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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Sir Henry Irving's eldest son has just
published life of the bloody Judge
Jelfreys, in which he tries to rehabilitatf
that worthy's character.
A servant girl on farm near Cambria
in Northern France, has lived seventytwc
years with the same family. She is now 81
years of age and still does her Work.
Marx Twain, having noticed in al
American newspaper statistics Of the In
crease of crime in Connecticut during the
past seven years. is sorowlully constrained
to admit that this is just the time that
have been absent from the State"
A woman physician, who is the wife o.
a physician in Indianapolis, thinks that
souls and bodies should be administered
to Jointly, and has united preaching with
her practice. She makas house-to-house
missionary canyasses. She is product o.
Kansas.
Ole of the coed Kansans found in look
ing over his accounts that he had never
sent church subscription paper to sub
scriber who had paid 80 cents for it thirty
years ago, and he forwarded the sum with
interest at 10 per cent. to the mans
widow.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-14

Democratic party represents the wealth
and intelligence of Virginia, yet these
thirty officers, all white Democrats, were
assessed for taxes on personal property in
1896 S41 .S3 in the aggregate. Sixteen of
the thirteen were returned delinquent,
and all together paid a tax of $lS.4S.
These are kind of irresponsible persons
that are used in the black belt to stuff bal
lot boxes and falsify returns. They have
been used for years to do this work, the
service of some of them dating
back to 1883, when they so changed the
returns in the Fourth district that the Vir-
ginia electoral vote was taken from
Harrison.
If the honest Democrat still doubts let
him 90 to Richmond and find how regis
trars in that city have purged the registra-
ton books in the manner above described,
and how hundreds, yes thousands of vo-
tiers have been cheated. Let him go to
Smithers precint and be told how ajudge
of election at that precinct stuffed the bal
lot box, was punished by a nominal fine Of
$1,000 and has been rewarded with Office
ever since by the Democratic party. Let
him 90 to Shoemaker's precinct. Then on
to Norfolk and Elizabeth City counties.
In fact he can go to every district in the
State and find enough fraud to open his
ewes. Here in the Ninth Congressional
district let him 60 to Swords Creek, IN
Russell county, or to Abingdon in Wash
ington county, and to many other places
in the district and he will find that cheat
ing has been done. He will find that it is
increasing each succeeding election, that
moral tone, in connection with election
methods, is springing mp that is making
our State disgusting in the eyes of the out
side world.
The Democratic machine is responsible
for these conditions. 1t originated the
election law. 1t has instructed its tools
how to operate it. 1t is constituencies, and
is not only dragging the State in the mire
but bringing the party it holds by the throat
into disrepute. $50 and see" if what we
say is not true.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-14
Let Us Cultivate Liberality.
Richmond Times.

Richmond Times.
The Virginian and Pilot in noting many
nice things that had been said Of it since
the consolidation, adds that "the expires
sion of the Norfolk Landmark and of the
Richmond Times impresses us all the more
agreeable for the reason that the Virginian
and Pilot, and they, hold and battle for
opposing views on several imortant poiti-
cal issues, looking, as they do upon all pub
lie affairs, generally, from opposing stand
points"
Again we note the evidence of more
liberal spirit in Virginia. And why not?
Why may not the Landmark and The
Times respect the Virginian and Pilot and
have kind regard for it and say kind
things of it, in spite of the fact that they
differ with the Virginia and Pilot on aues-
tons of public policy? Do not we all love
Virginia and are we not honestly pursuing
that course which we believe will best pro-
mote her welfare? We hate sham and
cowardice and demagogy, and we cannot
commend contemporary which discards
principle and runs with the gang for the
profit that is in it. But if contemporary
is honest in its belief and fearless in the
maintainment of its principles, we do not
respect it the less, because we do not chance
to be in accord with the policy which it
advocates.
We are gratifed to see evidence of great
er libera,ity in this State. There is no
reason why honest Virginia newspapers,
those which advocate the free coinage OF
silver and those which advocate the gold
standard may not dispassionately discuss
with one another ,estions of the hour as
occasion may offer, and yet be on terms
of peace and cordially. Away with in
tolerence.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-14
OUR EXPORT TRADE.

