Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-10-07
Hon. Rankin Wiley Demo
cratic Candidate for
Congress Declares
His Doctrine
A TARIFF FOR
REVENUE PROPER
Says Lilly Indictment of
Hughes Must be Answer
ed by Opponents

Huntington, Oct. 7.--Hon. Rankin
Wiley, Democratic candidate for con.
gress I'm the Fifth district OF West VIr
ginia. spent last night I'm the city and
left for his home at Point Pleasant
on an early morning train. He had "A
great and enthusiastic meeting at
Williamson. where he and Hon Jo.
seph IL. Chiffon. of Charleston, adj
dressed the people. Mr.. Wiley Is
greatly pleased mt the outlook and
VIII make vigorous and thorough
campaign which will continue until
election day.
The drift of things in the district
Is most decidedly favorable TO his
candidacy and there is nothing mt all
OF the "forlorn hope" spirit I'm the
fight he Is making. He confidently
expects, after careful survey of the
, Held, to be elected
! Mr.. Wiley said:
MY enforced race for congress
seems to have attracted the atten.
tion OF the Huntington Herald-Dis.
{ patch and that newspaper with
chereful impertinence, wants to
know how | stand on such public
questions as IL cares to consider ut
this time. No man running for a
public office has time to handy words
and enter upon disputes with hog
tile and unscrupulous newspaper In
the present case the Herald Dispatch
Is supporting a man for congress who
owes 4his nomination absolutely to-
the efforts OF the most offensive type
OF political bosses. supplemented by
the aid OF the federal officials Of this
district. The story of Mr.. Hughes
past nominations and how they were
! obtained was truly and forcefully
told by Hon. A. A. Lilly when that
! bright and ambitious young man
confronted the Hughes machine. Mr..
Lilly's frecitals are now familiar
political history, and are known to
every intelligent voter i'm the dis
trict. Mr.. Lilly has convicted Mr..
Hughes OF gross family favoritlsm
! in official appointments and OF the
use Of the most brutal and tyrannical
methods i'm nominating himself for
congress. Mr.. Lilly can speak from
| personal experience as to these
methods They broke his head in
a free for all convention shindy at
Williamson.
Mr. Lilly said that Mr.. Hughes
was an futter failure in congress;
that no man as small I'm Huntington
as Mr.. Hughes was known TO be
could, by any possibility, be great
man In Washington
"Mr. Lilly said that Mr.. Hughes
had voted for free coal and free lum-
Der in congress.
'In short, If one half Of what Mr..
/ Lilly said regarding Mr.. Hughes re-
cord Is true. and none OF 1t is denied
Mr. Hughes is not fit man to re-
present this district I'm congress.
THE HeraldDispatch must plead
TO the Lilly indictment first and af
ter that will he time enough to pur-
sue its impertinent references to me.
II may rest assured that the voters
have read this indictment. and every
count Of IT, and that they are anx-
iously waiting to hear Mr.. Hughes
defense.
Before he Herald-Dispatch asks
me how would vote on a coal and
lumber tariff let It find something
less absurd to say in defense Of Mr..
Hughes than that Mr. Hughes voted
for free coal and free lumber know
ing that a duty on these items would
be added by the senate No fair or
honest lawyer would ask a jury to
convict a man regardless of his guilt
or innocence upon the assumption
that If he was convicted the governor
would be sure to pardon him; and
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