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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-21
SOME WILL HAVE the COURAGE.

Political parties are absolutely necessary
in country that has a republican form of
government. Without parties there would
be no government. These facts being adj
mitted, it is the duty of every citizen to
have political convictions, and align him.
self with the party which more nearly
represents his views.
1t is the duty of every good citizen to
carefully investigate the principles of the
respective parties and ascertain which is
calculated to bring the greatest good to
the people generally. That man who will
blindly follow the flag of party because
his father or some one else belonged to it
is moved by sentiment and not by judge
ment. Such man, SO far as useful citizen
ship is concerned, is nothing more than a
knot on log. He acknowledges that he
is not intelligent enough to act for himself
or too much of coward to stand censure
from change of his views.
There are a great many men in the
Democratic party today who are kept
there by sentiment or lack of nerve. They
have also been cooperating with that
party from habit and are reluctant to make
change. They admit that the party has
been inconsistent; that it's leadership has
been 1nsincere ard incapable; that the
howlers of calamity have been misleading;
but they haven't the courage to change
their party associations.
There are others in the Democratic
ranks who have been there because they
honestly believed in the principles of the
party and had confidence in the wisdom
and honesty of its leadership. Some of
these are beginning to have doubts as to
the merits of the principles of the new
Democracy and to lose faith in its leaders.
These men are DESTROYS of helping to adj
vance the public good and to protect their
individual interests. AS soon as they be-
come thoroughly satisfied that they have
been mislead they will have the courage 10
act accordingly.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-21
Liquid Air Projects.
Engineering News.l

Engineering News.]
Liquid air is now the subject OF popu-
lar craze, just as cetelene was two or three
years ago, just az the the Y rays, aluminium
production, electric motors and compressed
air have been at various periods. These
are the harvest times for promoters. A
sucker is born every minute. and some of
the school can generally be induced to
swallow the bait. We are well aware that
large number of inventors and engineers
all over the world are and have been for
some time honestly at work on the prob
lem of liquid air production on COM
mercial scale. The practical success of
any of them is yet to be demonstrated,
and after practical success is attained it
will then remain to be seen whether any
patents can be secured that will not be
easily evaded by competitors.
Any investment in the stock Of a liquid
air exploiting company might possibly be
judicious if it were made on the strength
of report by competent engineer and a
patent attorney employed by the investor
himself An investment in liquid air
stock without such precautions iS at the
best to engage in blind pool and at the
worst is to be duped by the professional
swindlers.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-21
They viii Take Their Medicine.

New York "Sun" Rep.)l
The Democratic FLORIDA Times Union"
bites its own thumb at one of TIE most
distinguished and able members of its
party.
"Altgeld should be disciplined for the
good of the party, or silenced; as DEM
ocrat his record is that Of boiler and fire.
brand; as a citizen he is the friend Of an
archy and the enemy of the law"
Altgeld is a typical Bryanite, fercely
radical as bis party is. The Southern
Democrats, many of whom love to imagine
that they are conservative, will vote meek
ly for the ideas Of this fierce radical agi-
tator.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-21
THE WEALTH OF THE CHEsA-
PEAKE.
Richmond Times.l

The report made by the State Board Of
Fisheries with reference to the revenues OF
Virginia from her valuable oyster beds is
most gratifying and is promise ofgreater
things. During the year the sum of $54'
800. 60 was collected from that source tine
net revenue to the State being S94, 24'. So,
as against deficit of $1,000 for the pre-
vious year.
Much his been said and written about
the wealth of Chesapeake Bay, and we do
not believe that the riches of that wonder
full inland sea have ben exaggerated. We
believe that intelligent management and
the exercise of ordinary business princi-
pies and methods, politics excluded, will
give to the State of Virginia from that
source not thousands, but hundreds of
thousands and perhaps million Of reve-
nue. each year.
We would not be hard upon the oyster
men who get their living out of Chesa-
peake Bay. But We do not lose sight Of
the fact that this body of water belongs
not to the people only who live in the
Tidewater section, but to the people OF the
whole State. Ir is public property, and 1t
should be managed in the interest OF the
public, in such way as to bring the best
possible results to the whole people of Vir-
GINA. We are utterly opposed to any
thing like class legislation, to discriminate
by the government in favor of one class of
citizens against other classes. 1t is not
enough to say that any citizen Of Virginia
has the right to go into Chesapeake Bay
and fish. The great body Of the people
of Virginia are 80 situated as that they
could not, if they would avail themselves
of this privilege. The obvious duty of the
State government is to manage this prop
erty in such way as to produce the best
general results.
But this may be obtained without work
ing any hardship upon the people of the
Tidewater section. On the contrary we
believe that it would be to the greater inter.
est of the people of that section if, under
State regulation, oyster culture could be &C
stimulated as to increase the output 8
hundredfold. If this bay belonged to 8
private corporation, it would soon make
the oyster beds of the Chesapeake yield to
their utmost capacity, would greatly i'm
prove the general character of the catch
would give the people better oysters ahd
and cheaper oysters, would give employ
ment to thousands of men, and woulk fill
its own Golfers with money. But what is
possible to a private corporation is possible
to the State of Virginia, and the State
government is not doing its duty by the
people when it fails to do as we'll with this
splendid property as private corporation
would do with it.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-21
Suffrage and Representation.

