The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-20
And Ringing Resolutions Are
Adopted at the Mass
Convention.
PROTECTION UPHELD
While Bad Effects of Demo
cratic Free Trade Policy
Are Pointed Out.

convention Saturday afternoon In
the court house nominated seventy
i've delegates to the congressional
nominating convention to be held
Monday afternoon in Wheeling by
the Republican party, adopted strong
! resolutions of adherence to the Re
publican policy of prosperity and
asked the delegates to have formal
request made by me district con-
Iyention for campaign speeches from
West virginia's most iilustrious son,
Senator Nathan Cor J. In every county
of the distrirt.
Had 1t not been for the fact that
the method OF nominating a candilI
date for Congress had been changed
by the congressional executive com
niittee only few days ago because
there was but one candidate for the
proposed general primary, and also
for the fact that A. X. Thorn, chair
man of the county committee, had
but a very short time in which to ar
range for the county mass meeting,
the court house would have teen|
damned to suffocation Saturday af-
ternoon. AS it was there was a
large outpouring of voters and there
was great outburst of enthusiasm
over the idea,of a reunited party. 1T
was a reunion, love feast and iolli-
fication all rolled together. A CON
spicuous feature was the handshak-
ing OF old war horses and their
speeches of congratulation over The
return of many strayed sheep to the
fold.
Arthur K. Thorn, county chair
man, who called the meeting to or
der and read.the official call, was
made permanent chairman and viii
liam L. Geppert the permanent sec
rotary. According to the basis OF
representation, Harrison county is
entitled to forty-six votes in the con
gressionar convention, but in order
to insure a good sized delegation.
the following. seventy-ave delegates
were appointed:
Stirring speeches were made by
Chairman Thorn, Will e. Morris, La
fayette c. Grille, Col. Henry Hay
mond, Roy E. Parrish, Writ w. Pos,
OF Lost Creek; John t. Flynn, OF
Wilsonburg; John NJ. Flanagan, l..
Wade Coffman and others. The con
vention put itself definitely on rec
ord in support of the Republican
theory of tariff legislation and
against the disastrous Democratic
free trade policy in the following
resolutions, which were adopted
unanimously amidst prolonged cheer
ing:
BE it resolved by the Harrison
County Mass Convention, here con-
vened on the Goth of September,
1913:
First. We congratulate the peo-
pie of the First congressional district
of west Virginia on the opportunity
Afforded them at the approaching
special election to supplant their
late free trade representative in
Congress with a representative
pledged to the great Republican tar
if system that has made the dis
trtct one of the foremost manufac-
turing, industrial and agricultural
sections of the Union.
Second. we contend that pro-
tective tariff. honestly framed and
susceptible to adaptation to natural
commercial advantages, is indispen-
sable to the welfare OF the nation
and is peculiarly necessary to the
prosperity of the state of West Viz
ginia and the counties of the First
congressional district.
Three. We call attention to the
fact that the Democratic policy Of
free trade not only threatens a loss
of many millions of dollars invested
IN lndustrfal enterprises in this dis
trict, as elsewhere, but the first and
most cruel burden of the Underwood
Simmons tariff law will fall upon
the army of now contented and pros
porous workingmen and their fam
lilies.
Fourth. We call attention to the
fact that up to this time the only
perceptible economic effect of the
proposed Democratic tariff law is a
decided tendency toward lower
, wages and less business, with the
cost of living still ascending
Fifth. With these views upon
the paramount issue of the ap-
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