The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-05
DIVERS THAT Prey
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A-GDsirued from First taEe.)
I'm which the candidate for Gov
aor on the Republican side has been
asen, and ii never received more
ccessfnI and persistent defense Than
has received from the newspapers
4ach he owns and controls
ssEs1Vfen ] see this unblushing. this
ndGnt attempt TO reinstatc these
Fcns without any coucealment Of
N KIM do you wonder that would
n 10 get out again and den0unce TIM
90fa crowa a. ! know them?
3gue ~ Eat Evil Over the Head.
ut is delightful TO fight the things
mt arc wrong Il Is delightful So
samethine that . worth hitting
Ia destroyug. Tho only thing that
Edasanp n contests Of THIS sort
that these fellows dodge and viii
TX get hit They sneak and viii not
veal thsir purpose. They have no
ia or stomach fer the fight in the
Nm, and they erect things that look
IA huiwarkS but are mere pre-
Hut after all my fellow citizens,
- thing that s being attempted in
~ Jersey IS only part of what IS
<~1ng attempte4 In the United Sthtes
In being attempted in the United
ete with norc and more transpar-
Ecy of purpose
zNsf xnnk how tina campaign has gone.
=lrzt of all an attempt to set UP soma
nd of handsome issue, not a very
I&Nresting attempt because the issue
- IA new one every week AZ soon
you approached vha, was SAID TO
tase issue, q seemed to fade and
Appear and there was nothing Tor
~4 TO GRASP or grapple,
But One Issue.
And after finding tHat the search
an Issue was in vain they came
I'll once more 10 the onlv thing thew
I'D In recent years ever known how
Ink about and that Was the pro-
fxe tariff.
They know perfectly well that all
promises about the protective
have been torn away. not by tho
oSy Of Democratic speakers, but
Iho patent demonstration OF fact.
know that the working men OF
0ountry may have been deceived
9 little while. but they cannot be
~ IN the time. They know mst
~ ~ We know that the industries
Nh the highest protection was
paid the lowest wages and they
that the highest wages were
IN the least protected Industries.
~ . matter of record.
DiAxrace to Civilization
~ only that. They know that IN
s0f the most highly protected In =
- the conditions under which
oOrtng people lived were dis
- our civilization. They know
- men and women were ground
~ long a. they could be ground
lat these gentlemen who pro-
American patriotic feeling for
>serican laborer were most eager
port leborers from abroad and
RI those who, because they fid
now what America could AFFORD
Wsre willing to talks what they
6st.
" now what DO we w1tnoss7
1 despaired OF an issue they are
QM1y filling tho country with
- but they are attem ptinr co.
Of their lahorers. They imagine
gea1 men are not their own
II and dare rot vote as thew
and at last, ] thank God. the
m iaborer Is awake He at
Ggss his friends by what they do
Il BY what they say. He knows
4 has found friends because he
md men who viii do the things
has demanded should be done
~ ana equity 70 him.
- Alarms Their Own.
them Ill the air with alarms
orms are their own. not ours.
nod to control tho credit OF the
IL: they now control nothing but
Ming. So that ! think as We
nck upon this campaign-for
now looking back upon IL, and
u now nothing but cries Of dis
~ look hack--.we can sas a
eartsnfng and encouraging
Va can see the American pec-
- asserting themselves by re-
- old leadsrship under which