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Boss Rule and Grafting By Old Parties the Issue Declares C. P. Connolly NO HOPE FOR THE HONEST VOTER IN EITHER DEMOCRATIC OR REPUBLICAN MACHINES Boss Cox, of Cincinnati, a sample of the looters—High time for public house cleaning, says the man who wrote "Big Business and the Bench." Etc. No stronger personality as to be found in the magazines today than C. P. Connolly—the man who wrote "The Story of Montana" for McClure's; the man who did the Ballinger-Alaskan exposure for Collier's; the man who has just finished the remarkable series printed by Eybody's an "Big Business and the Bech." All these articles by Mr. Connolly show a clear insight into actual conditions, and morsover, in each case, facts are driven home with the force of a crow-bar. Such, in brief, is the personality, of Mr. Connolly. Until he wrote "The Story of Montana," Mr. Connolly was Prosecuting Attorney at Butte... His efforts ever since have also been in the interest of the people. THE ADVOCATE WE CHEREPULLY PUBLISH ALL CRISP NEWS NOTES FROM ALL SECTIONS. VOLUME XIII. Boss Rule and O By Old Partic Declares NO HOPE FOR THE HONEST W CRATIC OR REPUBLICA Boss Cox, of Cincinnati, a sample public house cleaning, says Business and the Be No stronger personality as to be C. P. Connolly—the man who wrote Clure's; the man who did the Ballinger the man who has just finished the body's an "Big Business and the Bee All these articles by Mr. Connolly conditions, and moreover, in each case force of a crow-bar... Such, in brief, Until he wrote "The Story of M ting Attorney at Butte... His efforts terest of the people. THE NEED OF A NEW PARTY BY C. P. Corsally. Was there a real call for the Progressive Party, or was it a cloak for the personal ambition of one man? Mr. Roosevelt, as everyone admits, could have been renominated in 1908, and it is a safe assertion that he could have been re-elected. He refused the office, though he had held but one elective term. It is abused to say that personal glory or overwhelming ambition which he spurned in 1908 possesses him in 1912. He was then in office, with all the power of office—nothing but the will of a people, untrammeled except by conviction. There are millions who will accept many of the reforms advocated by Socialists, as there were millions who adopted many of the reforms of Populism, but/they are not willing to go to the extreme of Socialism, any more than they were willing to go to the extreme of Populism. The incentive to be "somebody"—the chance to make the race and to reach achievement—is one of the highest ideals of American citizenship. It has made this country great in its men, in its measures, in its developed resources. This is one of the things that, in a way, Socialism would destroy. Provided this struggle in an equal one, it is as precious to the heart of youth and middle age as the victory itself. The system of bossism in both old parties has destroyed this fine American ideal, not only in politics, but in business, for the political ramifications which center in the political boss reach out into the highways and byways of business life. I have seen the finest flower, of American manhood relegated to the scrapheap because of independence: not ceptious independence, but that independence which refused to cross the line between what was distinctively right and what was mistakenably wrong. To be anybody, to get anywhere, you had to take orders, and obey them. Theat these orders might conflict with your sense of right and wrong made no difference. It is not a new thing, to be sure, but its poison had gotten so far into the life of the old parties that it could not be eradicated from within. It had to be ascalled from without. In every state, hundreds of young and middle age men of the finest type and of the highest utility were waiting for the movement. They were disgusted with the attempt to break the power of the Republican boss at the polls, only to find that they had by their votes set up a Democratic boss just as bad, and just as friendly with the interests which secured special privileges by legislation. As a rule, the public en masse does not reason. But it has imagination and when the shots which struck down Rosenthal on a brilliant lighted street of New York City—a scene as carefully staged as a play, with policemen acting as superiors—everybody instinctively knew that behind the shots was a conspiracy of crime and corruption so deep that it was impossible to soil them. They saw that in the metropolis of their nation, the life of a witness against misrule was desperately unsafe. Conditions were little better in the capital than they were in the metropolis of the greatest State of the Union. A Democratic boss ruled in one, a Republican boss in the other. Boss rule, with its accompanying corruption, had eaten into the very heart of our highest civilization. In Cincinnati, George B. Cox had ravished and looted a great City. He sprang from the Tenderloin. Politics made him the president of a great trust company, a financial power in the city. He controlled in large part the theatres his word for or against the nomination of any judicial candidate on the Republican ticket was final. no may could be prosecuted without his consent. Every elected office-holder surrendered the appointment of his --- THE ADVOCATE. deputies to Cox and his ring, often even the keys to his safe. Other cities, with not a quarter of the advantages or attractions, finally surpassed Cincinnati in growth and in the larger civic spirit. The reason was not far to seek. Thuggism had ruled the city; business men of independence found it hard to thrive; real citizenship was outlawed; servile judges obeyed Cox's will. The business of these bosses was to rule their cities; but power emboldened them, and they reached out after the political control of their States. Undistinguished for any dignity, usefulness or purpose except that of political headship, without responsibility even to the people. State conventions were wont to wait on their pleasure. The people, and the representatives of the people, had turned over to them the prerogatives of their citizenship; and they had held these so long that it was impossible to recover them by anything short of formal secession from their power and their parties. They nominated Governors to do their bidding; they nominated judges to do the bidding of the financial interests which supplied them with the sinews of warfare; and they nominated comptrollers and taxing boards who saw that the burdens of taxation rested lightly on the powerful and heavily on the weak and helpless. The petty bosses in each county, seeing the prosperity of the man higher up, emulated his example. In one county of New York State it was discovered a few years ago that the county treasurer was in the habit of loaning the public money to the county judge; the superintendent of the poor purchased blooded stock for his own use out of the money of his department; another paid his private bills with checks drawn on the county funds. One justice of the peace in still another county collected fees from his county for performing the marriage rite, under a statute which provided for fees for services in criminal proceedings. In another county our public officials was paid for 537 days' work out of 365 days. Prisoners in the penitentiary were furnished on an average of five pairs of shoes annually. It helped the political contractors. In one county it took seventy-four days of service at four dollars a day to repair the gutter pipes of the court house. This graft went on, until, in these communities, a man, especially any man who pretended to be a politician, was ashamed to be known as an horrest man. It was an evidence of inbreeding. So low was and is the tone of morals among public officials. An American army officer once said to me that the Spanish soldiers in Cuba were brave men, but they were half starved, and had no stomach for a fight. The graft in the army consumed half the money provided for their rations. How pathetic were the letters of those commanders of the Russian battleships on the eye of Vladivostock, bidding goodbye to their wives and families, saying they were going to defeat and death because of the graft and red tape at home. How long will America last under such conditions? Some day the test may come, and we, too, may pay the penalty. The greatest foe of graft, and the greatest moral force today in this country, bar none, is the national leader of the Progressive party. But some will say: Did not Roosevelt accept the aid of the bosses? And the reply is that he did. It was the only way one could rise to power. Governor Wilson accepted the aid of the Democratic bosses of New Jersey. I was present at the convention which nominated him as the candidate for Governor of New Jersey, and I saw two delegations refused entrance to the hall in Trenton where the convention was held because they were known to be against. (Continued on Page Six.) CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1912 "BUCK FEVER." TRUSTS TRUSTS ROBERT J. CARTER Roosevelt Gives Interview on Successive Steps by Which He Became "Progressive" New platform the result of life-long growth, and of a life-long battle with corruption "Jack Hazard, or winning his way" no longer his ideal of a career. "One human element lacking," he says. "What Jack Hazard did to the other fellow who hadn't made milion." An Interview with Theodore Roosevelt was a matter of statis- velt by Will Irwin. If I had space, I should break up this interview to tell you something of Theodore Roosevelt as he appears today in the midst of his greatest campaign; for, notwithstanding that he has been more described and pictured than any other living man, his personality has so many facets that he appears in a new light to the eye of each beholder. I interviewed him on a New York Central train as he started on his swing through the northwest. I wish that I might put in the lights and shades. I should tell how, in the midst of a discussion on the cost of living, he leaped across the car at the sight of the fleet lying in the Hudson and described, with the technical delight of a workman and the enthusiasm of a boy, the gun arrangement on the old Connecticut. Again, I might describe to you how he dropped the Trust question to glow over the Japanese-print appearance of the sun as it dropped through the slate-colored misses above the Hudson. But, after all, you are more interested, I think, in what Roosevelt has to say than in any man's impressions of him. It grew out of a question. I had asked him how he, a member of the Fifth Avenue set in New York, bored and reared within the Chinese wall of class feeling, had come at last to be the leader of a movement which is for every man and woman, without consideration of class and wealth. And all I have set down here has to do with answering that question.) "We have all changed our old views. That is what the Progressive movement means. The two generations thought differently. Progressiveism is the thought of a new generation. Hardly one of us Progressives but is in a sense a convert—we all did consciently, in those days, something or other which we would shudder to contemplate now. "We were brought up, in my childhood, on the idea of success. Do you remember 'Our Young Folks?' It was the great children's periodical of that time, and I think yet that it was the greatest thing of its kind ever published. Well, the serials we read there were things like 'Jack Hazard' or 'Winning His Way'—about poor canal-boat boys and farm lads who worked their way up and made a million dollars. The worship of success—it was made into an ideal and a virtue. There was one great human element lacking though we didn't see that—What Jack Hazard did in the process to the other fellow who hadn't made a million. No, sir; no one thought of him. He wasn't on the map. "Then I went to college and came back with my ready-made set of Fifth Avenue and University ideas. Peling good was a matter of philanthropy—giving some of your in come to relieve distress. Econo -Carter in New York Press. Interview on steps by Which the "Progressive" long growth, and of a life-long corruption ay" no longer his ideal of a car-king," he says. "What Jack or fellow who hadn't ion." mics was a matter of statistics. Particularly, I held to the laissez faire doctrine of political economy—that government should keep hands off everything. I couldn't see in those days beyond Adam Smith. "When I first thought about public life, I saw the two political organizations hard and fast in the hands of a gang. You know the old system. When I told my regular associates that I was going to join my district club, they objected mildly—not because I was going to mix with a corrupt gang, but because I was going out of my own crowd. As a matter of fact, when I joined my district club, when I went into the National Guard, I had no more definite idea of real public service than when I went West ranching. I was doing it because I liked it, and because I wanted to save myself from being a mollycoddle. "I was still looking at everything from the 'Jack Hazerd' and laissez faire point of view. I remember with how much courage, and how little common sense. I fought in the State Legislature against the reform of the convict contract labor system. I honestly thought I was right. It was better that the convicts should be kept busy, and the contractors I felt, would treat them right. When the labor leaders came to me and presented their side, I couldn't see it at all. "But I got my first lesson there. I saw first-hand the general corruption in a state legislature under the old system. That was before the Boss reached his highest power; each member of the corrupt element was getting his own bit for himself. Money was being passed on all sides of me. I couldn't exactly prove it in court, but privately I knew it. I saw a bill affecting a corporation up because the corporation wasn't coming through strongly enough. I saw their lobbyist arrive from New York with the sack—after which the bill went through. Oh, yes. I found out something about the under side of government in that session." And I began to think that if we could only get rid of what we called the corrupt element in politics, if we could get the business people interested and have a business administration of affairs, everything would be right. They put me on the commission to investigate tenement house tobacco manufacture—and that was the next step. I suppose. We had connected with that work a man to up to one of the old crowds—a healer, a regular ward politician, but sometimes right in his heart, as such a man is likely to be the salt to me. Those conditions are awful, but I can't touch them! I'm all tied up. Now, you're free. You go ahead and show them up.' Well, he was right. Conditions were awful. (Continued on Pago Three Responsive Negro, The Initiative, Audiences Referendum and Recall Greet Col. William Seymour Ed wards, Bull Moose candidate for senator Position Explained Was placed on Republican National Committee by people of the State and refuses to be driven off by discredited politicians Grafton, Oct. 19.—Col. Wm. Seymour Edwards, Progressive candidate for the U. S. Senate, and Hon. Mike Matheny, tonight addressed a huge and responsive throng of Taylor county voters at the Court House in this city. Progressive adherents veritably flocked into the city from the neighboring county. Col. Edwards spoke of the conditions which separated the regular Republicans from the irregular and predatory Taft pilagers in the June Convention at Chicago and the extraordinary power and strength of the movement for honest politics and progressive Republican measures which crystallized in the wonderful August Convention at Chicago. The Colonel explained his position as a member of the National Committee, but there by the people of this State, to remain until the people of this State shall exercise their power of recall and not to be driven from that position of vigil by any predatory bunch of discredited politicians like Barnes of New York City, Penrose of Pennsylvania, and their like, who in Star Chamber session in New York, not long ago undertook to dragoon the people of this great State and hold at naught the sovereign and expressed will of the electorate. Col. Edwards declared himself to be regular and that all progressives are regular in their Republicanism, because they are today for the honest nominee of the June Convention at June primary. Theodore Roosevelt, who must have been nominated therein but for the rescality of those sinister and invisible forces of vested privilege, the predeceous group which ruled in the June Convention through their tools and servitors, Barnes and Penrose, and their unsavory accomplices. The Colonel spoke for the ticket nominated at the state June primary by the Roosevelt electorate and stated that the Progressives of West Virginia purposed to stand by it, see Dr. Hatfield, our next Governor and the remainder of the State Republican ticket and all the County Republican tickets elected by handsome majorities. The Colonel touched on the National and State issues, provoking frequent and lusty applause and cheers. Col. Edwards was followed by Hon. Mike Matheny who with his accustomed eloquence and sparkling wit aroused the audience to great pitches of enthusiasm. Mr. Matheny spoke particularly upon that vital issue of this campaign—the conservation of human rights and that the people of Taylor County are in accord with the statements which he expressed was abundantly shown by their enthusiastic response in sustained applause and cheering. Col. Edwards will leave here tomorrow for Philippi, where he will address the voters of Barbour County on Monday afternoon. STRICKLAND SUCCEEDS ADAMS Washington. Oct. C. F. Adams, a Negro Assistant Register of the Treasury, resigned today to become connected with the Republi- can campaign headquarters in New York. President Taft has appointed J. P. Strickland, a Negro, or Arkansas, to succeed Adams. Strickland was recommended by General Powell Clayton. National Commit- teeman from Arkansas. TEACHERS NOW AS WAITERS Washington, Oct. 19.—A half dozen teachers in the public schools of Washington are warriors in resorts where liquor is sold at night. This was the charge made by R. R. Horner a member of the Board of Education, at a meeting of the board. Mr. Horner was costumed by A. Bernard W. Scott, a Negro attorney, who defended that a personal investigation he and made verified the accusation. A morale, investigation will be undertaken. Miss Minnie Clinton was ill a few days this week. Mrs. Harriet Thomish is visiting relatives at Raymond City. Charles Davis, of Montgomery, is visiting relatives in the city. How the adoption of these Progressive policies would affect the Negro in his attempt to secure his civil and political liberty, almost wholly lost through following the advice of self-seeking leaders of the old school. Issued From the National Western Progressive Colored Press Bureau. The colored citizens occupy a peculiar place in the American body politic. Altho in a free country they are not free as other citizens, yet they are forced by circumstances to work out their future and their destiny at the disadvantage of being in competition with free men. They are still to obtain many of the natural and civil rights, long ago won and secured by other men. And because of this peculiar struggle for fundamental rights denied only to Negroes, the colored citizens are placed is a position in American politics entirely different from that of any other citizen. While the Negro is interested in common with other citizens with the eradication of the evils growing out of the dissipation of our natural and human resources, the problems clustering about the Tariff, the Trusts, great urban centres, labor and finance, he is more interested, and should be, in opportunities to obtain more and more for himself those natural and common rights of life and property, which are denied now to him alone. Because of this autonomous position of the Negro in American life, the colored voter has been loyal to party labels, party platforms, and party traditions, long after any of them have ceased to be of service either to the Negro or his country. Out of this untoward and unfortunate situation have grown up two classes of so-called Negro leaders, one influenced by money and the other by petty office, but both exist and are supported and forced upon the race, in order that the interests which support their leadership may continue to enjoy the political benefits of the Negro's misplaced confidence and loyalty. THE DUAL INTEREST OF THE NEGRO IN POLITICS Because, therefore, of the foregoing considerations, the Négro is interested in any new proposition brought before the country as a remedy for any existing evil, more than any other citizen. I've not only must ask the question, "how will this proposition affect my countrymen?" But he must ask and decide in addition thereto: "How will this proposition affect me in my effort for larger liberty and social justice?" Because of the Negro's just anxiety and desire to be free as other citizens, he has been the prey of false friends and false leadership, both of whom have advertised him against himself and against his interest for more than thirty odd years. One of the important things in this campaign is the phenomenal effort on the part of the Negro's false friends and leaders to continue the practice, by false alarms, of frightening the colored voters to continue their support to certain interests, by setting forth what will happen to the few rights the Negro now has, if he dare to change or alter his political allegiance or policy. To the detriment of the colored peoples of the United States, this alarm racket has been successful for a long time. But alas; its days seem numbered now. THE REASON FOR THE INITIA TIVE. One of the things which sounds the death knell of the old regime of false leaders and false friends is the principle of the initiative, proposed and advocated by the Progressive Party in this campaign. The principle of the initiative applies to legislation and is offered by the most advanced political thought of the day for certain cells which now infest our system of legislation. In recent times our state and national politics have fallen under the control of a sinister alliance between crooked "big business" and corrupted political bosses. This alliance has destroyed the system of representative government in the interest of the people as conceived by Washington, Jefferson, and Hamilton—the great founders of the nation and has substituted therefor a government by the bosses and for the bosses and certain favored interests. The real friends and representatives of the people have been helpless and unable to secure such legislation as would be in the interest of the general welfare where these special interests are concerned, because the bosses and the representatives of special interests would always either defeat such legislation on the hour or kill it in the tyrannies of the committees. iative, dum and Recall passive policies would affect the Ne- civil and political liberty, al- ing the advice of self-seeking THE MEANING OF THE INITIATIVE The state and national legislative bodies have shown their betrayal of the public welfare in so many instances, that it has become necessary in order to subserve the public good and restore the government to its perverted functions to its present capacity, that the people assume and take into their own hands some of the legislative powers which the people originally derived to legislative bodies, if the MPs did protect themselves in the House from the unjust taxations, lootings, and financial burdens, have attended the government of the bosses and the interests. So far the best means suggested for doing this is through the Principle of the initiative, which proposes to give the people the right and power to start such legislation as the people require in the interest of the general welfare. TO THE NEGRO. One of the ridiculous and absurd features of this campaign is an effort on the part of certain politicians, assisted by misguided and paid advocates whose convictions are handed down or made for this occasion, to mislead the Negro voters of the North to believe that the restoration of the right of the people in general to protect themselves against specific evils injected into our politics by crooked "big business" and corrupted bosses, means the disfranchisement of all the colored people of the North. The answers to this argument are numerous. It is sufficient to point out that under the present system of pretended representative government, so stoutly defended in vain by those so resourceful in the manufacture of Negro alarms, the Negroes of the South have been stripped of one constitutional right after another, and under this very sacred system the colored people did not have an opportunity to exercise the power they had in their own self defense. So that if there is any system which ought to be repulsive to the Negro as a system, it should be the one under which he has suffered so much throughout the South. It might be to call attention to the fact that in the states where the Principle of the initiative is in operation, the Negro has not been disfranchise1 because of its existence. Moreover, under the present system, the Negro, only with the greatest difficulty, is able to get before any legislative committee upy matters affecting his interest. On the other hand, under the Initiative the Negro will have the equal power of any citizen of initiating legislation in his own behalf, and of using his increased power to protect himself, at the same time throwing off the race's dependence upon false friends and false leaders. THE PRINCIPLE OF THE REFER ENDUM. The Principle of the Referendum is offered as the best solution of another phase of the same problem, which has attended the legislative evils. The special interests, through their hired and paid servants, the political bosses, have not only been able to prevent such legislation as would advance the general interest of the public at large, but they have been able to secure from time to time such legislation as would enable these special interests to secure that pernicious series of enactments which have enabled crooked "big business" to more and more enlarge their unjust tributes levied upon the toiling masses of the people through the machineries of the state and national governments. The people in vain have ground under their increasing burdens, but they have continued to increase. They have changed one after another their supposed representatives but one by one they have fallen under the malevolent influence of these same special interests, until finally the people have become convinced that the only way to prevent in the future the continuance of special legislation in the interest of the few against the many, is to resume and to take into themselves another phase of legislative power, formerly delegated to their representatives thru the principles of the Referendum, which requires that before any law shall become binding it shall be first approved by reference to the people, the rightful source of all political power, like the initiative, the Referendum, instead of disfranchising the Negro or any class of citizens, it greatly enhances the power of all the great body of American citizenship, and makes it more and (Continued from page four.) ray WV hen rio) eS ME CGH Bee ‘ BUSTA Se ARI COLL: AVENE RENE. RRO RCS we BB Sod. 5th We Sunil se Predatory Wealth and :Power”..A: Disgusted Democrat, of Bluefield # Democratic Editors Condemn Their Own ; ‘TAT Sea Party--Read What They Say On-This Page DEMANDED: CTAIN: SHAME THEY BEAR! HOW ME j Grafton Demoerats in their mu |nictgar convention adopied resolu [tions condemning and repudiating the Democratic majority of the Leg: iskature. Here are some of the things they said: | ~The Democrats of West Virginia have been humiliated, chagrinedvand outraged by the perflay of unfaithth! servants.” They further denounced “Those or our legislators and representatives who disregarded our wishes and their own pledges and defeated the in- leome tax.” | Relative to the charges of bribery they say: “We are forced to the conclusion that those who voted against the said investigation were all tarred with the same stick."-—The — Monroe Watchman, March 23, 1911, To paraphrase ths Charleston Ga- zotte, West Virginia now has two Senators at Washinston—one Demo- crat and Watson.—st. Mary's Oracle, March 17. 