Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-09-23


measure ever adopted Is simply the
veriest political campaign rot and II
falls with about as much force upon
the mind of the average voter as a
reather would upon the back OF a
fhinoceros.
The dominant faction OF the Re-
publican party I'm this country has
by its own deliberate acts put itself
beyond the pale OF public approval.
1t has forfeited its right to pub
lie confidence, and many of its lead
ers have lost the respect OF honest
men. 1t will not win this fight; il
does not deserve to win.
1t has flagrantly violated its elec-
ton promises; it has permitted
ploated tariff barons 10 enter com.
mittee looms and dictate schedules
which give them license to sap the
vitals OF the poor, and which permit
| the trusts, through privileged exac-
lions, TO strike bread from the lips
OF honest toll. 1t has operated dis
pensary IN the sanctuary of the
American people at Washington,
from which it has distri buted boun-
ties To the Unfortunately rich and
powerful few, while TO the appeals
for the relief Of the honest, helpless,
toling masses, the cold and cruel an
swer has been 1--WE stand pat"
But verify 1.-THE day of reckoning
is Mt hand"
1t is abut the old story OF the col
rupt AMI impious feast of Belshazza
the King, his princess and his para
sites, over again.
They drank wine and praised the
gods OF gold, of silver. OF brass, Of
iron, OF wood and OF stone.
But in the same hour came forth
the fingers OF mans hand, and
wrote their doom over against the
caudlestick OH the plaster of the
wall OF the Kings Palace; and the
fingers of the American people are
writing today a doom equally terri
bic, against those who have desc
Grated the temple OF their fathers,
and convertde ii into market place
for the money changers, the tariff
barons, and the political stock BIO
kers of the country.
| Like other transgressors, " 1.-The
way of the 'standpatter' is hazard, :"
and the voters OF this nation-every
one of whom is an uncrowned SOW
ereign in hinself-"will not hold
him guiltless'' OF his sirs,
He must answer TO the people for
the cruelty of his tariff legislation,
which is fattening the trusts and
swelling the ranks OF the poor day
by day; he must answer for all the
public scandals that have developed
under the present administration, in
VolVing men in high places, shock
ing the public conscience, and end
ing usually in the adoption of reso-
! lutions TO whitewash" the graft
ers, ~ and to make "scapegoats" out
OF those men he must answer for
the high cost Of living, which has
come about through the operations of
the Interests, which he voted to
| 'NHeSi "Au piObCCbs Hc must ans w er
for the tyranny and despotism of
Old Joe Cannon, whom he voted TO
retain as Speaker OF the House, and
whose chief object seems to be to
serve the systems and to thwart
and stifle the will of people, and he
must answer for the extravagRnt
waste OF millions of dollars exacted
unJustly, year after year, from those
who can least afford TO pay it. And
we predict that in attempting to an
swer satisfactorily between now and
November, he will fail as he failed
in Missouri, New York, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Arizona and Maine,
and that the people will sweep him
from power as the storm sweeps the
mists from the bosom of the deep.
We say again that this is Demo
cratic year, and that here in the
Ninth Virginia District, as elsewhere
Throughout the country, tidal
wave is moving and that OH the Sth
day of November, the manly form
of Henry &. Stuart will be seen rid
ing its white crest to victory.