Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1922-12-14

any other party that has the broad
views of American policies as are
taught by either of these two great
| parties.
The time was, and it is only few
years back, when it was looked upon
as almost his political affiliations, but
when we come to take a retrospective
view of men and parties, we see
digerently, and only needed to look at
the history of the late Senator Wat
son, of Georgia, who was in 1928 a
member of the House Of Representa-
tives in Georgia Democrat; in 1888
Democrat elector at large; mem
! Der of the fifty-scond Congress, 1891
8 as Populist; in 1896, was nomina-
ted for Vice President in St. Louis
Convention, which endorsed Bryan
for President, and for some time con-
Quoted a Populist paper in Atlanta ;
nominated for President by the Peo-
/ pies Party in 1904 and made an ac-
/ tive campaign to revive the party;
entered the race for United States
Senator in 1920 as anti Wilson, anti
league, and anti-war Democrat; re-
ceived the nomination over Senator
Hoke Smith and Governor Hugh M.
Dorsey, in Democratic primary and
was elected over Hugh S. Edwards,
Proleague Independent in the Nov
ember, 1920 election and was an act
i've Democrat up to the day of his
death. There are many others of
equal prominence even in our own
state of West Virginia both of pro-
minence and less prominent in the
political world and even today to be
affiliated with any one of the two
great parties, is not recognized as
anything other than that the cause
has arisen, and the person affiliated
with the opposite party from which
he had been affiliated and in close fell
lowship for many years, and what is
to follow other than in politics, the
same right is guaranteed to the voter
OF the active political worker, as is
guaranteed to all Americans under
tha institution and he simply ex-
( IL =, his rights.
1t is said that dissatisfaction in
poE,75 is Wholesome and it is good
for the country, as in the last elect
ion, dissatisfied voters resulted in
the great change, and they will see
their great mistake and in the next
election they will be convinced that
they were mislead, AID the very re-
suit will be reversal of the situation
as it now is presented to this and
other countries, however, it might
be we'll for review to take a re tros-
pective view of what might have been
when we are told that prewar condi-
lions have not been restored under
the present administration and retir-
ing Congress, but a review leads any
intelligent mind to conclude that,
with the unsettled condition of the
country, as a result of the World War
when the present administration and
the Congress began to look into the
case of complaint that the results
have been marvellous, instead of rea
sons for dissatisfaction, and the res
toration has been of the most progress
sive nature and the building if faith
in the President and his advanced ideas
of restoring people and their interests
to the quiet of anti-war times, but
considering the great waste, and
wasteful condition at the close of
the war, and the unpleasant situation
those who have kept in touch with in
vestigations and developments, as the
conditions at the close of the war, it
has been wonderfully charged for the
better and it was the lack of the
character quoted in this letter, that
has brought the change, and the
change will most surely be greatly in
the way of disappointment to those
Who sought in some instances to
avenge an imaginary wrong, or the
lack of the favors they had hoped for
in the administration, so it is best
to have faith in the men or women
who are placed at the head of move
ment, because it is the faith of peo-
pie that put them in the position.
SO the time has passed when there
is any grounds for tire belief that one
in the Democratic party or in the Re-
publican party is vested with an idea
of committing a fraud or that the
party is rotten, and while some of
the component parts may be of such
unsafe honesty that your faith may
be failed to keep promise, the party
to which he belongs is corrupt, is a
very narrow view to take of the stu
alton, and it has narrowed down to
the one important fact, that it is