1911 Frustrated by Corrupt Politics and Boodle. That in the selection of Chilton and Watosn for United States sena- tors by the Democratis caucus last week, the will of the peopie was de- feated there can be no doubt. Dem- focrats and Democratic papers throughout the state are protesting ) vigorously against that action and jcondemning in no uncertain tones ‘those who are responsible for the erime. “MOS of GB can ewallow ChIL- (x =~ et Bor >? LOX. \CNAG) es ea : YE ON yee ey GSS of a oe oo a 8 ye 6 ie Lo er 4 ne oe £ us ee 5 ee \ Pes ee ov ae \ v2 e . \ a) es) fe 8 Se ee ae ee > ee Ge 7 me ie) Yo i Zee | ef i a a : i Nid aaa Nahe 5 Wh one iy a Neon a \ Ae A i ft: Bri pe Peay at re a \\: ed ee aun hao 6 Nee i Ui ies ae 4 ; Cease oe Oe We , a | 4 fi le es roe Cal Amat See Se { Ri: iG gee ae — a HON. STUART F. REED, of Harrison County. Candidate for Secretary of State He, stands for al best in official life, "TIS. NIGE 10 BE THE ~ LEADER” Democratic Candidate - State Treasurer Bursts into | Song against the Bosses | and the Boodlers. i (By Ignatius Brennen.) "Tis nice to be the leader of the Dem ocratio hordes And float our truest colors at the front And have the opposition wipe yor rashly from the boards— ‘Tis nice to know you've stood the battle’s brunt, Again, ‘tis so entrancing, as you'r healing from your ills, To be the brave leader—in the settl ing of the bills, ‘Tis fine to be the leader when the County Com-mii-tee Will figure the assessments—pro and con— Then rubber-stamp the statement with “a prompt remittance please.” “Tis nice to be the chairman—are you on? , And then, ‘tis 0, so pleasant when defeat has come your way To get “congratulations for your gal lant fight for pay.” “Tis fun to be the leader when there's speaking to be done, And get your own expenses as you go. And get the palsied promise—"“What we'll give you when we've won, Will be the chiefest laurel in the row, ‘Then when the votes are counted and of victory they smsck— ‘Tis great to be the leader—with a dagger in your back. "Tis swell to be the leader when your cause is on the wane, And fight au uphill batvie from the start, Ard know your fellow workers (%) are “too bust". (‘They explain) To even grasp the hand to warm the heart. It must be gratifying when at last you've won the day To have bigotry and boodle come around and snatch your laurels away, ~—Pan-Handle News, Feb. 10, 1911 ‘The masses of the Democratic party are clamoring for recognition and are disposed to complain if their de- mands are not heeded. They insist that representatives of the milion- aire interests do not represent their interests. Members of the Legisla- ture no doubt will consult the wishes cf their constituents before the enact- ment of important laws.—Weston Democrat, January 13, 1911 fo Fad tt Got MIADOPS MY DEAR! oy | aes WHOOPS MY CCAR ae ' Te ere a } {hs ONS — La f— JYou & TORN Le rece r JUST Hoo RAY ee LectTeo! CO) ae 7 ie FIRED NEVE RNor For KUCII™ HERE Es Shs we <> Jount! Ant) HEXN. - SHE Gp | S$ i = We cane & | Ve’, Goes! | a diz) Men SACS - CHS 5 . ay Se AT call WC : | OA p aS Dn eye] P le 4 hy JOHN! : t ny Lass | (pi Vee | Sem Vee . Oe) : FORE Foor | ned é wh NMSaes, J WHY 5 ey one tPA ah J Xl se (OW armas <5 I i ooNT YT Us I) some. yn u , SS i VoTE TH DEM. % DU OCEMENS h Buss z x SC / peer JALLOT] cw as JOHN 2 oHNs wt & | 2a ony Inox! AT , kag Boos! yonts 7 | EAD ¥ ay swe) Cithuee! 7 ASS rt DISGUSTED Are Grafton Democrats with Their Party’s Legislature. WILL OF THE PEOPLE (From the Webster Echo.) » HE, Stands for all that is ife, = ° | ANTHWATSON: Is This Editor, But He Advised in Vain. | Let the Democratic members of the West Virginis Legislature remember br no man’s voluntary contributions jte the campaign fund, however gen~ ferows or acceptable, can probably fore him a prima facie title to the United States Senatorship, Other qualifications are indespensable. He must show himself fit for this high Frepresentative oftice—hy mentality, by education, by loyalty to Democra- tic principles, vy freedom from whole- some influences and above all, By character, Qur legislators now hold ‘the destinies of the Democratic. party in the hollow of their hands—let them take heed lest they be betrayed into a fatal and irretrievable blunder— Westen Democrat, January. 13, 1911. So far a careful inspection of our exchanges failg to show more than three papers supporting’ Senator Watson with a view to re-elect him at the end of two years, and those three papers are not by any means permitted to express independent thought regarding matters politically. —St. Mary's Oracle, Mareh i7, 1911, ton with a grain of salt, but none of us can swallow Watson with any) quantity of it. That this caucus could choose Watson, who is supposed to be own- ed body and soul by the corpora- tions, when they had so many able, tried and true men to select from, is what the people can not under- stand. Beyond all question, Hon. John T. MeGraw was the first choice of ‘the Democracy f the state, and his defeat caused general and sincere ‘mourning throughout the Democrat- ic camp. The manly course he pur- sued before and after the caucus proves that--every inch of him is f&oed senatorial timber, and if the people could have a vote on the question Mr. McGraw would defeat his opponents ten.to.one. But, as it was, he found arrayed against him, Standard Oil, the coal companies, the raNroads and the “interests” in general, and, despite hie most gal- ‘lant Sght, he could not hope to win out against these great odds. All honor to the Democratic mem- bets who so manfully stood up fot Mr. McGraw and the right, and may eternal shame abide in the bosoms of those who sold him out, | The threat made by Cornwell up: ‘on the eve of the caucus, that “ws lintend to defeat MeGraw, even it lit becomes necessary to knock the ivery foundation from under — the Democratic party of West Virginia,’ was made good. Corrupt _ politic: land boodle have won for the tims being, but the grand old Democratic party will survive even this grea blow directed at “its very founda lion,” and ultimately come into it: own, for is it not he party of the people?— January 6. 1911, ON TO THE SAME. For two years Clarence W. Watson nay be a 00d Senator, and his friends dt the end of that time may be able to point their finger at us and say they knew we were mistaken, But we are going to keep in mind the faet that corporate interests are sometimes willing to give a little in order that they may be in a position to take a great deal, The supreme test may uot occur in the next tivo years. St. Mary's Oracte, March 3 iit VERY KIND, And they are still balloting for a Senator at Albany, We might easiiy spare ‘em a conpie, St. Mary's Oricle, March 17. 1911 | DRC ATER OE EFL —— Of the: Vote . Sellers, . Does Another. Democratic: Editor. The Domporatic members still. re- fuse to investigate themselyes af the charges of bribery in ‘the election of United States senatora. It is re ported that charges “Will be -present- ed to the Grand Jury of Kanawha county by Presecuting Attorney Avis, More power to Avis, if he dos so. Disfranchisement and a term in prison is not too severe a ‘sentence for representatives who. have ac- cepted brihos or offered them, Go in, Mr. Progequtor, and. you will place your conatituents under great obligation to you.—Pan Handle News, February 17, 1911. Hirelings of “Special Interests” or corporations and their supporter, all look alike to us whétner Republl- can or Democrat, only that we hate the Democrat the more because pe is a blotch upon the pure ermine ot Democracy’s immaculate mantle.— Pan Handle News, F ebruary 10, 1911, Condemns the Watson-Chilton- MacCorkle Combine of Bosses and Boodle. | *aitor Monroe Watchman: The people_who are _ responsible for Chilton and Watson in the United States Senate, who threw away a Democratic voting majority in the State Senate to insure their election: are the men responsible for the injur- ine of Democratic chances in the state for many a year tocome. Why. should you not condemn this bartering com- mercialism of a political trust on its face value of pure cussedness? It j Would not investigate itself and it trembles at the light your censure [turns upon it, ' Keep it up until weyrid ourselves jof the fools who think to still fool the Democratic masses and the “elec- ion-aratng free-voting element of the state. The Kiddites’ and oppor- |tansts of the Legislature, are net jlikely, though, to have ever. thought lof the future of the Democratic party. whether the people would put the party in power again or not. It was {sufficient for them that they feather jtheir nests. I am gind to congratu- [ae you upon your manly courageous stand, but more so ia congratulation due our party, that “we have you among our journalists to combat the evil influence of such néwspapers as ithe Charleston Gazette, The recent! Legislature has ‘placed the battle-line between the “real Democratic party and the trust interests seemingly in control of the party. The Democrats were asked to give the State repre. sentative Senators and better State government. For Elkine they were “persuaded” to give us Watson; for Scott, Win. K. Chilton, of conserva- live and reactionary tendencies. Wat. son, of the Big Interests, Chilton of the Big Interests, servitor, Very “Pleasant to the Democratic voters ani to the independent Republican voter hot owning Standard Oil Stock. Thos’ 15 recuteitrant Republican member: of the Senate surely found a “soft’ lot of statesmen to handle. Rather jthan see their idols--Watson an }Cbillon—fall to the ground, — thes ‘\Feadily crossed their hands for tie ‘ing and made the Legislature non STAIN On: Watson.and. Chilton, De- clares. Col. Harry Snyder Calls Theirs: “Dirty Money.” One of the most substantial Demo: cratic neWepapers in Wost Virginia is the Rdgister, published at Shep- hordstown, \in Jefferson county. Jefferson cqunty is the home of Dem- ooracy, pure and undetiled, Its peo- ple.have not yet smelled: the taint of Standard Oij, nor felt the heavy hand of the B, & QR. R., and the Fairmont Coal Company, ‘The editor of the Shepherdstown Register is Hon, Harry L. Snyder, a man honored. and respected by all who know him, Im last week’s issue of the Rogistéf, Mr. Snyder, who is an able and interesting writer pre- sented his compliments to the Demo- cratic caucus a number of choice Paragraphs. Hore are some of them: “THAT A VERY CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF SENATORS AND MEM- BERS OF THE HOUSE OF DELE- GATES SOLD THEIR VOTES AT CHARLESTON TO THE SUCCESS- FUL SENATORIAL COMBINATION 1S BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT—INDEED CERTAIN MEN ARE POINTED OUT AS THEY effective for reformative work. + We must have the election of Sen- ators by a popular vote. Go after them, Mr. Johnson, and with thé assistance of “Johnstones” all over the State we will leave none of the traitors on guard, or, at least in such a minority; they will not count. I am sending this communication to your paper direct because Summers county is without a Democratic newspaper. The editor of our (erst- while) good paper is so busily en- gaged denouncing Roosevelt, Bryan, Folk, Lafollette and other. “dema- gogues” that he can find no time to devote to anything else except to con- demn the income tax. Federal taxa- tion of corporations, the initiative and referendum, election of Senators by popular vote and other like meas- ures,—Amerlcanus, Hinton, W. Va Our corespondent claims the right to an audience in a Democratic news- paper. He has never held an office in his life, as far as we know, but is a | working Democrat of proved fidelity. |The Monroc Watchman, April 6, 191 Is Delegate Pemberton Still Fighting Corruption? wu YY It has been intimated that an effort is to be made to read the editor of the Oricle out of the Democratie par- ty because he has refused to vote for Clarence W. Watson for United States Senator in the recent session of the Legislature, In other words the “special interests” have found that {hey cannot use us, and are going to discredit us in our own party, To ali ef which we simply smile and reply, that the people of Pleasants county elected us to represent them, and that in refusing to vote for Watson we carried out the pledge we had mede in the campaign, to fight for the people against corporations, If that was not Democratic, we have read Bryan's Commoner in vain St. Mary's Oracle, March 21, 1917 We thought that Watson, Chilton and MacCorkle expressed themselves in favor of an investigation of the alleged bribery in the senatorial elec- tion. Why the change of mind? Pan Handle News, february 17, 1911. PLP Sense Ve a iia ro aera. Ce es Leiner Pad ea Matron Pree Ce SNes ateaeas fone Tee Lier uaegiaey ee es ened near Ue oe ‘ [ee oe / CEC Bi, Noes esac eas a a tee 4 Mae Dees) ws s Fiera e ie Teed ge ia hee rae ph» i Iapsane ates i hee ae ’ bay eee I NB cg, Caan ‘ Pe omen Legis ae 4 area co ees Pa Ni | [Reena bee c ae SA Sopa th ea ' Penh oe lll EAB ais i enbecai c : itr a ane a ee ; Pain arenes Bre 3 mee Te POT Re ees, i * Peery eieoean em ( : FEspaer eee Uaercrneer ta ae oes en ee oe? die a oe bit es aes i . ( poe ey i? fee ee a ema aa La aa fot : I SO tei lea Ts creak ae : Lay eit) [SA a Fane 3 E Bea 53 Peete Hay ; ies ae Lea Spey eee i ae ea Re NORE: HON. A. A. LILLY, of Raleigh County. ' Brilliant young, natives son who will be the next Attorney General of the State, WALK, AS GBAFTERS WHO BE., TRAYED THEIR CONSTITUENTS FOR MONEY! WHAT A BRAND OF SHAME THEY BEAR! HOW MEAN THEY MUST FEEL IN THEIR OWN HEARTS, REALIZING THAT THEIR BYIL “IS” KNOWN-TO ALL MEN! HOW QUILTY THEY WILL AP- PEAR WHEN THEY RETURN TO THEIR HOMES! THE DIRTY MON- EY THEY HAVE WILL NEVER DO THEM ANY GOOD, FOR MONEY CANNOT PAY FOR THE LOSS OF SELF-RESPECT OR THE RESPECT OF ONE'S FELLOWS.”—Pan-Handlo News, Feb, 10, 191%. ) It would be hard to express the indignation of Brooke county Dem:- ocrats because of the selection o! United States senators. We have been unable to find but two who fa- vored the election of Waton, after 2 rather thorough search, — Perhaps these two are looked upon by our legislators, as the Democratic party of Brooke.—Pan landle News, Feb- Tuary 2, 1911. The Democrats had no way to ex- presé their preferences for the United States senatorships in this state. No wonder the whole thing was a trav- esty on justice and a disgrace to the state. Hereafter they will be look- ing out and will be braced for the occasion, never fear.—The West Union Record, Feb 3, 1911. As Senators-elect Watson and Chilton stated before legally elected, that hey wanted an investigation and that they would be willing to resign if fraud in their election could be shown, and as they seemed to control the Democratic portion of the Senate in promptly making a compromise, to be sure to legalize their election, how is it that they do not have influence enough to secure an investigation of the bribery chargés?—Pan Handle New, Febru- ary 10, 1911. It appears that our Democrate | legislators don’t want to have them- ‘selves investigated. Why? <A ma- jority of them are not guilty of ac- loco bribes?—Ran Handle News, = 10, 1911. | ie eh ! fi ee ae a. | RRR ce so cmemametpes AX COMMISSIONER'S ae aoa ie © Ne ony wie Farsons Democrat.) Democratic newspapers are very actively pointing out the opportuni- {les for economy in the State admin- istration. The Wayne News expresses the opinion, for Instance that the State can get along Very well without.a Tax, Commissioner, and a. Tax Commie stoncr’s department, Like express sions that have come from other Democratic sources, and it seems likely that an effort will be made to reduce the efficiency of the Tax Com- missloner's office if it-i¢ not entirely wiped out. Of course we can get along withs out the Tax Commissioner's Office. . | Won't every tax dodger in. the State say so? Won't every man who owns a lease hold acreage im coal, ot or gas, and who has been com- ‘pelled to pay his tax upon it, say 40? Won't every railroad, that in the good Hold days paid taxes on about one-fifth fof its property, and ls now assessed at ils full value, say so? Won't overy rich family that.has been compelled to pay the full amount of a just Inheritance tax, say so? Won't every crooked sheriff and county court im West Virginia, say so? There is not the least difficulty in finding abundant evidence of a Kind, to the effect that the Tax Commisston- er's office is not necessary, Why, in+ deed, pay twelve to fifteen thousand dollars a year for the maintenance of an office that does no turn Into the State. less than two hundred a year in taxes that would not other wise be collected? Why, indeed, maintain an office that compelis county sheriff's and county courts to deal honestly with tax payers. The sheriff of the good old Democratic party of Randolph, for instance, will testify most heartily that the Tax [Commissioner himself ts a busy body. jThe sheriffs of a half dozen other counties in the State who have been compelled to restore to the taxpayers sums aggregating over one hundred thousand dollars a—-year_— in taxes: that would not other- eminently fair and unprejudicedts- | timony. By al means do away with the Tax Commissioner, and when you have doue away with him you-w!l! find you have cut off the most important, the most valuable and' the most efficient part of the State government, We have reasons to believe if the truth were published that Watson would not remain in the United States Senate a single day, Can there not be an investigation dating back be- fore the election last fall and follow- ing to the present time? A general investigation, and find out-whether there is as much vileness and vicious- ness in the election of Watson as is alleged,—-West Union Record. Feb. 17, 1911, Aerrecnamom eR Senator Watson may vote with the Democrats a part of the time (when he is not absent) for two years in or- der to get to vote with the Republi- cans all the time for six years— West Union Record, Feb. 17, 1911 "What Earthly Reason Could There be for the Selection of Watson to Represent the Democratic Party in the United States Senate?" "There is but one Answer, and that is the Chief Factor in the Making of a Choice was the SHEER, BRUTE, FORCE OF MONEY"--Hon. Albert Sidney Johnson LEADING DEMOCRATIC LEADER WANTS TO KNOW-WILL YOU? THINK ABOUT IT BEFORE CASTING YOUR BALLOT. (BY ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSON) It is inconceivable that members of the Legislature, elected as Democrats, could have been so subservient to that which they knew was a stultification of their party. Many of them seemed to forget that to them had been confided the destinies of the party and that they had it in their power to shape events, to give orders, not to take them. They seemed to forget the dignity of the duty to which they were called and forgot as well their responsibility to the people. Why should they have become the mere automatons of scheming politicians? conceivable that members of the Legislatureocrats, could have been so subservient to the man was a stultification of their party. Many forget that to them had been confided the way and that they had it in their power to shareers, not to take them. They seemed to be the duty to which they were called and forgiveness to the people. Why should they were automats of scheming politicians? It is no way to misunderstand the influence of the caucus. While there were of course his the successful candidates, we have every time it was, as we have said, the brute force rolled the situation. Every outgiving which Weston since the Legislature convened has something relating to money and its corruptorial contest. Mense corporation lobby was gathered the nation of Watson and necessarily of his friend outward appearances "the interests" seem to be their friends in the Senate of the were ready to spend their money without scars from some of the most prominent men in their mortification and horror at what we one of these penned January 16, by one agent Democrats in the State, who is far of West Virginia, we will venture to quote McGraw is evidently in the lead, Chilton, Holt, Tierney, Cornwell, Tavenner and Ednbut in the order named. Mr. McGraw is nearly enough to nominate him after a few notes to others. Nothing but corruption of Watson, the Standard Oil and Gas Companies,ylvania R. R. Co., are maintaining an immense positive information that $150,000.00 are last week for the purpose of corrupting its information comes direct from such absolutely reliable and proof is obtainable of certainty. Two experts are here from Wake to do the buying. One of them bought the wyne, of Ohio, a few years ago. There is an and an investigation is being talked of. Friends are being approached by representatives named combinations. Evidence has come that four Delegates have been approached 100, one $2,500, one to make his own fire or offered $10,000, and the attorneyship on Coal Company, Watson's Company. It is the attempt by the interests to elect Watson they are using every pressure possible of to influence the Delegates. They bought reporters and subsidized the press so far as there is absolutely no limit to their McGraw and the other candidates are making democratic fight." Letters received since the caucus from gee-integrity who were in Charleston through to confirm the shocking allegations of doubt that every baleful weapon that bear from the resources of unlimited men. Threats, cajolery and the influences of connections were resorted to. Nothing that the ingenuities of evil could devise seems indone. And the worst of it is that it was of Democracy. The rank-and-file of the Democratic party for this saturnalia of debauchery and the not so it? Are these would-be leaders and not as stark mad that they talk of "building up There is no way to misunderstand the influences which dominated the caucus. While there were of course honest men supporting the successful candidates, we have every reason to believe that it was, as we have said, the brute force of money which controlled the situation. Every outgiving which has come from Charleston since the Legislature convened has brought to our ears something relating to money and its corrupting use in the Senatorial contest. An immense corporation lobby was gathered there to aid in the election of Watson and necessarily of his friend, Chilton. From the outward appearances "the interests" seem to know well who would be their friends in the Senate of the United States and were ready to spend their money without stint. We have letters from some of the most prominent men in the State expressing their mortification and horror at what was being done. From one of these penned January 16, by one of the most intelligent Democrats in the State, who is familiar with the politics of West Virginia, we will venture to quote as follows: "Mr. McGraw is evidently in the lead, Chilton next with Watson, Holt, Tierney, Cornwell, Tavenner and Edmiston following about in the order named. Mr. McGraw will have enough, or nearly enough to nominate him after a few complimentary votes to others. Nothing but corruption can defeat him. "Watson, the Standard Oil and Gas Companies, B. & O., and Pennsylvania R. R. Co., are maintaining an immense lobby. "We have positive information that $150,000.00 was expressed here last week for the purpose of corrupting the delegates. This information comes direct from such sources as render it absolutely reliable and proof is obtainable to a moral and legal certainty. Two experts are here from Wall Street, New York, to do the buying. One of them bought the Senatorship for Payne, of Ohio, a few years ago. There is a great stir over this, and an investigation is being talked of. Delegates and their friends are being approached by representatives of the above named combinations. Evidence has come to light indicating that four Delegates have been approached; one offered $5,000, one $2,500, one to make his own figures, and one Senator offered $10,000, and the attorneyship for the Consolidation Coal Company. Watson's Company. "This is the attempt by the interests to elect Watson and Chilton. They are using every pressure possible of a financial character to influence the Delegates. They bought up the Charleston reporters and subsidized the press so far as practical or possible. There is absolutely no limit to their corruption. Colonel McGraw and the other candidates are making a clean, manly, Democratic fight." Other letters received since the caucus from gentlemen of undoubted integrity who were in Charleston throughout the contest tend to confirm the shocking allegations of bribery. There is no doubt that every baleful weapon that could be brought to bear from the resources of unlimited money were employed. Threats, cajolery and the influences of powerful business connections were resorted to. Nothing that recklessness and the ingenuities of evil could devise seems to have been left undone. And the worst of it is that it was all done in the name of Democracy. Are the rank-and-file of the Democratic party to endorse and defend this saturnalia of debauchery and the nominations evolved from it? Are these would-be leaders and nominal representatives stark mad that they talk of "building up the party" [Picture of a man in a suit with a tie]. MORRIS P. SHAWKEY, of Kanawha County used the standard of free schools in this S the lowest average to the highest. HON. MORRIS P. SHAWKEY, of Kanawha County. He has raised the standard of free schools in this State from the lowest average to the highest. by such disgraceful processes? They have impudently left the people out of all their calculations and their talk has incessantly been of money, money, money, and what it is to accomplish in future campaigns. Possibly when they come to their senses they may begin to see the ruin they have wrought. As it was with the Scott machine in the Republican party, so will it be with them, unless the days of miracles are not yet passed. Messrs. Watson and Chilton may go to the U. S. Senate, but they will enter that body with the cloud of suspicion resting upon them. If it be possible for them to divorce themselves from their environment and the sinister influences which compassed their election and make faithful public representatives, we shall rejoice. But we warn them they have yet to earn the confidence of the people.