The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-28

earnestly. Whoever Is nominated.
however, must be free Of factional
scars and capable OF uniting the party
from one end Of the district to tia
other. Otherwise, the nomination
will not be worth very much to the
man who gets II. We think in our
section that Col Fleming fills that
bill OF particulars.
Marion county has never had a
Republican nominee for congress. For
that matter no other county except
Marshall has had one in my recollect-
ion From 1888, as / recall il, Ohio
county had had a monopoly on the
nomination with the exception noted.
Charley Carrigan OF MoundsyilIe was
given the nomination that time, and
he lost out Col. Fleming may be
clasSed, in a sort of a way. as new
broom. II there is any truth in the
old saying. he should be able 10 sweep
the First district clean with an old
fashioned Republican party victory"
Is President Wilson going 10 do as
the Colonel was fond OF doing when
he saw the opposition with an issue
that looked good to him. reach over
and take it? The talk in the lobb!as
here is that is what he is planning
TO do.
Rumor has it that the President IS
going to announce before long slight
change OF heart that Will shock that
element OF his party which endorses
The sentiment expressed by Champ
Clark when he was floor leader in
wade the citadel OF Republication and
the House, favorable to burning down
all the custom houses. 1t is said that
/ the President IS getting ready to in
wade the citadel of Republicanism and
K take away some Of the protective tar
4 if candy that that party has enjoyed
4 FOR many years.
! The story goes that the President
sees that the end of the European war
means that the tariff question Is go
ing to be Of greater paramountcy than
It has been for many years. The big
business men OF the country see II.
and very clearly. and the President
sees it just as plainly as they.
It is said that such men as ]. P.
I Morgan. Mr.. Vanderbilt Of the Nation
al City Bank. George F. Baker OF the
First National and Mr.. Cannon Of the
Fourth National are thinking now
what is to happen after the war Is
over And it is a serious problem.
1t devolves on them to discount the
future. They must beat US plain peo-
pie to it. just litde bit. That Is how
they make their money. So. already.
in the turmoil and strife Of the pres
ent these clear-eyed men are looking
ahead one year. year and a half or
two years to figure how the United
States is to come out.
II is all right, fine and dandy, while
the war lasts. But that flow Of coin
from across the pond is going to stop
when the big guns no longer roar.
Then. these big business men see that
the foreigners will want their money
back. and they will set about getting
il back by the only means they have
at hand. They start to manufacture
for American markets. They will be
able to employ labor cheaper than
ever known. and the tariff walls be-
ing down in this country. there will
be such an under-sellinG campaign
from abroad as 10 one Of the present
generation can remember.
Well. the men who control the big
sums of money that have come OF
this country do not propose to allow
them to get away If they can help
II. And the first step in the direc-
ton OF prevention will be to take the
administration Of the government
away from the Democrats and turn it
over to the Republicans. who will re.
store the tariff walls, build big dam
and conserve the waters. Not the
old Chinese wall tariff. but tariff
that will prevent Europe from shred
ding us. like a shredded wheat bis
cult of everything we have.
And they are asking around here:
Docs the President see II. Does ne
'savyy'? Will he do It? Is he or not
two or three jumps ahead Of the rest
Of his party who have been raised
around the plantation freside, read
ing the Greek classics. and never saw
the inside of factory at work or