The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-08-11

ACHIEVEMENTS
Continued from page eighth

recurring administrative ability. iMehtE
wears ago We did not need worKnlen
CONDENSATION law. but when WORK
mems compensation law WIS hee"' :,
Rcrubliran administration turnlt'hc1 H.
rwrn,y years ago We did not nee! n
public utilities law. or a hydro-elcctriC
law in West Virginia. hut when public
utilities law was needed. and hydrn-"lrc-
rric legislation was needed hepupi''"''
administration furnished them.
Twenty years ago the prohlcms ot
health. Of factory and mine inspection
were not so serious in West Virginia as
they have since become; anu AS me
growing demands Of industrIalisn and
increasing population have created new
problems in these lines. Republican al
ministralion has mot and solved them.
because. therefore. 1t is the great con,
structivc party Because It has faced
every issue. Recaus. IL has met every
need. the people OF Wcs, Virginia nave
confidence in the constructive capacity
Of Rcpublicanisni. and arc gong To con-
tinuc the Republican party In power.
You mon who sit In this hall To-Day
arc the representatives Of the great RG-
publican electorate of this state. l wish
! could impress you with the full sense
Of your responsibility. not only 10 inc
Republican party. but to people as
whole: with ful sense @, your T re his
convention. but while acting in yhur
homes in your communities. directing
and mUlding public sentiment. IN your
hands. gentlemen. TO very large &c
gree. rests the solution OF the great m
dustrial financial and social problems
which West Virginia must meet during
tho coming year. Tho people who do no.
have vision. perish from the Garth. ana
i wish 10 place before your eyes vision
which YOU may hello reIlize.
AS worthy and honorable as has been
the constructive record Of the Repuh-
lican administration during the past
twenty years. VIC have nply made be-
ginning in the social and economical
LEGISLATION which great state shou!d
enact for the welfare of its people. We
have, for instance. three good hospitals
maintained by The state particularly for
The use OF mine and railroad employees.
Those institutions have done good work.
They have saved lives. they have light
cned suffering IIut the humantarian
work of the state should not be limited
r. three such hospitals. West Vh gtnia
should see to it that In every commun-
ity of sufficlnet Importance to create
the need. we'll equipped state hospital
should be maintained. and 10 those hos
ritals every needy person may 90 and
receive treatment. The family OF the
working man may be cared for. the man
injured In accident may be cared for:
'ro such state institutions they should
look as matter Of right, and not as
II matter OF charity.
We have n great tuberculosis SANTA
rum 1t Is doing a splendid work. II
is crowded to its door. From all over
The state comes word from hundreds OF
anxious patients who would be cared
for, hu; cannot because of the capacity
If the sanitarIum Is limited. Instead
Of ono tuberculosis sanltarium in West
Virginia. we should have three or four
ar n dozen il necessary. until the horri-
HE white plague is stamped out In the
mountain state.
We have a splendid university. II
las enrolled this year over 1000 Of our
yuung men and women. 1t furnishes