From The New York Tribune, September ~
1t would be equally fortunate for all Sec
tons of the country if schemes to abolish
negro suffrage, such as that in contempla-
ton in North Carolina or that in actual
operation in Louisiana, Mississippi, and
South Carolina, could in the near future
reach deliberate and constitutional test.
Congress has now undoubted power under
the Fourteenth Amendment to reduce the
representation allowed to Mississippi,
South Carolina and Louisiana to correspond
with the contraction of the suffrage caused
by negro Acknowledgement. Should these
States and other willing imitators like
North Carolina frankly accept such loss
of power as the just price of restricted
ballot, friction over election systems and
practices in the South would, perhaps, be
quickly relieved and dissipated. So far,
however, Southern politicians have shown
but little disposition to surrender that con-
siderable fraction of their power which
they owe to suppressed and DISTINGUISHED
voting population. In time they may see
the reasonableness and equity of snch a
policy. Meanwhile every new project of
Acknowledgement emphasizes the necessity
of ending that disturbance of true polite
al equality between the States which comes
with every successive Southern encroach-
ment on the letter and spirit of the Fiji
teenth Amendment.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-21
A FLOPPER.

Hon. John G. Carlisle has recently given
out the following statement in regard to
Mr.. Goebel the present candidate of the
Democratic party for Governor of Ken
lucky:
''The statements attributed to me con-
corning q conference between MIR. Goebel
and myself in this city in 1896 were not
made by me and are not correct. The
conference alluded to was sought by MIR.
Goebel, whose principal purpose, as he
stated it to me, was to secure sound
money delegation from Kenton county to
the State convention, which was held soon
thereafter at Lexington. had no other
interest in the matter, and took no action
except such as Mr.. Goebel represented to
be necessary in order to secure the selec-
ton of sound money delegation"
According to the testimony of Col.
Abraham Falkerson, William F. Rhea in
1896 pursued somewhat similar course
to Goebel. So, if Rhea goesrto Kentucky
to help Goebel in the present campaign,
they will be found kindred spirits in more
than one respect.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-21
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 81, 1899,
MOCK VIRTUE.

Every now and then a streak OF virtue
breaks out with some Democratic pollh-
clan in Virginia; and he utters a shrek
about the venal politics that obtain III
our State. The latest person to speak on
these lines is State Senator William P.
Barksdale, of Halifax county. In a re-
cent interview with reporter Of the Rich
mond Times Mr.. Barksdale said:
Sin my section of the state the use OF
money in the Spring elections was alarm
ing, and was done in the most unblushlng
manner. 1t is evident that the present
law is insufficient, or at least, dead let
Ter, and some drastic measure will have to
be adopted to cure the evil, and prevent
the state from being Hannaized.
The Hypocrisy of this utteranceis made
manifest by the fact that in the county OF
Halifax at the last Spring election there
were none but Democratic candidates be-
fore the people. That county had been SO
completely Martinized, by the infamous
election law of Virginia that it was useless,
for Republican to run for county or
district Office, though that county, with an
honest vote and count, is largely Repubh-
can. So, Senator Barksdale's cry is
groundless, except as to the corruption of
men of his own party. The complaint
comes from county where frauds have
been practiced for years by the Democrats
against the Republicans, and which have
failed to arouse any protest from men like
Blrksdale, who have been the beneficiaries
of the frauds. Since they have succeeded
in making the Republicans powerless, by
the fraudulent use of their election law,
they find that venality has sprung up in
their own ranks to an extent that makes
the elections too expensive. 1t is the ex'
pensiveness of the machine that makes
them unhappy, and, therefore, the propo
sition to put q new spoke in the wheel
to prevent them from cheating each
other. The propagation is made under
the pletext of purifying elections and tc
prevent the State from being Hannaized.
Ii those who are making the outcry
q ,ainst the evil of buying votes would
broaden or extend their political virtue so
a. to denounce the stealing of votes, they
would be entitled to more consideration
and respect from the public. As it is, they
denounce the purchase of votes as crime
and cherish the stealing of votes as vir-
tue. They are opposed to the one crime,
because it is expensive, and for the other
because they profit thereby. A public
man in Virginia who opposes the first
mentioned and remains silent as to the
other makes himself target for the scorn
of honest men. 1t is parading mock viz
tue that can deceive no intelligent person.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-21
EXPORTS STILL INCREASING.