—The Monroe Watchman, Jan. 26, 1911. Direct to YOU From Dr. Hatfield Direct to YOU From Dr. Hatfield TO THE VOTERS OF WEST VIRGINIA: On the eve of the eleventh fight and I feel confident of all such by the issues involved, which tween the Common People who would Bosses and Big Corporate interest people. I have never spoken loud and frequently three and four times almost every county of the fifty on the night of November 4th. I have answered every accepted every gauntlet thrown in addition, I have criticised them and crooked business in every state when I did so that I would bring falsehoods and utterly absurd statements against me. It is the honesty of government, the purity of the people must pay when he chooses who are charged by their own pay, the worst crimes ever perpetrated and their government. I have in calm judgment and fairness of the attacks made upon me, the unquestioned behalf in this great fight of opposition to me. I warn the very end, and to be on their guard sprung at "the eleventh hour," it to be explained away and answer. I take it for granted formed of my attitude on the vital welfare. My principles and plea Virginia. I am proud to assert to be the best that are offered and protection of our people, having uttered, nor a single one stand sponsor for. They are my conviction you think I have the courage and pages of our written statute. I honestly believe the principles I advocate are the best free to urge upon the people that Very of the election, I feel that a student of a favorable outcome has a strenuous campaign and are involved, which constitute the one who would rule themselves and interests who would them. I spoken less than twice a day and four times a day. I will be the fifty-five by the time for 4th. I freed every question asked me, it thrown down by my politician, raised the latter and attacked on every speech and writing, would bring down upon myself a absurd slanders which the it is the price that a man will pay the purity of the ballot when he champions such princes, our own party colleagues will perpetrated in West Virginia. I have implicit faith in the success of the people to see that the unquestioned strength of great fight, and the "power" I warn them that this will be their guard against the cold hour," so that it will stay and answered. I am granted that the people on the vital issues direct their and pledges are before you to assert that "countless people. There isn't one or single one of them that I convictions-I leave it to courage and the ability to statute. I believe that I have made our are the best for all, and, people that they give me On the eve of the election, I feel that I have made a good fight and I feel confident of a favorable outcome. It has been a strenuous campaign and a bitter one-made such by the issues involved, which constitute the difference between the Common People who would rule themselves and the Political Bosses and Big Corporate interests who would themselves rule the people. I have never spoken less than twice a day in this campaign, and frequently three and four times a day. I will have visited almost every county of the fifty-five by the time the campaign closes on the night of November 4th. I have answered every question asked me by the people, and accepted every gauntlet thrown down by my political opponents. In addition, I have criticised the latter and attacked corrupt bosses and crooked business in every speech and writing, knowing full well when I did so that I would bring down upon myself the mendacious falsehoods and utterly absurd slanders which they have caused to be uttered against me. It is the price that a man who believes in the honesty of government, the purity of the ballot and in the rights of the people must pay when he champions such principles against men who are charged by their own party colleagues with having committed the worst crimes ever perpetrated in West Virginia against the people and their government. I have implicit faith in the intelligence, calm judgment and fairness of the people to see the falsity of the attacks made upon me, the unquestioned strength of my position in their behalf in this great fight, and the "power behind the throne" of opposition to me. I warn them that this will continue to the very end, and to be on their guard against the customary "roorback" sprung at "the eleventh hour," so that it will be impossible for it to be explained away and answered. I take it for granted that the people are now fully informed of my attitude on the vital issues directly concerning their welfare. My principles and pledges are before you, Men of West Virginia. I am proud to assert that "countless many" believe them to be the best that are offered in this campaign for the guidance and protection of our people. There isn't one of them I regret having uttered, nor a single one of them that I am not proud to stand sponsor for. They are my convictions-I leave it to you to say whether you think I have the courage and the ability to force them upon the pages of our written statute. I honestly believe that I have made out my case. That the principles I advocate are the best for all, and, therefore, I feel free to urge upon the people that they give me their support. THEIR PARTY B D BY DEMOCRAT Sr. D. Nackeed BETRAYAL OF THEIR PARTY BITTERLY RESENTED BY DEMOCRATIC LEADERS two corporation United Staes senators? The party which has fought corporation influence in the senate long and loud is not responsible for it. The Democratic press of the state which has denounced it on all occasions can not be responsible for it. The attitude of the press toward this infamous political crime is the Record's excuse for this brief article. In the beginning, the Record, together with the solid, unpurchasable Democratic press of the state, desires to state that it has never supported a straight-out corporation millionaire for the United States Senate, and under its present management it never will. It has never accepted means from such a source, and it never will, though it has had many offers of it, which it had spurned with contempt. Only Three Newspapers of That Party Defended the Crime. Party's Record in Legislature Destroys Public Confidence. Sold Out to the Men and Interests It Has Always Fought. A Democratic State Senator's Opinion of His Party's Betrayal. (By Senator Geo. W. Bland.) Who will be responsible for the crime that was committed on the Democratic party in the selection of Very sincerely yours. It is strange that in a community possessing so many really intelligent people as this one, that there are so many who are positively unable to differentiate between truth and falsehood in a political campaign. On all other things except politics, they are quick to make the distinction and immune against deception. But on that subject their intelligence seems to have gone off on a vacation, and they take cognizance of the most transparent falsehoods, especially if they be slanderous of a candidate, that proves them to be the most credulous, gullible and "easiest" people to be found among us. Mr. Hatfield that I have made a good come. and a bitter one-made the difference bel- ves and the Political themselves rule the a day in this campaign, we will have visited time the campaign closes and me by the people, and critical opponents. In attacked corrupt bosses being, knowing full well self the mendacious they have caused to be man who believes in the not and in the rights of principles against men with having committed innia against the people in the intelligence, see the falsity of the th of my position in power behind the throne" will continue to the the customary "roorback" will be impossible for people are now fully in- ectly concerning their be you, Men of West less many" believe them sign for the guidance of them I regret I am not proud to to you to say whether to force them upon the out my case. That the and, therefore, I feel their support. BITTERLY STATIC LEADERS It would rather receive a single sheckle contributed through the promptings of an honest heart than a check of magnificent proportions from a heartless corporation whose purpose is to thwart the will of the people. The Democratic press of the state speaks the will of the party in the state, and from every source comes up the very bitterest denunciation of this crime which has been committed on the party against the will of the party. With perhaps three exceptions, and they are absolutely under corporation control, every Democratic paper in the state which has expressed itself denounced his abominable outrage in the most bitter terms found in the English language. The Record has already observed a long list of these papers who have thus expressed themselves CONVINCED THEYBOUGHTIT Had the selection of U. S. Senators been the free and unbought choice of the Democrats of the Legislature, we could have acquiesced, hoping for the best, and without shame supported their leadership as long as they supported Democratic principles; but when the settled conviction that the result was determined by corrupt influences is thrust upon us by the very course of the Senators themselves who dignified the charges of bribery, so impressively made, by publicly pledging that a searching investigation should be had and then later suppressing the investigation they themselves had promised, it becomes altogether a different matter, painful and distressing to the last degree.—The Monroe Watchman, April 27, 1911. M. HON. JOHN SHERMAN DARST, of Jackson County. "The Man With the Facts", who has the confidence of the People of the State as few men have it. and others are still coming. Those that have not yet done so will no doubt enter their protest soon. What has been said by these papers in denouncing this crime would make a mighty unpleasant book for Mr. Watson and the forty who made his election possible to read. It would afford the Record pleasure to quote from this sturdy list of unpurchasable Democratic journals, but for lack of space it can only give a list of the names and it invites its readers to inquire diligently into their standing and recognized ability in the communities in which they circulate. Here is a partial list, others will follow as they are gathered. The first four are dailies. Parkersburg Sentinel. Clarksburg Exponent. Huntington Advertiser. Morgantown New Dominion. Greenbrier Independent. Shepherdstown Register. Monroe Watchman. Tyler Journal. Weston Democrat. Martinsburg Statesman. Kanawha News. Tucker Democrat. Pensoboro News. Grafton Leader. St. Marys Oracle. Charleston Free Press. Pan Handle News. Webster Echo. Glenville Democrat. Logan Banner. No doubt there are many others the Record has not yet learned of. The three papers mentioned above as so-called Democratic newspapers that are willing to endorse this crime, of the election of a corporation millionaire, who does not represent Democratic principles and who has not been lending aid to the party, are The Fairmont Times, owned and controlled by the Watson interests, the Wheeling Register, dominated by corporation influence, and the Charleston Gazette, owned by Mr. Chilton, the chief beneficiary of the abominable alliance which resulted in casting this blot on the party in this state in opposition to the expressed will of the party. As the Record now views it there is but one thing for the party in this state to do in order to be able to stand before the people in the next election and this is to repudiate the action of the forty members of the legislature who brought this upon us, and do it now. In doing so we want Men. "God give us men that money can't buy, Men who have faith and are willing Men who have honor, virtue and power— God give us men! is the cry of the hour." Men to lead us like Woodrow Wilson, Joseph W. Folk, Champ Clark, LaFollette, and last, but by no means least—W. J. Bryan. Some early action must be taken if the Democratic party is to stand favorably before the people of West Virginia next year. Mr. Watson must be required to hastily introduce his family into Washington society and display his high steppers on Pennsylvania avenue in time next year to announce his surrender of the temporary lease he has so ruthlessly taken on the West Virginia Democracy, or give us a state wide primary, or some other party will likely elect his successor in 1913. As to Mr. Chilton the Record has little to say at this time, but is sorry his record is not the best. Aside from the charge of his being a party to this ungodly alliance which deprived the party of the privilege of carrying out its pledges to the people, he must bear the charge of being a corporation lawyer, associated with ex-Governor MacCorkle and others of like kind, besides the charge of an attempted default of a large sum of money due the state when he retired as secretary of state under Governor MacCorkle Aside from this he is brilliant, capable, shrewd, astute, a leader of men and a great organizer, and can make a splendid representative in the upper branch of Congress. His term of six years will give the people ample time to decide whether they want him to continue in the Senate or retire.—The West Union Record, February 3, 1911. The similarity between the legislature of Illinois and West Virginia legislature is striking. Pan Handle News, February 10, 1911. The Democratic members of the legislature are long on prohibition but short on bribery investigation. —Pan Handle News, February 17, "The false statement that living in England is cheaper than in America has been made so often that it is believed by those who have not taken the trouble to learn the facts. Living is not cheaper in England, it is dearer. — William Randolph Hearst. October 10, 1912 Here Is The Answer To The Slanders Of Corrupt Bosses That Have Been And May be Uttered Against Dr. Hatfield That the Voters Should Read Carefully and Seriously Ponder. TO KILL WATSONISM. There is Only One Sure Way to Do It—Read This and Find Out. The main "point of attack" in the campaign in West Virginia is—THE LEGISLATURE. On carrying that branch of our state government the Corrupt Bosses and the Agents of Crooked Corporations have centered all their insidious Boodle and cunning Brains. It is the same gang of bribers that bought up the Democratic legislature in 1911, and which has been condemned by practically the entire press of that party, the masses of the people of the state, and the voice of right-cousness which thunders from the pulpit. The motives behind this combination of Political Bosses, allied with the criminal agents of Big Interests, are the same that spurred them on to Rape the Rights of the People of this State less than a year ago. THEY ARE: FIRST—The re-election of Clarence Watson to the United States Senate. The INTERESTS Need his vote There. SECOND—The control of the State Government so that the tax system, established after years of bitter struggle on the part of the Republican Party in its efforts to equalize the burdens of taxation between the Common People and the Great Corporations may be destroyed, and the old system by which the Corporations paid one-fifth of the Taxes and the People the other four-fifths, may be restored. With the issue clearly defined between the Republicans and Democratic Paries in West Virginia this year on State matters, there should be no party lines. THERE CAN NOT BE ANY PARTY LISES DIVIDING MEN OF WEST VIRGINIA WHO BELIEVE IN HONESTY, DECENCY AND THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO RULE. For this reason: Under the control of the three Bosses—Watson, Chilton and MacCorkle, who represent corporate greed and crooked business, and who stand charged by the honest, fearless members of their own party with its Betrayal and with the commission of Shocking Crimes against the Liberties of the People, have absolute domination of that party from Top to Bottom, from the Core to the Rind. There is nothing that Honest, Lawabiding and Patriotic Democrats can do as good citizens except vote against the candidates of these Bosses who have stolen the Clean Livery of that party and are parading in it, impugently COMMANDING Democrats to support them "In the name of the party," and branding all those who refuse to do their bidding, as "PARTY TRAITORS." From a purely party standpoint these men have no right to appeal to the loyalty of any loyal Democrat They, themselves, fought that party in the years of its distress. They were not Democrats in the years of Bryan's candidacy. NOT THEY. They were Traitors too, and Enemies of the Democratic Party. And they are that Now, for they have done those things to it which have weakened it in the eyes of the public; have caused good people to lose the confidence in it which they showed when they voted into power two years ago. No Democrat need question HIS party loyalty by voting against the interest and the Hand-Picked Candidates of these Bosses. He may well question it if he is of mind to vote to Endorse the Crimes they have committed and to commit his party's organization into their hands for MANY YEARS TO COME. It is the duty of every party-loving Democrat to vote to Clean Up his party of this Criminal Outfit. To help to start over again and build up the party to stand for the things which it has always stood for in West Virginia, till Watson, Chilton and MacCorkle got hold of it and throttled it, and made a party REPRESENTATIVE of the most corrupt Bossism in existence in the United States, allied with as Crooked Predatory Wealth as ever battled with the people for their Constitutional Liberties. THERE IS ONE WAY—and only one way—for every Democrat who feels deeply his party's disgrace and appreciates the great dangers that are present, to do the Right Thing by the Party, Himself, and his State DR. HATFIELD—THE MAN. By Rev. W. F. Compton, Pastor M. E. Church. (Crumpler, McDowell County.) Dr. Hatfield has for many years been recognized as a very strong and worthy leader in this section of the state; he is clean, honest, upright and absolutely reliable. He always takes a determined stand for whatever he considers right, and he never waivers in the discharge of what he conceives to be his duty. He is a thoroughly honorable man and has the respect and confidence of the people in all this section of the state in the highest degree. Dr. Hatfield has done probably more for suffering humanity in this vicinity than any other man, he having for the past several years devoted a great portion of his time, absolutely without charge, to the relief of unfortunate miners, railroad men and others injured in the mines, on the railroad and in lumber camps in this community. The record of his work along this line at the Miners' Hospital, at Welch, is well known, and for this work, as well as his many other good qualities, he is very much beloved by the people in all this section. I understand that reports are being circulated in some sections of the state by opponents of Dr. Hatfield to the effect that he is an undesirable citizen and not a law-abiding man, but I wish to say that it is only necessary to investigate his standing in this community to verify the fact that such reports are false and slanderous. I cannot understand why any one would knowingly circulate a report detrimental to the character, reputation or, good name of a man of Dr. Hatfield's standing, and am indeed sorry that his opponents should resort to such, if it is true that they have done so. I want to assure you that in my opinion the affairs of this state could not be entrusted to a safer man than Dr. Hatfield, and I feel sure that the moral standing of the people will be elevated by his influence as governor of the state. He is temperate and sober in habits and his pleasing personality is most attractive. He is kind and courteous, and never misses an opportunity to do a good deed and to serve his fellow-man. I can freely lend my support to any man with a life and character like Dr. Hatfield, stamped with honesty, uprightness and devotion to the interest of the people, and I can, as a Christian citizen, commend him to my brethren, with the utmost confidence that he will carry out to the letter every promise made to the electorate. "CLEAN AND UPRIGHT." By Rev. Isaac Wright, Pastor Christian Church. (Bluefield.) Dr. Hatfield's character as a man is unimpeachable and his integrity is unquestioned. He has been practicing medicine in McDowell and adjoining counties for many years, and thousands of people know him as a kind-hearted friend of the sick room. He will answer the call of the sick room, be the night ever so dark, the distance great, the roads rough or the pay uncertain. He is clean of all vicious bad habits, as clean and upright a man as the State of West Virginia holds and his broad and and that is to join hands with the thousands upon thousands of Republi-cans and vote the Republican State ticket. Watson, Chilton and MacCorkle can only be kept out of the Governor's Mansion by the defeat of their figure-head candidate. IT SHOULD BE A COMMON CAUSE—THE RIDDANCE OF WEST VIRGINIA OF THESE VICIOUS ELEMENTS IN OUR PUBLIC AFFAIRS—IN WHICH MEN OF EVERY PARTY WOULD JOIN ESTHUSIASTICALLY AND DETERMINEDLY. The very foundations of our state's government have been PARTLY undermined by these Bribers, and should they succeed in winning this time, the entire upholding structure is bound to crumble of Decay and Corruption. There is no chance of this coming to pass if Democrats opposing this sort of thing will join with the Republicans in voting against it. To do anything other than that is to take a CHANCE on retaining these Arrogant and Corrupt Bosses and their Corporation Allies in power. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES—LET THIS STATEMENT SINK DEEP INTO YOU—CAN WATSON BE REGATED, WATSONISM REBUKED AND DESTROYED, UNLESS THE REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET—and ESPECIALLY THE LEGISLATIVE PART OF IT—WINS If THOMPSON is elected—you have Watson, Chilton and MacCorkle occupying the Governor's Chair. If a Democratic legislature is elected, Watson will be re-elected for a full term of Six Years. There is no way to beat him. PRIMARY OR NO PRIMARY—CLARENCE WATSON WILL WIN. Do not think or believe anything else, for if you do you have FOOLED yourself WATSON CAN ONLY BE OUSTED FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE BY THE ELECTION OF A LEGISLATURE THAT WILL BE REPUBLICANS ON JOINT BALLOT Watson, Chilton, and MacCorkle can only be kept out of the Governor's Mansion by the defeat of their figure-head candidate, Thompson, and the election of Dr. Henry D. Hatfield, a man of the people who cannot be BOSSED, BRIBED nor BLUFFED. In this campaign in West Virginia, it so happens that there is but ONE party to which God-fearing, law-abiding, honest and decent people can turn for RELIEF, PROTECTION, and JUST TREATMENT, and that is the Republican Party. BEFORE YOU VOTE—THINK IT OVER VERY, VERY CAREFULLY. Dr. Hatfield says: "The Republican and Progressive parties in the state of West Virginia are carrying out the wishes of both President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt and have their respective tickets in the field. I find nothing to condemn in this arrangement. This situation seems entirely satisfactory to both Republicans and Progressives, but it is worse than the nightmare and gives the jim-jams to Democratic politicians in the stake. Frankly, don't you think that the Republicans and Progressives should settle this matter between themselves and that it isn't the business of any Democrat? Right, you are, Doctor, as you have always been since you began to frankly take the people of West Virginia into your confidence this campaign. A Democratic candidate for the legislature in Mineral county declares that "the people of West Virginia' are not at all interested in who succeeds Watson in the United States Senate." A mistake has been made by the Democrats of Mineral county. Instead of nominating this striking specimen of bonehead for the House of Delegates they should have had him sent to the Home for Incurables. manded for service in the Senate, the election of a class of men who would be truly representative of the people; men in no way connected or associated with, employed by or under obligation to the railroad or other great corporations which Congress and the States have been vainly endeavoring to control and to hold to an observance of the laws as they are written; men who have been true to the party and to its principles and particularly to its tariff policy which demands that tariffs shall not be laid except for purposes of revenue. Shall we have two to meet these requirements when we have elected the nominees of the caucus William E. Chilton and Clarence W. Watson? We think not. We cannot assert it as a fact, for we do not know, but we think it is generally understood at Charleston that the firm of Chilton, MacCorkle and Chilton is, and has been for some time, consulting attorneys for the C. & O. Railway Company, and if so, Mr. Chilton is not the man to represent the people when questions of railroad discriminations come before the Senate for consideration. And if it be permissible, in any measure, to judge Mr. Chilton by the well-remembered action of his partner and personal friend, Governor MacCorkle, who, but a few years ago, went to Washington to plead with the Ways and Means Committee of the House, against the reduction of the coal tax, we must conclude that Mr. Chilton will be found among the kickers when it is proposed to reduce the coal tax to a revenue basis. virile statesmanship together with a great bodily endurance under the strain of hard work will make him an ideal governor. "WILL MAKE A NOBLE GOVERNOR." By Rev. W. H. H. Cooke, Pastor Missionary Baptist Church (Windom, W. Va.) Dr. Hatfield is a splendid man, and if elected to the high honors to which he aspires, will make a noble governor. He is a man of strong executive ability, firm, upright and true, and coming from the strongest Republican county in the State, we, in this section, think his claims have great merit in them. We truly hope the people will be guided aright in their selection of a man to fill an office of so grave responsibilities. Dr. Hatfield can do this with dignity. Whatever the outcome, however, Dr. Hatfield, with his great force, will always be found active and energetic, fighting for the right. Suppose that this alleged connection with the C. & O. is untrue and that his tariff views are now fully in accord with the Democratic platform, still Mr. Chilton must be held responsible for the leading and controlling part he has played in fastening Clarence W. Watson on the Democratic party of the State as one of its representatives in the Senate. He is was who organized, managed and pushed this combine to success and in doing so,he inflicted a wound upon the Democratic party which all the money Mr. Watson has cannot heal. "A STRICTLY MORAL MAN." By Rev. H. R. Brown, Pastor M. E. Church, South. (Eckman, W. Va.) I find him a true, high-toned gentleman in every respect, strictly moral in character, favorably disposed toward the churches, a liberal contributor to their institutions, and an attendant of the services whenever opportunity presents itself. He is strictly temperate in every respect, standing high among the people, not only in his home town and county, but also wherever he is known. The prime motive for bringing Watson to the front as an aspirant for the Senatorial honors—a man with no better qualifications for the Senate than N. B. Scott, whom the people had just repudiated—was simply and solely to provide a long purse on which to draw when funds are wanted. Practical politicians like those manipulating this unholy combine do not enter the game until the cash with which to secure results is in hand or at least in sight. How passing strange it was that the members of the Legislature who went into, aided and abetted the combine could not see, or would not see, that it was the agency primarily designed and perfected to secure the political promotion of two men whilst its triumph meant the betrayal of the Democratic party and a repudiation of its principles. As a minister of the gospel, I have never taken any part in politics, because of the strong sentiment against ministers mixing in political affairs; yet I believe we have neglected our duty along this line, to some extent. The time has come when every citizen should take a stand for civic righteousness and help to put in office men panoplied in the armor or independence. Men of such sterling individuaulity and personality that they will stand as mile-posts along the great highway of politics and statesmanship, and in their signal supremacy turn about the tide of human affairs, inspiring and kindling patriotic devotion in every human breast. Men who are capable of independent action, not bound by hordes of tyrants or ruthless demagogues, not ruled by the money kings, but who have a conscience and a will; who act honestly and uprightly in spite of all the corrupt influence that might be brought to bear upon them. Men who are not led and ruled by idle clamor, but who seek the right and follow it conscientiously. Men who mould public opinion and shape the destinies of our people. Are we harsh or do we exaggerate when we speak of the victory won by the Chilton-Watson combine as a betrayal of the Democratic party? Bearing in mind that the Democracy, in order to safeguard the interest of the people, would exclude from the Senate any man who is closely connected with railroads or other great corporations or trusts, let's see now whether Mr. Watson meets the qualifications set by the party. He is general manager of and one of the largest stockholders in the Fairmont Consolidated Coal Company—one of the most gigantic concerns of its kind to be found in this or any other country, and is reputed to be many times a millionaire. This company owns in the Fairmont region a boundary of 25,000 acres of coal of well nigh incalculable value on which are, as we understand, 35 or 40 mines in active operation employing thousands of men. It has leases of as many acres more, as yet practically untouched, besides much other valuable coal land. A few years ago (we haven't at hand the latest figure), it was mining nearly four millions tons of coal a year, every ton of which was shipped over the B. & O. In 1906 the B. & O. Railroad Company which owned 53,532 shares of the very valuable stock of this Consolidated Coal Company, deemed it unwise to hold this stock, sold it to a syndicate of gentlemen among whom were Clarence W. Watson, his brother, J. E. Watson, their brother-in-law, ex-Governor A. B. Fleming, counsel for Standard Oil, at a price which Clarence Watson, when on the stand, and Mr. Bond, a B. & O. official, both refused to disclose. Under the contract between the B. & O. and the Watson syndicate, the debt due the railroad for the stock, and running well into the millions, was to be paid in installments the last of which was not to fall due until the expiration of 30 years, and, in the meantime, the syndicate was to give to the B. & O. the hauling of every ton of coal it shipped. Dr. Hatfield is the embodiment of all the above qualities. He is not only a learned and intellectual man himself, but he believes that education is the hope of our country, and that morality should be inculcated into the very fiber of our being. He believes that intelligence is the pillar and bulwark of our institutions and that education and Christianization should go hand in hand. Dr. Hatfield is a man who does not find his highest glory in the shameful magnificence of unscrupulous political success; but he is a citizen who is endowed with vigor, broad, mental training, and armed with patriotism and ready to sacrifice his highest hopes and ambitions for the welfare of his country. "MONEY WINS AND THE PARTY IS BETRAYED" VETERAN DEMOCRATIC STATE LEADER TELLS OF THE TREASON OF HIS PARTY'S LEGISLATIVE REPRESENTATIVES. Many a member of the state legislature Senator Clarence W. Watson, repudiature signed his own politicalrepresentative of the special interdeath wawant when he voted forests," but wearing a Democratic la-Watson — Moundsville Echo. bel. — Moundsville Echo, Februaryq Handle News, February 17, 1911. 