West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-10-19
kGwooD PRESTON COUNTY THURSDAY OCTOBER n 1915

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compel majority OF its members I'm
the House OF Representatives TO vote
the American citizens had no right 20
travel on the high seas. IL their lead
ers believe I'm the rights OF American
citizens, why don't their followers L?
IL their leaders are so stin 20 see that
Americans get their rights every
where, why do these men vote that
Americans shall get their rights no
whereg One OF the most regrettable
incidents OF American history is that
there should have been found men in
the Congress OF the United States will
ing to vote in that sense.
But II is another story I'm the Sen
ate OF the United States. There n Sc
rene confidence obtains in the private
conferences OF the Senate. have
never been admittd to their privacy.
but l have seen their performance.
and the most reactionary men IN
America have absolutely controlled
the action OF the minority in the Uni
ted States Senate. except for a few ex-
amples OF independence by distin-
guished individuals who did not care
to be mastered and owned by anybody.
but their number was so small as to
be negligible.
1T made the whole thing very much
simpler. l admit. because you never
had to speculate how the Republicans
were going to vote I'm the United
States Senate. You knew that before
hand by calculations established
through whole generation-men
who could not see the light OF a new
| age. who did not desire TO see IL who
wished the old methods to be resum-
ed; not the methods OF Abraham Lin
coin, who listened TO the voice OF the
people but the methods OF Mark Han
| na, who listened TO the voice OF the
| interests.
They have been uneasy and little
unshepherded ever since Mark Hanna
and Senator Aldrich passed from the
stage. II was so much easier to be
told what TO do. II was so much sim
pier to get orders.
Nov. these gentlemen are in obvi-
GUS and undisputed control OF the or
ganizatlon OF the Republican party. II
is they who are counselling their lead
ers to say as little as possible and to
| say IL In as confused a way as posi-
BILE, so that nobody may know how to
calculate their orbit from day to day.
THE only thing that they are re-
vealihg is that they do not want any
thing said, and after the election Ia
| over, II they should win possession OF
the government, they do not mean to
say anything for obvious reasons. II
is contrary to the constitution OF the
United State TO make a man testify
| against himself
$50 that IL all comes down, my fell
low citizens. to a very simple PROPOSE
tion. Are you going to leave your
government under the control OF peo-
pie who do know and who will tell
you what they are going to do, or are
you going to put 1t in the hands OF
men who will not tell you what they
are going to do and will serve their
private interests?
THE choice is bigger than that.
understand from the leaders OF the
Republican party that nothing that
has been done has been done right.
They do not say that the thing that
was done was always wrong, but the
way In which IL was done was always
wrong. They do not venture to say.
that is to say, the private counsel
does not venture to say, that we want
ed anything but peace but they would
have preferred some other way. not
disclosed, OF obtaining peace. The
vocal part says. We wanted war
The silent part intimates that we
wanted peace. but wanted another
kind OF peace. They never can get
over that fundamntal uneasiness, gen
tlemen. that America is In charge Of
somebody else than themselves.
But America knows that the things
that were done did obtain peace, and
II does not know that the things that
might have been done would have OBJ
tained peace, so that America knows
that IL is faced with this choice:
Peace, the continuance Of the develop
! ment Of business along the lines
| which It has now established and de-
veloped and the maintenance OF well
known progressive lines Of action, on
the one hand, or on the other. a dis
turbance OF policy all along the line
new conditions. new adjustments, un-
defined alterations Of policy, and back
Of It all invisible government.
Several gentlemen who are sup
posed TO be spokesmen OF the Repub-
lican party have In public professed
to condemn invisible government, but
in private they have counselled and
aided and aBetted it Fhe bes, way
to divert suspicion is te condemn the
thing that yeu are doing yourself.
And just because the people OF the
great state Of New York saw through
that thin mask. they defeated toler-
ably good new constitution by a ma
jority that had never been before
heard Of in that state. II you want to
know how New York Is going this
time, look up the records OF what Il
did to the constitution. And It did II
to the constitution. not upon care
fuIl examination o what lke eonstilu-