The free traders have always asserted
that protective tariff would destroy our
trade of merchandise with other
countries.
Since the Dingley bill became law the
record has shown how mistaken were the
contentious of the low tariff advocates.
American goods are now going into the
chief markets of the world and not only
competing with but triumphing over
others. The people of the United States
have learned more promptly and complete
ly the uses of steam, electricity and ma
chinery than any other nation. A great
advantage has been gained in that way
An American electrical firm recently got a
contract to equip underground roads in
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-14
Example of the South's Spirit.
savannah "News" tDem.J

savannah "News" Dem).
Here in the South there would have to
be great sacrifices if war should come and
it should be long war. Our dependence
is largely upon our foreign commerce. II
that should be lnterfered with greatly our
people would become acquainted with
hard times. Still, we do not find that
there is any sentiment in any part of the
South that is against war under any Cir
cumstances. The resolutions adopted by
our commercial bodies yesterday mean
nothing like that. If Congress should to-
day or tomorrow decide in favor of wal
the South would be found ready to bean
her fair share of the burdens of it, and in
the army and navy her sons would make
records as glorious as those of the sons Of
any other section of the country.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-14
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

On Monday at ZOOS President Mckinley
sent his message OH Cuba to Congress.
The message was about what the public,
from Limits thrown out, was expecting.
The President declares that "the war in
Cuba must stop 'and asks Congress 10 give
him authority to fuse such military and
naval forces as may be necessary for these
purposes"
He advises against the recognition of the
independence of the island,a least a recog-
milton of the yresent lnsurgent govern
ment which rests on SO unstable foun-
dation.
F,om what we have been able to gather
from the message the President is in favor
of aimed intervention if Necessary, but OF
ALLOW ing the people of Cuba after peace is
restored to the island to choose their own
form of government and rulers.
In these positions he is correct.
He places upon Congress the RESPONSE
biity of saying whether there shall be an
immediate declaration of war. In that he
is also right. 1t is his evident purpose tc
make Spain yield, but without being hasty
or rash. If there is to be an end of all
effort to maintain peace and secure what
is desired for Cuba without war let Con-
gress so declare.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-14
THAT'S WHAT THEY GET FOR it.

We find the following interesting para
graph in Senator Buffers paper, the
Raleigh Caucasian
Hon, w. J. Bryan, in letter to the
chairman of the Democratic State Com
mittee of Colorado, urging the Importance
of cooperation and warming them against
the efforts of the gold men in disguise to
prevent it, says:
"Where the gold Democrats are nu-
merically strong, they will insist upon
ignoring the Chicago platform, but where
they are numerically weak they will pro-
fess to accept the platform but will oppose
every plan that is calculated to bring sue
cess to the platform"
This states the situation exactly. In
this State the gold Democrats did not bolt
because they are not numerically strong
enough to do damage in that way, but
they stay on the inside opposing, as Mr..
Bryan says "every plan that is calculated
to bring success to the platform" This is
not all. They have assistants and allies
among men and papers who claim to be
strong supporters of Bryan. They oppose
cooperation for the same reason that all
the goldbugs and monopolists oppose it.
They are wolves i'll sleeps clothing. Be-
ware of them"
And that is the reward for "party regu-
larity !' When the Chicago platform was
promulgated, some Democrats who did
not believe in it refused to give it their
support, and openly opposed it. Others
said that while they did not believe
in free silver and other doctrines of the
platform, for the sake of "party regularity"
they would stay on the inside Of the Or
ganization and support the ticket. They
were patted on the back at the time and
commended, but now they are denounced
as spies and traitors.
This is in proof of the assertion thu t has
been made time and again in these col
umns that there is no place in the Demo-
cratic party, as now constituted, for the
man who does not believe in the free coin
age of silver, and he is not wanted. The
party is wide open to any and to all,
whether they be Democrats, Populists or
Republicans, who are sincere in their adj
vocacy of free coinage, but the doors are
virtually closed against all who are OPP
posed to it.-Richmond Times.
Here is an admission by the "Times'
that 'lhe Democratic party, as now con-
stituted" has closed its doors against all
men who do not believe in the free, I'M
limited coinage of silver. 1t is a fact that
the Bryanites in Virginia, as well as else
where, cordially hate the Gold Democrats.
There hostility to that class is greater than
to Republicans. Why then will the
''Tlmes", the Petersburg 'Index-Appear"
and so many Democrats in the State, who
have perfect horror Of Organism and
Populism, still work to keep the Bryanites
in control of Virginia?
1t is perfectly evident that the Gold
Democrats will have to act as mudsills for
the Democratic-P opulistic combination in
Virginia, or help to defeat it and rescue
the State from the free silver fraudulent
election party. The time has about gone
for Democrats in the State to contend
for a sound currency and honest elections
and continue to march with the organiza-
ton which is favorable to neither.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-14
Free Cuba.
Philadelphia Record.