17, 1911. Read This Startling Article and Ask Yourself, Mr. Voter: "Shall I Vote to Endorse These Criminals and Help Fasten Them onto My Party and My State for Years to Come?" WANTED 100,000 CROOKS TO CONTRIBUTE EACH ONE CROOKED DOLLAR TO ELECT A WATSON-CHILTON LEGISLATURE TRUST MONEY ACCEPTED MAIL YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO WATSON STATE COMMITTEE CONTRIBUTIONS CONFIDENTIAL. ITOLO YOU YOU! THINK SERIOUSLY BEFORE YOU VOTE (BY COL. THOMAS H. DENNIS). Regarding the outcome of the Democratic caucus at Charleston as a clear betrayal of the Democratic party, its platform and professions, we cannot and will not stand for or approve it. To do so would mean self-stutification and a forfeiture of the confidence of the people. We understand full well the importance of party regularity and no man has been more regular than we, but, if to be regular, we must sanction what was done at Charleston, we prefer to be irregular. To say that we approve the action of the caucus when we do not, would be insincere, if not dishonest. To condone it, to urge the Democracy of the State to submit to and to accept it without protest, would be to encourage disloyalty to the party, bad faith with the people, and to submit to, if not to approve, a well laid scheme for the continued debauchery of the electorate. All this in order to gratify the ambition of two men striving for the party's honors at the sacrifice of its constituency and its principles. How lamentable, how discouraging that just at the time when the Democracy of the State was rejoicing in a great victory and buoyant with hope this deadly blow should be struck at its very vitals and in the house of its friends! For years, particularly in recent years, and more particularly still in last fall's campaign, the revitalized, progressive democracy of the country, throughout the Union, stood up and de- CORRESPONDENCE ALL WEEK Free RAINCOATS WITH EACH SUIT Consisting of Coat, Pants and Vest or Overcoat Ordered SUITS AND OVERCOATS $14 WITHOUT VESTS $13 Made to Measure made to fit CAM KELLER 11 Capitol St. Next Door to Kanawha Valley Bank EAGLE Rev. E. C. Page, of Montgomery, preached two sermons Sunday in the absence of the pastor, Rev. B. A. Brooks, who was at Longacre in revival services. Mrs. Eva B. Rues visited her mother, Mrs. Lizzie Winston (at the Sheltering Arms hospital Tuesday. Mrs. Willie J. Miner left for Charleston last Saturday, where she will spend two weeks. Rev. F. R. Robinson, of Cannelton, was a business visitor here last week. Mrs. Ellen McQueen, of Bonner, was here last week to attend a Reformer Lodge meeting. Mrs. Willie Whiting, of Montgomery, was visiting here last Sunday. David Turner, of Doomer, was a business visitor here last week. Mrs. Fannie Marshall and Mrs. Lucy Godfry were shopping in Montgomery Monday. Mrs. Dora Lemons was visiting in Montgomery last week. James Russ was a business visitor to Paint Creek last Saturday. Miss Mary Williams, Messrs. Arter and Mills were guests of friends at Ennis last week. A political meeting was held at Crozer Hall Saturday night. Mrs. Ella Moore, of Upland, died at her home Sunday evening. Burial at Pocahontas, Monday. Mrs. Mary Mack has been very ill at her home at Ennis. Mrs. Beatrice Callaway, who has been very ill, is greatly improved. Miss S. Z. Jones, who has been ill at her home at Northfork, is greatly improved. Miss Daisy Callaway has been substituting for Miss Jones at the Elkhorn graded school. Owing to an epidemic of diphtheria among whites at Crozer and Upland, the Board of Education has closed the Elkhorn graded and Crozer primary schools until further notice. W. Mack was a business visitor here last week. B. D. Patterson was a business visitor to Emmis Sunday. Miss Lola M. Lavender leaves to spend a week with friends at Wolfe and Simmons. Miss A. E. George left for her home at Gary. Mrs. Pannell, mother of John Pannell, of Houston, died Thursday at the advanced age of 104 years. Burial at Pocahontas. W. H. Harris, agent for the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of California, is here this week. Rev. Crockett baptized two persons Sunday who were converted during his revival at Emmis. W. C. Morris, of Anawalt, was visiting friends at Crozer. Mrs. A. G. Marsh, of Bluefield was the guest of Mrs. O. S. Callaway last week. CHARLESTON Hurt in Runaway. Alfred Scott was badly injured Tuesday afternoon by being thrown from a wagon in a runaway accident. Scott is a driver for W. A. Meerkle, and while driving from the MacCorkle home on the South Side the horse became frightened and ran away, coming across the Kanawha river bridge into the business section of the city. Henry Ward was also in the vehicle, but he escaped injury. The wagon was wrecked and the harness torn to pieces. The horse escaped injury. Victim of Shooting Recovering. Willie Thompson, who was acciden- tally shot by Deputy Sheriff Samuel Harless in attempting to prevent the escape of a prisoner, is improving having sustained only a flesh wound. The boy will soon be able to leave the hospital, where he has been confined since the accident occurred. Hotel Brown Arrivals., W. G. Jones, Parkersburg; H. B. Hundley, Mt. Hope; Frank Jackson, L. W. Jackson, Dorothy; Essie Jackson, Walter Reed, Winifrede; Mr. and Mrs. L. Ford, Mrs. Della Green, Beckley; Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Kenny, Hot Springs, Va.; H. R. White Huntington; H. Carter, Dorothy Gussie Martin, Winifrede; Mr. and Mrs. James Walker, Charlottesville, Va.; Mrs. Roberta Earley, Dorothy; Miss Sadie Allen, Miss M. D. Allen Montgomery; C. R. Caveness, Raymond City; Berkley Williams, New York City; M. Gilmore, Malden; A. Jones, William Allen, Cabin Creek; Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Grey, Boomer; Rev. H. T. McConnell, Huntington; Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hughes, J. T Mitchell and family, Black Betsey; Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Jones, Plymouth; Percy Cousins, Raymond City; Edward Thomas, Baltimore, Md.; William Merritt, Lexington, Ky., wer registered at the Hotel Brown this week. Penn in Town Few Hours.—Dr. f. Garland Penn, Secretary of the Freedmen's Aid Society, of the Methodist Church, passed through the city Thursday of last week, en route to the West Virginia conference of his denomination at Elkins. Dr. Penn made a short call on Rev. J. S. Carroll at the M. E. parsonage. Atheneum Club Entertained. Fifty-three members and visitors of the Atheneum club were entertained Monday evening at the First Baptist parsonage by Miss C. C. Meadows. Miss Willie Brown, Aaron Alexander and J. Q. Adams. The rooms were decorated especially for the occasion and an excellent program was rendered, the principal address being delivered by Rev. B. R. Reed. A. M. E. Ladies' Aid.—The Ladies' Aid society of the St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal church was entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Purnell, Piedmont street, Friday evening of last week, by Miss Blanche Arnold, R. C. Mciver and the pastor of the church, Rev. C. H. Sheen. Lunch was served and a very pleasant evening was spent by the members. Pastor Tendered Reception.—The members and friends of the St. Paul A. M. E. church tendered their pastor, Dr. C. H. Sheen, a reception at the church, Monday evening, which was largely attended. Addresses were delivered by Rev. J. S. Carroll, Rev. Edward Humbles and W. O. Lee, each of whom welcomed Rev. Sheen to his new pastorate and expressed the hope that his work here may bring forth good fruit. Baptist Church Notes.—The Ladies' Aid society meets this evening with Mrs. J. C. Winston, Summers street. Mrs. Hallie Ersex. Jacob street, will entertain the Tribe of Judah. Closing Week of Campaign.—Arrangements have been perfected for several ward meetings in the interest of the Republican state, county and magisterial tickets. The first meeting will be held Monday night at the Crematory and Mrs. Amanda McGhee's. Sentz street. Tuesday night metings will be held at Cowser's restaurant, Court street, and at the axe factory, and Thursday night the True Blue Republican club will hold forth in a rally at the Court House, which is expected to bring out a large proportion of the colored vote. PERSONALS AND LOCALS Mrs. Sanders, who has been visit ing her clater, Mrs. Amanda McGhee, has returned to her Fayette county home. The Married Ladies Whist club held the first meeting of the season with Mrs. J. W. Vlnney. Jacob street, last week. Mrs. Sallie Campbell will be hostess this week. Mrs. B. R. Reed was hostess to the Ladies Art club Tuesday afternoon at her home on Washington street. The Loyal Union will meet Monday evening with Mrs. Maria Alexander, Sentz street. Attorney H. R. White, of Huntington, had a few friends at dinner at Hotel Bronw Wednesday. Mrs. Charles Williams and children have returned from a visit to relatives in Cambridge, O. Mrs. Minerva Woodley continues ill at her home on Washington street. Mrs. I. M. Carper will entertain the improvement League Friday afternoon. The League is preparing to give a unique Hallowe'en masque party at the home of Mrs. F. H. Huskins, Summers treet. Misses Flora Webster and Estells Greene entertained Rev. C. H. Sheen and Mr. and Mrs. George Muse at dinner Sunday. Mrs. Philip Green and Little daughter have returned from Winfield. Mrs. Thomas Whitaker entertained the Married Ladies Whist club Thursday afternoon at her home on Sentz street. THE NEGRO IN BUSINESS Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia. The Negro in business has been making unusual progress. In 1911, the American Negro, engaged in farming, merchandising, real estate, manufacturing, numbering, insurance, printing and publishing, engineering and banking, contributed over $700,000,000 to the wealth of the nation. It has been aptly said that "the race creates admirably; it gets left in the distribution." The problem of the Negro in business is this: How to make the raw material produced by him not the end of his effort, but the basis of his individual activity. Through persistence, initiative and co-operation, thousands of Negro men and women in all parts of the United States have developed small business ventures into substantial business enterprises. They have saved and invested money carefully: they have put into their everyday business life the wise suggestion given them by Dr. Washington and other men who are vitally interested in the race's welfare. Today the outlook for the Negro in business is not only bright but actually inspiring. Negro men and women are quietly getting a firm hold on the essentials of success in business—the buying of homes, the extension of businesses, the opening of factories, the establishment of banks and the better appreciation of commercial pursuits. Dr. Washington has emphasized the importance of ten million Negroes in America becoming the owners and users of the 270,000,000 acres of unused and unoccupied land in the South and West. He declares that if white men can establish and operate saw mills, coal mines, brick yards, lime kilns, and other enterprises, he can see no reason why the Negro should not engage in similar work and reap some of the benefits which come to those who own, develop, manufacture and trade in the natural resources of the country. He declares that in at least twenty-five places in the South and West Negroes may build towns and cities similar to Mound Bayou in Mississippi and Eoley in Oklahoma. To carry on this constructive work Negro men and women from the colleges and universities are needed To increase the business strength and influence of Negroes, men must organize, locally, in the state, in the nation. By the side of the teacher and the minister, there must stand in helpful relation the independent farmer, the real estate owner, the manufacturer, the merchant and the banker. There are places in the South today, according to Dr. Washington, for 5,000 additional Negro dry goods stores, 8,000 grocery stores, 3,500 drug stores, 2,000 shoe stores, 1,550 millinery stores and 2,000 Negro banks. Development and activity in all these lines," according to Dr. Washington. "does not mean that we are to be commercialized as a race—to be merely bread-winners, hewers of wood and drawers of water. It means that we shall be producers of bread, owners of bread, manufacturers, of bread, dealers in bread, and that we shall gather wealth from the bread business which can be turned into the highest and best things of life. We are to be owners and users of wood in a way that will bring to us happiness, usefulness and prosperity. A few experiences given in briefest outline will suggest the uphill struggle that the Negro in business has had. E. W. Green, of Fayette, Miles, the Largest Negro taxpayer in Jefferson county, began work at $10 a month. At the end of ten years he was earning $60 a month. He became an independent farmer. Now he owns 1,000 acres of land, 80 head, of stock, carries $1,300 worth of insurance on his house, $11,000 worth of insurance on his life, em- (Continued on page three.) The Band of Highwaymen NATIONAL RER COMMITTEE M.C. CUTCHER Perfect Feet Free From Corns and Bunions This is the place to get them. We are collecting all the corn and bunions in town—giving in exchange perfect, healthy, normal feet—free with every pair of the famous Dr. A. Reed Cushion Shoes. You simply can't have corn or bunions if you wear Dr. A. Reed Cushion Shoes. They're made to prevent and to do away with corn—and inside of a month, you'll see the wonderful change in your feet. The reason is simply this: In Dr. A. Reed Cushion Shoes, your foot sinks into a soft cushion insole—the pressure of the upper is released—and there no friction at all—your corn disappear. But best of all, you'll enjoy walking—for when your foot sinks into the cushion insole—your weight is spread evenly over your foot—and it's like walking on air. Come in and see this famous Dr. A. Reed Cushion Shoe—many styles to choose from at reasonable prices. Exclusive Agency BELL SHOE CO. 708 Kanawha Street OUR Ice Cream Parlor STRANGERS AND TRAVELING PERSONS BEST SODA WATER ONLY 5 CTS. OUR PLANS UP-TO-DATE SERVICE IS OUR WATCHWORD THE PEOPLES' GROCERY CO. WM. H., PARKER, Manager. TR ADVOCATE. The Band of Hi BY John McC Once there was a Band of Highwaymen who had operated so long and so successfully that they became very bold indeed. They plundered the People right and left and when the Poor Victims ried out in helpless despair, the Robbers uttered peal after peal of mocking laughter. So powerful did the Band become that they controlled by secret and sinister means the very Government itself, and thus enjoyed great Prosperity. Some of the Prosperity was distributed to quiet the People, but of course the Robbers kept most of it themselves. When they pounced upon a Helper, less Wayfarer, the poor man would meekly yield because of his helplessness before such powerful enemies. He would raise his eyes in despair and sigh. "What a lovely chance I have against such a Combination!" The sentiment of the People be- same very bitter against the powers that were leagued against them, but what could they do? They could m of express themselves except in a Telpless Fury... But one fine day in June a deter- nine4 Man of stout heart walk- down the Highway toward where the Jobbers were assembled and when he latter perceived him they nearly y Perfect spit their slices a laughing. They leaped out upon him with loud shouts of merriment. They robbed him in broad daylight, so bold had they become. But to their great surprise, the Victim instead of submissively yielding as all the others had done, at once began to put up a mighty fight. He fought so vigorously that the Robbers were quite taken aback. "What's this?" they gasped. "Who is this brash person who fares fight back?" In the meantime, the noise of the fight had attracted a Great Crowd of People who came rushing up and were muttering angry threats against them. "What do you think of this?" exclaimed the Robbers, appealing to the crowd. "Here we were robbing and beating this person and he is setting up an awful roar. He's a poor loser. He's poor sport. Why doesn't he take his medicine like a man instead of Squaling? When a man gets robbed he ought to be a graceful loser and acknowledge that he has lost." Moral: Some people think it is Bad Form and an-American to resist when you are being robbed of what you have earned. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1912 THE HABIT WEAR Diamond Shoe And Save Diamond Shoe St 215 Capitol Street three New Pictures THE AIRDON Table Seats. Plenty of our Patronage Solicite icture is a First Run. Never S Charleston Before. DRY CLEANING Y WA SHOE REPAIRING St. ABIT EAR and Shoes And Save Money Shoe Store Hol Street New Pictures 5c RDOME Plenty of Room. age Solicited Run. Never Shown in on Before. CLEANING WAY REPAIRING GET THE HABIT WEAR Diamond Shoes And Save Money Diamond Shoe Store 215 Capitol Street 5c Three New Pictures 5c DRY CLEANING NUWAY SHOE REPAIRING Charleston, W. Va. BROWN AND BRIDGE WORK A SPECIAL HOURS: 8:30 A. M. to 1:30 P. M., 2:00 to 6:00 P. JAMES B. BROW Dental Surgeon 1, K. of P. Bldg. WE WORK A SPECIALTY 1:30 P. M., 2:00 to 6:00 P. M. S. B. BROWN Surgeon Home Phone 429 N. C. BRACKETT, Treasurer. COLLEGE Ferry, W. a. In 1867 we have graduated here. The oldest school magnificent location. Elevation high. buildings. THREE NEW BUILDINGS BE- S YEAR. The regular faculty of six- ers does not include assistants. going to the Dewey System, is one of the AS ARE GRANTED TO THOSE MEM- MASSES WHO ARE RECOMMENDED TO MGN. Storer is interdenominational in whole influence is toward Christian Organizations, Musical Clubs, Bands and formal, Industrial, Music. Other printed matter write to CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK A SPECIALTY HOURS: 8:30 A. M. to 1:30 P. M., 2:00 to 6:00 P. M. Dr. JAMES B. BROWN Dental Surgeon Office: Room 1, K. of P. Bldg. Home Phone 429 TORER COLLE Harper's Ferry, W. a. Founded in 1867 More than 400 men and women have graduated here. The oldest school in the state for Colored students. Magnificent location. Elevation high. Remarkably healthful. Ample buildings. THREE NEW BUILDINGS BEING ADDED TO OUR PLANT THIS YEAR. The regular faculty of sixteen highly educated, earnest, teachers does not include assistants. 400 men and women have graduated here. They are Colored students. Magnificent location. Beautiful, Ample buildings. THREE NEW Houses TO OUR PLANT THIS YEAR. The regular educated, earnest teachers does not include any catalogued according to the Dewey System State. MADE CERTIFICATES ARE GRANTED TO THE GRADUATING CLASSES WHO ARE RECORDED OF EDUCATION. Storer is interested student body. Its whole influence is toward Societies, Christian Organizations, Musical Arts. Academic, State Normal, Industrial, Musical catalogued catalogue and other printed matter will FIRST GRade CERTIFICATES ARE GRANTED TO THOSE MEMBERS OF THE GRADUATING CLASSES WHO ARE RECOMMENDED TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Storer is interdenominational in its faculty and student body. Its whole influence is toward Christian living. Literary Societies, Christian Organizations, Musical Clubs, Bands and Sane Athletics. COURSES: Academic, State Normal, Industrial, Music. For illustrated catalogue and other printed matter write to The President. RMAN OFFICE S. BERMAN LOAN OFFICE Money Loaned on Jewelry and Clothing 605 Kanawha Street CROWN AND BIG HOURS: 8:30 A. M. Dr. JAME Dent Office: Room 1, K. of P. Bldg. HENRY T. M'DONALD, President. Phone 790 pais é Ty ee VEE TRE " CT eo Seon NeeM yn ieee Rey Cop ine Nees . Ls i RO ret wake aes OME ered Oe eae oy) a Td chr emee pee i Ss Re eS Sa aR EA PIRES PURO OT athe Pe PR RS Ae ESO et RS Be : y iy Nee “ at es ya RL ORR AM Dey ae SR Ree GMS ask no ae F ‘3 5 ‘ t iiss SRE NY Sein Th eer ETA RN tae Rp ae if COC ‘i eg iors ie . Ue seta Haein! yee WB posit et he RR ee eh hots gn we ee ; : 5s oy Pet (OREN ont MAW THURADAY):.OOnGbEN, teat i ie Rae A eS gh i i a | | Best Bottled i d Whiskey Dest Bottled in Bon Iskey Money Can Buy. one an Duy. Pay ope. 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Wi B he Mark , ines, best on the Market | Sherry, per gallon,......./......92.00; per quart ....2......:40e; per pint Piette sees ree 260, | Port, per gallon... .......0..66. 2.00; por quart o..........4005 por pint ..eeee ces scceceee 250 | Blackberry, per gallon.......... 2.00; per quart °.......666.4005 por pint ..eeeeccccceceeeee8° | Small Bottles of Beer, per doz... . 150; Large Bottles of Beer Per dos. oe. sess SIL BS { ae Neh 8 eee REN FO J. D. Garten & Company ee te MORRIS STARK, Manager 122, Lovell St. Phone 2251 Charleston, W. Va. The Old “Saunders Place” a Roosevelt Gives. Mad gla wonooh ahd Bee te Isai ay Caeser ee bs In tho same breath. “I praised them|was Woking théni over the. other Interview)» equally a6 fine, “virile Western day and realizing how 1 went on (Continued From Page One.) ‘The people lived and worked four deep in little tenement rooms- - starved, diseased and worn out wita long hours and low pay., I went to the bottom of the thing, as I thought then. I found thac some of the most eminently respectable people in New York owned those tenements, Ani all that ¥ learned in the investigation and in the fight to pass a decent law knocked, my latssez faire theories in- to a cocked hat. ‘However you might work it out In theory, It was a failure in practice. Could those ‘poor fellows Ret out and do some- thing else? Practically, no.. ‘The frontier was gone, and in the condition to which they were reduc- ed, they weren't the kind of people to go pioneering. 1 think. I got here my first glimmering idea of real social service. Iwanted to do some- thing for pople like. that—something for meu. “That's the set of ideas which brought with mo {nto the ClvY Serv- ice Commission aa the Police Com- mission. ‘And by that time 1 was on the road to areal understanding of Social. Service. "It was. Jacob Rits who setyme on thé right track, 1 had read hie storfes Bbout. real condi- tions in ‘Néw York: and cl sald’ to him, ‘Let‘s get in and work together. Let's Ho something to take this real.’ : “It was fight, fight all. the time, that Police Commiaston job. But, after all I wag fighting only the pre- fessional grafters —bloated, tat thieves who got their money as they could, and spent it in champagne Vaths and'debauches up the Hudson such as ‘Tweed used to hold. 1 didn’t bave much support whénever 1 styuck ont to do something new, ‘On the one side were those fellows, and on the other a lot of sappy idealists who couldn't be got to un- derstand. 1 didn’t — understand mutch myself, I went on thinkin, that the grafting professional poli- tician was the real menace of democ: yacy, and that iz-we got a business administration everything would be right. SUM, the other thing was ty the back of my head all the time. You see, 1 had come out of colleze with the educated head, but 1 hadn't even yet the educated heart “After that, T went down to Wash- ington. 1 was busy reorganizing the Navy, which was a business job and didn't bring me up against the real question. “Then it was the war and the. Rough Riders, ‘There was lot of the Jack Hazard stuff still in me—I see that now. { remembor that when I was first in. Washington Tused to tell my New York acquaint- ances with great enthusiasm aby! +" Chere he mentioned the name of a rich and self-made piratical of the old school) “and Bob La Follette, In tho same breath. ‘I praised them ‘both equally as fine, virile Western men who thad come up from the ranks by their own efforts. ‘That's the subtile point—1 wonder if you see it? They looked alike to me. | couldn't draw any distinction—yet. “| became Governor of New York. ‘There was where I began to see Ught I ran against what we used to call the money power. You know, I'd heard that phrase all my life, and laughed at it. When Bryan used 1, I thought of it as the vaporing of a indy demagogue. ‘Take the Lon Payn’s Payne inctdent—1 can’t re- member exactly whether that or the franchise tax bill was first in ordor. I was fighting Payn's appointment an Insurance Commissioner. It was a question If I could get any other appointment through. the Legislature A respectable young gentleman catce up from New York, representing one of the insurance companies. Le sald: ‘We'd support some other man, If we were sure you could put him through, but we're afraid of opnosing Payn, for fear he may tak.» iCout on ne in case he wins..." 1 said, ‘Legislature or no legislature, — 1)1 stick it out, If they don't confirm my maa, then I'll try another and it won't be Payn.’. Ho sald, ‘In caso, we'll support your appointee. Wo can deliver four senators and threo ‘assomblyimen.’ Tho nextday, tho president of that company gave ovit & statement endorsing Payn. 1 sent down to find what it meant, Ho sald, ‘Oh. that’s all tight; we're on ly guarding ourselves in’ case Payn should go in. We'll deliver our sen: ators and assomblymen just the same.’ Do you get it? Four Senators and three assemblymen-— not bought casually as they used to buy men in tho legislature during my time, but the servants of the cor- poration.. “Put that was a tea-party compar- ed to tho franchise tax bill. At uv. cry stroke, I ent Into some interest, I saw their power; I began to see how they worked. After it was all over and Td jammed the bill through, Tom Platt wrote me a let- ter—" Here Roosevelt hesitated “T've never given that out for pnb- Heation.” he said finally. “But it'e jong past now.. Tom Platt sald. I've been hearing for a long time that you were an altrutst. Now T am reluctantly forced to admit that itis true.* He wan't trying to he humorous, either, — ‘Altruist’ with him was the samo as anarchist or commnnist, “ABT look back on it now. 1 mast have gone pretty far, nneonacionsly, before 1 went down to Washinaton 14 Vice-President and — Prosident Protty far from theee times. T mean 1 wasn't #0 far from the right Idea, after all. Look up my letter of ae- ceptance and notice that 1 was after (ime trusts even then, My growta is all fy my successive messages. 1 was Woking thént over the. other day and realizing how 1 went on from point to point in soven years, |. “When: I started to clean. up the Posoffice Department, for exam:, js 1 found that every time f cut into anything, I struck a big interest do- ing something crooded and unfair. ‘Then there was the matter of judges, ‘{ apointed them just as Cleveland and MeKinley had done. Cleveland and MeKinley had no idea of. corrup- Uon, of course... ‘They only saw-— ‘Conscientiously-—that-men ‘were ap- pointed who woutdn’t disturb the conservative and orderly course of businoss. I -tsed to follow sotie- ‘thing the same system. 1 picked iny judges on the recommendation of bar associations “and chambers of commerce, and all that. Then we broke into that lana graft situation in the West. Frank Heney took off ‘is coat’ and went to work. And I found out about son'¢ of those judgas —and I'd ‘appointed part of them ‘myself—found what consideration sSoverned their decisions.” Here Roosevelt whirled in iis chair, clicked his teeth and let {nto his voice that strident note which comes when he is dead in earnest. “Why,” he said, “1 got my first of that long ago, when I was trying -o regulate that tenament. house tohac- co business in the State Legislature, The higher courts declared our bi)! Unconstitutional berauge jt violated the sanctity of the home. There they Were, two families and a lodger Iv. jing and working in ong dark, fifteen foot room, men and women crowded fogether, leaf. tobacco packed: under ‘the beds where their children slept, bo samMtary arrangmehts, filth heap- ed in the corners, disease, fliey and misery everywhere—but we musn't do anything to ameliorate their con- diton—ecouldn't do anything —tor fear of violating the sancitity of homes like these! As I went on, 1 absorbed the other articles of tho Progressive Platform, took up with some other follows's idea tn which, Perhans, T hadn't seen much at fire! The initiative and referendum, the popular election of senators, and wo- man suffrage, for example. Unidér- stand, T was always in favor at woe man suffrage asa matter of ultimate social justice, but 1 didn't regard jt a6 important, It was such women as Frances Kellor and Jane Addams who showed me that working girle neod it for thelr own protection The review of indicial decisions came in a afferent way, When wa met that tend citation, T eald that we Fhomld have some method of eri felzine our jndres, Then 1 went the whole route. and the review of {v. ficial derisione was my contribution to the Progroasive program"! “And free competition verstis mo. nanotya" It was here that Roosevelt aa: foned the history of hiS¥n Inte lectwal” development “to gat atthe subject which he bad: been” burning to approach all” the, afternoons=the isaues of the, campaign. ~ “Undefatand,” 5A" sald,” “0m ~ not for ‘monoply: whem we. can welp It, We intend to'restoré comptition; we intend to do sway. with the condi- tlons that make for: monoply, » Bit there aro certain monopoltos which you can't: prevent; <I undérateana monoply. But if ft were, ‘what would be tho use of aplittihg up me Steel Trust into three companies, controlled by Mbreay; Carnagié and Rockefeller, say? Would it ameli- orate conditions at all? ‘Would ‘it make the prices lower to the cdnsv- mer; the wages and conditions high or forthe worker? ‘Don’t you sup- Pose those thrée-feliows would agrér on''prices and ‘methods unofficially? Here's one of your oxamples of frec competition. I aw a while ago the plant of a competitor of the Stoe! Trust. The wages ‘were lower than those of the trust, the hours were longer, the conditions in every way worse—it is one of the concerns itp- on which The Survey came down the hardest.. How would it nelp if we should restore such competition «9 that? ‘The Standard Oi1 Company has been officially broken up. The result is higher prices for the publi and just as big dividends for tho stockholders—unionism barred— no advance for the workers., “The* truth Js; In this discussion they're losing sight of the main thing—men and women. . We're for mien,” free competition atid monop- ly—they're afl'the same ‘thing unless You ‘Improve thé cohdition of the workers." 