Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-09-23
Political Revolution That Cant
Be Stemmed

be Stemmed
In the early stages OF the present
campaign, we predicted that this
was going to be Democratic year.
We believed then we could OBJ
serve in the results OF special cleo
lions in the 9Th Missouri, 18th Mas
sachusetts and 32nd New York dis
trscrts, drift in the straws, which
indicated that the current Of the
political winds was strongly and
steadily toward Democracy and now
moIe than month in advance of
the general congressional elections,
this current has assumed the propor-
lions OF crushing, sweeping cv-
clone, which is blowing the very
heart out OF the Republican party
from one end OF this country to the
other.
Therefore, we feel warranted i'm
repeating here, with renewed con-
hdence and emphasis, what we said
on former occasion that, 1T is n
revolution so swift and powerful
that ii can no more be checked, than
Teddy Roosevelt can dam the Miss
tssippi with his big stick" or
than Lou Summers can stop the
How of the HOlston river with "A sim
gle copy OF The Virginia Republi-
can. "
The "stanpdat" leaders and their
newspapers throughout the country
undertook TO explain away these ear
ly reverses, declaring that in one
place ii was "Iain," in another "lo-
cal conditions, and in still another
the unpopularity of their candi-
adte; but when recently the "steam
roller crushed and flattened their
nominees in Arizona and Maine on
the same day, they became silent,
Tor there was no longer any eXplana-
ton that could be offered, except
that the people had become outraged
and eXasperated AT their broken
promises, their bold usurpation of
popular rights, their stained and vuI-
nerable public record, and had deter
mined 10 punish and rebuke them at
the polls.
But no, Mr.. Standpatter. il
was not atmospheric conditions. not
local issues, nor yet the personal un-
popularity of Republican nominees
that turned the trick for the
Democrats in New York, in Massa-
chusetts, in Arizona, in Maine or
elsewhere; ii was a broader, and no
bier and higher principle which re
suited in these splendid victories for
the people, and which is bringing
them steadily back into the possess
sion OF their own.
These results constitute n vivid re-
lection of an outraged public senti-
ment, aggravated and Toured by the
cruel hand of system" which
mas grown and fattened upon the
eXtremities OF the people, Though
special privileges extended to it by
the Republican party.
1t does not require Solomon 10
intelligently appreciate the wither-
ing conditions which have come up.
on the masses as a result of the oper-
alton of the trusts, who in return
Tor enormous campaign "slush
funds are accorded privileges under
which they grind and bleed and op-
press the poor, and it is like "sing-
ing psalms to dead mules" to tell
these men who toll with their hands.
that any advance in their wages has
Kept pace with the ever increasing
cost of living
1t just simply isn't so; that's all.
We know it isn't so; the"standpat
spellbinder, "pie eater" or what not
Knows it isn't so when he tells il to |
the voters, and the latter pay about |
as much attention TO it as thew |
would to declaration that Teddy i
Roosevelt is preparing to organize
vast army of American citizens with
which |" go out and conquer the ma
tions of the earth.
All this sky scraping ora,orv
about the marvellous prosperity of
the masses of the people," and the
Payne A ldrich- Cannon SIemp hill
being the best and fairest tariff