'Free Cuba" sounds well; but bow is
the freedom of the island to be accom-
plished? Surely not by transferring the
Government from one tyranny into the
hands of another! There have been no
worse despotisms in the worlds history
than the relationships Of some of the vic
torious revolutionary chieftains Of Spanish
America-a recent and fragrant example
having been that of the lately assassinated
Dictator Barrios, of Guatemala. How are
the American people to know whether the
the rule Of Gomez would be more welcome
to the inhabitants of Cuba than is the
Government of General Blanco and his
autonomist secretaries? To impose the
regime of the insurgent chieftains upon
the people of Cuba without their consent
would be oppression, not liberation.
1t is first principle of politics recog-
nized by the American nation that no
Government has a right to exist except
by the consent of the governed. If we
should undertake to free Cuba the OBJ
vious course for us to pursue after the
withdrawal of the Spanish forces from the
island would be to submit to the test of a
popular vote the question as to what sort
of Government should be established in
place of the Spanish regime. The will of
the majority must prevail. The mouth
warriors of the Cuban Junta, however,
have declared themselves opposed to a
plebiscite, We must set up the "Repub-
lie of Cuba" or we shall be met by the
insurgents with fixed bayonets and our
troops chased out of the island Since
Cuban freedom could not be achieved,
however, without the shedding of Ameri-
can blood, the people of the United States
would have as good right to say by what
method Free Cuba should be established
as have the ink-slingers Of the Junta.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-14

Affairs, is still confined TO his house by i'll
ness and is not expected to appear this
week.
President Mckinley, it is said, has con-
sented to deliver an address in Chicago on
the occasion of the laying Of the corner
stone of the new post Office building in
that city.
John j. Ingalls, is said to have declined
a nomination for the House of Representa-
tives on the ground that such a position
would be no honor to man who had'on
served in The Senate.
S. C. Franklin, of Mount Vernon, Ky,
claims that he possesses Lawrence's and
Perry's flags. "Don't give Up the Ship"
and also pennant from the British
corvette, Levant, captured by the Consti-
tuition.
John Walker Murray, who died in
Louisville the other day, was one of the
oldest BARRIERS in that city and has had for
his regular customers Henry Clay, Aaron
Burr, Andrew Jackson and Martin Van
Buren,.
Sig. Giulo Salviati of London, who COM
mitted suicide recently, was the son of the
celebrated Commendatore Salvitl OF
Venice, who, through the acct
dental discovery in an ancient manuscript
of several recipes for staining and blowing
glass in the old Venetian style, brought
about the revival of that industry and the
sister art of glass mosaic making.
Walter L. Miller, young colored lawyer
of New Haven, has been chosen president
of the Princess Ann Academy, in Mary
land.
Henrik Isben's next book will be phil
osophical work, dealing with his plays and
his own life. The portion referring to his
PLAYS will show their mutual connection
and that they were all written according
to a settled plan.
Many years ago C. w. NJ Van de Yelde
the distinguished Dutch artist who has re-
Gently died, undertook the task of map
ping Palestine iugle-handed, and 30 cor
rect were his efforts that the later minute
scientific survey finds his work almost
exact.
Henry George, son of the great single
taxer, is in San Francisco, gathering ma
terial for biography of his father. Fol
towing the example Of his sire, he will de-
vote himself to spreading the single tax
idea, and declares that he has no politica
ambition other than is necessary to help
the American people.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-14
SPEAKER REED.
A Tribute to His Courage from a
Southern Admirer.

