Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-21
THURSDAY, APRIL, d, 1898.
MISTAKES, ALIAS INSTALLATIONS.

MISTAKES, ALIAS INSTALLATIONS.
Under the caption "Some District
Talk" the Clinch Valley News Of the 18th
inst. INDUCED in some rather funny allu-
sions to our efforts to bring complete har'
mony into the ranks of TIE Republican
party in the Ninth District. In his efforts
to secure laugh at om expense the editor
of the News makes some statements that
the astute politicians ofhis party will regret,
unless they have determined to play a
bold, defiant hand in this district at the
next Congressional election. In speaking
of us the editor of the News says:
"In the little, buge cat-call to which we
refer, he appeals to his fellow-partizans
not to let few post Office blunders make
the election of Democrat possible in the
Ninth District and all the time the Ninth
District is as safely Democratic as Ken
tucEy is under the new election lar. Why,
but for Democratic mistakes, (Which will
not be repeatedly your party had no more
chance to elect Gen. Walker, (who is
perambulating mistake hlmself) than 1t
had to capture the Legislature of Vir-
ginia."
In inditing and publishing the above
was the editor of the News, (who recently
returned from "Hawtee'') indiscreetly
giving his party away, or was he, by in
struction, outlining the methods that will
be employed at the approaching Congress
ional election to make the election of
Democrat possible in the Ninth District
He says: " and all the time the Ninth
District is as safely Democratic as Kentucky
Is under the ne,C election lar" There can be
but one definition to this sentence. The
new Kentucky election Law was adopted
for the purpose of fraudulently preventing
that State going for the Republican can
didate for President again, as it did in
1896. 1t was copied from the Virginia
election law, which by its friends had been
pronounced a howiing success. So the
Ninth District is to be made safely Demo
cratic by the same methods that Ken
lucky will be made Democratic under its
new election law.
To show that such is the purpose of the
"machine" the News, which seems to
speak by authority, says further; "Why
but for Democratic mistakes, (Which
will not be repeatedly your party had no
more chance to elect Gen. Walker, (who
isa perambulating mistake himself) than
it had to capture the Legislature of Vir-
ginia."
1t is evident that what the News calls
mistakes" is to be construed miscalcula'
tons. The machine was inaccurate in its
calculations in the Ninth District in 1896,
but does not intend to repeat that "mis-
take in 1898. 1t has already selected its
candidate for Congress in the person of W.
F Rhea. of Bristol. He is a bower Of
Tom Martin, and for him the machine
will grind its grist of fraud. The Cinch
Valley News has declared for Rhea for
Congress, and its utterances may be taken
as the positive declarations of the machine,
that no mistakes" will be made. The
Ninth District is to be made as safely
Democratic as Kentucky under its new
election law, or as the last Legislature was
solidily Democratic as the result Of the
Virginia election law.
1t has been the rule for the State machine
before each election to name the majority
that the Democratic ticket would receive
in the State. Its estimates have not been
based upon its knowledge Of public senti-
ment but upon the known capacity and
opportunities of the election law. In the
Ninth District there are to be 70 more
mistakes, alias miscalculations.
We serve notice on the News that it
will find its candidate Rhea perambulat-
ing miscalculation when his record is
unraveled before the people. We give
further notice that the Republicans of the
Ninth District will prepare themselves to
meet the ''no mistakes policy Of the
machine which is being Haunted in our
faces. Fraud will be met and detected
and wrong doors exposed. The election
law of Virginia combined with the new
election law of Kentucky cannot frighten
the brave Republicans of the Southwest.
THE HARVEST.
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