Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-10-08
BAKER CANNED
MANY BEANS
Lady Orator Charges War Sec
retary Withheld Large Guam
tity of Choice Food-Demo-
Gratis Guilty of Many Sins.

Miss Nettio l.. Bauer. n spealor
sent out by tho Republican Nation
~ committee, addressed n fair sized
neuience III the court house Monday
nlterhoon on the issues of the cam,
ppaleh. MISS Bauer was introduced hv
'Si ri, iieieh Harrison, of this town.
me speaker devoted her time
mnscly TO the wonderful accomplish
,nul's mnnt OF the Republican party in the
tfas WS slsty years, and criticism of the
her in which tho war wn. condmnt
ed, ITS endorsement of the Lenrrn or
NATIONS and other SHORTCOMINGS
Among other startling stntemont.
n,nde by sister Bauer was that Enst.
erh virginia would send Renubli-
Gun 10 Congress because of FREQ trade
on peanuts. She didn't mention which
u,s,rict u, IN the Eastern pnrt of the
ounte thnt would overturn its dcmo-
cratic majority. She also snid thot
she Republican party Is respons;hio
lor rural delivery, parcels most nrr;.
cultural laws. child labor laws Tho
department of labor, but did give tho
ucmocrntic party credit with tho
reucrni Reserve Banking system. hut
s''iu they had stolen it from tho Ro-
punlicans. She slipped up and said
III .n"t PRESIDENT Wilson has been ono
ol tho foremost advocates of ,yo-
nun suffrage, but that to tho RE-
pup'icanS were due tho credit of hav-
uc,E hnde the amendment possible.
omo lniied to mention that the demo-
ei"lc oIatc OF Tennessee ratified tho
amendment and made it possihIa Snr
the women to vote this fall
MISS UuuQr qniI fhn
suites have had too much one-man
power, and that the tlcmocrntic marty
was responsible for tho illiterncy Of
tne south. She said the Republican
purity had advocated compulsory cd-
ucntlon and that the laws wero In
Sogue IN Il great many Republican
nthirs. This brought sister Bnucr I'm
10 the beginning Of the war, md sho
stated to the astonishment OF tho
audience TINT Woodrow Wilson rnu.t
nave been terribly ignorant OF En-
ropcnn affairs or ho would bnvo
known Tint he could not havo kcnt
IN inc United States out of the wnr,
one snid the Democratic party wnst-
ca grent dcnl of money in buildinc.
inc cantonments for the training az
soldiers, and that Secretary Baker
,i'd placed IN the Government ware
houses millions of cans of beans; TINT
inc government provided two snddlea
Tor every horse used in tho war nnd
nihc pairs of shoes for every man:
Tint the transports returning with
our troops from Franco lacked baI-
last and mnde the return trip rather
rough on the doughboys; that wo sold
Inc French sugnr Mt &c per pound
nnd shoes mt 50c per pair and pavc
the starving French children such of
the food the American army didn't
need; TINT the Republicans lost the
election in 1912 because of imperinl-
ism; that wc hid thousands of more
employees in tho government service
during the war thnn we needed (sov-
elnl OF whom were from TazcwelD:
lhnt MIR. Wilson aat Mt tho peace tn
bic Mt Versailles but didn't know
what the League of Nations was:
that the Presidents gross Ignorance
oi geography nearly caused him to
cut sugar factory in Hungary in
twain when that country was being
parcellcd out; that her brother told
her that someone told him that num-
bers of automobiles were burned in
France; That they should have becn
used as ballast to steady tho return
ing ships, etc, etc.
Sister Bauer left Monday night
for Graham to enlighten the citizens
Oh that community md tell them
how they should vote.
a number Of democrats were pres
cnt at the meeting and enjoyed the
novelty of hearing lady discuss the
issues of the campaign.