Memphis Commercial Appeal Dem.)
While we differ with him, it is not easy
to withhold admiration from speaker
Reed. He has been in many tight places
and has had many close calls during bis
occupance of the chair but in disposlng OF
the resolutions introduced by leader Bailey,
recognizing Cuban belligerence, he was
PIT to severer test than ever before.
That he rose equal to the emergency DEM
onstrated his great force of character. A
weaker man would have failed.
His Interpretation of a privileged ques-
ton was no doubt correct, but the temper
of the House and of the country is such
that it required a rock Of Gibraltar to
withstand. Reeds own party associates
were clamorous for war. The platform of
his party was pledged to it, practically.
Delay and procrastination had inhamed
the mind of Congress. The Democrats
were anxious to force the Republicans to
show their hands. Republicans were
belligerent and threatening revolt and in
subordination. The galleries were wild,
cheering for the friends of Cuba and hiss
ing those who opposed recognition. 1t
was time of great excitement. A whirl-
wind of feeling, q simeon Of passion, vas in
progress, and when Mr.. Bailey concluded
his speech crisis was on that is seldom
PARALLEL In parliamentary bodies. But Reed
arose and received the full force of the
tempest without wincing. He rallied his
forces and scourged into submission those
who had threatened to revolt. He solidi-
fed bis party ranks and defeated the res
olutions by practically united party vote.
There is perhaps not another man in
Congress who would have been able to do
as Reed did The Speaker is surely a
strong character, a great force.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-14
PERSONAL MENTION.

Representative Hit, of Illinois, chair
man of the House Committee on Foreign
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-14

If you will notice, the most of those
persons who seem to take delight in abus-
ing "the money power" are men who love
a dollar better than anything on earth.
They love that dollar because it is dollar,
not on account of the good it can accom-
plish in the world; and they envy those
persons who have accumulated more OF the
filthy lucre than they have gathered.
Hence their hatred for "the moneypower. "
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-14

London, Our manufacturers are sending
steel rails to India and Japan, pig iron TO
Great Britain, locomotives to Russia,
China and Japan. There has been an
enormous increase in our exports of all
kinds of manufactured articles since the
Dingley tariff went into effect.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-14
Protection Sentiment in the South.

The Protection sentiment is no longer
looked upon in the South as treason to
Democratic principles. Governor Culber-
son of Texas, who is candidate for the
United States Senate, in recent state
ment, intended as a reply to Senator
Mills assertions on this subject, says that
the advocacy of duties on imports Of raw
materials has not always been considered
un-Democratic. On the contrary, he
shows that the Tariff Of 1916, known as the
Walker Tariff, and considered safe Dem
ocratic Tariff standard, placed duties on
most of the raw materials. The State Of
Texas, it now appears, will be represented
in the Senate by man having broad
views on the Protective question, and thus
add to the thirty or forty votes from the
South cast for Protection in the recent
legislation OH . that suhject,-Oswego
Times"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-14

THE reaction in favor of President Nc
Kinley's position was truly wonderful. You
never hear even whisper of criticism
from any one who stops to think.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-04
SPAIN NEVER A SEA POWER,
Her History "OnIy Succession OF
Naval Disasters"

