The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-29
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Voters Say.
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There is CREST deal being said about
j. Allen VISITS supporting the Gas and
Water Company oil, aud o.hor bills,
such as tho Building and Loan Associa-
ton usury bill, std the bill to rent the
farmers land privately for the price of
the tax ticket, and his opposition to the
Mechanics Lien law, and his opposition
to the bill to repeal the present law and
make tho railroad companies RESPONSE
BILE for damages done 10 its employes
By the negligence and carelessness of a
fellow'servsnt, bus wo seem to have
lost sight Of tho fact tina. he supported
and voted for tho Miller bill, the most
infamous measure ever offered in the
legislature OF Virginia
The people OF Roanoke will remem Der
that in September, 1898, We had a local
option election in Roanoke, and the city
voted dry. The night before this cleo
ton capt. w. w. Berkeley made q
speech at the Academy of Music in
favor of tho liquor men. After this
election was over, the whiekey men
commenced fight against the local Oh,
ton law in the courts of Roanoke, and
had ns their attorneys Watts, Robert
son ~ Robertson. Mr. Waits never sp.
peared in court in this case, but the
brief for George Moore, in whose name
the whiskey men msdo their ficht, ia
signed Watts, Robertson e Robert
son." and ]. Allen Watts was, and is, a
member OF this firm.
y. Allen Watts was our senator and
the Miller bill was offered, and provided
that the local option law should be re-
pesled in towns aud cities of $500
people and over, and unere was also
provision in the bill TO Snnul tho local
option election in Roanoke, and yet Mr..
Watts, claiming to DO a Democrat, and
the fundamental principle OF Democracy
being that tho people shall rule. still
Mr.. Watts voted to set aside tho will Of
the people. SO we SEQ that Mr.. Watts
view of personal Liberty" is to open
the barroom and give the GAS and Water
Company control OF all tho water in and
around tho city. The people by their
ballots said the saloon must go. MIR,
Watts says it shall not.
Did the people know what they
wanted? Who is this Watts, that he
should dictate to the people CT Roam
oke? Because tho voters of Roanoke
did not get on their knees and ask
Mr.. Watts 10 let them close tho bar
rooms, he goes to the senate and votes
to annul and set sside tho votes of the
people. Freemen Of Roanoke, q vote
for Watts means On endorsement OF his
conduct!
II bill should be offered in the next
Legislature to repeal the local option
law as to the counties of Montgomery,
Roanoke and Craig, aud tho cities Of
Radford and Roanoke, would not Mr..
Watts vote for 1t And where would
Berkeley ana Mccartney stand ? Watts
voted to repeal local option in Roanoke
city and Salem; would not no also vote
to repeal it. in the balance of tho dis
trict? Captain Berkeley spoke against
local option in Roanoke; would not he
vote to repeal local option in the dis
Ntrics? Mr. Mccartney is both dis
FILLER and barkeeper; would not he
vote to repeal local option?
Christian people, we bslleve this
ticket was put up by tho whiskey men
for the purpose OF repeating tho local
option law, and thereby forcing the
liAuor traffic upon US, without remedy
to rid ourselves of it,
Why didn't the Democrats put q tenn
persnce man on the ticket? The reason
is, the whiskey mer would not support
q, TEN perauce man. We'll, IL q whiskey
| man cannot, or will not, vote for tom
perance man, then temperance men, can
you vote for whisEey men, and that,
too, with the member of ST cial club,
Tor fashionable barroom.) OF one end
and still house and barloom at the
other end?
Vote for Clayton, Jones and Hannah
A Voter.