Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-10-18
ONLY HOPE OF
SAYING THE NINTH
Progressives Issue Strong Plea
to Republican Voters In
This District.

3, 1912.
The following statement goes out
today from Ninth District Progressive
Party Headquarters:
1.-The only way to prevent the
] Ninth district from ecoing Demo
cratic Is for Slemp aud his followers
TO endorse and support the Progress
i've party ticket-Roosevelt, johnson
and Graham.
"Slemp is gone. Enough votes and
pledges already to Graham to make
the defeat of Slemp certain. Slemp
and his machine know this and if they
persist in their course of ignoring the
demand of the Progressives, express
ed by formally nominating Walter
Graham as their candidate for CON
gress on the Progressive party ticket,
with Roosevelt and Johnson, they
know by their deliberate net they are
turning the Ninth district over to the
Democrats. The Progressives, Re-
publicans and Demoncrats all know
this. The Progressives have persist
emily declared they would not vote
for Slemp. before and since the Bris-
tol convention.
'The Progressive party, through
the State committee. urge all Pro-
gressives in the Ninth district to vote
for the Roosevelt presidential elect
ors and for Walter Graham, the Pro.
gressve nominee for congress. This
is the answer to Slemp's statement
that the Progrcssives are supporting
them. Thousands are pledged to sup
port Roosevelt, johnson and Graham,
and, as they learn the truth are
joining the true ProRressives and will
vote for Roosevelt and Graham, there
by denouncing Slemp, who tried to
shut Roosevelt out.
The National Progressive organiza-
tion, with the State and Ninth. dis
trict, repudiate Slemp. He has knitted
Theodore Roosevelt and ia now knit
ing Taft and begging for the Pro-
gressve vote.
"What the people demand of Slemp
is that he Withdraw and support the
peoples candidates-
Theodore Roosevelt for president; !;
Hiram w. Johnson for vice pr esi-
dent; Walter Graham for congresses.
This is the ticket of Roosevelt and
the Progressive party.
Having tricked the people, the only
thing left for Slemp to do, if he
would have the people preserve
shadow of respect for his memory, is
for him to accede to the known wishes
of the people and support their ticket
Roosevelt, johnson and Graham. If
he does not do this, he must bear the
blame of turning the Ninth district
over to the Democrats. when his be-
trayal of the Ninth will be complete.
1.-The postmaster editor of the Gra-
ham News. it seems. has devised the
desperate policy for Slemp of knitting
Taft and begging for the Roosevelt
vote. The Progressives are for Roose-
welt and Graham, their true leaders.
"The Rev. j. N. Harman states
that Slemp is a Progressive. Slemp
is not a Progressive. He knitted
Roosevelt and tricked the Progress
ives. If he were Progressive he
would support the ticket; Roosevelt,
Johnson and Graham. He is not even
Republican He Is knitting Taft
now to get the Roosevelt vote he be-
trayed.
"Slemp admits that he is not q
good congressman, but money
maker. Slemp voted and worked for
his coal lands and not for the people.
"If he frankly admits now that he
has for the past five years neglected
his duty to his constituency in order
to attend to his private affairs, what
assurance have the people that he will
not again betray them for personal
gain?
at is false that Slemp can carry
the Ninth against the Democrats. He
is losing the Ninth to the Democrats
by continuing to betray and thwart
the will Of the people. He is himself
already defeated by the people. For
this reeason he should withdraw.
Graham, the candidate for con-
gress in the Ninth district, is not de-
luded. He is the strongest Progressive
party man and supporter of Theodore
Roosevelt in the district. His en-
dorsement from his own town people
is in writing as it is from all over
the district, and by the State chair
man and committee which is also en-
dorsed by the national committee,
and thousands are already enrolled as
true Progressives in the Ninth dis
trict, pledged to the election of the
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