Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-10-04
OLD CHESTNUTS IN
Wise COUNTY

Norton. Va, October LIST. !
There was II day of last week, /
when the spell binders of the G. o. |
p. came to present themselves before |
the voters of Gate City-and J. N. |
Hartman, a Bull-Mooser elector came
also.-The same having already |
developed some symptoms of "Elefan-
titus" or Elephants Itch Coon
tagious") and they said unto him, j.
N. whence contest thou? Then he an
swered the G. o. p. orators and said |
from going to and fro in the earth
and from walking up and down in it,
the Roosevelt Progressive ticket, !
paying my own expenses when
they don't have dinner on the grounds
Then spake one Francis Cole from
Ohio, (recently defeated for con-
gress by democrat) and said-Is it
possible HAST thou not considered
the Lordly coal baron. G. Bascom
Slemp, that there is none like him in
the earth-such great man and one
who feareth the Taft administration
and still chews the rag of the Cleve-
land fame prejudice the minds of the
working people and, who has stacks
of coal land dollars and Post Masters
dollars besides to put in the Ninth
Virginia District and they will flow
freer than they did in the Stuart
campaign? Come-they have attract
ed--me all the way from Ohio, and
here thou art walking up and down
the earth speaking for less than moth
ing. Come we will mount thee on
the G. o. p. Elephant, and thou shalt
ride in triumph and thy purse and
thy scrip shall be unblemshed-
| remindest me of one of the foolish
stand-patters' who has wandered
away from the house of High Pro-
tection.' Come, cried the eloquent
Ohioian in tones so persuasive that
the great stalwart Mooser of
the Ninth began to waver "and
there great Caesar fell. >" The G. o.
p. Elephant was brought forth, pre-
paratory to making the next march
% Norton in the coalfieds, headed by
the Gate City band wagon. But
there was hesitation and the Elector
cried '"my moose. Oh where is he d?
My Kingdom for moose. Then
they compromised and mounted one
foot on the Bull-Moose, and one on the
q. o. P. E., the ride of the Elector
began to Norton, the band playing
Coming thro' the Rye" and Johnny
get your gun" But the loyal Bull,
bucked on the animal at Norton, and
the rider as usual fell between his
horses-he never recovered the en-
barrassment throughout his speech
SAID he was inconsistent, glad he was
and always expected to be-some old
fellow groaned men-he SAID Mr..
Graham candidacy was a joke, we
wondered what Mr.. Graham would
have called Mr.. Harman's speech,
a mixed joke perhaps. 1t was the same
old song from the beginning to the
wind-up by the Industrious Thomas
Joshua Muncey-Cleveland fame
soup bouls and bull calves at $3.50
a piece but never word about the
Roosevelt panic and soup houses of
1908. Then the workingman how
their hearts reached out for him and
what high protection had done for
him, but they never intimated that
their high protection had just about
ruined him--with double and treble
prices for what he eats and wears
and his wages all out of joint with
prices. They senever told him that
the Fall River strike last winter and
9th er strikes of recent date were the
most disastrous in history and brought
about more real suffering to the
working class, their women and
children than half dozen Cleveland
panics.
o for a Wysor, Williams, a
Swa 1son or a Montague at Norton
last Wednesday night to have helped
to that harangue. They wouldn t
have left shreds of it. 1t was the
worst ever. One speaker told them
that stand-pattism didn't belong to
the Republican party-a tand-patter
could find no re ON in their ranks.
You will hear from this county.
They can't fool all the people all the
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