Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-10-30
G. w. BLANKENSHIP
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small matter.
Now, my fellow citizens, / shall get
down to the seriousness OF This dis-
cusslon. care nothing about the Lee
County Sun, or its "small-fry' editor,
the influence of that paper is nothing.
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1t is blank, and you can find more
news and reading matter in the ordi-
nary biotter that is sent out for free
Gistrlbutlon by patent medicine ven
der, of Indian Root Pills, than YOU
can find in that paper.
III is not my purpose, my country
men to deal in small politics or to dis
cuss individuals. There is some good
III all parties and there are honest
men in all parties. The Republican
party today, my fellow citizens. is
without leader and has served its
purpose. This old party, that has
accomplished great good i'm this coun-
try, but under the leadership of such
men as Cannon, Penrose, Aldrich and
Taft, has gone to the devil, and was
buried in the last presidential cleo
ton, when Taft was buried. Just
think of it. In the short time in
which MIR. Roosevelt had to organize
his party, and thereby give the Amer
lean people, Il chance to repudiate the
damnable conduct that controlled the
Chicago convention, he received at the
polls the votes of nearly 100000 hon
est American citizens, and Taft lit
tie over 3,0O0,OOO, nearly 100000
difference. Some of the "stand-pat"
element called the Progressive party
Democratic Aid Society, and when
they use that expression, they know
that they are telling what is not true.
Any man of intelligence that reads
the newspapers and that heard the re-
suit of the presidential election in
1912, knows that the Progressive par
ty. of today is the second party in
this nation, and that the Progressive
party and it's leaders are fighting with
all their might and main, the corrup-
ton and bad features of both parties.
You hear it said by many of The old
"stand-pats," what party is more
progressive than the Republican par.
ty'? That question needs no an
swer. 1t was answered i'm November.
1912. 1t is well known to every
American citizen who possesses an
lnprejudiced mind that Theodore
Roosevelt while president of the Unit
ed States, rendered TO this country
the greatest service that it ever had.
The time had come to check the
growing aggressions of organized
capital, that had been nourished un-
der false system of bounties. and
protected from competition The male
factors of wealth, had organized to
control all forms of legislation. They
mad resisted the restraint of the law
md had defied public opinion. They
lad made themselves secure from for |
'ign competition and by devices open-
y violative of the written law and
common principles of justice, stifed |
domestic competition. Investigations
we're set on foot by President Roose-
yeti, and their corruption unearthed. |
6y reason of these investigations, Mr.. !
Roosevelt was hated, and today is |
mated by Wall Street, and the dis
lonest capitalist of this country.
PRESIDENT Roosevelt did not only 20 |
alter reform and honest justice in the |
commercial world, but he unearthed |
ana put out OF business more crooked |
'oItlciahs than any president that |
,ver occupied the White House The
Progressive party, and its great lead
II favor and seek social and indus |
RAJ justice. Our platform is VERT
lDie cnarter OF democracy. do not |
mean Democratic democracy as it is |
today, but use the name /
democracy, because the true meaning |
If that word is government by the |
people. AS stated by me the Repub |
lean party today is without a leader,
and its time of usefulness is over.
That old party can never hope to win |
strength in the South. They have
.ried it for nearly half century
md in every effort has failed. In |
Virginia today and even prior to |
1912, the Republican party is and
was, by no means, as strong as it was
10 years ago. Confidence with the !
people in the South can be obtained.
only in and through the Progressive
party. Confidence in the whole ma
ion can be restored, and by the ma
-ional government placed in strong
and efficient hands, by the application
Of the principles of the Progressive
party. ! ask any one under the sound
of my voice to name the leader of the
party today. ! challenge
and defy any "stand-pat" to name
their national leader. 1t certainly
can't be Mr.. Taft. He was the cause.
largely of that parties defeat, weak
er leader no party ever had than the
party possessed while be-
ing led by w. II. Taft. During his
campaign for the presidency while up
in one of the New England States, a
little boy playing with a slingshot,
made mis-shot, and Mr.. Taft was
struck in the face with pea. A
great disturbance was caused. Uni
form policemen surrounded the great
man. The boy was put to scout, but
afterward chased, over taken, and
actually arrested. This little inno
cent boy was permitted by Mr.. Taft
to be Inundated by Arrest, and his
parents subjected to suffer the hu-
initiation and disgrace of having
their little child placed within the
tolls of the law. He did not offer
one word of protest. He never said
once, let the boy alone, am not kill
ed, but little and pusillanimous as he
is, no doubt whimed like a whipped
dog over the effects of the little pea,
that hit his mug. Compare that con-
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