Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-08-12
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II there be any voters i'm the
Ninth Congressional District so
credulOus as 20 accept the unsupport-
ed testimony of the Political "Phar-
isees, who are conducting the pres
ent campaign on the Republican
side, they may be led To believe that
this party has recently been "regen-
Grated chat 1t has passed through
the fires OF publication, ana that
its leaders have been elevated TO a
great white throne" amid an at =.
mOsphere surcharged with honesty,
morality and purity and all the
other higher and nobler virtues pro-
vided for the salvation of the hu-
man race. On the other hand, they
may get the impression from this
same "sanctified' source, that the
Democrats are lot of political
'highwaymen" and "assassins, "
who are preparing to attack their
"ancinted" leader from "ambush, A"
bodily throw him down." and
take away from him by brute force,
his friends claim he is entitled, as
long as he shall desire to hold it.
There would be nothing remarka-
bic about this situation, were it not
for the fact that these imposters who
are thus seeking To mislead the pub
lie, are nothing moIe nor less than a
lot of ordinary politicians, whose
party from its birth-prior TO the
Civil War-down to the present
hour, has been guilty OF more pc
litical duplicity dishonesty and cor
ruption, than all the other parties
that ever existed on American soiL
In 1876, it perpetrated the boldest
political steal the nation has ever
known.
Under the leadership of old Matt
Quay, who in fit of desperation
sent out his famous message: I'VE
have won the election and we will
hold ii with mailed hand" they
burglarized four sovereign states and
bodily stole the Presidency, while
they attempted a like performance in
1884, when James G.. Blaine, prepar-
ing the way for the robbers, wired
his henchment throughout the coun-
try to "claim everything"
This is the same party that perpet-
yates itself in power by corrupting
the electorate year after year. through
"slush funds" eXacted manly from
two classes--the protected manufac-
turers, who are permitted to dictate
tariff schedules, and the Federal
oiliceholders, high and low, every
where.
The consumer i'm the end paws
back the fund put up by the manu-
facturer, and then the "standpat"
Cong ressmen have the aTrontery to
go about their districts howl ling aud
shouting their devotion for the
plain people,"
But not only did this party
whose Ninth Virginia District leader
are now wearing the immaculate
robes of the ENTHUSIASTICALLY steal
one Presidency and attempt to steal
another; it instituted and carried
out that wonderful system of politi-
cal robbery in the State of Indiana
in 1883, known rs "blOcks of five"
it openly debauched The, electorate i'm
several states with the famous Wan
amaker corruption fund, for the rails
ing Of which this Pennsy lvania Sun
day school leader was placed in the
Cabinet; IL intimidated and coerced
The voters Of New York at this same
election with Federal bayonets: IL
attempted OH two memorable occa-
Sions to forever prevent free and fair
elections through the passage OF
force bill; il has been required for
the sake of common decency 10 de-
vote much of the time of recent ses-
sionS OF Congress 10 Investigation"
and "whitew ashing" scandals de-
veloping under its various admins
trations; it has adopted a system OF
taxation under the Payne-Aidrich-
Slemp bill, which permits protected
manufacturers TO plumber the people
anu ~ CAlldCl lIOln lDen the tTultS
OF their honest toll, and it has estab-
lished general reputation for prom
Use breaking and untrustworthiness.
which has no parallel in the politi-
cal history OF this country.
They dare not dtny single count
In this indictment for they know
that every one of them can be easily
established by the record.
And yet in the face of all this,
they stand unabashed before the peo-
pie, and have the brazen affTontery |
to assume the role of political mar
tyrs, and to whine about their pre-
tended fears of being "waylaid" and
'tomahaw ked" by a lot Of alleged
highwaymen in the district, COM
monty known as Democrats.
BE sure and take a Bottle Of Cham