Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-07-14
NEW YORK LETTER.

New York, July 1.-The Great
Noise has burst and scattered all
over the pages of the newspapers.
What spilling of words was occa-
stoned by the inglorious retreat of
the Colonel! What waste of rhe-
toric was required to take the Pro-
gress out of the Progressive and to
shunt the party on the back track!
One still hears the echoes of the
Colonels fiery declarations that the
new party had come to stay, while
the same Colonel tells the Progress
I'VE Party that it is its duty to be
swallowed up. What n contrast be-
tween the sturdy loyalty of the Pro-
throwing them over!
This anti-climax was expected. But
it was thought that Col. Roosevelt
would color his formal surrender to
Hughes with some show of reasons
why the Progressives should support
Gov. Whitman's candidate for Presi-
dent. But the bare poverty of reason
is evident in the Colonel's apology,
and he diverts attention therefrom
by the sclatter of words-the same old
words-that he hurls at the President.
On analysis Col. Roosevcli's letter
is found to consist of one part of sooth
ing syrup, to comfort his followers
one part to invective for President
and one part of apology for Hughes
But the Progressive Party can't be-
delivered like a piece of merchandise
The men who went into the movement
IN 1912 for principle and not for Of
fees arc rallying to the standard set
up by j. j. O'Connell, the New York
County Chairman, and they purpose to
show that the party that was born of
rebellion against bosses lnows no
master and will not wilt and die at
nod from Oyster Bay. The Colonel
may quit, but not all the four million
who voted for him are cutters.
Mr.. Hughes has chosen an able Ma
tional Chairman for the G. o. p, SO
that that eminent aggregation need no
longer ramble around headless. Will
nam X. Wilcox. as postmaster of New
York, brought the service to high
degree of efficiency. AS chairman of
the Public Service Commission, for
seven years, he was the father of the
dual subway system that is now being
built at cost of $343,000,O0O. Since
then he has enjoyed most lucrative
law practice. He is n man of tireless
energy, great capacity and pleasing
personality. He towers above his.
predecessors and his rivals for the DOS,
rs great oak above sumac bush.
The selection of Mr.. Wilcox to man.
age the Hughes campaign means
vigorous, effective campaign, managed
with discretion and force.
But there is no real interest in
the campaign now. The uppermost
thought, is of Mexico. The placidity
with which the public received the
call for the National Guard has given
place to intense interest as the citizen
soldiers march through the streets
and khaki-clad officers and men go
hither and thither on the work of
mobilization.
The emergency has found the Ma
tional Guard better prepared than was
to be suspected, but the railroads have
given an exhibition of unprepared-
ness and incapacity that makes one
wonder why hard-headed directors
pay fancy salaries to the over-esti-
mated men whom they employ to OPP
crate their lines.
The inability, or failure. of the
railroads to provide decent cars
New York of few thousand men is a
out there is q rising demand for the
naturalization of the railroads. Why
should America be at the mercy of
over capitalized inefficicncy?
Not long ago there died man who
became n millionaire manufacturing
all sorts Of novelties and small mer-
chandise. He was always eager for
ideas, but no one could reach his inner
office with n suggestion or patent
unless the article was one that could
be made and sold for nickle.
Not one fortune, but many, are be-
ing made out of the nickles that go
for fares on this city's subway and
lines. And no wonder. Here
comes Frank Moss, the Investigator,
showing that it costs only 2.03 cents
to carry a passenger in the subway
and PIG cent on the al" roads.
And there are fortunes, too, in the
building of the new rapid transit lines.
1t is figured out that on every dollar
put in subways the City will nay $2.15
before it recaptures and really owns
the lines.
Still another trust decision, after q
period of merciful relief from judicial
AS nearly as the ordinary
layman can discover, the Corn Prod
ucts Company is to be broken up be-
cause it cut prices. Which undoubt-
eddy will mean higher prices. Was
not Standard Oil "busted"? And has
not the cost of gasoline gone higher
than John D. ever imagined possible?
VIM. WRIT MILLS.