2." “My plan was pretty well laid out before T loft’ ghe- White House. Put them -ander-a strong Federal Com- missin, Make”thetit open up their books: | Where ‘s§6'find violations 01 the spirit or the Jeter of the law, apply sich laWa as we have, and where we have none, make. others to meet the conditions. In case of Persistent violations of laws to pro- tect the workers and the consunivrs, appoint a receiver... Why . not? There's nothing revolutionary in it. ‘The Interstate Commerce Commie- ‘sion has almost as much power, and wwe go exactly as far in the ‘bank. ing department. “Run them as w» do the banks. Demand the right t» ‘know what they're doing; if they’re doing wrong, hit them; if they con. tinue to do. wrong, ¢lap a ‘receiver: ship on them, keen it. on until ‘they're straightened ‘out. and restor them—" here Rooseyelt’s voice took on the strident: note—"'restore them lo a, chastened — ownership—tno, growing concerns, but going In. the right direction “Do you know one’ of tho impros- sions I got in those years of fighting in’ the Wilite Honge? Jt was a con- fms for the merely’ rich man. Not contempt for wealth, but for the aims and. uses of wealth as. things ‘have gone in our worst period. ‘The ‘tremendous, . corruption uso of wealth in our affairs—that was the thing which struck me most... Wha! ‘Patriotism, that: spiritual’ end, 4s there in most merely rich men,. 73 eage-of war, do'you suppose — thev would. cond - the'f song. Do. they fee¥ any obligations oxeept to thelr own’ fortunes? If they, do~ some: thing with It, that's different!, When I heard of George’ Perkina, making ‘millions jn Wall Streot,: helping. con- tral the financial ettoation, he meant ‘nothing to me. When I-found he was anxious to do such work as, for instance, getting Palisade Park ovor ‘there for the people, then I became Interested in him “And that,” concluded Roosevelt. as his secretary laid’ down betoxe him that sheaf of telegrams which ‘pour in nicht and day upon a natton- ‘al candidate, “is what we're aftet Break the vhamefnl abuses of wealta Restore his reward to the man who did the work. Back of all this tat% about monopoly and competition is ‘the question, ‘What are you going to do for women and men?’ ” Don't be talked Inco paying hich prices for shoes, as O. J. Morrison's Dept. Store is selling cheaper than ever. ‘ + NEGRO NOW WORTH $500,000 Pulbuan’ Porter Mikes Phenominal Progress in hive Years. Brockton, Mass., Oct. 19—From a Pullman porter to ous of the biggost Property owners in the clty in five years is the Jump watch Watt Terry, a Negro hag’ made. When papers passed conveying to ‘Terry the fam- ous Checkerton and Chesston apatt- mente, valued af $150,006, the col- ored man became the owher of $500,- 000 worth of the chotcost property in the city ‘Terry has had a metédte career. and where he once made $7 a week ho is now making hundreds. Com- ng herve from his tome in Virginia when a young man he took a’ position a3 coachman for a well known phy- sician, ‘Then he went to the Y. M. C. A. a8 assistant Janitor and became interested In the evening: school. He enrolled and stndiod diligently for a fone time, Finally he went away and was a Pullman porter for a while; then he returned to Broct- ‘on and went to work In a shoe fac- tory, starting at $7 a weeks He is euperintendent of the Messiah Baptist Sunday school and te ac- Wve in church work oo Don't fall to seo the big shoo vale 10s at Morrison's Dept, ‘Store, ladios, BAS EAITH IN ~ WEST VIRGINIA HE Willams, Candidate for Commissioner of Agriculture, | IS: A> SCIENTIFIC FARMER + Expresses Views On Questions Hav- ing to Do With Development of Us ec ee Jin my primary election campaign 1 stated that, in my judgment, it is not orily the. duty, but the privilege, of very. candidate: for office where the Public interesta are affected to ex- press his views on questions in which thie people are interested, #0 that they may know his position and, with rea- sonable certainty, anticipate his ac- tion, I did so in ‘my primgry election in what might be termed my plat- form. It is ‘therefore a matter of Pleasure for me to again express my views to the people of West Virginia oti some Of these important questions. In my. judgment the office of com- minstoner of agriculture 1s one of the most important in the gift of the pao- Dle of the istate, because of the great responsibility and far-reaching influ- ence which has been placed upon this commissioner by the legislature; and af the possibilities for agricultural de- velopments. which He within our state, Possibilities which are limited only by two things, the appropriations from the legislature and the man’s ability and willingness to xerve thie people. I'pelieve thdt agriculture is the fundamental. and. perbaps. the, moat Smpertant. of any of the industrial pursuits. The consumption of . food Products n West Virginia te far grent- er than the supply. We have much waste and worthless land in Weat ‘Virginia which can be made to bring 8 good return, Much of the land now under cultivation 1s not sufficiently productive. We ought, therefore, to exert every effort to devélop our jands, conserve ur soils along prac- tical lines and make them productive of the things most profitable, whether they be apples or blue grass, or some- thing élse. L.pelleve in the development of our zatural resources, such as coal, oll and gas land, but under such a sys- tem aa will prevent all unnecessary waste, and will ‘conserve for future generations as much of that product au may bein keeping with our present needs. We ought to develop our timber Innds, but under such conditions as will best protect from destruction that part of the forests not now of sufficient size to be of market value. The. average timber owner or lumber Man’ fs helpless under our conditions in West’ Virginia. Im my judgment the state should in wome way encour- age and help In the protection and conservation of our forests, I favor the best system of public schgots postiible under our conditions. ‘The standard set for our teachers should Pe the highest and their.com- Pensation in just proportion. 1 I belfeve’ that the farmer should have ‘legal protection from the im- Dortation of filthy and polluted agri- cultural seeds, and that the feeders ¥hould be protected from the importa- tion of mixed and “untrue to name” feeding stutts. I favor the creation of a public util- {ties cominisston to assess values on public ulilities, and to so regulate their services that netther the corpo- ration nor the public shall be imposed upon. A just ‘compensation for ser- vice rendered {8 certainly the moral and legal right of both capital and labor. 1 favor @ primary election law whereby all political parties may have nominations made at stato expense on the sume day, on the same ballot, and in such a manner that the choice of the people may be clearly ascor- tained. There are many things along this line which might be mentioned, such 8 a pure food law, properly enforced. The collection of agricultural sta- tistics at such time and in euch man- ner as may be of value to the state and the nation jn estimating the quan- tity of the product, and thus being en- abled to anticipate prices. 1 favor co-operation with the real estate agents of the state, to the end that our farms may be repopulated and that new peopl and new blood may be scattered throughout our state for the production of those things of which we are #0 sadly in need. Last, but by no moans least, ! tavor the construction of a good ays. tom of public roads by national, state and local co-operation. The cost of tood products will con tinue to be governed by the supply tind demand. Under our conditions local competition is entirely removed for ‘many months of the year on ac count of the condition of our roads. Our country churches and country Rchools can not prosper as they ¥hould under such conditions. These questions I have been study ing for years. I know the farm from the practical, “hard work” side, and my work in @chool and in college has beon of the same character. T do not offer a solution for all these problems, but whether electod or not I shail continue to work an best 1 may for the best solution, because they must be solved, and solved right Resnectfulty, ADVERTISH IN THE. ADVOCATE FOR BEST RESULTS ; ROBERTS & AUETZ} * DEALERS IN "ee Pare Whisktes, Wines, Gins, Brandies, Beer, Gigars.@ Tobacc | LUNCH COUNTER IN CONNECTION Phone 1705 508 Kanawha St, CHARLESTON, W. Va. pa DR. B. A. CRICHLOW | OFFICE 805 1-2 Kanawha St. Charleston, WWE, RESIDENCE 304 DONNALLY ST. Office Phone 1102 = - Residence’ Phone 1187 i ces ROMice Hours: 941 a | mus 24 pom 6-8-p, m. be ge Mutual Loan & Jewelry Co. | fet: \ H. GALPERIN, Prop. . Pee bes a\ —_ as ear aes MONEY ADVANCED “ON d Week tetcayers) DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWELRY, BICYCLES ; ee or es AND OW ALL 6000S OF VALUE \@eah ey, «GREAT BARGAINS IN UNREDFEMED PLEDGES. | NGG) «720 Kanawha St, ~~ Gharteston,W. Vee! ONS we ye THE KANAWHA VALLEY BANK BULLOING. 4%. J A.N. EAGAN | JEWELER i 806 QUARRIER ST. CHARFESTON, W: VA: RIGHT PRICES ON See Bae DIAMONDS, WATCHES, COOKS AND JEWELRY Ee FIME WATCH REPARING. A SPECIALTY CHARLESTON’S BIG GROCERY | /\ODERN Market and Cash Grocery Co. Watch Our Friday and ‘Galina Specials. ploys 70 working people, and has [oroperty holdings worth $80,000. at east. This colored man began his /married Ifo with few possessions. ‘at pair of shoes worth $1.50, a $10 suit, and wedding clothes worth $12. ‘Green, who was left an orphan at ‘the ‘age of 16, has, at the age of 48, become a wealthy and independ- ent farmer, who will harvest this year weil over 6,000 bushels of corn and at least 40 bales of cotton. David Nelson, of Little Rock, Ark., owns 400 acres of land and ts worth $50,000. When he was emancipated he aid not have a dol- Jar. Today Nolson raises on his farm apples and peaches, German clover, Irish potatoes, alfalfa ana cotton, for money «nd not tor ex- perience, A most striking story of a Negro’s success in business, the facts of which have been amply verified, 18 that of Watt Terry, formerly of Mecklonburg county, “Va., who ar. rived in Brockton In 1900 with a capital of 15 cents. Watt Terry se- cured work as a coachman, Then for two years and a half he servoa gy assistant Janitor in the ¥, M. C. ‘A, For a month he worked as a railroad porter. Finally, he made up his mind that he wanted to learm the shoomaker's trade. He had con- siderable difficulty getting a start. ‘At Inst he decided that he would as cept a shoe foreman's proposition and work for two weeks for nothin orier to get a start at $7 per week, To smooth out some of his difficulties he occasionally bough: }anatas and passed them around to ® © fellow workers. In time he won their good will as well as promo- How. By degrees he advanced him- self until! he was able to earn $25 a week, ae oh kl ahaie PAGE TRS: , Watt Terry has had a rough rout’ to travel... Men were unwilling: to allow -him-to learn to-fan «ma: chine, For weeks he worked alotie in tho ‘factory: front 5 to 6 iY’ the’ levening, ‘while the power was. atilt on and the men were away, ut: %o’ machines, ee agh pugs Today, at the age of, So atlas years “YRS ERO? bead Senta Go Wal i Watt Terry owns and controls 50, separate pigdes of property, contain*! ing 222 apartments, which have ay |agsregate worth of $500,000. While ‘there are some’ mortgages on’, this, property, Watt Terry holdqrly every, jease the controlling, Aanltnys He_is ‘able to borrow money at »5 Mand 6! Per cent., and oarne with. the same, money 12 per cent, ‘Do@ay his in-t come ranges from $4,608 to $7,000, ver month. Watt Terry attringtes’ his success in business to: hard ‘work, honesty and persistence, and “de-. clares that he owes much to the in- fluence of the Y. M. C, A, Indeed, hej has contributed $1,000 to the Hroeke ton Y. M. C. A. Watt, Torry tng Quiet, wolt-possdasoa wkd HAM ef In Chicago the. approkima vagos of roa) estate managed by Noses? is $1,500,000, Today the Ne; 8 | of Chicago are sheltered better tl fi tho Negroes of any“gther city In fho™ world, ¥ = The Wie increasing bneineasint, Morrison's Dept Btors to aus Wo tiiely low prices, * i ¥ Linger Long In Service. ™ Vital statisticn ascribe short ttvei! to printers, on the average, but the report of the publia printer viata that there are employed at present tn: tho gorernment office at Washingtod | 250 persons over sixty-five years of, age. The saying that.among the gov ernmént employes, “few die and remiign,’t, woornathie —arerr~rmnna ye PAGE FOUR Published every Thursday by The Advocate Printing and Publishing Co., Inc. J. C. GILMER, Editor. G. L. CUZZENS, Business Manager. Entered as second class matter a* the Post Office at Charleston, W. Va., under Act of Congress of March 30, 1879. Office: Room 11 K. of P. Building. Phone 2185. RATES BY SUBSCRIPTION. By mail, one year..... $1.50 By mail, six months..... $1.00 By Mail, three months..... .50 "WE STAND AT ARMAGEDDON AND WE BATTLE FOR THE LORD." PROGRESSIVE-REPUBLICAN TICKET For President. Theodore Roosevelt, of New York For Vice President. Hiram Johnson, of California. STATE TICKET For Governor, Dr. H. D. Hatfield. For Secretary of State, Stuart F. Reed. For Supt. of Free Schools, M. P. Shawkey. For Commissioner of Agriculture, Howard E. Williams. For Attorney General, A. A. Lilly. For State Treasurer, E. L. Long. For Congressman-at-Large, Howard Sutherland. For Judges of Supreme Court, George Poffenbarger, Chas. W. Lynch. CONGRESSIONAL TICKET For Congress, Third District, Samuel B. Avis. SENATORIAL TICKET. For State Senate, 8th District, E. T. England. JUDICIAL TICKET. For Judge of Circuit Court, 10th District, S. C. Burdette. KANWAHA COUNTY TICKET For Sheriff, Bonner H. Hill. For Prosecuting Attorney, Thos. C. Townsend. For County Commissioner, Dr. M. P. Malcolm. For Assessor, Henry A. Walker. For House of Delegates, John Bannister, G. C. Reynolds, Adolph E. Scherr, A. C. Vandine, W. W. Wertz. CHARLESTON DISTRICF TICKET For Justice of the Peace. C. W. Dering. Marion Gilchrist. G. D. Acree, Hansford F. Jenkins. Playing Dirty Politics. In its feeble attempts to advance the cause of the Progressive party in the Nation and the Republican party (endorsed by the Progressives) in the State, The Advocate has resorted to neither outright falsification nor distortion of the truth, deeming such methods not only unjust, but unnecessary. Relying upon the justness of the principle which it espouses, The Advocate has not felt called upon to put words in any man's mouth nor to manufacture exaggerated statements and charge them to any of the candidate opposed to the party which it supports. That other newspapers in the State are not governed by such ethics is evidenced by an editorial statement appearing in the Charleston Daily Mall of October 21st, under the caption, "A Pair of Election Predictions." Commenting on the prediction of Mr. Grant P. Hall which appeared in The Kanawha Citizen of that date, that Colonel Moorevelt would carry West Virginia, The Mail said: "The people of West Virginia don't hear ex-Governor Dawson, the real leader of the Progressives in this state, and to whom all others must bow the Progressive hear whether they like it or not, making any such predictions as Grant P. Bull, Mr. Dawson's one-time enemy is making. We don't over hear William Seymour Edwards, Mr. Dawson's able first lieutenant, making any such predictions. We don't ever hear the Advocate, whose editor J. C. Gillmer, Col. Roosevelt said was the superior of any white delegate from West Virginia to the Roosevelt national convention, making any such prediction, yet The Advocate is the real and only organ of the Progressives in Charleston. The statement that ex-Governor Dawson, or Col. William Seymour Edwards, or the writer has or has not predicted that Col. Roosevelt will carry West Virginia is of trivial importance and will not affect Chances one way or another, but the statement that Col. Roosevelt said the editor of The Advocate "was the superior of any white delegate from West Virginia to the Roosevelt national convention, is of importance and is not without effect. It is because of this importance and effectiveness that The Mail made the statement and The Advocate refutes it. In his whole discussion of the attitude of the Progressive party toward the Colored race, Col. Rosevelt made no assertion which might be construed into what The Mail credits him with having said, Speaking of the Negro representatives from this State to the Progressive National Convention, he said: "Nayer before has-W. Virginia sent two colored delegates to a National Convention; and the colored delegates it has sent are in character and standing, the peers of the white delegates from that State." Now, The Mail knows that "peer" and "superior" are by no means synonyms. Why, then, did it substitute the latter word for the former? The answer is found in the motive of the tory press as a whole in its campaign of vilification and menace. Anything to defeat Col Roosevelt. Any method is justifiable, even stirring up the fires of race prejudice—the effect The Mail's editorial has, whether it was so intended or not. There are, unfortunately, many voters who could be turned against the Progressive party, if they were told its candidate bad made a comparison between a Negro and a white man unfavorable to the latter. Such a method of securing support is not without precedent, but its use is condemned by right-thinking folks. Roosevelt. Under the caption above, the Denver (Colo.) Post expressed its change of heart on the morning following the shooting of the Colored at Milwaukee: Said the Post: "You cannot read the speech that Theodore Roosevelt made last night in Milwaukee, after he had been shot, without a lump rising in your throat and a surging of blood through your body that leaves you flushed and angry and proud in its sweep of high emotion. Angry that this thing could have happened here to one of our great soldiers of the common good in the midst of his most vallant fight. Angry at that and ashamed for it, too." "And proud with a great pride that this son of America, "with the blood soaking through his clothes," could have sent that valiant call of his to cheer the listening crowd and tell them that he had "lived well" and could face the prospects of death joyfully because he would leave to men the memory of a life that had been full to overflowing. "There are other men who bulk big in the eye of the people today. There are good men, and kind men, and wise men, and men who can speak as prettily about this small thing and that. But, alone of them all, Theodore Rooseyelt has this way of rising to his great occasions greatly and standing before us stark and big, with the light of a great soul flooding about him and a world that pays attention to his words. Hear again the valiant farewell that rose from him last night in Milwaukee as he stool 1, "with the bloot soaking through his clothes," and I taught these men and women another lesson in supreme courage. "I want you to understand," he said, and his face was white with pain as he spoke. "I want you to understand that I am ahead of the game anyway. I have been able to do certain things. And I can tell you with absolute truthfulness that I am very much uninterested in whether I am shot or not. What I do care for is my country." "With that, and his head high, he stld littlemore, for the strength was not in him to speak 't length; but it was like Roosevelt that wounded though he might be—the spirit flamed in him still to tell them the thing that was nearest his heart and rally them about him in the fight where his banners were still flung wide to the breeze. "For Roosevelt has always been a fighter; he has always faced his adversaries square and unfinching; he has never turned his back on a friend or an enemy; and he looks upon himself as a man dedicated to the service of his country, who has counted the chance of that service as the kind of good fortune that has kept him "abead of the game." "He was "abead of the game" "because they thought they would ditch him by making him vice president." He was "ahead of the game," when he succeeded McKinley and took up the work that they imagined, their trick had denied to him. He was "ahead of the game" when he walked out of the White House and left Taft to carry on the fight that Taft was so incapable of waging. He was "ahead of the game" when a coward shot him in Milwaukee last night, and he went to the meeting to say what might have been a long farewell with the blood of the wound "soaking through his clothes." "And he will be "ahead of the game" when the inevitable call comes for him, as it must come for all of us, because there is in Roosevelt the stuff that saints had heroes are made of, and no man who rallies to his standard need take shame for the leader he follows. "Think what you like of his policies; choose whatever leader is best suited to your temper; but never for a moment allow yourself to underestimate the hold on the people of this country of the man who could talk as Theodore Roosevelt talked last night while the wound from the bullet gnawed at his flesh and the "blood soaked through his clothes," so that they who listened to him could see its stains. "It may be that Roosevelt will be placed again in the White House to finish the work upon which he has set his heart. It may be that the fugitive bullet of this coward of Milwaukee will prove more serious than any of us will allow ourselves to think. What tomorrow has hung for the least or the greatest of us not any of us can tell. "But every man who casts his vote for Roosevelt in November will be doing a thing of which he may well be proud to his last day and leave it as a badge and boost of honor to the children that shall follow him in life. "Even as he lies stricken in a hospital in Chicago today will men and women love him and pray for his quick recovery; and, as he stood last night in Milwaukee with "the blood soaking through his clothes," so must he stand long in our vision and our memory, as a man of simple, unbroken courage, who, with death confronting him, thinks chiefly of "his country" and thanks God that his days have not been empty but full of many things and that with the shadow of the close of life at his feet he can go forward unfinching and with a joyful heart because he is still "ahead of the game." In that high spirit has he live it and through and by it may God spare him to live and serve his country for many fearless years." A Fool There Was. One W. C. Payne, a Virginia Negro, claiming to be a representative of the National Independence Political League, is now in this section of the State primarily, to tell us whom we should send to congress from this district, incidently he is soliciting contributions from saloon keepers on the plea that he is fighting the prohibition amendment. The gentleman is within his rights both politically and financially, but The Advocate thinks he presumes too much on their ignorance when he attempts to convince the Negroes of this district that their interest lies in returning Mr. Littlepage to the House of Representatives. Mr. Littlepage was born and reared in this district. He has spent the greater portion of his life hereabouts. It ought to follow, then, that we know as much about him as does Mr. Payne, the gist of whose argument is that Mr. Littlepage is favorable to Negro education and has never introduced nor supported in Congress any measures injimicable to the race. All true enough! But does Mr. Payne know Mr. Littlepage's attitude on the question of Negro suffrage and separate accommodation on the common carriers? He evades answering this question by asserting that these are measures with which a Congressman does not have to deal, that they are measures to be decided by the legislatures of the States concerned. Whether Mr. Payne is right or wrong, the Negroes of this, the Third Congressional District want to know and they think they do know, and knowing, they will not support Mr. Littlepage. They have not forgot how, when he was a member of the State Senate, he dodged into an ante room to escape voting on a disfranchisement bill introduced by Senator Campbell, the Democrat representative from Jefferson County. They know that if the measure had had the ghost of a show to become a law, he, obeying the caucus mandate of his party, would have supported it by voice and vote. But at that time the Democrats were hopelessly in the minority in both Houses of the Legislature, and Mr. Littlepage, representing a normally Republican district, was too wise to commit himself publicly to the policy endosed by his party. If for no other reason than that given above—and surely that is sufficient, Mr. Payne will find his efforts fruitless. He had better return to his Virginia home with the assurance here given, that W. Virginia Negroes are not taking any chances this year of our Lord with disfranchising Democrats and that they accept with poor grace advice from any man who has suffered himself by following it. We still possess the right to vote, and no Negro from Virginia nor may other disfranchising State need to tell us how to exercise it unless it be t our own good. Is it Another Moth? The Advice, a neat appearing little sheet of five columns, flying as its must head, the names of B. R. Reed, D. D., editor, Rev, J. W. Robinson, A. M., associate editor, and L. C. Farrar, manager, is the latest addition to the newspaper fold of this city. The lusty youngster leaps forth from void because, it says: "our people have long felt the need of a distinctively Christian, non-sectarian, non-aristian paper." May be so, may be so. Time will tell and The Advice's subscription books will show whether the long-felt need of which it soak is not like some other long-felt needs that have been entertained by "our people" for the filling of which they refused to pay. Register, Voter, Register Until the 30th of the present month, the commissioners of the several counties of the State will sit from 9:00 a.m. to till noon each day. Since each voter is required to be registered, if he would vote without putting himself to much inconvenience, it is up to you to see that your name appears on the lists. Do not wait till tomorrow! Do it now! Negro, the Initiative (Continued from Page One.) more difficult for any one class to prey upon another. THE PRINCIPLE OF THE RECALL In the perversion of the true functions of government from the interest of the masses to the interest of a selected few, the representatives of legislative bodies have not been the only officials who have been false to the people and to real representative government as it was designed and handed down by the builders of the American states and nation. The administrative officers of the states and nation one after another have succumbed and fallen victims to the unseen enemies of the public good and their profits have been so large that they have been willing to run the risk of facing public exposure, it they could only be permitted to administer the government in accord with the wishes and commands of their industrial and political overlords during their term of office. The people, therefore, black and white, to protect themselves against the undermining influence of officials holding office for a fixed term have come to the conclusion that they must take into themselves the power delegated by fixed terms, and make administrative and executive officers hold their offices subject to the will of the people, if we are to have in the future a true representative government in the interests of the whole people. ON account of arised public conscience and an awakened civic morality the special interests are retiring from their efforts to control the legislatures and administrative offices, as shown in the progressive states, and have turned their batteries upon the selection and the control of the decisions of the Compos. And the decisions show not only that the judges are being dominated by the baleeful influence of the invisible government, but they have gone out of their way to violate the letter and the spirit of the National Constitution to assist in the un-American program of depriving the colored citizens of their civic rights as loyal and law abiding Americans. The judges have become so independent that they feel at liberty to do and to decide as they please under the guise and form of the law. And no citizen has suffered more through the failure of the judges to administer the law as it is than the Negro. But the masses have felt this independence enough to reach the just conclusion that so complete the plan of restoring the government to the people that even ative and administrative officers, not only should be recalled when they show that they have proved recurrent to the public trust and interest, but that the judges under the same conditions should be recalled also. The Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the National Civil Rights Bill, passed for the Negro's protection and at every opportunity since then the Court more and more are refusing to give the black citizens equal rights under the law. THE NEGRO'S LAST OPPORTUNI The initiative, Referendum and the Recall constitute the trinity of weapons by mens of which the people propose to administer their own government in the future, and there is no class of American citizens who will profit more through the restoration of the government from the classes to the masses, than the colored citizens. This is his opportunity to seize weapons and do for himself what he has been hoping in vain for more than thirty years that others would do for him. You will always find it cheaper at Morrison Dept. Store. New style, all wool jacket suits $0.05 at Morrison's Dept. Store. You can buy shoes cheaper than ever at Morrison's Dept. Store. Ladies' fine shoes only 98 cents. The New Party of the People Must Be Financed by the People The Progressive campaign fund is being raised by individual contributions from Progressive men and women Have you done your part in this proper and necessary work? Every person contributing one dollar to the Progressive campaign fund at any place where certificates are on sale or through the mails will receive a certificate as a CHARTER MEMBER of the Progressive party. Different certificates are given for larger amounts. Each one will come to have an historic interest, for each will prove its owner's active share in the most notable American movement since the Civil War. On sale, too, are the Progressive stamps. Affixed to your letters, these picturesque little emblems are effective advertisements for the Progressive party. None /but Negroes /n Virgil ih capital taking an active part in presidential campaign Richmond, Va., Oct. 21.