Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-11-03

niiig Ior congress-, confided Mr..
!Slemp to the ''acfe' of people who
heard him Saturday. II seems per-
fectly apparent to u man up tree
that Mr. Slenlp is running for Con-
gress in 1924, and that his campaign
is well under way. The little matter
cf Mr.. Hassinger's ,,unobtrusive hur-
die race up the back stretch is not
bothering Mr.. Slemp at all. So far
as he is concerned, the daisies already
are growing on the Pennsylvanian's
political grave. Already Mr.. Slemp is
calling the roll for the next engage
mcnt.
VIM. J Bryan and Woodrow Will
son, with Theodore Roosevelt a be-
lated third in the list, were the first
national figures to espouse woman
suffrage i'll this country. But Ras-
com modestly claims the credit for
himself. WHY dispute the issue? A
majority of the intelligent women of
Tazewell County and the district Will
vote for George g. Peery.
II self-pra.se is near scandal MIR.
Slemp had close shave here Sat-
urday; for he spent about thirty min
utcs talking on that most interest
ing ubieet-himself, and his re-
marks were enthusiastic and adula-
tory TO the nth degree. Indeed Mr..
Slemn's good opinion of himself is
only exceeded by his good Judgment
in side-stepping defeat in favor of
Mr.. Hass;nger.
Mr. John C. Noel. one of the Slemp
tIo1Inn nf ,.0,oo b.1Jo,, ,,,l.o .,,.
stumping the district, said here Sat
urdav that but for the superb states
n.arship of President Harding and
II x e'oup of "best minds" the bust
lie dciu .ssion on which has grip
ped Lac youDuy during the past two
YEARS wCtild have resulted in n disas-
ucps Lanic. Mr.. Noel did not refer
to the Federal Reserve act passed by
democrats under the Wilson leader.
ship. fstj5s
Whom Mr.. Sie,np, in the course of
his speech in front of the county jail,
said "Why, all know about politics
| learned from the Tazewell repub-
LEANS" half-lit gentleman. leaning
against tree, muttered: "Well, I'll
be damned" and doubtless. both were
telling the truth.
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Have you noted how seldom and
how softly republicans speakers call
Woodrow Wilson's name these days Z?
In 1920 when the conspiracy was on
TO destroy at all cost the great war
president, the tongue Of every .repub-
lican politician in the country drip
ped with envenomed hatred, and all
that envy. jealousy and sophistry
could suggest was .emptied into the
ears of confused and ,war-weary
people in an effort to drag down
Woodrow Wilson. It seemed for u
while that the conspiracy had sue
ceeded. Followed the election of a |
republican president, republican
Congress, a republican Senate by un-
precedented popular majorities. The
wrecking crew was ON the jobl The
country now has witnessed almost
two years of an administration that
for confusion, vacillation, inefficiency,
lack of leadership and downright fail
ure has no parallel in the nations
history. 1t has given the people a
robber tariff, it vetoed the Bonus bill,
it lessened the tax on big incomes,
it outraged labor, it promises the
ship subsidy. Such is its record-a
peace time record of incompetence
and weakness in which the average
man has been fleeced by the money
sharks.
Meanwhile the fogs Of the post
war period disappeared. The voters
who had drawn serpents instead of
fish in the lottery Of politics, began
ito take stock, and the process of ELI
mination by comparison was under
way. The first half of the first
year Of the Harding administration
brought the first flush of the dawn
of the Wilson renaissance. The WIS.,
ion of the people was clearing and
the people got the habit of looking
backward. And now as they look
back the figure OF Woodrow Wilson
"looms larger than human" as he is
seen standing at the helm in those
momentous years between 1912 and
1920; they see a record of accomplish
ment which began with recogni-
tion of the common laborer as be-
pulse and ended with worldwide
victory over autocracy and despo-
tism; they see shattered and brok-
en- giant, sure of his cause and his
future, dignified and silent in the
hour of defeat. Given time, the
American people worship no false
gods. Woodrow Wilson has come into
his own, and republican politicians,
quick to catch the popular pulse,
dare not now slur the name Of the
great and pure man who was our
leader through two administrations
that brought prosperity to the peu-
pie and world leadership to the ma
tion.
1--WE are not claiming any miracles
in this campaign" says Mr.. c. S
Pendleton, chairman Of the Ninth dis
trict republican committee. "the Nintf
district is safely republican, on {
fair count, and that is why we know
Mr.. Hassinger will be elected" B.
the holy pinl-toed prophet, the mo
gul in chief of the republican THE
ferrets, in an unguarded moment, ad
.mits that the democrats are going t
let George Peery go down to defea
on fair countl The inconsistency o
the claim that Mr.. Hassinger's cleo
tion is assured and the charge tina
Peery's supporters are trying to stes
the election fs stencil in the nostril
. nf- NIL ripht-thinkino v0tnra