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HON. RANKIN WHEY DEFINES HIS POSITION ON TARIFF AND TRUSTS.Hon. Rankin Wiley, democratic candidate for Congress in the Fifth district of Weit Virginia', spent last night in the city and left for his home at Point Pleasant on an early morning train. He bad a great arid enthusiastic meeting at Williamson, where he and Hon. Joseph E. Chilton; of Charleston, addressed the people. Mr. Wiley is greatly pleased at the outlook and will make a vigorous and thorough campaign which will continue until election day.The drift of things in the district is most decidedly favorable to his candidacy and there is nothing at■ all of the “forlorn hope” spirit In the fight he is making. He confidently expects, after a careful survey of the field, to be elected.In conversation with a representative of The Advertiser Mr. Wiley said:“My enforced’ race for congress seems to have attracted the attention of the Huntington Herald Dispatch and that newspaper, with cheerful impertinence, wants to know how 1 stand on such public questions as it cares to consider at this time. No man running for a public office has time to bandy words and enter upon dispute with a hostile and unscrupulous newspaper. In the present case the Herald-Dlspatch is supporting a man for congress who owes Hi* nomination absolutely to the effort of the most offensive type of political bosses, supplemented by the aid of the federal officials of this district. The slory of Mr. Hughes' past nominations and how they were obtained was truly and forcefully fold by Hon. A. A. Lilly when that bright and ambitious young man confronted the Hughes machine. Mr. Lilly’* Tfcitals are now familiar political history, and are known to every intelligent voter in the district. Mr. Lilly has convicted Mr. Hughes of gross family favoritism in official appointments and of the use of the most brutal and tyrannical methods lu-nominuting himself for congress. Mr. Lilly can speak from personal -experience as to these methods.. They broke his head in a free for ■all convention shindy at Williamson. •. Mr. Lilly said that Mr. Hughes: was an utter failure in congress;I that no bran as smalpin Huntington as Mr. Hughes was known to be, could by any possibility, he a great man in Washington.Mr. Lilly said that Mr. Hughes had voted for free coal and free lumber in congress.“In short, if one half of what Mr. Lilly said regarding Mr. Hughes' record is true, and none of it is denied, Mr. Hughes is not a fit map to■ represent this district in congress.“The Herald-Dispatch must plead to the Lilly indictment first and nr-. ter that will be time enough to pursue its impertinent reference to me. It may rest assured thnt the voters have read this indictment, and every count of it, and that they are anxiously waiting to hear Mr. Hughes defense.“Before the Herald-Dlspatch asks me how I would vote 011 a coal and lumber tariff let it find something less absurd to say in defense of. Mr. Hughes than that Mr. Hughes voted for free coal and free lumber knowing that a duty on these items would be added by the senate. No fair or honest lawyer would ask a jury to convict a man regardless of his guilty or innocence upon the assumption that if he was convicted the governor would be sure to pardon him; and that is the logic of the Hughes defense on free coal and lumber.Was the Herald-Dlipatch's tariff expert ever truthful enough to tell that the Wilson tariff bill carried -forty-five cent* per ton duty on coal?“Let me say generally, that if elected to congress I shall vote on ' all public measures for the best interests of my constituents in the country as 1 see these interests and that 1 will not entrust them, or my convictions concerning them to the United States senate or any other body.“The very truth Is that James A. Hughes, consorting with local bosses at home and himself a local boss, is in a bewildered state of subserviency to greater bosses and influences when he goes to Washington. Had the matter depended upon his efforts there would be no tariff on West Virginia coal today. In my speech at Williamson I defined in general terms, my attitude toward the tariff question. I believe that attitude to be satisfactory to my own parly associates and to fair men generally, and to be based upon democratic doctrine, 1 believe that attitude to be nearer in sympathy with the interests of the people of this district than.is thst of my opponent. Let m: repeat here what 1 said at Williamson :“We are not,in favor of free trade. The democratic party never taught free trade, but it has always declared that a tariff for revenue, properly distributed, would afford the necessary protection to American Industries: I favor a tariff law, fairlydistributed so as not to discriminate against any part of this country or against any state. I am opposed to a high tariff for New England products and low tariff, or no tariff at all for the products of West Virginia.1 aiu in favor of reducing the tariff on trust made products, or rein—ing it entirely, 'until these lift eaters, man oppressors loosen their hold on the American |cojle and de the right thing.Congress is appropriating 8 l,-100,0^0,000, each' year and th« imount still grows, and tariff duty sufficient to raise this great sum ol money, will if properly laid give the protection necessary.It is now a matter of common, and in many instances, distressing knowledge that the Aldrich tarifl has added to the cost of living in this country until that cost has become a grievous burden.As long as stnnd-patters of the James A. Hughes type are sent to congress thnt burden will never he lifted or lightened. A little cheap preferment from the bosses at Washington and undisturbed family enjoyment of enough offices to go around and James A. Hughes would vote all the days ol his life as he has been voting in congress for the outrageous and sinister interests which have the country in their -ffasp.”— Huntington Advertiser.EVERYBODY WEI.COTE.Mrs. J. S. Spencer and Mrs. Hoincr Smith request your presence at a Guild Social Saturday evening, October fifteenth Spcneer Assembly Hall Eight to ten Some of the best musical talent of the town will enhance, the enjoyment of the oocusion. Another delightful feature will be found in the diversified program rendered by Mrs. Walter Lincoln’s Victor, which will undoubtedly afford all music lovers a rare and charming treat. Refreshments served throughout the evening, and all this for an admission fee of only 25 cents.TAKE NOTICE.The Guild of the Episcopal church will open a Rummage Sale at the Mayor’s office, next door to HoofTs drug store, the first of November. The sale will be In charge of Miss Kate Stribling and Mrs. Kate Strfb-ling and Mrs. Watson Kidney. Contributions gratefully received. Please notify these ladies if you have anything to give, and they will send a messenger to you.
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Point Pleasant, West Virginia, US
Wed, Oct 12, 1910
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