. and, bound by no
political bargains, he would represent
the people of the Ninth District in
their interest and not for his personal
benefit or for the promotion Of his
personal friends f,5,s Is &
The chief interest In the Ninth Dis
trict. however. as we look at 1t, is
IN Mr.. stuart's attitude on the SUI
lfrage question. He Is white man and
stands for a white mans government,
not to the neglect of any OF the per-
,ibut for the supremacy Of his own
race: for the poor white man as well
ms the rich: for the unlettered white
man as well as for the white man
Awho he's been able to uplift himself
j by his own efforts or because of his
surroundings: for the education of the
children OF the poor and the promo
stion Of all the higher and better in
terests Of the white people OF his Dis
sttrict. many OF whom are descendants
! Of the soldiers who won American IN
sdependence at Kings Mountain.
IN q he speech Of Henry Stuart should
ring from every mountain top in the
Y Ninth District and echo from every
valley. It Is the call Of a strong,
( clean. high n, an 10 the white people
8Df that Dtstrict to rally for their race,
to strive as they have never striven
before for the higher and larger things
sahat would promote their welfare and
flappinoHs, NO man, however poor and
yriendless. was ever turned empty
banded from Henry stuart's door. AT
The call OF his friends. and purely as
SSn,at tier OF the highest publ duty, h