—Politics in Richmond is about the zero mark from the Negro standpoint. The Bull Moosers have all staked into innocuous desuctue, save James H. Heyes, one time resident of Richmond and Cary Wheaton, who with Hayes are both whooping up things in New York for the Bull Moose party. Dr. E. B. J. Jefferson, President, George St. Julien Stephens, Secretary; and E. A. Raudolph, Executive Committeeman, respectively of the Negro Republican League of Virginia are making a still hunt for Taft votes for November 5th. There is absolutely, "nothing, doing" by the white followers of the President or of Colonel Roosevelt The raftail of the Democrats of Richmond to alloww Gilles B. Jackson and his black followers to participate in the Democratic Primaries, has placed the always resourceful Colonel Jackson between a veritable Sylla and Charybodis and all by himself, too, as not another Negro Democrat can be found in this bailiwick. While things political are at a low ebb, those organizations among our people working for the bits of "long green" that bear the signature of W. T. Vernon or J. C. Naphier, are pushing ahead, seemingly caring but little for politics. The new fraternal organization, the Supreme Fountain of the National Ideal Benefit Society (Inc.) is taking well in Ricmond. Within the past month, there have been several hundred members taken into its panks. Being fraternal with a ritual and works, outsiders are not admitted to its meetings, but to the observant, the increase in the clerical force in the offices, the number of big meetings held in Richmond and the country districts and the number of business trips which the Supreme Master has made to other states, show that the Order is forging its way to the front. Two most valuable accession to the ranks of the new Organization were, Mrs. Rosa Thompson and Mr. Lewis Thompson of Philadelphia.. Mrs. Thompson has been made National Lecturer with headquarters at Philadelphia and Mr. Thompson, State Deputy. They are both hustlers along this special line having for many years filled similar positions with honor to themselves and those they represent. Mrs. Thompson has a wide reputation as a fraternal worker and the National Ideal Society made no mistake in securing her services. The Saint Luke Organization under the lead of Mrs. Maggie L. Walker continues on the high way of prosperity. The two colored Banks are doing good business. The Insurance Companies are prosperous and there is an air of prosperity everywhere. Richmond's only public Literary the Dunbar Literary and Historical Society has reorganized for the Season. The officers are: Dr. D. Webster Davis, President; Prof. Joseph Endon Jones, V. President; Georgia St. Julien Stephens, Secretary and Editor; Miss Kate G. Randolph, Assistant Secretary; Dr. W. H. Hughes SENATE INVESTIGATION ROBERT E. CARYER If you cannot buy certificates or stamps near home, cut out this coupon, pin it to a bill or check, and mail it to Assistant National Treasurer. Progressive Headquarters Hotel La Salle, Chicago. A Certificate will be sent you promptly on receipt of your letter. Treasurer, the Rev. Charles L. Somers, Chaplain. The Rev. S. S. Morris is Chairman of the Executive Committee. The Friday evening Art and Literary Circles, the Coronella Circle and Violet Art Circle have also reorganized. Dr. E. R. Jefferson, one of Richmond's most popular physicians has purchased an elegant house in North First Street. He has fitted up hand-some officers and a bachelor's apartment. The Doctor is quite popular among his patients so here is what some of them did for him last week: they led a surprise, carrying refreshments in abundance, two large oriental rugs, large French plate mirror, two handsomely framed pictures, heavy oak Morris Chair and five sets of curtains. Doctors and preachers of the right kind fare well in Richmond. The low prices on fall goods is taking immense crowds to O. J. Morrison's Dept. Store. Saving the Babies In England and some other countries great progress has been made in recent years in the prevention of infant mortality. In this country an association has been formed, known as the American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality. The object of this society is to coordinate all the sanitary agencies for the express purpose of reducing the number of preventable deaths of babies. Must Keep at It It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.—Mmo. Do Maintenon. Only One More: Senator La Follette, at a luncheon in Madison, listened with a rather weary smile to a magazine writer's exposure of the shameful means whereby a certain capitalist had amassed his fortune. "Oh, well," said the senator, "this is only another case of a profit without honor." Good Qualities He alone is worthy of respect who knows what is of use to himself and others, and who labors to control his self-will. Each man has his own fortune in his hands; as the artist has a piece of rude matter, which he is to fashion to a certain shape. But the art of living rightly is like all arts; the capacity alone is born with us; it must be learned, and practiced with incessant care. Arsenic From Many Sources Arsenic has been found as a normal constituent in man and animals and now Jadin and Astrug, two French biologists, show that it may be derived from edible plants and fruits. They examined 39 vegetable substances, and obtained arsenic from all, the quantities ranging from 0.03 part per million in the leek to 0.25 part per million in almonds and beans. Extreme World of Heat In the factories of this country the great problem is to stop the waste of heat. All the heat furnished by the burning coal should be converted into force for mechanical work. At present not one-tenth of it is so converted. Some people become discouraged because Opportunity doesn't respond whenever they whistle for it. The grgreatest bargains ever sold in Charleston are being sold by Morrison's Department Store Co. The WEST VIRGINIA COLORED INSTITUTE OFFERS THREE LITERARY COURSES ENGLISH, ACADEMIC, NORMAL The image provided is too blurry and pixelated to accurately recognize any text or graphics. It appears to be a grayscale image with a blurry and pixelated appearance. Various Industrial Courses are Offered. Climate Healthful. Surroundings Good. CATALOGUE FREE A Comparison of tw Preside Toward the Negro, showing how Presi followed the course laid down in his i appoint Negroes when opposed by wh record in office. BYRD PRILLERMAN, President Institute, West Virginia Toward the Negro, showing how President Taft has consistently followed the course laid down in his inaugural address not to appoint Negroes when opposed by whites, and Col. Roosevelt's record in office. (Issued by Western Colored National preachment became known as Taft's Progressive Bureau.) Southern policy. It was and is It is fortune for the country, and the colored voters, especially, that the two leading presidential candidates, seriously competing for the suffrage of colored citizens, have both been president of the United States, and while serving in that capacity, developed and formulated what may be called their Negro policies, involving the political status and civil rights of colored Americans. A glance into the principles and results of these two national policies will disclose to every unbiased Negro who is interested in the future progress and civil advancement of his race and country, which one of these two candidates, President Taft or Colonel Roosevelt, is entitled to the suffrage of the Negro citizen. The Principle of the Taft Negro Policy Although President Taft was elected upon a platform which pledged him to carry out what are known, as the Roosevelt policies, yet he began to discard them before he centered upon the duties of his office. Before his administration, was two years old he had driven, thirteen important states from the Republican to the Democratic column: he had reduced the Republican numbers in the Senate to a bare working majority! he had changed an overwhelming Republican majority in the House to a minority of nearly fifty; he had hopelessly divided the Republican party into two warring and irreconcilable camps; and had successfully repudiated every important plank in the platform upon which he secured his election. He was the first Republican president to place the seal of his official sanction upon the growth and expansion of discrimination and race prejudice by declaring in his inaugural address that he would not appoint Negroes to office where such appointments would be attended with friction. He expressed the belief that it was better for the Negro to abdicate his manhood and surrender his natural and civil rights where their exercise and possession were attended with friction. Upon this inaugural announcement President Taft based his Southern policy toward the Negro citizens. He plainly told the Negro and his country in the course of his administration that in civil and educational affairs the Negro must be treated separate and distinct from the white race. He undermined the very foundations of the Negro's hope in the Republican party to deliver him from the hands of his enemies and he gave the world to understand that the Taft administration had abandoned the Negro formally as the Republican party tactly had already done long ago, to work out his destiny under the cruel environments of American conditions. The conduct of the administration under this inaugural preachment became known as Taft's Southern policy. It was and is so flagrantly un-American and unjust that it was openly condemned by some of the strongest and ablest supporters of the Taft administration. The New York Age, one of the leading national Negro newspapers of the country, which advocated the renomination of President Taft, and which now urges his election to the presidency, in the issue of February 15, 1912, among other things, said: The Age is flooded with letters from its readers protesting against President Taft's Southern policy, as outlined in a recent issue of the Outlook, in an authorized interview, and in the actual working of the policy which has filled the Federal service with white "Lily Whites," and white Democrats, who have shoved the Negroes who have been Republicans from their youth, agile, and who are not expected, nor, in many instances, allowed to take an active part in the district and state conventions of the National Republican party in Chicago. The situation has become one of the utmost gravity, for which the Negro Republicans of the North and West are constrained, by the politicen policies which menace them, to regard as of the utmost gravity for them also." The concluding paragraph of the Age editorial bespeaks the high quality of the candor and frankness of the editor, but it contains a confession and an indictment of a strong friend against President Taft, which is sufficient within itself to deprive the President of every Negative in the country for re-election. The Age continues: "The Age earnestly desires the renomination and election of President Taft, but we are handicapped by the Southern policy of the President and the recent pose of the "lily white" office holders in the South to freeze the Negro Republicans out of the party. They cannot be frozen out of the Republican party in the Southern states without having them freeze toward the Republican party in the Northern and Western states." The Taft Southern policy has frozen the Negro out of the Republican party in the South, and as the Age predicted the time has arrived in the Northern and Western states for the Negro to freeze toward the Republican party in self defense. The Principle of the Roosevelt Policy Toward the Negro. A contrast of the policy of President Roosevelt towards the Negro with that of President Taft is among the saddest reflections upon the Taft administration. President Roosevelt announced as his Negro policy that he would treat colored citizens on their merits, the same as other citizens. In accord with this policy he abolished the postoffice at Indianola, because the white patrons refused to treat justly a capable and efficient colored postmistress. He appointed meritorious Negroes to office in the South as he did white men. He forced a reluctant Republican Senate, by repeated renominations to confirm Dr. William D. Crum collector of the port at Charleston, South Carolina. He opened up new offices for the Negro citizens of the North when it took courage to do it, by appointing Charles W. Anderson collector of internal revenue In New York City, Ralph W. Tyler auditor for the Navy Department at Washington, and three assistant United States district attorneys in Boston, Chicago and Washington, D. C. He condemned lynching, not for political purposes, but to stop it, and stated in his letter to Fisk University that the Negro should be educated as other people. He repeatedly announced to the Negro and the world that the door of nope should not be closed against any man because of color, and that all men, black as well as white, should have a square deal. And thus the Roosevelt administrations inspired the Negro to higher civic endeavors and opened before him a grander future than any administration since the days of Lincoln. In every phase and walk of American life the Roosevelt influence was felt for a larger social and political justice for the colored citizens. Roosevelt had the courage to stand on the same platform with a Southern governor and condemn lynching, which is such a menace to the persons and li es of Negro people, as well as a stain, and blot on American civilization. In fact Colonel Roosevelt has shown his deep interest in the welfare and security of our race by open and repeated condemnation of lynching in all sections of the country as a growing danger to our institutions and an increasing menace to our social progress. When the black republic of Liberia was threatened with absorption by powerful neighbors, it was the then President Roosevelt who first gave the listening ear and inaugurated that policy which has ultimately secured the permanence of that country, in whose prosperity and destiny every American Negro is deeply and vitally concerned. Colonel Roosevelt is more than a friend to the colored people, in its highest and best sense he is a fearless and brilliant champion of the rights and welfare of all the common people. Aside from his repudiation of the Republican platform and his absolute disruption of the Republican party, the only thing in which President Taft has succeeded, is his perfect execution and successful performance of the inaugural announcement against the Negro citizen. It is quite impossible to relate here all the many things which he has done in this connection, but it might be well to call attention to a few of the chief facts incident to this Negro policy: (1) The discharge of 1. Negro fourth class postmasters. (2) The discharge of Henry A. Rucker; the last colored Georgia official, though indorsed by the best whites of his state. (2) The dismissal of Joshua A. Wilson, colored postmaster at Florence, S. C., though indicted by a majority of whites in that section. (4) The dismissal of over 108 colored Federal appointees in Texas. (5) The discharge of Mr. Christian, colored postmaster for 25 years at Yorktown, Virginia, over the pro- 617 Kanawha St. FOR RENT--Four room cottage with gas. Large lot, 100 x 200 ft., adapted to raising chickens and hogs Rent reasonable. See T. G. Nutter, 604½ Kanawha Street. Phone 2405 For prompt and Courteous Service to Passengers and safe delivery of baggage--Call Taxi Cab Co. DAY OR NIGHT 211 Hale St. Phone 84 JOHN M. CAMPBELI, Mgr. test of the white business men. (6) The reduction of Dr. John M. Prather and Jere Brown in the immigration service because they were colored. (7) The refusal of Benjamin Bundy a consular appointment because of color. (8) The order to Director Durand, not to permit colored enumerators to count white people in the South. (9) His statement in a letter to Fisk University, that the Negro race should be treated separate and distinct from the white race. The Negro's Duty in the Political Situation. The Republican party has completely fallen under the dominion of the sinister alliance between corrupted political bosses on the/one hand and crooked big business on the other, so that the great masses of the white people of the country are thrown into a great social and political struggle to restore representative government to its true and proper functions in the interest of all the people as against the selected few. The Republican party secretly abandoned the Negro in 1876 to secure the election of Hayes to the presidency. The present Republican president has completely carried out his formal announcement of the Negro's abandonment In 1908. With all the branches of the Federal government in the hands of the Republican party, the Civil Rights bill enacted for the protection of the Negro citizens was declared unconstitutional and annulled by a Republican Supreme Court, in spite of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the American constitution. And one constitutional and natural right after another is being taken from the colored citizens with such rapidity that they stand in many respects before the country and the world as civil and political serfs. The Negro has depended upon the Republican party in vain. He stands in American political life at the parting of the ways. A new party in the Progressive movement, representing the best brain and conscience of the country, led by the greatest personality upon the globe, takes up the fight for humanity, for larger industrial and political justice for the people, and asks the Negro to take his place in the councils and the ranks upon his merits. The Negroes in the Republicans primaries carefully weighed and considered the Negro policies of President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt, and by the thousands they joined the white masses and flocked to the standard of the great Progressive leader. In another form this is the same fight for justice for the people as against the favored few, and those who really believed in Roosevelt then will not desert him now. To aid in seizing the refus of popular government is the Negro's opportunity. The Negro will then be able to do for himself what he has been depending upon the Republican party to do for him. Some big bargains in working shoes at Morrison's Dept. Store only 98 cents. GENTLEMEN! NOW'S THE TIME CORRECTED JULY. ALFRED CUSKER & CO. WE CAN SHOW YOU SUITS THAT YOU CAN AT ANY PRICE, AND IF YOU WANT THEM How About TIME FOR A NE WOOD THE OLD ONE IS IN DATE NOW. WE HI SELECT FROM IN DE FURNISH THE NEWEST AND FOR MEN A Styles for the Chap That Wants the new styles---Whether to purchase or not. Clothing Bought of us enberger & Co Society Brand Clothing Smart, Snappy Styles for show you the ne to p We Press all Clothi Frankenbe Smart, Snappy Styles for the Chap That Wants to be it. Let us show you the new styles---Whether you wish to purchase or not. We Press all Clothing Bought of us Free of Charge Frankenberger & Company INDIVIDUALITY IN OUR GOODS "Head to Foot Outfitters" LIBERALITY IN OUR METHODS INDIVIDUALITY IN,OUR,GOQDS News Notes of The Nation's Capital Washington, D. C., Oct. 23. The political situation is the subject of discussion in church, lodge, school room, business house, barber shop and on the street corners. The wise-acres who can remember as far back as Lincoln's time and who took part in the memorable contests between Grant and Greeley in 1872, and between Hayes and Tilden in 1876, shake their heads grimly and hesitate to risk their reputation as a prophet by telling just what is going to happen on the fifth day of November. That the trend is toward Taft all will agree. The business forces, anxious to hold intact the unprecedented prosperity of the times, seem to prefer Taft, and the wage-workers, dependent upon capital for their opportunity to work at the various trades, seem ready to follow the men of money. There is much Roosevelt sentiment, of course, and the friends of Wilson calm that they will win in a wake. So, there you are. The fifth of November will tell the tale. Nevertheless, we shall have on our hands the ubiquitous fellow who will vex our cars with the stereotyped "I told you so!" Col. Henry Johnson has been going some high grade campaigning in New England, New York and New Jersey for Taft. Mr. R. R. Horner's "jacking up" of A. Kiger Savoy, a school teacher, for waiting a table at a resort at night while teaching by day, may result in good for all of the teachers of the local system. Supporting the school board for upholding Mr. Savoy in his effort to pick up a few extra dollars to assist his parents and to lay up something for a possible bride, the Washington Post of Sunday had a ringing editorial deploring the poor salaries allotted to our teachers, which makes it necessary for Mr. Savoy and scores of others to supplement their daily earnings by some outside employment, which adds nothing to their income as teachers. The incident is closed, by reason of the fact that we are not proven that the your man drank any of the "red licker" he is said to have served to patrons, and hence his character was not imme- (Continued on page six.) NOW'S THE TIME, MEN, TO GET YOUR NEW FALL SUIT. DON'T WAIT UNTIL THE SEASON IS HALF OVER—GET IT NOW AND THE PLEASURE OF WEARING IT ALL THROUGH THE BRISK FALL WEATHER WHEN "ALL YOUR FRIENDS ARE "SPRUCING UP." HAVE YOU SEEN THE BEAUTIFUL BLUES, GREYS, BROWNS, TANS, AND PURPLES THAT WE ARE SHOWING THIS SEASON IN THOSE SMART NEW ENGLISH FORM FITTING MODES TIEAT THE WELL-DRESSED YOUNG FELLOWS ARE WEARING NOW? FOR $15 and $20 CAN SHOW YOU A LINE OF THAT YOU CAN'T MATCH ELSEWHERE PRICE, AND HIGHER PRICED YOU WANT THEM. Now About Your Fall FOR A NE WONE—DON'T YOU TOLD ONE IS PRETTY WELL OR NOW. WE HAVE A LARGE LEFT FROM IN DERBY'S AND SOFT WE CAN SHOW YOU A LINE OF SWELL SUITS THAT YOU CAN'T MATCH ELSEWHERE AT ANY PRICE, AND HIGHER PRICED SUITS IF YOU WANT THEM. How About Your Fall Hat TIME FOR A NE WONE—DON'T YOU THINK? THE OLD ONE IS PRETTY WELL OUT OF DATE NOW. WE HAVE A LARGE LINE. TO SELECT FROM IN DERBY'S AND SOFT FELTS. FURNISHINGS NEWEST AND LATEEST NOVEMBER FOR MEN AND YOUNG MEN. Imp That Wants to be It. Is----Whether you wish he or not. Right of us Free of Charge & Company THE NEWEST AND LATEEST NOVELTIES FOR MEN AND YOUNG MEN. THE DAUTHOR Beef, Veal Mutton, Pork Fresh Pork Sausage. Our Own Make We want your patronage for we have complete stock in our lines and you can get it when you want more. A Few Suggestions As To Prohibition ON NOVEMBER 5TH, THE VOTERS OF WEST VIRGINIA WILL PASS UPON AN AMENDMENT TO THE STATE CONSTITUTION, PROHIBITING THE MANUFACTURE, THE SALE OR THE KEEPING FOR SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS IN THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA. WITHOUT REFERENCE TO THE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT AS COMPARED TO LOCAL OPTION, AS A MEANS OF HANDLING THE EVIL OF INTEMPERANCE, THERE ARE MATERIAL FACTS THAT OUGHT TO BE CAREFULLY CONSIDERED. IN THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA SOME $10,000,000.00 IS INVESTED IN MANUFACTURING PLANTS PRODUCING BEER, ALE AND LIGHTER DRINKS. IF THE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT PREVAILS, THE VALUE OF THIS PROPERTY WILL BE PRACTICALLY DESTROYED. THIS PROPERTY WAS CREATED UNDER THE PROTECTION OF LAW. IT IS FAIRLY ENTITLED TO THE SAME RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES AS ALL OTHER PROPERTY, YET THE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT PROPOSES TO DESTROY IT WITHOUT COMPENSATION. THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA DERIVES FROM LIQUOR LICENSES A YEARLY REVENUE OF OVER $650,000. THE VARIOUS COUNTIES, CITIES AND TOWNS DRAW REVENUE OF ABOUT $600,000.00. HERE IS A TOTAL OF $1,250,000.00 IN TAXATION, OR ABOUT $5.00 FOR EVERY VOTER IN THE STATE, THAT MUST NECESSARILY BE MADE GOOD FROM OTHER SOURCES. IN OTHER WORDS, EVERY VOTER IN THIS STATE ON THE AVERAGE WILL PAY AT LEAST $5.00 PER YEAR IN INCREASED TAXES FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF HELPING WRITE PROHIBITION OF LIQUOR INTO THE STATE CONSTITUTION OF WEST VIRGINIA. UNDER PRESENT CONDITIONS SOME THIRTY-FIVE COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA ARE ABSOLUTELY DRY. THAT IS, WE HAVE IN THIS STATE LOCAL OPTION LAWS WHICH ENABLE EVERY SUBSTANTIAL COMMUNITY TO DECIDE FOR ITSELF WHETHER LIQUOR SHALL BE SOLD WITHIN ITS LIMITS OR NOT. WHERE THERE IS A DECIDED SENTIMENT AGAINST THE SALE OF LIQUOR THERE ARE NO SALOONS, AND LIQUORS ARE NOT SOLD. WHERE THE PEOPLE FAVOR A MORE LIBERAL POLICY ON THIS SUBJECT WE HAVE SALOONS AND LIQUOR IS SOLD. THE ADOPTION OF THE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT WILL NOT MAKE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE ALREADY DRY, ONE DROP DRIER. THE FARMERS OF PRESTON COUNTY, WHICH HAS NOT HAD A SALOON WITHIN ITS BORDERS FOR FIFTY YEARS, AND THE FARMERS OF DOZENS OF OTHER COUNTIES OF THE STATE IN LIKE SITUATION, WILL NOT CHANGE OR IMPROVE THEIR OWN CONDITION IN THE SLIGHTEST DEGREE BY VOTING FOR THE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT, BUT THEY WILL DESTROY LAWFULLY CREATED PROPERTY AND THEY WILL INCREASE THE TAXES OF THEMSELVES AND OF THEIR NEIGHBORS. THE ADOPTION OF THE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT WILL BE AN ATTEMPT TO FORCE UPON COMMUNITIES LIKE WHEELING, PARKERSBURG, HUNTINGTON, CHARLESTON, BLUEFIELD, AND OTHERS, A CONDITION OF AFFAIRS WHICH IS REPUGNANT TO THE MAJORITY OF THEIR CITIZENS AND IS IN NO SENSE DESIRED BY THEM. THE PEOPLE OF WHEELING, PARKERSBURG, HUNTINGTON AND BLUEFIELD AND OTHER TOWNS HAVE NOT SOUGHT AND DO NOT SEEK TO FORCE THE SALOON INTO DRY TERRITORIES. THEY ASK ONLY THAT THEY BE ALLOWED TO DECIDE THIS LOCAL QUESTION FOR THEMSELVES. THE MOST CERTAIN RESULT OF THE ADOPTION OF THE AMENDMENT WILL BE TO WIPE OUT THE LICENSED SALOON IN THOSE CITIES AND COUNTIES, AND SUBSTITUTE HOLES IN THE WALL, DOGGERELS, AND LAWLESS PLACES WITHOUT NUMBER. THE LAW WILL NOT BE ENFORCED BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF THE CITIZENS WILL NOT WANT IT TO BE ENFORCED. OFFICIALS WILL BE ELECTED WHO WILL WINK AT VIOLATION. GRAND JURIES WILL FAIL TO INDICT, AND PROSECUTORS WILL FAIL TO PROSECUTE THIS IS NO FANCY PICTURE, AS EVERY ONE WHO HAS ANY PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE CONDITIONS IN A CITY OF ANY SIZE MUST KNOW, WHY SHOULD ANYONE SEEK DELIBERATELY TO FORCE SUCH CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN ANY CITY OR TOWN IN THE STATE? The Taxpayers' Protective Association of West Virginia TO PASS PROSPERITY AROUND. LABOR FARMER WOMAN WORKER THE SQUARE DEAL FOR MAN WOMAN AND CHILD We demand that the test of true pr Afterby on all the citizens, not confinsc Party Platform. LABOR FARMER WORKER E SQUARE DEAL FOR MAN WOMAN AND CHILD that the test of true prosperity shall be the citizens, not confined to individuals or cl Carter in PH LABOR WORKER WORKER THE SQUARE DEAL FOR MAN WOMAN AND CHILD We demand that the test of true prosperity shall be the benefits conferred Afterby on all the citizens, not confined to individuals or classes.—Progressive Party Platform. —Carter in Philadelphia Times. BOSS RULE Wilson. Not that Governor Wilson was responsible for these conditions. But the fact remains that he might not have been nominated as a candidate without such methods. He accepted the aid of the bosses, possibly because he could not enter politics through any other door. The bosses at Chicago were against Roosevelt personally. It was the things he stood for, and the motte with which he had fought in the past for the things he then stood for. His nomination in the Republican National Convention meant the gradual emancipation of the Republican party from boss rule; and boss rule meant that while public contracts and public printing went to the bosses personally, larger rewards went to the big interests behind them. Had the bosses believed that they could have withdrawn Roosevelt to their purpose PROGRESSIVE PARTY prosperity shall be the benefits conferred to individuals or classes.