Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-06-24
Stuart a Man of The People

a man who GENES nearer being the
embodiment of the views wishes
and interests of his people on public
questions, than does Hon Henry G.
Stuart, the Democratic nominee for
Congress in the Ninth District.
Mr. Stuart Is i'm intimate touch and
sympathy with the great agricultu-
RAJ, commercial and industrial Inter
csts of the district. lie comes up
among the rank and file" of his
party. lie is one of the people. and
knows rs well as any man in the
distict the wishes and needs of the
great constituency. which It looks
as il no will almost certainly be
called upon TO represent in the 62nd
Congress. lie was born and reared
here, in the very heart OF the great
Southwest, and her interests, and the
interests OF her people, are essential
~ his interests. He rejoices In her
fertile fields, her belching furnaces,
her iiocks and herds; and i'm Congress
would represent with equal fairness
and diligence, the farmer, the s.mer-
chant, the manufacturer and the
man who tolls i'm the heat and cold
fol daily wages.
! Being of the people, he is making
his battle in the interests OF all the
/ people, without reference To class.
His party is the party IF the people
and the people always appeal To 1t,
when seeking relief, as they are to-
day, from unjust burdens pla ced up
on them by designing politicians and
the representatives of great private
interests.
1t was the late Senator Vest, of
Missouri, who declared i'm great
speech on Democracy" just before
he was called from these earthly
scenes that: 1.-The Democratic pa rty
is party of the people, controlled
10y an honest expression OF their Will
and not 10y Federal patronage.
The same is true OF il today, aud
so we find that Mr. Stuart, i'm his
race for Congress, has behind him no
great army of federal Office holders,
either i'm or out OF the district; no
pie counter" ~ Abingdon, Va, or
at the National Capitol, strewn with
gifts for the faithful, and no "politi-
cal bargain house, from which his
supporters may be promised" re-
wards for their Iabors. While all this
is true, he enters the struggle with
his party united and militant mt eV-
cry point, and apparently.wiih an
earnest determination on the part OF
vast proportion of the voters of the
district TO join in rebuking Stand
patism," which has fallen like n
blight aud curse upon the homes of
the American people
The Democratic party was never
moIe deserving of public confidence
than in the present battle, nor has il
ever appealed To the voters on higher
ground; for no Issue could be more
vital than one involving the passage
OF revenue measures which Will per
nit the man who tolls To enjoy the
richest fruits of his labor, and which
will forbid that they shall be taken
from him through "A system OF legal
lied robbery. IL Is charged, and open
Iy charged, by some OF the most emf
nenI Republican statesmen in the
country, that I'm the making OF the
present tariff law, important sched
ules were written by men interested
i'm the articles protected, and that the
much promised" revision downward"
was In the end revision upward.
Every "Sta nd2at' Congressman,
how ever humble or obscure he may
be, who voted for this almost unpar-
rallle iniquity, known az the Payne
AIdrich bill on It's final passage, con-
tributed his part TO the present con-
ditions prevailing throughout the
country, and It looks as if the people
"will not hold him guiltless.
This bill, with all its whitening
consequences, including the enoT
mously increased cost of the necessa-
ries OF life, which must go into every
home, will be the main Issue upon
which the battle VIII be. fought.
Mr.. Stuart, and those who are
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emergency, are standing on the side
OF the people. where the Democatlc
party has always stood, and are seek
ing the opportunity to restore
through legislation at Washington,
the immortal doctrine OF equal
rights to all, and special privileges to
none
1t is "up to - his opponets TO tell
the voters of the district whsre he
stands, what he did with reference
to ths tariff in the present Congress,
and what he will do If he is returned
TO the seat he now holds.
The campaign is going TO be one
of the most important ever fought in
the Ninth District, and it is believed
that the temper of the people is so
largely in favor of general house.
cleaning" at washington, that they