Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-11-11
thursday, NOVEMBER IL, 1897.
A PAIR OF THEM.

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ault upon the editor of the REPUBLICAN
Through the columns of the Bristol News.
heir attack was responsive to an exposure
ade by this paper of the disgraceful deal
etween Mccoy and the "Watermelon"
elton of the Democratic party. We have
waited until the smoke of battle has cleared
away to reply to the profane-mouthed
Sjckster and his truculent parasite. We
ired also to see what great results would
from the combined influence in Smyth
Ity of the Ohio tomtit, who tries to
swell MS proportions to those of the eagle,
and the jackdaw from Adwolfe, who seeks
DO hide his repulsive populistic feathers by
arraying himself in Republican plumage.
Well, We have seen the official returns,
and if we are to judge from the Marion
News, the tomtit and the jackdaw are
greatly elated over the results of the cleo
gtion in Smyth. They are silly enough to
Z claim that it was their tremendous int1u-
>>ence, and especially that of Mccoy, that
carried Smyth county for the Democratic
candidates, while the vote shows that Nc
= Coy, with unlimited 'Watermelon" Doodle
at MS command, with the employment of
all the falsehoods his unlimited capacity in
4 that line could formulate, assisted by his
coterie of "Watermelon" Republicans only
carried with him some 800 or $50 voters in
the county. An analysis of the returns
will show this to be true.
The official returns show that Tyler the
Democratic candidate for Governor re-
cieved 1924 votes, while Gwyn the Demo
cratic candidate for the House of Delegates,
and whose cause was so warmly espoused
by Mccoy, received 1899 votes. Subtract
Tyler's from Gwyn's vote and we find that
Mccoy and his associates, with Doodle,
falsehood and trickery, influenced 3l5
votes in the county.
But let us test the claim of the assistent
"Watermelons" another way, Steele, the
regular nominee of the Democratic party
for Senator from Washington and Smyth
counties, was most zealously supported by
Mccoy and his fellow conspirators, and
the Marion News was filled with columns
in his behalf, penned, we suppose, by An
derson. How did Steele run in Smyth
county? He received just 695 votes. The
Democratic chairman of Smyth county was
for Steele, SO were Judge Richardson and
John Vena5le, down at the Depot, and
other leading Democrats all over the
COUNTY 1t is fair to presume that the
Democratic leaders in the county were
equally as potential in securing votes for
Steele as we're Mccoy, Anderson and their
associates in political crime. Divide the
sheaves gathered into Steele between
White and his associates and Mccoy and
his associates and we find to the credit OF
Mccoy & Co., with their tremendous in
fluence, credit of less than $50 votes.
There are good many of these $50 who
are true Republicans, but who were brought
under thespell of Mccoy malign influence
and induced to vote for the Democratic
candidates. Time will demonstrate to
them the folly of their course and will
place upon the heads Of the tricksters the
contempt their brutal treachery deserves.
But admit that every vote cast. in Smyth
for Steele was by Republican and that
one half the votes received by Gwyn in
that county were Republicans (but this is
not the fact, and We find Mccoy and his
ring could only influence one half the Re-
publicans of Smyth who voted for McKin-
ley to walk into the snare they tfor them.
If they accomplished even this much with
their Doodle and talsehoods what great
measure Of glory rests upon their pennant?
But let them gloat over their work. In
the language of Henry Watterson: eve
leave to the reptiles, and to other vermin,
those ecstasies of joy and grief which are
common alike to the predetermined and
the corrupt, and which, in the sum total
of human experience, are rarely verified
either by the event or its consequences. -
Mccoy and his ring, pretending to be
Republicans, have driven a knife into the
heart of the party. But what care Mccoy
and Anderson? They have played the
part of traitors for price. They can now
enjoy the jingle Of watermelon" Doodle.
If, combined, they had half the conscience
of Judas Igcariot they would now be found
dangling at the ends of ropes, self-executed,
and ready to be buried, like all other be-
trayers, in grave in the potters field, to
which public contempt will ultimately
consign them.
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