The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1916-11-03

which he hid for its own chief apostle.
kick out Lewis as chairman and S,Ibsti
tute the piiable "pusSvfOOt" Shaver.
gather UP the headquarters with one
swoop Of its ever -Ggasping NAV and Shir
them to FaiI1DOnt in its private car owe,
night?
Doesn't this, and monv other ihin~
well known 10 2 public whose mini
alive to passing e$eIftS. prove the abMr
lutte and unqssesti0nrd domination q
WatSOniSm Over thc Democratic part
organization. and many of the voters
the ranks Of that party. but by no mcan
all of them3
And hasn't all that within the part.
1t has SO speedily thrOttled and so SUE
cessfully corrupted. prove what man.
are cOntending now, that the election o.
the thoroughly and Individually Watson
lied COrnwell. who bears the Consoli
dated brand and rides to his meetings TO
voice his demagogic pleas for the votes
OF the common people" he now so fer
vently prOfesDessto represent and be-
fxiend. on the Da1sks pf q railroad cor
poration he was up tiIf very recently, if
not now. political leed agent for, will
dethrone Wats0aiAn in the governors
ONCE at Charleston and the legislative
balls Of the: State Capitol?
Would not This. for one thing. crush
the hopes Of thousands of miners i'm
West Virginia Who have been fightin,
Tor. praying for. and hoping for tn.
time when they can organize thcnSelve-
and secure for Themselves and their far
lilies the justice which results fro
collective bargaining on the part
employees With 4heir employers. corpc
ate and individual?
Would not Watsorism use the mi,
tary force. if necessary. from Charlie
Ton. as 1t directs armed fOrcefrom Fai:
mont. to crush and stamp out the la.
vocal vestigetDf unioniSm i'm minin
regions, railroad yards. along street ca
lines. and i'm big manufacturing estab
lishments?'
Isn't wisconsin now. as Editor Albert
Sidney Johnston said i'm 1911 i'm his
Monroe WatchThan. a Democratic Jour
nal. 1t was dependent OH the sheer
brute force of money for its success?
Did it not in 1911. at Charleston. as
Col. Thomas II Dennis. the veteran and
universally esteeaped editor of the DEM
ocratic GrcenktIT, T,Independent. said in
that year it did, bring about session of
the Legislature'which was "a saturnalia
oi oeDauCnery
And is there any guarantee that il
would not pcrp,anently establish that
condition al Charleston should il succeed
In ITS present scheme TO get control of the
State government on November 9TH?
ms Of a similar kind which Republican
'ans everywhere have been asking them
d neighbOrs. These are questions which
his party as il used to be more than he
rty as IL now is, is seriously turning over
erred to them in his speeches. None dare
$ of letters asking young voters to vote TO
"a hrs colleagues. To others TO loan their
political schemes. TO contribute of their
indefensible and invisible government"
elbow citizens. National Committeeman
issues. which come home with startling
Vest Virginia. raised by the foregoing list
|ually certain thSfhc will not i'm any sub
the voters i'm whatever form they NAV be
2s
'OvernOr. Cornwell.
supporters Of the odious doctrine of Wat
IN peIf. official .preferment or Glittering
Democrats returning TO their first partv
graf'ers ranging in class from grand to
umb; from which they run 10 cover and
'oush honest. det.as md s.lf-res,ec,ine
cups specifically referred 70, who have
q their dependents; fer their freedom
them riShl.
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