Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-04-14
STUART'SSPEECH
NOTE VICTORY
Former Governor Delivers Pow.
erful Address at Democratic
Convention Recently Held
in Bristol.

The keynote address delivered by
former Governor Henry Stuart be-
fore the Ninth district <Democrati.
convention in Bristol was pronounc-
ed by many to be one of the most
remarkable speeches ever heard in
Bristol. Excerpts from Governor
Stuart's speech follow:
Stuart's Speech.
Fellow citizens, fellow Democrats,
men and women of the Ninth Con.
gressional District of Virginia. - Is
customary OF these occasions to have
what is commonly known as kew
note speech by the temporary chain
man Feeling my own inadequacy
1or the task ! am congratulatlng my
self that such a speech has already
been made to you by my distinguIs
cd friend, the Mayor of Bristol. FOR
tnnately, however, i'll this goou yea,
OF l922. the democrats have many
notes, have many Instruments tu
sound, and if all the harps in the
New Je .usalem which we read Of il.
holy writ were at our command. not
even they would be sufficient To
sound TIE deep notes of condemna
ton of an outraged people toward n
party which holds the country To-
day under its crushing heel of de-
preston.
The people are sitting in Judgment
today on record of the Republican
party thus far made under it's ad.
,ninistration. Abraham Lincoln aid:
You can fool all the people a part
OF the time and part of the people
all the time, but never all the people
oil the time" The people have Zee,
fooled, the sense in which Ma
Lincoln used that word, as to parties
IN power as we'll as to parties out
OF power But never was there So
conspicuous an example of the fool
ing OF people as that witnessed il,
1920, when the Democratic majority
was hurled from power and there
was substituted for it this impotent
aggregation from which wc a.e am
1erlng today. In eight years of Dem
ocratlc rule, six of them under wa,
conditions or under war influences.
every conceivable problem, domestic
and foreign, was presented to TINT
aumlnstration; responsibilities out
weighing and overshadowinp those
that ever came into all the aam,ris.
trations of all the presidents from
George Washington down to this
nour. Let us review it for moment
lest we forget. In that crucial nour'
as we look back upon it. what q,
we see! a matchless man Mt tho
heim OF our affairs of state. who
steered this. country safely out o;
rne perils OF war until the German
.peopie' through their dictator. prac-
.lcaiiy declared war upon ,.,. .y,,.
until our right to sail the seas bad
peen disputed, NOT until vur yax
Ixer !hat pathway given us by God
niiliSeli mad been denied us, did we
1InIaily 1rIl accept the challenge of war.
; me freedom of the Seas, card.
'lai doctrine and principle which had
peeh projected through all time. WAS
~. tne hfst time denied to us, a
Power1ui government. It meant war
Hha M couid mean nothing else. :
Not until that happened and not un.
-. .ne @hoie people had been ious.
Ga TO the necessity of war of self.
ue, ueieise @ uid we accept the challenge,
Gn; mu wren we dld SO we saw for thu
rst..1 ,rnst time spirit, infused by thu
,'.a1cniess ma ili words and the lofty laea.s
anu ,,,n 'ae sacred sentiments of great
mall iour mliiions of people walking
W anu sunmittinf. to draft to fight
& war upon foreign soil, three thou
SAND miles from home and friends, T
venture the assertion that no man Of
Snls day could have brought tbis
country to the point where It would
nave submitted itself to yo;untar.
military service; that no other MAJ,
VINO mas occupied that chair, certain
~ IN recent years. could have ever
brought the people to point of hero.
ism such rs that. - ''o'o'