Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-11-03
THIS is YEAR OF DEMOCRATS.

this view Is found In the facts that
President Harding has felt constrain-
ed to write letter to Republican
Floor Leader Mondell designed to
raise Republican hopes, and in which
he pleads for the reelection Of the
present Republican po-Mothing Con
gress; that William r. Wood, Chair
Committee, has been compelled to re-
wise downward his prediction OF
Republican majority in the next
House, and that practically every
member of the Presidents cabinet
has been sent out on the stump.
The Republicans, panic stricken,
are playing their last cards and eX-
hausting their last resources.
The Democrats on the other hand
are approaching the final struggle
with calmness and confidence. They
are indulging in no extravagant
claims. They have placed all the facts
concerning this Congress and this
administration and the issues of the
campaign accurately and fully before
the public, and they feel now that no
amount of letter writing by the Pre-
sident, or belated campaign oratory
by members Of the Cabinet can ex-
plain away the damning facts that
constitute the record of this Repub-
lican Congress which is asking for
reelection and this Republican adj
ministration which has injected itself
into the campaign at the eleventh
hour.
They cannot explain away any of
the outstanding facts of that record:
That the congress passed n Profit
GERS Tariff bill which taxes the
American people from $4,000, 100000
to $4,000,000, 1000, an amount equiva-
lent to the total sum required to KUN
the government, and which will great
ly increase the present high cost of
living.
That this Republican Congress en-
acted tax bill which relieved the
big corporations and multi-million-
lars in taxes, and increased the taxes
of every small corporation, while
granting no relief to small individual
taxpayers.
That Truman II. Newberry was
given purchased seat in the United
States Senate, with an open support
of President Harding, and was con-
demned by the very men who voted
to seat him.
That the administration is now fac
ing an admitted deficit of $3.50 OO0,-
600 for the current fiscal year, which
will be $85,000,000 and perhaps ST.
600 600 before the end of the year,
while pretending that it was econo-
mizing and saving money. ~.
That the expenses of running every
single department of the government
have been largely increased by this
administration when fairly compared
with the last Democratic administra-
| ton.
That the last of the naval oil re-
serves in Wyoming were secretly
leased by the Secretary of the Inter
Tor to subsidiary fthe Standard
Oil Company, with great loss to our
nation and the state and to the Unit
ed States Navy and the oil burning
ships of the American Merchant Ma
rine,
That the administration is now at
tempting to put through legislation
to dispose of $4,000, 100000 worth of
the finest merchant ships afloat for
one tenth of their cost, to pay S75,-
100000 bonus to the purchasers, to
lend them S125,000,000 at per cent
and to exempt them from taxation.
That under an executive order of
President Harding, midnight raid
was made upon the officials of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
and that men and women who had
won those positions through merit
were cast into the street with q sus-
piclon amounting to. the charge Of
dishonesty against them, which has
been disproved, but brought them no
rderess.
! That this administration has been
characterized by Daughertyism, Nat
| Goldsteinism, Laskerism, Fallism and
other isms, resulting in scandals that
constitute offenses, political and NOR
That, special privilege has been en-
throned in matters of legislation and
that the administration has turned
its back uon thpe masses of the peo-
pie. ~
That without one exception every
piece of beneficial legislation passed
by this Congress had the support of
democrats and much of the bad leg
lslation passed would have been still
worse except for tho Democratic
amendments, which won the support
Oh the small progressive element
among Republican legislators.
mat the one boosted achievement
OF the admlnistration-the Disarma-
ment Conference.-The resulted in mn
oenent whatever. No ships have been
strapped, no mony has been saved
ana no desirde result achieved.
Ihat the present Congress is not
Dnly meihclent, but Incompetent,
bankrupt in leadership, principles and
policies. e' anu
nat The present administration il
tne only one in the history of the
country that went upon the rock. in
nts first year. ~
That the record of both the Con.
gress and the administrator ia
record of broken promises and of
failure to give any relief to business
men, farmers and laborers, and that
the Congress is therefore unworthy
Oh reelection and the administrator
unworthy o endorsement. ''0-
FEDERAL OFFICER I'M Acr,yr