The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-07-25
OF HIS, ATTITUDE TOWARD Ma
TIONAL AND STATE TICKETS
GIVEN TO PUBLIC.
0. Ks State Ticket
Hut Disapproves the Methods by
Which National Ticket was Named
and Scorf's Those who Criticdsc
Regularity of Third Party Men.

IN statement issued Monday, Gov
ernor Glasscock declared that 80 far
as he IS concerned he VIII support the
state, congressional and local candi-
dates and that he would do this in
cooperation with the regular Repub-
l1can organization, but that since
many do not believe in and disap-
prove the means and methods used to
name the nominees of the Republican
national convention at Chicago. he
shares with them tn their belief and
disapproval
BY his statement Governor Glass;
COCK proposes to support Colonel The
odore Roosevelt II he is nominated at
Chicago on August 5, instead of Pres
1dent Taft, but will support the re-
mainder Of the Republican ticket as
heretofore named.
The governor replies to those Re-
publicans who seek to read out the
party men who decline to support
president Taft. by asking by what
authority do. they say who are Repub-
lfcans and who are not?
Ia his statement, which has been
expected for some time, Governor
Glasscock points out many of the
things the Republican party has ac-
complished in West Virginia, and also
what he believes would result If the
DEMOCRATS should be the victors in
November next... III, .....-
He also entertains the hope that #
third pa PARTY; ia organized it, VIII en-
dorse the electoral, state, congress-
ional and local candidates, and be-
lieyes that no frield of these candi-
dates who comprehends the calamity
that would follow Democratic vic
tory in the state from a Republican
viewpoint can object to such action.
The governors statement in full is
as follows: ". .
Glasscock's Statement.
"The Republican party of West Vir-
ginia has a record of which it can be
proud. 1t has in it now, as in the
past, men who have sacrificed much in
order that the party might serve the
people and work out for them prob
lens which meant much for their well
fare &ad happiness. .--------------- ..-
The history Of the state under Re-
publican administrations is the record
of the establishment and growth of
our free school system; the creation
of most OF our state institutions; the
equalization Of taxes; the just shift
ing Of burdens that were unjustly
borne by the poor to the shoulders of
those who were more able to bear
them; the inauguration Of a system
of accounting that has probably done
more to correct evils Of long standing
and create q general moral uplift
than any legislation that has been en-
acted in the history of the state, And
many other things that time and space
fail me- to mention Our party has
not always been prompt in the fulfill
ment OF all Of It's promises, but It
has done more in some respects than
1T agreed to do. When the Repub-
lican party passed the law that makes
it imperative that every public Off
Ger shall honestly account for every
dollar of the public funds received by
him, under penalty of fine and i'm
prisonmeft, 1t corrected an abuse that
existed during the twenty-five years
of rule OF the Democratic party in this
state, and under which Democratic
oftice-holders proflted at the expense
Of the taxpayers.
An Achievement,
Another eminent achievement oj
the Republican party was the creation
OF the state board Of control, whereby
host Of offices were abolished ant
many thousands Of dollars of money
saved, at the same time increasing
the efficiency Of the public institutions
and taking them out of partisan pol
ttics. This and other achievement.
of the Republican party have enabled
the board of public works to reduce
"ho oIote h9Ny iIOu lulI ILJ-llVe CGuLS
to one cent, and at the same time
give back to the people in the counties
for their free schools alone more
money than ever received before.
These are not all Of the many wis,
and beneacient things that the part1
OF Lincoln, Grant, Blaine and McKin
lev has done for the neonle of thi