The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-10-05
GREAT meeting Of THE
REPUBLICAN WORKERS
FROM ALL SECTIONS

TlEtule an Olu-1aShlOned camp
meeting and recall for the moment
the light-hearted: feeling you mad
when the entire audience sang
~ eurcr MY Goa to Thee" and you
may have an idea as to what kind of
Il meeting the Republicans had last
might in the Odd JFellows,, temple.
|'There wasn't any singing bat there
WAS hat light and that
good fellowship that characterizes
those who have been acting naught-
lily for long time, then undcrgoes
reformation and starts out with a
lleW purpose in view. In fact, that
whole audience, and it was a big
one, sufficient to crowd the hall OF
the kanawha Republican club, un-
derwent change of spirit that made
them feel as if born again, or like q
topper who has recovered his real
self after a long period Of rernicious
Indulgence. 1t made one experience
a new sensation, much like that
when one gets religion and conscien-
tiously looks forward to new lease
on life and realization of life's
GOOD things.
Get Together Boys" is the Re-
publican slogan from this time on
in West Virginia and pledge to
himself. If to none other has been
| made by everyone Of the $50 wheel
horses OF the Republican party who
took part in what turned out to be
Il real loVefcast In every sense of the
word. Staid OLD workers who have
gone through all the fifty-seve1l
kinds Of political maneuverings in
campaigns gone by, ana some OF
whom let their foot slip at such a
| time that that slip proved disastrous
to the Republican party, have got a
new toe hold, are pushing upward,
not backward and have concerted
| themselves as unit in the cam
/ paigns that are to follow.
Are Ready Tonight.
BY puncturing the Republican
schooner last year the Democrats
have stirred up the fighting blood
OF the advocates Of Republican doc
| trlnes, Republican policies and OF
Republican pride, until now perfect
harmony is promised in the ranks
OF the q. 0. u. in West Virginia and
q harpOOn laid back for use on the
| opposition.
1t was just like convention times
| in former campaigns at the hotels
and on the streets last night. OLD
| agents and newer ones representing
the party of Lincoln, Mckinley
Roosevelt and Taft, were on the
grounds to lend their mite to the
cause for which they all promise to
fight with a solid front ana q front
that they won't permit to be broken
again. They have all shod them
selves with shoes that won't slip any
| more, they say, and they have
buried the Ratchet who have been
sulkinS, have taken on new vigor,
new intentions and have pointed
their battering ram 50 as to 20
through their opposition like a we'll
| directed darnick through a school
house window. No more Coxey's
armies, no more soup houses and no
more family rumpuses for the Re-
| publicans. They have had their
share Of all them and a repeti-
tion, they realize, means disaster
and defeat at the hands Of a party
that wouldn't give them snow water
when it is in power. Ex-Governor
A. b. White pictured some of the
instances where the party that is
represented by the donkey refused
TO give the REPUBLICANS a look in at
anything when the Republicans were
in the minority and when there was
an opportunity for the administra-
| ton to show the same magnanimOus
spirit that the Republicans have
shown them since they have been
| in the ascendency
! Every section Of West Virginia
was represented at the meeting.
Leaders Of factions from nearly
every country or district were there
ready to bury their grouches and
| tCrget their personal aspirations,
W. wv ''i''C oClh6, All parry BOOu
| Those who have contributed to party
decline, if a decline there be, have
promised to be better boys and
| never again permit themselves to
assist in paving the way for The arch
| political enemy to assume q dicta-
torial position.
Didn't Ovcrdo It.
J large number or men Oi
eminence in politics and business
were at the meeting and many Of
| them were called on to address the
| big audience. Everyone called OH
responded but none Of them overdid
| their SnhioCt and did not tirn tho