Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-06-10
THE Herald. MARTINSBuRG. w. VA.

peal as to whether they are willing
to perpetuate those who are engaged
ina cat and dog fight TO retain their
hold
| am a candidate for governor, yet
| don't want any man to vote for m.
unless he thinks / am honest and be.
lieve what | say. i want it understood
| am going to cut down expenses.
l am here with you in the Second
Congressional DISCREET and 1t seams
to me that you ought naturally to
feel favorably inclined to one from
your own district, more especially
since we have only two candidates
from the Northern end of the state the
candidate for Superintendent OF
Schools and myself. l think you will
have a hard time. carrying the state
IL you select your candidates in the
Southern part of the State.
Objections are offered to me. 1t
has been said | am not in harmony
with President Wilson. If it can BE-
shown by one word, or sentence or
thought that am not lin harmony and
have not been in harmony with Pres
ident Wilson then will retire from
the race. Such criticism is based up
on distorted, and garbled extracts
from the paper | edit For % years
| have been writing Democratic edi.
torials.
Such matter as has been circulated
charging me with not being in accord
with the President was done in viola
ton of law because the law provides
that any one circulating such matter
shall be disqualified from holding of.
flee. | call your attention to the fact
that it is unfair and garbled. They
represent me as criticizing President
Wilson in two articles when as a mat.
ter Of fact they were written before
the President was written. | was for
Clark and have no apologies to make
for that, but | did not know before
President Wilson became such that
he was the Intellectual man he was,
an itellectual phenomenon, the
man since Thomas Jefferson not ONLY
that but the greatest thinking mach
inc of modern times. Yet | am held VI
as criticising President Wilson. Isn't
that unfair.
They represent me as criticizing
the banking and currency law |
criticized the banking and currency
Dill, not the law. The original bill
provided that banks shsuid subscribe
20 per cent If their capital to the
reserve banks and should only re
ceiye 5 per cent and that they should
have no representation in the govern
ment OF the Reserve banks. The
Democratic Senator's criticized the
original bill and the Democratic press
criticized it and the result was thar
the bill was changed and the best
portions of several bills enacted into
law.
| have said time and again that the
new banking and currency law was
one of the best pieces of constructive
legislation ever enacted and | car
produce the paper in which / have
said it.
l did say Villa was a bandit and
Carranza a cattle thief and | did say
that this Government ought to lay an
embargo on arms shipped into Mex
leo because those arms would be
used against our own people. But tn.
Mexicans id not wait for us to go over
there. They visited American soil and
used those arms on us.
| have criticized some subordinate
officials. l want to say that when
the time does come when | can't
criticize some subordinate officials
then | want to go some where where
there is free speech. What would
people have achieved if there had moi
been free speech? Would we have
dared to criticize Governor Hatfield
and his conduct of affairs if there had
not been the right of free speech? ]
ask you then whether | have said
or done anything hostile to the ad
ministration.
During the Panama Canal Tolls re
peal controversy l wrote editorials
10 the two Democratic members of
Congress from West Virginia to stano
by the President. Mr.. Brown voted
against repeal but it was not held
against him in the last ELECTION nor
aid | hold it against him Yet when
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