Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-07-28
PEERY FLAYS
NINTH PLATFORM
Knocks Props Out From Under
Structure and Leaves Nothing
for Republicans to Stand On

yention which nominated c. Bascom
lSlcmp, who is reported to have de-
clined to accept the nomination and
who has asked the leaders to recon
vene the convention and select anoth-
er candidate.
Mr.. Pcery's statement is as fo,-
lows:
"Slcmp in his letter to his Repub-
| lican friends published July stated
that under no circumstances could
he, or would he make the race for
Congress again, and used the follow
ing language:
"No friend of mine can or will,
am sure, ask me to 40 otherwise
than l am doing if they have any
confidence in the truth of what
say.
"The result of the convention in
dicates either misplaced confidence
in his friends on the part of the
nominee or lack of confidence on
the part of his friends i'll the sin
ccrity of the nominees repeated
statement. In the face of his state
ment touching his health it seems
unllind OH the part of his friends to
force u nomination upon>him, espec-
tally in view of the fact that there
are many other capable. and deserv-
ing Republicans in the district who
were available as candidates.
"The Republican platform, adopt
cd at Norton, undertakes to deal
with so-callcd achievements in very
general terms. We call for bill of
particulars.
Pinch Of Hard Times.
1,n
party is the custodian Of prosperity
has been rudely shattered by the
stern facts of recent years. Since
the advent of the present Republi-
can Administration all classes of our
people have felt the pinch of hard
times. Prosperity under the Wilson
Administration has been superseded
by hard times under Harding.
"rhc Republican party promised
legislation to meet postwar prob
lens; but it has signally failed to
enact any constructive legislation of
real value.
"Thcy promised reduction of
taxes and enacted tax bill, the
chief result of which was to reduce
the taxes upon the large corporations
and men Of wealth, but did not al
ford any substantial relief to the
masses of the people. This bill was
declared by the late Senator Pen
rose, Republican leader of the Sen
ate, to be n mere 'makeshift.'
"The emergency tariff was enacted
as n panacea for the ills of the farm
er, and under it the price of cattle
and farm products dropped to ruin
Gus levels.
rD.I
"Do they claim as an achievement
the proposed Fordney tariff bill franz
ed in response to the protected in
terests, the result of which, if it be-
comes a law, will be to increase the
cost of living and levy millions of
tribute upon the consuming public
for the bencfi5 of the protected few?
progressive Republican Sen
ators are rising up in revolt, and the
press of the country of all political
beliefs is condemning its iniquities.
"They pass in silence the record Of
this Congress in voting down reso-
luton offered by two patriotic Re-
publicans, asking that committee
be appointed to investigate the con-
duct of the Department of Justice
under Attorney General DaugherI
in regard to its failure to prosecute
war profiteers.
"They make no mention of the
turning over to the oil trust of the
oil reserve lands of the Government
in Wyoming, thereby reversing and
destroying the conservation policy OF
former Republican and Democratic
administrations.
"They do not mention as one of
their achievements the action of n
partisan Senate in seating Truman
H. Newberry as Senator from Mich
igan, in the face Of undisputed ev-
idence that it was acquired by the
use of money in excess of the huge
sum of $195,000. The resolution
awarding to him his seat, drawn by
Republican Senator, recited On its
face that the expenditure of such ex-
cessive sums i'll behalf of candidate,
either with or without his knowledge
and consent was harmful to the hon
or and dignity of the Senate and
dangerous to the perpetuity of a
free Government thereby confess
ing the iniquity of its own action.
Sham And Mockery.
"They also pass in silence the rec
ord of this administration under
which the civil service laws have been
made a sham and mockery. Here
ir the Ninth District the civil SER
vice laws have been prosituted and
efficient officials have been removed
from Office before the expiration of
their terms of office, under charges
that were sheer pretexts and without
foundation in joint of truth and fact.
THE Republican platform exults
over the achievements Of The present
Congress, and yet one Of their own
Cabinet members in a public speech
delivered only a few weeks ago de-
clared that Congress probably never
has been at lower ebb than 1t Is to-
day
"That rock-ribbed Republican news.
paper, the Boston Transcript, recent.
| ly pronounced it to be the worst
Congress of any within the past
twenty years.
another great REPUBLICAN, pa.
per recently advised President Hard
ing to tell Congress that the best
thing for it to do was to adjourn and
(go home.
"The present CONGRESS- has conclu.