Naval Disasters"
From the Speaker. London.
But 1t was not by sea that Spain won her
supremacy, and not by naval victories that
she laid her grip on every quarter of the
globe. Even when her power and wealth
seemed Irresistible, when her military rep
utation was at ats hight, when the world
was strewn with her territories and the
ocean laden with her argosies and fleets,
her real naval power was utterly incom-
mensurate with the astonishing preten-
sions which il made. AS soon as England
and Holland laid a finger on it her mari
time empire crumbled into dust. The Ar
mazda only revealed a fact which English
sailors had for long suspected, and the
consciousness of which explains brakes
sublime contempt for the menaces of Spain
the fact that, even at the zenith of their
fame, the Spaniards had no mastery of the
arts by which the sea is held.
Is there on record a battle which shows
that Drake and Blake and Jervis and Nell
son were mistaken ia their low estimate of
Spanish seamen? Can any of us recall the
name of a Spanish admiral Of genius, or
of any great Spanish naval victory since
Depanto, which was won largely by Vene-
tan crews? If we look at the history of
Spain since the Armada we find only sue
cession of naval disasters, a succession of
triumphs for any state which has ventured
to grapple with the Spanards on the seas.
Take the history of the seventeenth cen
fury and follow the career of the Dutch adj
mirals and of the greatest of Nelson's pre-
decessors-Blake. Take the eighteenth CEN
tury and notice how even Alberoni and
Patino failed, with all their efforts, to re-
suscitate the fleets of Spain. Take the mod
ern war in Chilli, and mark how few an
tagonists Cochrane could find there worthy
of his steel. Even in the days of her great
est power at sea Spain was VIGOROUSLY de-
ticient in the capacity of her sailors, and
since. those days she has steadily declined.
To-day Spanish gunners and Spanish en-
gineers are confessedly among the worst in
Europe 1t would be little short of a mir
acle if it should turn out that Spain within
the last two decades had bred a race of
seamen capable of reversing the unvarying
misfortunes of the past 1t is when we
consider the temper and traditions Of the
opposing nations, far more than when we
study neir resources and their fleets, that
we realize how little probability a war
would offer even of a transient Spanish
victory, and how much there is to justify
the American peoples expectation that
from the very beginning of the contest
they would sweep the Spaniards from the
sea.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-04
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. MAY 4 1898

small, depends on the health of the men
composing IL, everything that promotes
their health should be the special care Of
the Officers, whose duty is not only TO know
how to fight and lead, but to see that
their men are in a fit condition to fight
The morale of an army is also promoted
by the attention given to the physical con-
dition of its units; and this is an addition
al reason why that condition should be
kept up TO the highest possible point
Those officers who give their best atten-
ton TO this side of their profession are not
less deserving of the approval OF their
countrymen than those who perform some
dashing exploit on the battlefield.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-04

Of resource. He drained the town and dis
PEELED the fevers. He enrolled body of
natives and drilled them till they were
fit to put in the field and marched on the
Moros. Choosing his battlefield, he met
the brigands. and inflicted such a casti-
cation that they gave no further trouble
during his administration Returning
home victorious he improved his town,
founded hospital and schools, introduced
water and laid out fine broad streets, paw
ed with coral. But his heart was in Spain,
and at an early opportunity he returned
there, and rose to high rank In the army.
II there had been more Spanish Of his
stamp, the Philippines would not now
have been dropping out of the clutch of
Spain
Manila Is a beautiful city. about the
size of San Francisco. It is built on both
sides of the River Passig. which is naVi-
gable to its source. Old Manila lay on
the left bank. Parts of the masonic stone
wall which was built around it two hun
dred years ago are still visible, and some
Of the gates survive, through which a
stream of solemn friars grinning Chinese,
resplendent Spanish officials, beggars in
rags, pious nuns handsome senoras, gay
native girls, mestizos in uniform, natives
in breech-clouts, fcur-horse carriages, two
wheel pony wagons and creaking Buffalo
carts poufS from morning till night. The
Cathedral, mouasteries and government Of
fees are in old Manila; the business quar-
ter, the foreign shipping houses, the
banks, stores and custom house are in BIZ
monde, on the other side OF the river Be
tween the walls and the shore is the Luz
meta, the fashionable promenade, where
the band plays and society enjoys the
evening breeze, hirts under hundreds of
electric lights and drives around the cir
Gle in carriages which follow each other
in slow, dignified procession. The best
houses in Manila are built of stone, and
are handsome residences, though there is
no window glass used in their construc-
ton. Instead of glass, the windows are
glazed with translucent oyster shell. This
is cut into squares so small that a window
eight feet by four will contain go of them.
1t is found that they temper the fierce
glare Of the sun and soften the light