Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-10-30
G. ". BLANKENSRIP
: FOR PROCRESSIYES
Continued from Page One.)

A friend of mine told me that ne
overheard q conversation. i'm Jones'
vile, in which three or four men were
engaged, and one of them said: Oh
yes, George Blankcnship has come
back TO this country and he is adYo-
eating the Progressive Party, and
this same individual went on to say:
"The Republicans should not forget
this when they come to employ law
yers and should remember Mr.. Blank
enShip and leave him alone" God pity
the narrow minded hypOcritical, idiotic
Individual that made this remark He
is too little, too narrow and too inSig-
nilicant, to regard with contempt. |
pity his poor little soul. He is loud
mouthed individual, and man that |
have known all my life, and when
think of him, TO my mind comes the
comparison, Of this poor fool, and the
man who pastured his goose on his
grandfather's grave, to save the
grass. lie is one of the same cali
bre and make up, of another individ-
ual that | know, that complained to
his neighbor, and asked him to keep
his ducks from out of his field, as they
were eating all the bugs up from his
own ducks; and when | think of the
man-if he could be called man,
that spoke about me in the way he
did, feel like giving him bug, and
Il tumble bug" at that. That poor
piece of humanity, is as narrow mind
cd and as close as the jew who sold
his customer Il bun that had raisin
in it here and there. and in one place,
where there should have been raisin
the customer found fly, and he took
Tho hmm Inrl- hn I..,, Il
"llere old man, | want you to take
this bun back found fly in it,"
and the jew said: "No sir, can't dc
that" but he went around the counter,
opened up Il box, picked up raisn
and handed it to his customer, to put
in the bun where he had found the
fly.
Such individuals, as the one | have
been talking about, are really not
worthy of mention, and | only refer
to him to show to what extent some
people will go.
Previous To the campaign of 1912
IN the race for the nomination for the
candidate for the presidency of the
| United States, on the Republican
ticket, and for about IL years, | had
taken very little interest III politics
III TACT have not voted for | | years
now about II years. | have been living
IN the District of Columbia where the
actual residents have no vote. All
people living there, employed by the
government, where they choose to ex.
ercise 1t, have right to return tc
their home State, and vote, but moi
being an employee of the govern.
ment, and being an actual resident OF
the District, | was not entitled to re
turn to my former home to cast my
ballot, and not having the privilege
OF voting, | took but Il passing inter.
est IN political matters. But seeing
and believing, us | did, and in fac
knowing, the true situation of affair:
III the contest for the presidential
nomination, between that honored
patriotic, and world wide distinguish
ed citizen, Col. Theodore Roosevelt
and w. ii. Taft, and the dastardly af
falr, deceitful, decciving, rascally ant
thlevIng methods that were used ant
resorted to by Taft and his corrup
political adherents to thwart the vii
of the peoplci n the selection of thei
candidate, and the roguish and higl
handed, down right dishonest. an,
disgraceful conduct at Chicago,
could no longer resist the temptation
Va S'Ai'NiiiS my nCl HlNCS Ill lllc llllcT
est of what | know to be honorable
and right, and in denouncing tn,
damnable actions of the national com
mittee, in unseating duly and regular
ly elected delegates to that conven
ton, and putting in their place fraud
ulent imposters, felt that as an hon
est American citizen, | should lent
my aid, let it be great or small, OF
the side of justice and right. Their,
are many people in the United State
of America today that would like t,
have the year 1912 forgotten. Thu
people who managed Mr.. Taft's cam
paign in 1912 were the last guard o
Il political regime, that had nothing il
mind but the distribution of spoils
There are II few, but thank God, yer,
few of that species of humanity in tn
Ninth District of Virginia.
II In political discussions it is m,
purpose, my method, and my custom
to discuss measures. and not men, bu
there are instances, wherein, it is ne
cessary, not only necessary, but tn
duty OF political speakers to tell thei
audiences about the official conduct o
their representatives, and public serv
anus. The present representative, il
the Congress of the United States
from the Ninth District of Virginia
and who is again seeking re-elec
ton, is one of the individuals tina
would like to hear it said that tn
year 1912 had been forgotten; am,
that the conduct of all parties durin,
that year have been blotted out. bu
it has ways been said, and truthful,
so, that murder will out, and so it i
as impossible to have the acts an,
conduct of that crowd of corruption
lists and political thieves at Chicago