The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-11-14
TO MY FRIENDS AND ENEMIES
Il ADDRESS THIS LETTER.

thanks to all those who supported
RE in the recent campaign, and re-
fused to WAIVER in the face 81 the
awful influences. that We're brought
sc bear upon them.
! thank them for the vote, that
we're cast but not counted as deeply
as for those that were counted
sincerely hope that Divine Prov
idence may warm the bodies with
the breath OF life of all those re-
sponsible for this little theft, until
they may repent, and not bs compel.
ed to stand before the Great Judge
with this little sneaking crime re-
corded against them
also extend my sympathy and
best wishes to all those who DELHI
erately went out and in their vicious
ambition for power proceeded to
purchase the electorate, lebauch
the ballot box, and make every dis
honorable effort known to the Gun
ming of man to defeat the will OF
the honest and intelligent voters of
the county. trust they may live to
see the error Of their ways and re-
oent before it is everlastingly too
late.
The poor ignorant working man,
with his starving and freezing little
ones at home, crying possible fer the
necessities of life, is not to blame
for this awful condition of affairs
there has been no effort to enlighten
them that they might see The value
of their suffrage-this IS not the
method Of old party politicians--it
IS their purpose to keep the common
voters in ignorance that they may
buy them up on election day like so
many sheep or oxen, either collect
lively or individually, that they may
continue to rob them and their fam
lies of all the wealth their hands
create (save a bare existence), from
one election to another.
Thanks to the All Wise, aud Crea-
tor. of all things, the main Weapon
Of the cid party politician, that De-
mon, Rum, has been banishel FROM
our fair state by an overwhelming
sentiment nicely done up and safely
deposited in the form of ballots ii
the ballot boxes that have longed fer
them for 10, these many years. And
the QJudge who would dare to null
fy the will Of the people in this par
ticular, as will surely be asked for
by the men who would steal The viz
tues of our boys and girls, rob us of
Our manhood and destroy our homes,
would deserve the gibbet. And al
though our courts have, in some in
stances sunk to awful depths, / do
not believe that any Judge will ever
assume the responsibility to renrer
such decision in the face of the
enormous and overwhelming senti-
ment against the accursed stuff.
There has been tremendous in
crease in the Socialist vote all over
the country, in many instances far
exceeding the imagination Of the
most enthusiastic Socialist advocate.
The latest return from Kanawna
county gives the Socialists $500 votes
against 500 for the Republicans
and 5000 even for the Democrats,
Will lSH pI StluCGS YET W sU6 report
ed Returns now indicate that the
total vote for the State for Debs
will reach 5000, about 10000 more
than was expected The Socialists
believe they will carry Kanawha
county and in the Cabin Creek Dis
trict, the returns show 667 votes
for the Democrats, LAP for the Re-
publicans, and 1928 for the workers,
making a clean sweep of every Of
flee in the district from Constable to
the Board of Education
Now let every member of the work.
ing class in Mingo county who re-
allies the fact that if labor is ever
to get any laws made, construed or
executed in its behalf it must have
it's own political party and elect
public officers from it's own ranks,
Timber up his biggest gun, NOW,
and begin the campaign for 1916
with a vim that will strike terror
tc the hearts of the old party poll
ticians like thunder bolt coming
from clear sky.
The papers you should read and
get others to read, are, The Social
list and Labor Star, of Huntington;
The Labor Argus, of Charleston,
The Majority, of Wheeling, and the