Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-04-22
SENATOR Chiffon
praises PARTY
FOR ITS RECORD
SENIOR SENATOR, IN ANNOUNC-
ING HlG CANDIDACY, RE
VIEWS IT'S ACHIEVEMENTS.
POINTS TO REFORMS ACCOM-
PLISHED AND CALLS WILSON
IDEAL LEADER.
THE SENATOR HAS BEEN AN I'M.
PORTANT FACTOR IN HIS
PARTYS SUCCESS.

. WASHINGTON, April 17.-Senator
William f. Chiffon, of West Virginia,
in announcing his candidacy for re-
election has addressed a statement
to the voters OF West Virginia in
which he makes comprehensive de,
tense of the Democratic Administra-
ton and the Democratic congress.
The West Virginian has been an i'm
portant factor in his partys success
in Washington. Tie has been q stanch
supporter of President Wilson. a
loyal follower of the Democratic
standard in congress and has con-
tributed much to the constructive
work Of the last four years. He now
occupies a position Of potentiality as
a leader of the senate and his friends
will make a vigorous effort to re-
turn him to that body.
In the course Of his review of the
achievements during the present
regime Senator Chiffon says:
IS Years CT C. o. p. Rule.
Our Republican friends who crit
icise now should remember that they
had the undisputed control of all
~ dIiCbCO VI ltiG 5SOFEl uAlttIlI vi IuiG
country from 1897 to 1913. a period Of
IS years. That was time sufficient to
have built as great a navy as exists
en- earth; time enough to have stab
lished a mammoth merchant marine:
time enough to have organized an
army of 100000 men: time enough
to have reorganized the banking and
currency system; time enough Go
have adopted a permanent tariff COM
mission system: time enough to have
given the farmers rural credit banks
and to have given a clear chart for
the guidance of business and labor
out of the fog of mist and uncer-
tainty into which they had been led
by the construction of the courts up
on the Sherman Antitrust act
But they failed to solve all of
these questions and all of them were
presented to the Democratic party
when it took charge of the two branch
es of the gOvernment-the legislative
and eXecutive-on March 4, 1913. Not
withstanding that the majority in the
Senate was small, Notwithstanding
that the senate is a body in which
NCbetbC 10 AlA1tillIiLCu dAuy luciGtOI Z,
a few men can filibuster against any
measure which the majority may
want, the Democratic party, under
the leadership of it's great President.
took hold of all these questions and
has settled most of them by legisla-
tion which their grandchildren will
never see repealed.
Preparedness Without Excuses.
eff the people of the United States
want reasonable preparedness and not
military program which will drive
us into excuses that are needless, we
have in Mr. Wilson the ideal candi-
date. If the people want strong navy
built sensibly and carefully on lines
that are dictated by the best of our
naval officers and by the lesson of ex-
perience, they have an ideal Presi-
dent to do the work
eff they want relief from tariff dis.
cussions and agitations which disrupt
business and labor and do no one any
good in the end. then in the policies
of the President the peop'e find the
| best expression Of their thought. II
| they believe that an income tax is
fair and just and that the currency
system has been settled in q business
like way, then they must accept Mr..
Wilson or repudiate enc of the great
est Of his reforms.
IF they believe that business is en-.
titled to a fair chart by which they
cannot well vote against the man who
has made a reform practical If they
want prosperity, they can point to
the present as the greatest in the his
tory of the country, If not in the
world
q mistake the temper of the Ameri
can people if they win vote against
/ prosperity. I do not understand then
/ processes Of reasoning if they will
/ turn down an administration which
! has piloted them in safety through
/ the most dangerous period of their ex
/ istence and has brought about pros
I perity such as I have described
/ CHARLESTON. - The workmen's
/ oompenaation deDartmeut received re
4 norris Of 400 ~,prfdppfe LAST w-aaIr Giv