Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-04-05
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FOR Nh. SLENP
From Sandy Valley News


Office holders did not treat the people
of the Ninth district fair at the Roa-
noke convention. Lou Summers and
the Pie Counter Brigade. who are
choking the life out of the republican
party In Virginia, were out months
before the convention whipping the
little fellows into line for Taft.
The people at large had nothing to
do with the convention and if it was
put to vote instead of one man
rule. Col. Roosevelt would get three
republicans to Taft's one in this
mountain section. Slemp has allied
himself with Alva Martin and sold
out the mountain people for little
prestige at Washington City.
We have always thought that the
greatest crime ever committed by
any party was, after that warrior and
statesman, General James a. Walker
built up respectable party in this
district, w lie the yaller Slemps were
sulking in their tents and urging on
the fiends of hell in the shape of Bill
Rhea and men of his ilk to shoot him
down, for them to then step in and
reap the rewards of his work.
But c. b. Slemp has now added
insult to injury to the great republi-
can party of the Ninth. by befoullng
the name of his benefactor and puk-
ing upon the head of his savior,
Theodore Roosevelt, at the Conven-
tion. Had it not been for COL Roose-
welt coming to Bristol two years ago
and proclaiming this man Semp to
be, "As straight as string" he
would have gone down in defeat as
sure as the Ninth district is Eve
thousand Republican; and Slemp, in
stead of being lauded and praised at
the convention, would have been
Stunned by the crowd, who loves no
one, except pie dispensers.
Yes, Col. Roosevelt, your straight
string" coiled itself into a venomous
reptile at the Roanoke convention and
shot its poisonous fangs into your
political vitals, for listen at the feso-
luton dictated by Slemp:
owe are opposed to violation of
the principle laid down by President
Washington, repeated by many presi-
dents, including President Roosevelt
and crystalized into the unwritten
law of the nation, that no President
shall serve more tnan two terms, and
we rerget the effort now unfortunate
ly being made to make an exception
of that time horored rule.
l. it is the unwrtten law that Off
ces should not be held by one man
indefinitely, what about C. B. Slemp
being returned to congress for the
fourth time? Did you ever think that
this resolution, that no doubt he and
Louisa Summers prepared in some
foul, dark hole, months before the
convention, is living. breathing
reason why he should not again be
sent to congress?
All the patronage and prestige that
President Taft may be able to bestow
upon Slemp as representative of the
whitest district in the South will not
make the Highlanders of the noun
tains forget this sneaking strike he
has taken at their idol-Theodore
Roosevelt. name craven in letters
| of gold on the hearts of the honest
mountaineers.
Whatever Col. Roosevelt was tc
the men who gathered around C. B.
Slemp at Roanoke and fought for pie,
to him he has been a friend and bene.
factor, for his remark, GAS straight
as string saved Slemp's politica
life two years ago, and we predict
that this Judas Iscariot act of his
will cause the Elephant, the G. o. P,
to come out of the wilderness of one
man rule and give a below that will
clear the political atmosphere OF
such ingrates.
| Remember Republicans, when yor
go to nominate candidate for cong
ress, that c. B. Slemp has betrayed
the n.ounain people and allied himselI
with Alva Martin at Norfolk, anc
that there is not a prominent man il
the Republican party who will no
make better race for congress thar
he. Henry Bowen, Jr., of Tazewell il
our choice and today he will poll fcu
thousand more votes than Slemp. -. -,
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