The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1920-01-21
Democracy VS.. Federalism.

y clipping from the Dickcn-
son County (Virgiuin) News Of
November IS, 1919, declares
that Senator Roland II. Chase,
Republican, received more votes
than any man over elected to
the House of Delegates i'll Nir
ginia. This after Senator
Chase, in II manly and magniii-
cent fashion, fatty declared
that he refused To stand on the
Republican plank favurinX wo-
man suffrage, and asserted that
if elected. he would not vote for
woman suffrage in the Virgin
liz Leg isluture and did not want
the voiee of anybody who ex
pected him to do sol
Here lis "A Republican, in the
state whore h Democratic
Party traditions are strongest,
winning an election by rrpudi.
ating Federalism and standing
for the real democracy on
which both Republicans AMI
Democrats stood united when
they elected Thomas Jefferson IA
hundred years ago on a nanl-
federalist platforml
This should be u Lesson To
Democrats and Republicans
alike. As Senator Borah say r ,
the doctrine of our dual form of
government belongs To no party.
Among the Democrats, we have
number Of distinguished
leaders who still uphold aud
defend the democracy of lciTcr
son, the law OF 'nniority rule
nnd the principal of focal self
government \u,nu. the Il
p,iu,icAns, Ei'm Roo, ilrnrN.
t'ab"i l.nngr, " ,lImu, Il Bpr-t.
l'nisr l'riit,-e. 'niiawi-t !,
kh"N. etc siund Just ~ ti'miN
against Fcdurdilrln an lnnuia-
Jefferson did when ac ran un
the Democratic RrpiiDic,i,
ticket
But there are u number nl
pronounced frd.,rni>ir ~ bnIu
pur.ice.
fomcr Cummlu2s i, Just ~
much IA Frd.r list as w II II
Hays.
Woodrow Wilson - a l'rdr.-
nlist while Elihn Roo, Ir a
Democrat III the true rnoauing
of the words rs developed by IA
century of American traditions.
vii! the real Republicans and
the real Democrats of America
unite again as they did under
Jefferson and wipe the Federal
lists out of American politics
once more, or viii they lamrly
submit to the bossism of FEEDER
nlists who would make the
United States an Imperial Re
public, force Legislators 10 be-.
come mere card indrxed "rati-
tiers" aud the Governors Of
sovereign states Ia submit 10
the dictation of "udmiuistra.
tors" appointed 10y Washington
This Is the great issuc-shall
the United States survive?
Shall the states remain states
or become mere geographical
expressions" under centralia.
Ell Dictatorship?
Even Alexander Hamilton,
Federalist as he was, declared:
THE blow aimed at the mem
beers must give fatal wound 10
the head; and the destruction
OF the states must he at once Il
political suicide. Can the Nh
tional Government be guilty Of
this madness:''
But the Fedcralists of today
IRE more royal than the king,
more Fedcralist than the foun
der Of Federalism. They stop
at nothing in their madness To
make this nation swallow every
new pill prescribed BY lobbyists
aud special Interests II Wash
ington.
But there are stii! real Demo.
cratic Republicans, men who
honor Washington and Jcifcr
son, Lincoln aud Lee; mcm who
hnve the vision Of s,atecr1ft:
men who believe what they say
when they take oath 10 defend
both State and National Consti.
tutions. These tnen must be
the saviors Of America from
Federalism, Socialism and De.