West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-10-12
WAR BETWEEN CAPITAL
AND LABOR THREATENS

l went TO Washington l went with GER
tain men in my mind who had long
been influential in the counsels OF
Congress. who l was told were reac-
tionaries l mean, In the Demo
cratic ranks. And i want to say for
those men that no wheel-horse i'm
harness ever pulled harder than they
did in the direction of the party's pro-
gram OF progress.
II did not have to lie awake at night
wondering what they were going to
do. l knew that they were going to
cooperate. cooperate with sagacity
and intelligence and force in the ac-
complishment that the party had
pledged itself to. and they did CO.
operate,an did triumph and did bring
about the great achievements of the
party. So that I can testify that back
of me as a leader OF the party there is
an organized. enthusiastic and deter
mined team that is ready to do team
work and obey every signal
"On the other hand, what have we?
IL battles description. Men OF every
sort and variety OF purpose. will not
say united, but associated for an un-
avowed object, more interesting than
that and more ominous than that. shot
through with every form of bitterness.
every ugly form OF hate. every de-
based purpose of revenge. and every
covert desire to recover secret power
"a party made up like occupants OF
the ancient cave OF Adullam, OF ev-
erybody discontented and insurgent
against existing circumstances, and
therefore not very happily in confer
ence with one another. Because their
grievances are so different, their pur-
poses so contrary, their temperaments
SO Incompatible. II they should by any
unhappy chance succeed, no divorce
proceedings will be necessary to ac-
complish their separation
80 that you have on the one hand
party united i'm organization and
purpose, a purpose which has absorb
ed within itself. within it's own gener-
our scope. the purposes which inde-
pendent voters and Progressives all
through the nation have had most at
heart; that lent itself to purposes
even that IL had not avowed, because
1t had become in deed and in truth a
friend OF mankind. And, on the other
hand, you have party which cannot
avow its purpose, which cannot bring
its elements together, which cannot
except by processes OF which we DO not
approve, achieve anything at all.
What would happen II the Republi-
can party should succeed on the 7th
OF November? If / were leader OF
that party, l would be afraid to get
elected. l would know that nothing
but futility and disappointment await
ed me. Because, oddly enough, the
only distinct definitions of purpose
come from the collateral branches of
the family. The only articulate voice.
a very articulate voice, processes opin-
ions and purposes at which the rest in
private shiver and demur
when the whole country is clam
oring for definition, il is legitimate to
take it where you can get IT. and the
definitions are backed by certain
things that have already happened I'm
our politics. One branch of that par
ty, the collateral branch to which ]
have just referred, backed as a candi-
date for the United State Senate i'm the
state of New York man whose avow-
ed position in respect of International
affairs was unneutral and whose In
tention was, IL he became a member
OF that great council upon interna-
tional sffairs at Washington. 10 pro-
mote the interests of one side in the
present war in Europe.
Therefore, we are warranted i'm be
lieving that If the Republican party
should succeed, one very large branch
of 1t would insist upon what It's leader
has insisted upon, q complete reversal
Of policy. And In view OF the support
that the candidate have referred TO
in New York received. that reversal
Of policy can only be a reversal from
peace to war. II they do not engage
in such a reversal Of policy, they may
expect war In their own ranks.
These voluble and vociferous in
surgent forces which have so long rem
dered the life OF Republicans almost
impossible would certainly begin a
new insurrection. There would be
new raids upon Republican majori-
ties, such as their territories and as
sets seem constantly exposed to and
II would be impossible not TO bring
about such a breach as would lead to
utter confusion I'm the counsels OF the
nation, because there are other ele-
ments In that party which are looking
exactly I'm the opposite direction.
whose sympathies and intentions are
in the sharpest contract with those ]
have mentioned.
And then back OF ALL quiet, self
confident knowing the game better
than anybody else, sit the men who
really haye the Organization and con
troll Of the Republican party in their
own possession, the Old Guard, the
men who at any rate afford us this
advantage Of controversy; we know
where to and them. They are always
In The same place They always In
tend the same thing. They always
have the same was about 70 say
ideals, but will not misuse q hand
some word the same conception Of
what politics is for, and who know.
to make a we'll known quotation. 'ex-