The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-06
WICKHAM TALKS
TO GOOD PEOPLE
Candidate for Congress. Speaks
His Views Right Out in
Plain English.
JUDGE wIckHAM FOR CONGRESS
Concise and at Same Time Pretty
Full Platform---Democracy
the Groundwork.
JUDGE wIckHAM FOR CONGRESS
July 2, 1910.

July z, 1910.
To the Democratic Voters of the Third
Congressional District:
am candidate for Congress from
the Third Congressional District. sub
Jeet TO the Democratic primary to be
heid Ans,,st 3. 1910, and respectfully
ASK Tor yout vote and influence in my
behalf
1 am Democrat. and bound by the
Democratic platform It's chief plank
as it seems to me, in the present con-
dition of public affairs, and the most
important for the correction of present
public evils, is the reduction OF the
taritf. The enormously high cost OF
living, the extravaganza of public
expenditures and the menacing power
Of the great corporations in the
enactment of national legislation
largely the evil consequences of high
tariff. have reached point at which
the opportunity of the average man
to make an independent living and
the very life OF our representative
form of government are alike threat
ened with destruction. The over
burd ened people felt this, and the
Republican leaders in the last presi-
Dental election promised relief. But
The Interests" We're too strong, and
the promise was broken. the worst
tariff law the country has ever known
was passed. and the Republican party
proved once more that 1t cannot be
trusted to legislats for the welfare
of the average man.
1t is not to be thought, how
aver. that the people will continue to
endure this wrong. To think so would
be to despair Of the republic Recent
congressional elections in New York
and Massachusetts, where Democrats
We're elected in rock-ribbed Republi-
can districts. and the grave doubts OF
the recollection of Congressman Dalze1l
in the Pittsburg District. show that
the people are awake to the over
Whelming Importance of the tariff
Issue. There is much ground for
hope that the next Congress will be
Democratic. It is vitally important
therefore that In Democratic districts
no man should be returned whose
record on this issue is doubtful.
In the next Congress the danger to
tariff reform will come. not from the
open. but from the concealed protec.
zionist, from him who is a Democrat
for other districts and Republican
for his own.
If am honored with a seat in Con-
gress from this district T shall hold
myself bound by every consideration
of self-interest and Of moral oblga-
ton to use my best efforts to perform
these duties, which I classify, as I
conceive. in the order OF their relative
Importance. First. to secure the pas
sage of such laws as shall promote
the happiness and welfare OF the hun
dred millions of people living in this
country and its dependencies; second, |
to secure such appropriations for this
district as its needs require. consistent
with a wise and economical expendi-
ture Of the peoples money: and third,
to assist, with energy and without
favoritisnl every constituent who has
business before the departments and
In the administrative branches OF
the government at Washington.
realize in a great commercial and
manufacturing community such as
ours much of this quas-public work
must and ought to be done by the
peoples representative in Congress,
And, finally, in all matters of political |
duty | shall feel myself bound by |
the Democratic platform.
IA When the time shall come that my |
conscientious convictions will not suf-
fer me to stand on that platform
shall resign and return my commission
to the party that gave 1t. ii
Very respectfully.
,tIs3, T. ASHBY4 iWICKHAM.