—Progressive—Carter in Philadelphia Times. as they, had molded Taft, there would have been an "open" convention in Chicago, as there was an "open" convention at Saratoga and at Syracuse. It is time for a break-up in party lines. More crimes have been committed and more criminals exalted in the name and by the talisman of party devotion than is good for this country. Washington in his farowell address inveighed against the spirit of party. "I have already intimated to you," he said, "the dangers of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most bohemian manner against the paneful effects of teers of the spirit of party generally." The same impulse, the same unselfishness, the same fervor which saw the birth of the Republican party sees the birth of the Progressive party. It is time for a house-cleaning in the nation. We aim to carry forward the ideals of Washington, the faith of Lincoln, and the con- structive criticism of Jefferson. Any man who wishes to achieve fame nowadays has only to hurl some fresh epithet or diatribe against Roosevelt. The great metropolitan newspaper will give him front-page space. These bitter newspaper attacks that assault our leader, we take proudly to ourselves. They are a part of our precious inheritance. "I do the very best I know how—the very best I can," said Lincoln, "and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." The best values ever sold in jacket suits are being sold at Morrison's Dept. Store. All wool serge suits at $9.95. News Notes of the Nation's Capital News Notes of the Nation's Capital (Continued from Page Five) come up for an airing soon. Mme. E. Azalia Hackley, the famous prima donna, is in the city. The first colored "fresh air" school was opened this week at the Stevens School, with Miss C. C. Thomas in charge. This will give relief to the young children affected with tuberculosis. Mr. A. C. Newman has been given charge of the new O street Vocational School. Mrs. J. W. Shaw has charge of domestic science, Miss A. D. Jones domestic art, and Mr. O. W. McDonald has carpentering. The enrollment at the Phipps High School is unusually large. Illustrating the earnest desire of the young people for an opportunity to fit themselves for commercial pursuits. The day class numbers 225 and the night class 176. Mr. W. T. S. Jackson is at the head of this thriving institution and his appointment is regarded as one of Superintendent Bruce's happiest thoughts. What is to become of poor Mattie Leonax, the colored woman, now in the District jail, whose sentence was commited by President Taft from hanging to life imprisonment? She was convicted of the murder of her husband. Under the law she cannot remain in the local jail. The state prison at Lansing, Kansas, where it had been planned to send THE ADVOCATE Suggestive prohibition PASS UPON AN AMENDMENT TO THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA. OF INTEMPERANCE, THERE ARE RESTED IN MANUFACTURING PLANTS WILL BE PRACTICALLY DESTROYED AS ALL OTHER PROPERTY, OFSES A YEARLY REVENUE OF OVER TAXATION, OR ABOUT $5.00 FOR THIS STATE ON THE AVERAGE STATE CONSTITUTION OF WEST VIRGINIA IN WEST VIRGINIA ARE ABSOLUTE FOR ITSELF WHETHER LIQUOR NO SALOONS, AND LIQUORS ARE ADOPTION OF THE PROHIBITION, WHICH HAS NOT HAD A SALOON WILL NOT CHANGE OR IMPROVE THE CREATED PROPERTY AND THE AN ATTEMPT TO FORCE URBAN WHICH IS REPUGNANT TO THE STATE AND BLUEFIELD AND OTHER CITIES TO DECIDE THIS LOCAL QUESTION SALOON IN THOSE CITIES AND CITIES FORCED BECAUSE THE MAJOR JURIES WILL FAIL TO INDICT PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE AFFAIRS IN ANY CITY OR TOWN. Active Assoc other place wants her. The government officials, noting the queer actions of the prisoner, are of the opinion that Mrs. Lomax will wind up in the Government Hospital for the insane. Miss Vivian Lucile Thompson, daughter of R. W. Thompson, who led her class in domestic science last summer at Normal School No. 2, has been appointed director of domestic science in the Whitted High School, Durham, N. C., where ref. W. G. Pearson is principal Durham is one of the most progressive cities of the South. Miss Thompson succeeds Miss Beatrice O. Childs, who goes to teach domestic science in the high school at Atlantic City, N. J. The inaugural visitors are already picking out the friends with whom they will stop in Washington next March. "Taking time by the forelock." The freshmen won the interclass flag rush at Howard University last Saturday and the youngsters are quite "chesty" over the victory. The Y. M. C. A. is having a campaign for memberships. Some athletic or social event is being pulled off every night, and the attendance is large. Physical Director W. H. J. Beckett is arranging contests in bowling and various feats in the gymnasium. The ladies are allowed to come and this has had an appreciable effect, in bringing out the men. On Sunday afternoon next, Dr. D. Webster Davis, the Richmond humorist and lecturer, will speak in the auditorium on "Crawling Under the Tent." Surrounded by a group of his personal friends at his cozy home, 1339 Wallach Place, N. W., last Saturday evening, Mr. David D. Rogers, of the Treasury Department, celebrated his 34th birthday in happy style. The parlors were handsomely decorated with natural flowers, and the luncheon prepared by Mrs. Alice Rogers, was divine, With R. W. Thompson as toastmaster, the gentlemen present paid eloquent tributes to the character and laudable achievements of the genial host. Among the speakers were Messrs. W. B. Harris, W. H. H. Terrell, Walter W. Grimshaw, James B. Smith, Hoover Brown, E. B. Woodford, Jesse C. Powell, C. H. Miller, Ale; Middleton, and others. Prof. M. Grant Lucas, principal of the Bruce School, delivered a carefully prepared address on "Civic Interest" at the October meeting of the Mu-So-Lit club. The business administration of President Taft was enthusiastically endorsed, and par- —From Wheeling Intelligencer, Oct. 12, 1912. ticular stress was laid upon the broad policies with reference to the race enunciated at the ceremonies in connection with his formal notification, when a number of prominent colored men were received on terms of equality by Mr. and Mrs. Taft at the White House. A lively debate was precipitated in the Club, in which all shades of political belief had a hearing. Assistant Register Cyrus Field Adams has been swinging around the Middle Western circuit. He notes a decided trend toward Taft. AT THE BAR OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Another Negro of acknowledged competence is now entitled to practice before the bar of the nation's Highest tribunal. Upon motion of Judge E. Molyneaux Hewlett, Attorney Shelby James Davidson, graduate of the Howard Law School, was recently admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Davidson is a native of Kentucky, who came to Washington about twenty years ago to accept a position under the federal government. In the office of the Sixth Auditor, he achieved an enviable distinction as an inventor of machines that proved to be of great value to the Postoffice Department, and several patents are to be awarded to him by the authorities. Since his resignation from the government service Mr. Davidson has devoted his entire time to his profession, and in a comparatively short time has risen to a foremost place at the District bar. He is a young man of fine legal attainments, and possesses business acumen that is bound to bring him fame and fortune. He is a prime factor in the Capital Consulting Company, and is also rendering effective service as financial agent of the Howard Alumni Association, which has pledged itself to raise $10,000 toward the erection of a $25,000 gymnasium on the campus of Howard University. Mr. Davidson is encouraging thrifty colored people of the capital to buy homes, and has signally aided quite a number to so invest their savings as to be able to boast of living beneath their own "vine and fig tree." Rattina, Corduroy and nice trimmed hats for only 98c, at Morrison's Department Store Co. Ladies, you can buy hats for almost nothing at Morrison's Department Store. The Aviator From Mars BY John McCutcheon OXYGEN DANGEROUS MACHINE DEMAGGUR OXYGEN MCCUTCHEOM An aviator from Mars, trying for the attitude record with his million eagle power machine, landed on the Earth in the eastern part of the United States. The first thing he noticed was a group of excited men who were angrily talking and waving their fists. He drew near and listened to the discussion, which was about somebody who was running for a high office. He caught the world "madman," "drunkard," "fanatic," "demagogue," "flar," "dangerous" and other terms of disaproval and heard the excited disputants exclaiming that the man, if elected, would ruin the country, destroy its sacred institutions and plunge the people into hopeless confusion because of his revolutionary policies. That man from Mars was amazed to think that such an evil person should be so presumptuous as to run for a po- Good Voice to Be Prized A soft, well-modulated voice is of far greater assistance in the world, even in the marriage market, than personal beauty. There are few things which possess a more definite value as a commercial asset than graciousness of manner and gentleness of tone. We are not born with harsh voices, we acquire them.—Exchange. You will always save money by trading at Morrison's Dept. Store, Busy days at Morrison's Depart. You will always save money by ment Store all on account of their trading at Morrison's Dept. Store. lower prices. DANGEROUS MENACE DEMAGGUE MCCUTCHIEOM sition which demanded the highest qualifications of honor, experience and judgment. He turned to a bystander who, with an amused smile was listening to the discussion: "Who is this crazy person they are talking about and why does he dare aspire to this high position?" "He is a man named Roosevelt," said the bystander, perceiving that the stranger was from another planet. "He is our formist citizen, the best known American and a man who has been the best President we have had for half a century. To hear these people talk you would think he was an experiment, an untried and dangerous upstart, whereas in reality he is the most experienced statesman we have and a man has done more for the good of the nation than any man now living." Dog True to Trust. The Olympia Serenade pavilion at Nottingham, England, having been broken into three times of late, the proprietor procured an Airdale terrier. Early the other morning, as a boy dropped over the fence, the dog seized him by the trousers and held him till the arrival of the watchman, who handed him over to the police. Busy days at Morrison's Department Store all on account of their lower prices. VOTE TO REBUKE THE BOSSES AND BOODLERS WHO BETRAYED THE PEOPLE OF WEST VIRGINIA secOND- set THE ADVOCATE Sst secnoi eo OO RLESTON, WA : The Man Who Leads The People In Their Fight Against Corrupt Bosse: DR. H. D. HATFIELD iit ees a " ee » PR red ‘ g Sateen ape, Bi ‘ ‘lone ig Se ia SN [ Re har lel ee Hh Reg eae Bags ict a ea ae BAN en ma RS [ eae ie SOU Renee Brisa ee LRT i ee — on oe We if 3 a : : Boe amen ig ei) al a Be YS i ny Eee ie) Be a aah er be ok Basan sc. OURS OSES ae ce hee come a Tice Lt So) ea aaa ae é “Rides pee a heh eas a ee Fc Pine 6 Sach Ok a Ree Braye Se Cee q een Twa aan SER RII 4s, ey " Br ean CAN Rn ier hating a). cee: | Be Sod es Pr at) leh . a «ati OEE? = — in canon eens ‘ Me Ea api ty E PEN es ry ta om ' ; | eran : f ; i a lay ey eg Peat nan Unbossed, things to do if the People commission him to do them, and gives | him a legistature of his own party that will work hand in hand with him. He would rather not be guvernor, if he is not to} have a legislature of that character. No real, red-blooded man can blame him for that. Dr. Henry flatfield was not born to be a figurehead. You can not boss him, buy him, nor bluff him. The people as a whole understand and believe that, and that is, to our mind, | the strongest reason why the people seem to be overwhelming- ly imbued with the idea that he is the man to elect as the head of their government. His campaign has been a series of remarkable ovations. By those who know, it has been said that, not since the me- morable campaign of Nathan Goff in 1888, has there been a candidate for governor who has attracted the large crowds and aroused the great enthusiasm Dr. Hatfield has. : And, also, as the very result of that, and because of the A SKETCH--DR. HATFIELD SNR RST Tete Ae cenit, adult bi MM A ER eM Lda: Lad most interesting and romantic figure that has appeared-in our state politios in many years. He is the youngest man who has ever been a candidate for that exalted office, and is one of very few men who have been nominated by the old parties that does not belong to the legal profession. Dr. Hatfield-is a physician and surgeon, and he/ranks at the top-notch of ‘his profession in this state. Any member of it will substantiate that statement.’ --His entrance into politics was quite by accident. He he- came interested in a reform movement among the better ele- ment in his home county of McDowell to bring about: better administration of local government. With two other men of the same high standing, and imbued with the same lofty ideals, he was'elected a commissioner. A ‘‘cleaning up” in McDow- ell’s political affairs followed, .with the result that today that county has one of the best, most honest and most progressive governments in the state. The building of many miles of good roads by prison labor, was one of the many numerous reforms “originated and carried out successfully by Dr. Hatfield. His next office was that of member of the state senate. He was substituted on the ticket in the place of a man who had “heen regularly nominated, but who resigned shortly before the election. Dr. Hatfield was far distant from home at ‘that time, and this action was taken without consulting him. Had he been consulted he would not have allowed his name to be used, and hence he would not now be on the way to be the governor of his native state.” No man was more wrapped, up in his profession than Dr. Hatfield, and he had not taste for politics at that time. : When he came to the state senate, by that inexplicable psychology which attracts the public attention to a man and arouses its expectancy, Dr. Hatfield was pointed out as a young man worth watching as he had the elements of great- ness in him. He was pointed out as a “comer” in the wide field’ of ‘political tife and official usefulness. ya ee The most noticeable thing in his first senatorial“ session was his serious interest in the work. He studied and he slaved with the problems that presented themselves to him. He was an indefatigable worker night and day. He impressed those who watched him as being rightfully impressed" with his responsible duties and a man who liked work—who thrived on indefatigable effort. He seldom arose to speak in that ses- sion, but when he did, he had something to say and was listen- ed-to. -He soon wielded a great influence over his colleagues, but if he knew it he gave no signs of it. _Another thing which was noticeable in this yet compar- atively young man, was his rapid development to what may’ be designated as the “larger view”. At first, he was inclined to look at the state at large from the standpoint of his own home-county environment, and seemingly impatient when the opposite view was taken by others. This trait, the growing knowledge of legislative affairs, quickly eliminated in him, and then he arose to that degree of perception which, when possessed, marks a man as having in hi melements of genuine statesmanship. His second session as a senator found him the only man a “tied’’ senate could unite on for its presiding officer. He was unanimously chosen, and in that trying position, he was so fair and so honest and so courteous, that he won the highest respect of everybody. -At the concluding session, the mem- hers of the Senate, Democrats as well as Republicans, com- peted with each other in flights of oratorical tribute to his splendid record, and all joined in presenting him with one of the most beautiful and costly silver services to be procured. As a legislator his name is associated with every one of the few laws that were enacted in his time, looking to soclat justice and progressive development. Laws for the help of fabor; the child labor commission and many other advanced steps in government he stood behind and aggressively’ pro- moted, His reputation with his colleagues was as a man abso- lutely honest and fearless; a man fair, honorable and court- cous; a broad minded, big, splendid man, who was a student— and a.very serious and terribly hard-working senator. His becoming a candidate for governor was more by ac- cident than design. He did not particularly aspire to it, and had never thought of anything else except continuing in the practice of his profession. He seemed to desire that more: than anything else. But conditions within his party made it desirable to present a new man, and one who had made a record that he could proudly stand on, and which the people! were likely to approve. So, after much reluctance on his part, he finally consented. The story of his triumphant can- didacy for the nomination is well known recent history. Everywhere, he was the popular choice.’ He carried all ex- cept seven of the fifty-five counties, and he received 66,000 of the 113,000 votes cast in the party’s statewide primary. In that preliminary campaign, he offered a platform of pledges 1o the people, and it met with their overwhelming approval. He is running on that platform of pledges today, as well as the platform of the party adopted in state convention assembled. Dr. Hatfield is a man who is stolidly possessed of the’ Unbought, high tide of public sentiment that is everywhere. running his favor, he has drawn the vituperative and caluminous at- ‘jacks of the hoss-ridden party that is opposing him. He has assailed the Bosses, exposing their corrupt tactics and be- trayal of the Democratic party and the whole people, every- where he has spoken, Having no proper defense to make for ‘bribing a legislature, selling out the people to the giant cor- porations, they are resorting to slander and libel. Paid “pussyfooters”, as they are called in politics, are being sent about the state, spreading lies and falsehoods to entrap: the unwary, ignorant, and the credulous, and to deceive them in voting against the right man for the wrong one—the boss- nominated, boss-controlled and “dummy director” candidate fer governor of the corporations’ bosses. | It is a bitter campaign. It is venomous. But above it — (Continued on page two) ~~ 4 Unafraid SORIA SLOGAN AREER AOMORI HOE Si, e- running | P OPH Wy ninous at-| f . He has! 4 S an . 4 le Wane Watson will never succeed tmesié > make for|im tho Sonate of the United States, giant cor- \Three-fourths of the Demeorats of bel Paid | tho stato will opposo his return agq: being sent, "il! see to ft that they are mot again antrap the [ld out—Webster Hcho, Maroh 17, 7 191t ” a ye them in| acing : ‘the boss-! when o legislator’s vote gow the andidate side of boodle and, against con: candidal [stituents there is. cortalaly vayy: _,|Strong reasons for suspicion, ‘The It above it| people should loook around them ang — , |8ee who has done thin at Charteston.~<: ‘The Went Union Record, Feb, $, 1911, 5 "The Dirty Money they have Will Never do Them Any Good"--Col. Harry Snyder, Democratic Leader, on the Legislators Who Sold Their Votes. A SKETCH--DR. HATFIELD (Continued from page one.) man—this popular choice of the clean, sober, able leader, courteous towers like a lofty white man, dirty realms below in which a child was born in 1874 in a log cabin county, which house is now as Hatfield. He went to the parish house, and then to Franklin College to the University of Louisville, graduated there with high honors. He to take up the practice of pre-graduate courses at a score of six country, and soon achieved a rank and surgeon of extraordinary aptitude. Getting the state to establish a for nine years was in charge of 110,000 cases in that time. He is to that institution for years with tenny. He has been surgeon and poor people in the great Norfolk these people fairly worship this men them is one of the most remarkable campaign. No one of them services when they need him. On or whatnot, when they are in Hatfield and he goes to their relief. Field is highly esteemed by all the gratifying things to him about sum of written tributes to his clearness, amiability, courtesy, generosity has been contributed to by the Rev. Eckman, his home county of Mooring. Protestant ministers of all Catholic priests have joined in receipt of the state.posium, which has been issued everywhere should be an answer and character-assassins, who lightened legislator bribers to try him by besmirching his spite from the gutters and swill-barreled politics. Field is the trustee of the hopes of going on in West Virginia between the Corrupt Bosses, allied with him on the other. He embodies and they expect him to make that has ever had. Still, of that there can not be the le ON OF PARTY PLEDGE MBEZZLEMENT OF DEMOCRAT GIVES VENT TO THE LINGS IN LEADING PARTY PAY regular choice of the mass of the leader, courteous gentleman, a lofty white monument above below in which his detractors 1874 in a log house on Matee house is now standing. His wife went to the public school at Franklin College, New Athens, University of Louisville to study medicine with high honors and returned to the practice of medicine. He was at a score of the leading soon achieved a statewide fame of extraordinary ability. He was able to establish a miners' hospital as in charge of that institution, in that time. He has given his intention for years without charging been surgeon and physician to the great Norfolk and Western worship this man. His pop-ulation most remarkable phases of one of them is too poor to they need him. White or black, when they are in distress they are to their relief. Deemed by all who know him, tags to him about this campaign abuses to his cleanly and strong courtesy, generosity and kindness to by the ministers of his one county of McDowell and the eight ministers of all denominations, we joined in recommending him. has been issued in circular form should be an answer to the paid per-assassins, who have been for bribers to try to win the peo-irching his splendid character and swill-barrels of foul, inde- of the hopes of the masses in West Virginia between the People losses, allied with Crooked Cor- He embodies their ideals of him to make the best governor can not be the least doubt. PARTY PLEDGES MENT OF POWER IS VENT TO HIS PENT-UP DING PARTY PAPER. all, this great man—this popular choice of the mass of the people—this clean, sober, able leader, courteous gentleman and upright citizen towers like a lofty white monument above the soiled and dirty realms below in which his detractors wallow. Dr. Hatfield was born in 1874 in a log house on Mate Creek, Mingo county, which house is now standing. His father was Elias Hatfield. He went to the public school at Logan Court House, and then to Franklin College, New Athens, O. Then he went to the University of Louisville to study medicine. He was graduated there with high honors and returned to his home region to take up the practice of medicine. He has taken post-graduate courses at a score of the leading colleges in this country, and soon achieved a statewide fame as a physician and surgeon of extraordinary ability. He was instrumental in getting the state to establish a miners' hospital at Welch and for nine years was in charge of that institution, handling over 10,000 cases in that time. He has given his time and talents to that institution for years without charging the state a penny. He has been surgeon and physician to thousands of poor people in the great Norfolk and Western section, and these people fairly worship this man. His popularity among them is one of the most remarkable phases of his remarkable campaign. No one of them is too poor to command his services when they need him. White or black, poverty-stricken or whatnot, when they are in distress they send for Dr. Hatfield and he goes to their relief. Dr. Hatfield is highly esteemed by all who know him. One of the most gratifying things to him about this campaign is the symposium of written tributes to his cleanly and strong character, his -amiability, courtesy, generosity and kindness, which has been contributed to by the ministers of his home town of Eckman, his home county of McDowell and the counties adjoining. Protestant ministers of all denominations, as well as Catholic priests have joined in recommending him to the people of the state. This symposium, which has been issued in circular form and distributed everywhere should be an answer to the paid scandal-mongers and character-assassins, who have been hired by the frightened legislator bribers to try to win the people away from him by besmirching his splendid character with the mud from the gutters and swill-barrels of foul, indecent and corrupt politics. Dr. Hatfield is the trustee of the hopes of the masses in this great fight going on in West Virginia between the People on one side and the Corrupt Bosses, allied with Crooked Corporate Wealth on the other. He embodies their ideals of better things, and they expect him to make the best governor West Virginia has ever had. And he will, of that there can not be the least doubt. VIOLATION OF PARTY PLEDGES AN EMBEZZLEMENT OF POWER INDIGNANT DEMOCRAT GIVES VENT TO HIS PENT-UP FEELINGS IN LEADING PARTY. PAPER. (By Walter Stuart.) Meridan, Texas. March 7, 1911. Editor Monroe Watchman: a Democratic ticket, and have been fighting all these years for a restoration of the Democratic party to power. And no man betwixt the two oceans felt more genuinely Will you permit a Democratic Democrat, a native of West Virginia, although for the present taberna-cling in the land of the cowboy and festive six-shooter, to use the columns of your paper for the purpose of giving his views on what the late David Graham Phillips would term, were he alive, the treasure of the Democratic Legislature which has recently adjourned? mit a Democratic le of West Virginia, present taberna- ce of the cowboy and r, to use the col- per for the purpose as on what the late hillips would term, the treason of the mlature which has d? voted anything but occurs test mo- ths thised over the election than I did the party had been defeat that its rep- make an honest, to live up to its forms. And in V cially did I think those to whom the been delegated wield all influences wh proven so disastr occurs less more genuinely enthused over the result of the last election than I did. I believed that the party had been so chastened by defeat that its representatives would make an honest, determined effort to live up to its promises and platforms. And in West Virginia especially did I think that the leaders or those to whom the party's power had been delegated would steer clear of all influences which had formerly proven so disastrous. 