Our export trade last year was phenom-
onally large and the free traders tried to
explain it by saying it was due to the short
age of grain crops in Europe. There was
q heavy increase in the export of tread
stuffs from the United States in 1898, but
the large increase was not confined to
cereals alone, and was comparatively as
extensive in manufactured articles.
The export trade of the United States
with foreign countries promises to be
greater in volume in 1899 than it was in
1898. The record of our commerce in
August shows up most favorably for this
country. Exports were 500, O82, S75 larger
than ever before in August and exceeded
imports to the extent of $2S, 929,699.
This increase was not confined to staples,
of which there was an excess of of $685.
97s over thoee of August of last year, but
there was gain of $1O,S4s,OOO in other
products. There have been some fears ex-
pressed that the heavy advance in
prices might possibly curtail the export OF
manufactured articles, but those fears ap-
pear to have been groundless, land our trade
with other counties continues to expand.
These facts are exceedingly gratifying TO
the friends of our present economic policy,
and equally as unsatisfactory to free trad
ers and calamity howlers.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-21
PERSONAL NOTES.

James Oliver, of South Bend, Ind, has
just celebrated his 10Th birthday. Wien
young man he worked in Mishawaka
foundry for so cents day. Now he owns
the largest plough factory in the world
A Kitchener mustache is the latest fad
OF fashionable London. a glance at the
portraits of the Sirdar will show that he
indeed possesses a mustache heavy, we'll
groomed and almost expressive. BARRIERS
pronounce it model.
cold Pietz' is the name by which
General Joubert is known to his Trans
vaal soldiers.
The first literary work of Ida NJ. Tarbell
was done for the "Chautauquan. Miss
Tarbel has but one copy of the issue con-
tanning her first article.
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst announces that the
cost of the buildings she is to give to the
University OF California will be between
81, 100000 $4,000, 900.
Governor Roosevelt recently gave a
splendid St. Bernard dog to Mrs. Mary S.
Wilson, the woman, of Oyster Bay, l.. /.
who, a short time ago, celebrated her
ninety-frst birthday in perfect health.
Senior Rafael Peon y Losa, prominent
merchants of Mexico, and friend of Pres
ident Diaz, is now in Washington, and
states that the President will proably, be
unable to come to the United States this
Fall.
Dwight H. Baldwin, the Cincinnati mill
ionare, left his widow $4,000 annuity but
bequeaths $3.50, 900 to be equally divided
between the Home Missionary Society and
the Foreign Missionary Society of the
Presbyterian Church.
When Booker T. Washington left Char
leston, w. Va, twenty-seven years ago, it
was as a penniless boy, who walked all the
way to Hampton in search Of an educa-
ton. When ne returned last week he was
received by the mayor and 2OO0 admirers.
Mrs. B. K. Bruce, of Mississippi, new
assistant principal of the Tuskegee Norn.l
School, is the widow of the colored United
States Senator, the only man Of his race to
serve full term in the Senate, and the
first to be register of the Treasury. Hel
son is student at Harvard.
Rear Admiral Schley has accepted ar
invitation to visit Atlanta Ca, during the
coming Autumn. He will there be the
guest of Governor Gambler, Mayor Wood
ward and the officers of the Atlanta Bust
ness Mems Association.
William Oliver Smith, who is to repre-
sent Hawaii in Washington during the
next session of Congress, speaks the Ian
guage of the natives of that island as vel
as he does English. He is, with them, the
most popular foreigner in their country
Franklin II. Head president of thu
Civic Federation, says in letter to thu
Chicago "Tlmes-Herald" that ga grea
many of the delegates, when asked t
speak at the conference, answered tina
hey preferred to listen and learn, anc
his desire for fuller information appear
to be general"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-21
NEW DISEASE DISCOVERED.
It Is Called DOmiphObia and Indi-
Gates Desire TO Change
Quarters.

"Domiphobia" is the title suggested
by a scientific contemporary for new
disease which a medical authority
claims to have discovered, says the
London Globe. Although it has notyet
been dignifed with recognized title,
the new ailment is said to be true
psychopathia," and presents all the
features of genuine neurosis." 1t at
tacks only married women between the
ages Of 30 and so, and is the antithesis
of nostalgia or homesiclness, occur
ring, however, at regular intervals,
and reaching It's climax on some warm
spring day In other words, it is mod
ern aggravation of the familiar femi-
nine mania for "spring cleaning" H.
stead of leaving the patient GONZALES
cent after a stringent course of mops
and whitewash, it can only be cured by
change of air, accompanied by the
household furniture in vans. It's earli-
est symptoms is a feverish habit OF
scanning the advertisements of houses
or flats to let, and the medical author
ity who has discovered the ailment can
offer no advice, save to let the disease
take its course, complete relief being
obtained as soon as the patient is in
stalled in her new home. AS there is
many a true word spoken in jest, we
fear that the disease 'domiphobia" Is
by no means so imaginary or fanciful
rs might be supposed. In old-fash-
toned days a family took root in
house and remained there until neces-
sity compelled move, and then it al
luost seemed as if only heartstrings
were wrenched in parting with 1.-The
old place" 1t is an interesting subject
for study, and might afford a clew to
the annual migrating habits of our
more tickle birds.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-21
A Word TO Mothers.