1910 JUDGE GEORGE POFFENBARGER, of Mason County. One of the greatest judges that ever sat on the bench of State's highest court. LOW TARIFF ROR! DEMOCRATIC HOT-AIR CORRUPT METHODS WAIT'LL I GET THRO' WITH YOU! "GO EASY DOC!" DEMOCRATIC PARTY. "DOC" HATFIELD. LEAVE IT TO DOC! "SHEER BRUTE FORCE OF MONEY" CONTROLLED THE LEGISLATURE OF THE BOSSES AND CROOKED BUSINESS, SAYS A DEMOCRATIC STATE LEADER. (BY ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSON—DEMOCRAT) As a Democratic newspaper The Watchman would greatly prefer to endorse or at least acquisite in the determinations made in the name of the Democratic party. It is therefore with deep regret that we feel in duty bound to dissent from what was done in the Senatorial caucus at Charleston last week, to protest against the methods employed and the result effected as an amazing atultification of the Democratic party in relation to grave public questions. A mere personal disappointment that selections were made other than the preferences of the writer would be a light thing not worthy to be dwelt upon. Even party ingratitude to faithful servants, while ugly enough, is not so unusual in the history of politics as to justify a schism, provided a choice be made truly representative of the principles and life of the Democratic party. But what sound defense in all the realm of reason can be made for the election of Clarence W. Watson to the United States Senate? It is beside the question to say that he is a successful business man and has built up a great industry, that he makes good in all his transactions and is true to his friends. No doubt Mr. Watson has many pleasing qualities as a man and nobody had or has any private grudge against him. But is Mr. Watson a genuine and loyal Democrat? Does the record of his life prove his sympathy with the traditions, principles and spirit of the Democratic party? Is he fitted by intellectual ability and training to represent a great State in the Senate of the United States? These are essential questions and to every one of them the facts compel a negative answer. Mr. Watson is a cold and taciturn man of business who had devoted himself to the amassing of millions and has not hesitated, according to the best evidence obtainable, to knife the Democratic party whenever he fancied it stood in the way of his interests and those of his financial allies. There is excellent testimony from various sources that he added in the election of McKinley and well known Democrats from his own section have denounced him in the public prints as disloyal, a helper of the Republican ticket whenever it suited him and unworthy of the confidence of the Democratic party. To this arraignment Mr. Watson has attempted no word of defense. Mr. Watson is president of the Consolidation Coal Company, one of the greatest coal corporations in the world, the consummation of years of financial intrigue. He has amassed a fortune of many millions, has participated in the squeezing of his business competitors by the most approved Standard Oil methods, has formed an alliance with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, the immediate effect of which was to place other coal companies at his mercy and to stop building of a competing railroad, and has contracted with the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to ship all the output from all the coal mines controlled by the gigantic corporation of which he is the head over that road. These are not the charges of some irresponsible partisan, but are set out in a report in 1997 of the Interstate Commerce Commission, published by the U.S. Government and entitled "Report on Discriminations and Monopolies in Coal and Oil." The members of the Legislature were familiar with these facts, for copies of this report were scattered all over the State and placed in their hands. Mr. Watson is a brother-in-law of ex-Governor A. B. Fleming, the chief attorney in West iVrginla of the Standard Oil Company. His associates and allies in New York and elsewhere are men identified with some of the greatest trusts in the world, hoary in the arts of monopoly building. Mr. Watson has had no experience or training whatever for service in a public capacity. He has lived in princely style in Baltimore. He has taken an interest in horses, having carried off numerous honors in the New York Horse Shows—but it will hardly be contended that these successes qualify him for service in the U. S. Senate. He has mixed little in the social life of West Virginia and is a stranger to the most of the people of his own county of Marion. What earthly reason could there be for the selection of such a man to represent the Democratic party in the United States Senate? There is but one answer, and that is that the chief factor in the making of such a choice was the sheer brute force of money—Monroe Watchman. But alas, how my hopes and dreams have been shattered so far as my own state is concerned! * * * What a glorious opportunity the party had in West Virginia! But how signally the chosen leaders failed to take advantage of it! The members of the legislature in their blindness and cupidity, abandoned their pledges upon which they were elected—repudiated the reforms which our party for years had been promising the people in the event of its being again intrusted with power, and entered into an alliance with the very interests they were elected to fight. If there has ever assembled in the history of the state a Legislature more recreant to duty—more sub- servient to the corporations and thieving combines than the one whose labors have just ended, I am at a loss to recall it. Every move of that body from the first day to the last was dominated by the corrupt, bi-partisan oligarchy of the state. That rutheless aggregation of dirty capital forced the legislators to elect its candidates for the Senate, and then in order to keep the people from repudiating one of those senators the coming year it stiffed in committee room the primary election bill. One of the leading factors that contributed to Democratic victory in the state last fall was the promise of the party to send to the Senate of the United States men who would represent the people instead of the interests—men who would possess the qualifications of real statesmanship. But no sooner was the party given a chance to fulfill its promises than it elected men of practically the same type as those whom it had been denouncing. There was no excuse for any such flagrant betrayal of the people in the election of this class of men to the Senate. Every member of that legislative body knew exactly the kind of men their constituents were demanding. Not a one of those Judases could have possibly been elected had he declared prior to the election that he was going to vote for men like Watson and Chilton. But thank God, there were a few M. HOWARD E. WILLIAMS. of Greenbrier County. Practical farmer who has had all the collegiate branches offered in scientific agriculture. men in the Legislature who bitterly opposed the sacrifice of our party on the side of the plain, common peor to Hubard, Robinson, Kennedy, Bland and Ice for their devotion to the rights of the people! They have done their duty nobly, and can go back to their homes with clear consciences and with hands unsoiled by pelf. If the Democratic party does not cast off the Wall Street influences and come out boldy and fearlessly on the side of the plain, common people in their fight against the forces of greed and monopoly the next decade will witness its extinction as a power in American politics. Yours for the William Jennings Ryan kind of Democracy—the only kind that is not tainted with Joe Baileyism and Baltimoe Sunism,—the only kind that believes violation of platform pledges is an embezzlement of power—the only kind that places the man above the dollar—Walter Stuart. — The Monroe Watchman, March 16, 1911. "It is not true that in McDowell county the elections have been and are notoriously corrupt. I do not live in Mingo county and have no personal knowledge as to conditions there." Good for Dr. Hatfield, he stands right up for his home county and its people, who have been outrageously lied on and slandered. We would not give a plugged dime for a man who wou'd not stand up and resent calumnies against his home people, governorship or no governorship. Hurrah for Dr. Hatfield, he can't be bossed bribed nor bluffed. READ The Progress of the State Campaign M. HON. CHARLES W. LYNCH, of Harrison County. Leading jurist who is destined to be promoted by the people to the Supreme Court bench. Prosperity is here. Guard it; maintain it. Think before you vote. Talk it over with your family. Take no chance, Mr. Voter, it is better to be safe than sorry. It is a short step and a hard fall from good times to bad. The protective tariff principle is the foundation upon which our prosperity. Employment is plentiful and steady. Every man who wants work can get it at maximum wages. Think before you vote. Men of West Virginia, constant political vigilance is the price of proseperity. We want to hold the present high standard of wages and thus make possible the constructive social legislation which has been so splendidly inaugurated by the Republican party under President Taft. It must be admitted by all thinking men that an improvement in social conditions can only be worked out through sound material conditions. It will not do to promise better social conditions on the one hand, and to take away the jobs of the profitably employed on the other. No social betterment was ever achieved by any such method. At Grafton a Democratic audience hooted down Boss Watson's candidate for governor and wouldn't let him speak. They evidently took him at his word when he said: "My personal views are not of any importance." "The statement that the number of licenses in McDowell county increased while I was a commissioner is untrue," says Dr. Hatfield. "While I was a member of the county court the number of licensed saloons in McDowell county decreased although the population in that period increased at least 20,000." Another lie of the Watson writers nailed to the tree of truth! "I have worked in your mines," says T. Bledsoe, Virginia's candidate for attorney general of our state, and the same of whom Gilbert D. Smith, Dem., designated as "the midnight candidate of the interests" — "I have worked in your mines," says Bledsoe, says he. If Bledsoe can prove that, we will move to make his election unanimous. Tom not only did not work in any of our mines, but he never worked at all at manual labor. The hardest work he ever undertook was to ac- ```markdown ``` cept the job of trying to beat West Virginia's gifted and brilliant son of Raleigh, Honest Abe Lilly. In his speeches, among the many good things that the thousands who have heard Dr. Hatfield approved, was this: "My claims were submitted to the people, as well as the principles that I stand for, and my candidacy was not championed, brought about or carried successfully to a nomination by any conference of party leaders. I am under no obligation to any faction or any individual for my nomination." As Dr. Hatfield received 66,000 out of 113,000 votes cast, guess there is no question about the absolute verity of his statement. Wherever Thompson has been able to get an audience to listen to him he has invariably advocated the abolition of the tax commissioner's department, which is the front, back and center of the splendid system of taxation we now have. When the last corrupt Democratic legislature attempted to do away with this department, the Democratic newspapers sent up such a howl of protest that the gang of boodlers, bought and controlled by the crooked corporations became scared and abandoned the damnable project against the people. On his opposition to our tax system, if there was nothing else the matter with him, Thompson should be overwhelmingly defeated at the polls. And by the way, he will be. German-Americans are protectionists. They have protection in Germany, and high protection at that. Prince Bismark says in his published writings this: "The success of the United States in material development is the most illustrious of modern times. It is my deliberate judgment that the prosperity of America is due mainly to its system of protective laws." The state penitentiary under MacCorkle (heaven protect us) cost on an average of $30,000 annually, but today the penitentiary is self-sustaining and turning into the state treasury $36,000 annually over and above all expenses; in 1896 the cost per-patient in the Weston asylum was $131 per year; in 1910 the cost per patient was $51 less per year. In the Spencer asylum in 1896 the cost per patient was $217 per year; in 1910 the cost per patient was $131 per year, or a saving of $86 per patient per year. This is just one of a thousands of samples of Republican business methods which have made the state solvent under Republican administrations, and shows why MacCorkle left the state treasury empty, even if it does not show just why there was a shortage in the office of secretary of state when the last Democrat who occupied it passed from the service of the state. DEMOCRATIC. EDITORS CONDEMN THEIR OWN-PARTY---READ WHAT THFY Say. ¢ —— =f f _ y : * Lo e Pe eae ae Teta cne ms i aaa F i aaa " HON. HOWARD SUTHERLAND, Of Randolph County. Popular Candidate on the Republicaif ticket for the office of Congressman-al-Laree, ANOTHER SAD LAMENTATON If the recommendations of the leg- ilature graft committee of that Atute are followed, New York will before long have w law which should effectually put an end for all time to bribery and like evils employed in influencing legislation. One of the provisions of the proposed law makes the man who is offered a bribe and faile to sce that the briber is prose- cuted, guilty of a felony, and im- poses UPON him a fine of $5,000, Lo- gether with imprisonment in (he penitentiary, Not only this, but threats on the part of the political bosses to bring to a sudden end the political careers of legislators who do not legislate to suit the bosses, are construed as attempts to unduly influence, and the legislators must report them. Since the legislature of West Vir- ginia has so recently been stirrea by allegations of + undue influence Bought to be brought to bear in be- half of the candidates foy the United States Senate, now would be a very propitious time for the jatroduction of such a bill at Charleston. To cover a case like that which is al- leged to have recently occurred in Wost Virginia, in which Delegate Shock averred that he was given $1,000, and offered $1,500 more it he would vote for Watson and Chil- ton, it might be well to insert a pro- vision making it a penalty for a man to take a bribe, inform on the bribers, and then turn around and vote for the very men in whose be half the bribers were seeking to in: fluence him.—Wetzel_ Democrat, February 3, 1911, CONTEMPT FOR LEGISLATURE. We are asked by a prominent Deni- cerat a few days ago why we had not published more editorials on the elee- tion of U.S. Senators, Our answer to him, and it stands for all others who may think of asking that ques- tion was: ‘That, our contempt for the Democratic legislators who made it possible for the Watson-Chiltcd combination to go through against the wishes of 99 per cent of the Dem- ccratic voters of the State, was so great that he had not been able to find language to express our feclings. But we are confident that we will gather up a proper vocabulary later. —Pan-Handle News, Feb. 20, 1911. THE FIGHT GOES ON. A hundred thousand of the rank and file Democrats in this state are hon- est and loyal to the precepts of their party. The obvious lesson to them fs a stricter watehfulness in the se- lection of their representatives. ‘That they now have honest men in the leg- Islature is indisputable, but unfor- tunately there are not cnough of them, The fight between predatory wealth on one side and (he people on the other, must go on and be fought to an ultimate decision and we be- lieve the people will eventually win, —West Union Record, Feb, 17, 1911 MORE PARTY TREACHERY rAND CISRUPTION For years the Democratic party has. formally declared et in favor of a Federal income tax. fPhis pledge has been reiterated by every national convention which has asscimbled with- in the last sixteen years, ‘The Dem- ocratic national platform of 1908 con- tained this. plank: “We favor an income tax as part ot our revenue system, and we urge the submission of a constitutional amend- ment specifically authorizing Con: gress to levy and collect a tax upon individual and corporate incomes to the end that wealth may bear its pro- portionate share of the burdens of the Federal Government,” And yet the constitutional amend- ment providing for a Federal income tax submitted two years ago by Con- sress has been rejected by the Leg- islature of West Virginia, the State Senate defeating the proposition last week by a vote of 13 yeas to 17 nays. yor the seventeen negative votes, ten , were cast by men clected as Demo- ycrats: Again: The Democratic State plat- form of 1908 adopted by ‘the Demo- cratic party of West Virginia in con- jvention asembied at Charleston, con- (tained this plank: “We favor the enactntent of a law requiring common carriers engaged in passenger trafic to furnish separate coaches or compartments for white and colored passengers.” And yet the West Virginia House of | delegates, having a Democratic ma- jority of 40, last week defeated the Dill providing for separate cars or compartments for white and colored passengers by a yote of 29 yeas to 45 nays, Whatever the views of the individ- ual, When he accepts the responsibil- ities of the party representatives the chart by which he should steer his course is unquestionably the party platform. Jf the party's pledges aro to be grossly violated, how is it to mainlan the cohesive qualities of a | potitiea organization or command [Public confidence? ¥ | The result in both the instances named above are traceable to the in- fluences which acquired mastery at the Senatorial caucus last month and are controlling the destinies of the party, In the case of the income tax it was ex-Gov. MacCorkle, now a member of the State Senate and law partner of Senator Wm. E. Chilton, who led the successful fight against that measure, while Delegates’ Carr of Charleston, and Seibert of Martins- burg (both spokes of the same ma- chine) were most active in the kill- ing of the bill for separate cars for the races, The names of those whiv have either mistakenly or wilfully played the part of disruptors may be found on THIS WATCHMAN'S first and sixth pages. Every intelligent reader can infer the real interests which, behind the scenes, exerted the controlling in- fluence. Certainly the corporations are in the saddle.—The Monroe Watchman, Feb, 23, 1911. a Ei, XY ' fom, Mie OD ee yy Gy 1 gees SS PON a Sg iy, | Gai onus Wa Seca aae ee reeihe io RUNS UE Dt Have TO ERY s ee ae ate Me BAe De fa nee Poeriee ene. eee Mkt C te Se SPecwelecadek ag: a ee Pa ote ie aa ee a ple es a ee Da ae a oe, mn Ae bugee nate eee eek 5 ae ee eh Se ae Bo a eee Ba. § args a Eon TS enon eae 18 ee Pe. a Pe hi Ne ¢, my ye Ee Bn ds Fs Sn 283 lesa Be ne oe ae Nee es ey y ecg Cae ey me ae z ae Pee e on 4 a eras “I einen gare’ esgi oo Stee Ais rae y iia inex ave ane | IEE OD a ee oo oe ee ae Mic cnamgest 8 a | Se = 4 pee) ee ee nase en Se oe WATER: @ et ay OS Sous Jaeees|| ST ee a ee a iso ae 9 Be ie ee, . wen heey, Right} |You © Are ed eas : mPemberton | “a : — Wor two years Clarence W Watson may be a good Senator, and his ones at the end of that time may be able to point their fingers at us and say they knew we were mistaken But we are going to keep in mind. the fact that corporate interests are sometimes wiling to give in order that they may be in ppsition to take a great deal The supreme test may not oceur in the next two years.—St. Mary's Oracle. | O. CONSISTENCYT Democrats in the legislature who voted for Watson for United States Senator present a most ridiculous spectacle in passing a resolution in favor of the electiom of United States Senators by a direct’ vote of the peo- ple. ‘They do this after electing a man to that office who could not without money and corporation influence mus- ler a corporal’s guard in any county in the state in a popwiar election, ‘Their action goes to show that they have already repudiated their own action and are trying to atone for it. That there was no popular sentiment for Watson is now more apparent than ever since the people and the press have so bitterly denounced his elec- tion bysthe legislature. So outspoken have the people been, there is not a single member of the legislature who voted for him who will fecl easy over the matter when he returns home to his. constituents.—West Union Itecord Feb, 17, 1911 LISTEN 10 THE VOCE OF THE PEOPLE | That Clarence Watson has been serving the “interests” there is no doubt, He was a Democrat! in his younger days, but in 1896 he and his associates in business deserted the party in ils hour of need and went over to the strong side and helped to throw this state to McKinley, He did nothing for the Democratic party since until 1908 when he was sent as a delegate to the national convention, a thing the party should not have dene and will yet have to answer for. Ile took no further in- terest in the party that campaign. Now he wants to be elected United States senator, after doing all he could to have the parly defeated and polities controled by the “interests” of the kind he represents. No won- der Democrats everywhere — are. threatening revolt’ if Watson is wlected senator over mon who have, been loyal and true to the — party when she needed just such help as Mr. Watson and his friends could, give, but gave it to the Republican: party. Watson's friends say we must do this in order to save the state for the party in two years, hence. Better let it go, if it must be held at such a frightful cost as this. ‘The progressive voters of this state are not xoing to stand for any such action, and legislators who £0 directly against the will of the rank and file and commit? such a crime against the people will nov 2° allowed to light when they get hack home to their constuents. Mark well this prediction.—The West Mnion Record, February 4, 1911 West Virgina’s two United States senators can not prove more acerpt- able to the people of the state than they are expected to ba, that's sare. The West Union Record, Feb. 3, 1911. made in other States, a glimpse is afforded in the following let- ter from a citizen of this State, a cultured scholar and teacher; now located at Meridian, Texas, who last week wrote THE WATCHMAN as follows: “1 have just read an article from your paper in Mr, Bryan's. Commoner about the election of Clarence Watson ‘to the United States Senate. | am indeed surprised to know that there is ONE honest, courageous Democratic newspaper in West Vir- ginia—a paper whose columns are not controlled by the big interests—a paper that is not afraid to tell the truth. “Do for God’s sake send me a sample copy. | am truly anxious to see such a paper as puts eon such a boss-ridden, commercialized State as West Virginia. “lam a native and a citizen of West Virginia, but | utterly abhor the political ideals of her people. The Democrats in West Virginia are just as corrupt as the Republicans. The people of that State have not yet gotten in line with the great movement for political and civil righteousness which has spread over many parts of the United States. They are too busy digging coal, cutting down the forests, boring for oil—too busy exhausting the natural resources and destroyinf the beautiful scenery of the State to take time for considering moral and ethical prob- lems.”-—The Monroe Watchman, Feb. 23, 1911. saree inte SI RN a a ecg pe E ie ee ee De ‘ a ee “ ee 1 ioe ge Be Den gee. ee ae ey eg 7 | - a iy , i ae , ie <n ee ee i Mig a jy ci ae 7 1 ee Pe eae ae CMa Fee Z eee Le ie at, oe gee ‘Ge ae ee ee ee LC. 3 te ee 5 es 7 a a a : i oS. Be, eg Ls C = . & i ee aes ae i i. TE HON. EDWARD L, LONG, of McDowell County. Pandidate on the Republican ticket far the position of State Treasurer, - WANT “REAL” PROBE INSERTED ArousediiVoice, : Of Democracy But, Alas and Alack, This Dem- ocratic Advice Was Tabooed. Taking the present status of the Status of the bribery charges in con- nection with the election of West Virginia’s United States Senators from published reports, it is hard, in the face of calm reasoning, to believe that much progress can be made or satistactory results attained by mak- ing a hasty investigation such as ad- vised from certain quarters, While it might be believed that the charges art through to a certain degree, the production of proof sufficient to cause the investigation (o arrive at and announce such a conclusion is another matter. Suflicient time should be taken to collect every vestige of evidence, and the matter should be of public record, so that the people may be able to weigh the facts and reason the case for themselves, A hasty investigation would mean prob- ably, a “white washing,” of the charges, because of insufficient o1 poorly prepared evdience. No “white washing,” in the political sense, is desired by the rank and file of the Democratic party, Hither a full and complete exoneration, after an ex- haustive and deliberate Investigation with the proceedings a matter of pub- lic record, or a substantiation of the charges, is demanded, both by the people, the honor of the’ State, and in simple justice to those accused. The Democratic party is big enough and broad enough to do its own house cleaning, when necessary, but delib- eration, not haste is required for a thorough — job.—Weston Democrat, February 10, 1911, NOW HAS ITS FIRST AND ONLY CHANCE To BE HEARD AND HEEDED—VOTE THE REPUBLICAN TICKET NOVEMBER 5TH. >. re ee WALLAMAN). The editor of THE WATCHMAN has recently been made the recipient of a number of letters from some of the most emi- rent men in West Virginia giving voluntary and hearty endorse- ment to this paper’s attitude in relation to the treasonable sacri- fice of the Democratic party at Charleston and the venal influ- | ences empioyed to effect it. That THE WATCHMAN is ap- [proved is of far less importance than this demonstration of an aroused public sentiment which repudiates what has been shamelessly done in the name of the party. Voiced as it is by men of the highest integrity who are themselves influential molders of public opinion and in close touch with the people, it betokens a situation of the gravest character. These are pri- vate letters and we are therefore not at liberty to print the games of the writers, but will venture to quote from a few of em. owe oft A Democrat of Clarksburg says: \ “Tl want to congratulate you on the editorial in your issue lof January 26, on the Senatorial situation, and to express my approval of and concurrence in what you say therein. In my judgment it is a great party catastrophe; and | am glad to see the independent and unpurchased press speaking out about it. How can we defend this action, and what apology can we offer i the people for the non-performance of the promises made to em?” A Democrat of Alderson writes as follows: | “lam free to admit that the reported methods and out- come of the Senatorial race has completely paralyzed my confi- dence in a political representative body, and only goes to con- firm the present public demand that our Senators be-elected by the people. | believe | am not wrong when_| say that the dis appointment to the constituents of our Legislators as to their action in this contest will be a great blow to the party, if not its death. Why shouldn’t we have Socialism and even anarchy when the public confidence is so badly shaken by those we elect- ed to deal fairly with the people and who | sell their political birthright for a mess of pottage? The people by their votes in the last election showed plainly the dissatisfied state of the pub- lic mind with the course pursued by the Republican administra- tion, and naturally looked for an improvement from the present Legislature; and for that body to turn so completely into the hands of the moneyed interests as to even take the ‘filthy lucre’ in compensation for their votes is more than honest people will stand for.” . A Charles Town (Jefferson count) Democrat says: | “Your paper is splendid. | am terribly busy but write a) word of approval. See Collier’s on Chilton and Watson.” df. A Hinton Democrat writes: “I have read and heard a good deal about corruption in} connection with the election of U. S. Senators, but had | not! been on the ground at Charleston and seen and heard for my-| self, | never would have appreciated the extent of the iniquity | committed in that connection * * * % [f any honest man ever had any doubt about the necessity for the election of U. S.! Senators by the direct vote of the people, then these results and! the manner in which they were secured should be everlastingly convincing.” From Beckley a Democrat writes as follows: “As a loyal Democrat and one who believes in the rule of | Ihe whole people | wish to thank you for the position THE WATCHMAN has taken. | appreciate your stand and that of Mr. Dennis in the Greenbrier Independents” g A Democrat writing from Bluefield says* “lam with you. God send the day when honest men can 1¢ honestly represented and maintain their rights against pre- latory wealth and power,” There are gthers, but these will suffice. The list of writers, ncludes some Ste ablest and most distinauished Democrats n the State whose names would he instantly recognized as hose of men of commanding position and influence. Does the idroit leadership which has suppressed the demanded investi- ation at Charleston feel safe in ignorina the state of feeling, hese writers disclose? Doubtless. Let its private organ, the sa7ette. include them in its reproof for “scolding,” and thus ‘close the incident.” Money is the dominant factor in politics | / —nothing else counts. y! La NE i oo This is the Time to Punish the Bribers. The Charleston Gazette, Senator Chilton's personal organ, after one attempt to criticize and frighten the “kicking” Democratic press, which has been challenged to combat by a dozen and has beaten a retreat, asks when all this will stop. We answer not until right is made right, until Democracy’s mis-representatives are supplanted by true unpurchasadle representatives of our votes,—St. Mary's Oracle, March 31, 1911. _ WHAT'S THE M173) Everybody Now Knows. and Shoula Give Their Answer at the Polls. Can it be possible that the state senate will fail to pass the House resolution calling for the investiga~ tion of the charges of bribery and corruption with the nomination of Messrs. Chilton and Watson? The resolution has been before the Sen- ate for fully a week. It has been called once or twice and passed by. What does it mean? Can Messrs. Chilton and Watson afford to allow this investigation to go py after all they said in their speeches at the (ime elected and after all Governor MacCorkle said about his desire for a speedy and thorough investiga tion? ‘ Can it be that after that has been said the investigation in.fact is not desired?—Greenbrier Independent, February 9, 1911. ; os It is stated that Senator Robert Kidd, former friend of Col. MoGraw, is to be counsel for the Consolidation Coal Company, the next five years. Retention of Senator Kidd's services as such is said to haye taken place in Charleston a few aays previous lo the Democratic senatorial caucus. —Webster Echo, February 17, 1911. Will not some one start a petition fo the U. S. Senate to Investigate the charges of bribery against Watson?— West Union Record, Feb. 17, 1911, The United States Senate should in- vestigate the bribery charges against Senator Watson and commence right now.—West Union Record, Feb. 17, 1911.