Mothers of children affected with Group
or a severe cold need not hesitate to adj
minister Chamberlain Cough Remedy.
1t contains no opiate nor narcotic i'll any
form ana may be given as confidently to
the babe as to an adult. The great sue
cess that has attended its use in the treat
ment of colds and Group has won for it
the approval and praise it has received
throughout the United States and in
many foreign lands. For sale by Jno. l..
Jackson, Druggist.
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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-21

Moan F1NDLEY, the colored man who
was hanged at Pulaski last Friday, is the
first man who has for many years been
made to suffer the death penalty for
highway robbery in Virginia. We are
not certain that the penalty has been in
aicted before for the crime. A great
many persons think the punishment too
severe. Heretofore the statute which adj
mits of inficting death as punishment
has not been enforced, and it is doubtful
Justice to select for the first victim an
ignorant negro.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-21

ADMIRAL ScHLEY is to be assigned to
the South Atlantic station, and
the Navy Department will make the COM
mand commensurate With his rank by in
creasing the vessels on the station. This
will probably stop the mouths of the busy
bodies who have tried to make the i'm
preston that Schley was not being fairly
treated by the Department.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-21

EX-SENATOR ]. c. s. Blackburn, of Ken
lucky, says the Goebel election law els
eminently fair and just" He either does
not understand the law, or has no concep-
ton of what is fair and just. We expect
he is so tired of being out of the United
States Senate that he is willing to get back
there by the help of an unfair election
law, as do some of the representatives in
Congress from Virginia.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-21
of Course, They Are MuddIsd!
New York mail and Express" (Rep).

New York mail and Express" (Rep.).
The Atkinsons continue, in their feeble
minded way, to insist that we should
grant immediate independence to the
Filipinos. By analongy, their contention
embraces our right to grant it. At the
same time they insist that we have no
right to withhold independence. Yet the
rightful power to grant presupposes the
rightful power to withhold. Somehow
the feeble-lninded Atkinsonians appear to
be muddled in their logic.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-21

BEFORE the Civil War cotton was &C.
knowledged king in this country. Since
the war iron has been holding the place of
king. 1t is now predicted that corn will
take the place of iron as sovereign, and
will become the great wealth producing
crop of the United States.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-21
is THE CLIMATE CRANGING7
Professor Hazen, Of the Weather
Bureau, Does Not Think So.

Professor Hazen, of the Weather
Bureau, Does Not Think So.
This subject is of extreme interest, and
merits most thorough study. We find
the "early" and the "latter" rain to-day
in Palestine precisely as described $500
years ago. "Jordan overfoWs all its
banks" in FEBRUARY to-day exactly as it did
in Joshua's tine, thirty-three centuries a.
go. Plants taken from mummy cases in
Egypt, which must have been gathered
more than 5000 years since, are practically
of the same size, and have the same ap-
pesrancc as those growing to-day. Re-
cords of vintages in France for over 700
years show practically the same dates as
to-day. Actual observations of rainfall
for over 200 years in France show no
change. Observations of temperature for
almst 200 years at st. Petersburg show no
change appreciable to us, though, of
course, the earliest observations were ex-
tremely crude, and somewhat unreliable.
Facts of this kind might be adduced to fill
a small volume. On the other hand, we
have records of most extraordinary cold
weather in ancient times. One winter the
light wine in Italy froze. Another winter
the River Pc froze over 80 as to bear teams
ian unheard.of phenomenon to-day. IN
this journal for June, it is stated that
"Parnassus and Socrate, now free from
snow, we're covered with it in classic antiQ-
uity." Also, "the name, Greenland,
which strikes us as SO singularly inapprop-
rate, was not inapplicable at the time it
was named, in the fourteenth century. -
Popular Science"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-21

GOVERNOR Tyler is finding the machine
a powerful foe, and his only hope to defeat
Martin is by independent movements in
as many counties as possible. We have
been informed, however, that ne depre-
Gates independent movements. That
means that he courts defeat.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-21

GOVERNOR TYLER recently gave out the
statement that he only needed 26 more
votes to insure his election az United States
Senator from Virginia. The Martin men
claim he will not get 26 votes in the Dem
ocratic caucus.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-21

THE Republican press of other states
does not think very well of the action Of
the Republican State Executive Commit
tee of Virginia, in advising the Republican
voters to take no action in the coming
election for the General Assembly.