Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-08-29
Herein Are Proclaimed the Glorious Principles
Of Virginia RepublicaniSm.
SHOULD COMMAND SUPPORT OF PATRIOTS.
pon The Great Issues Here Enu1Ciaed Will The Republi-
cans Of Virginia Make Their Fight

platform is silent on all national questions.
BRYAN and free silver are consigned to the
tomb from which there is no resurrection;
the howl of calamity is hushed; and the
prophets of evil are dumb. Instead, the
Democratic platform sends up this shout
of triumph over the prosperity of the
land: Population has grown; cities and
towns have been established; manufac-
lures, trade and commerce have advanc'
ed lands heretofore vacant have been re-
occupied; the value of farm products is
constantly increasing; capital already in
vested is yielding profitable returns, and
outside capital is seeking investment"
All this the Virginia Democracy would
have us believe is due to their wisdom
alone, and that the national Republican
administration and Republican measures
are entitled to no credit therefor, whereas
these happy conditions are due solely to
the wise policy pursued by the National
Republican party.
We also declare our unalterable oppos.
ton to criminal trusts, and to every illegal
combination Of capital; but we
wage no war on combinations of capital
for legitimate purposes, and we arraign
the Democratic party of Virginia, which
has had absolute control of every branch
of the State government for fifteen years,
for its failure to enact any law or take any
steps 10 control, prevent or punish such
criminal trusts and illegal combinations of
capital.
We enter our earnert protest against
the scheme to promulgate the new consti-
tuition without submitting it to the peo-
pie, or of submitting it to an abridged
electorate as being illegal and in violation
of the solemn pledges made to the people
of Virginia by the Democratic convention
which met in Norfolk, and by the legisla'
ture in the law assembling the constitu'
tional convention.
We earnestly demand liberal State pen
sions for our disabled Confederate soldiers
and their widows, who have been cruelty
neglected and so grossly deceived by the
Democratic party, which has pretended to
care for them by voting niggardy PEN
sions, and then appropriating only money
enough to pay them an average of about
three dollars per capita per annum.
We favor rigid economy in the admins
tration of our State government, and we
charge the Democratic party with wsnton
extravaganza and wilful waste, with Great
ing many useless officers who are paid sal
aries as reward for party services, and
fol its partizan and incompetent manage
ment of our State institutions and our
public schools.
We are opposed to any increase of the
poll tax because it would impose an unjust
burden on the poor man. The payment
of the poll tax asa prerequisite OF voting
has heretofore been tried, in this State,
and proved such source of bribery and
corruption that the law was Indignantly
repealed, and we have no reason to expect
better results in the future.
We condemn the Democratic party for
not having changed the law Of fellow GER
wants as construed by our Supreme Court
of Appeals during lhe fifteen years it has
held undsputed control of every branch
of the State government, and we pledge
the people of Virginia, if given the oppor-
tunity to do so, that we will enact into
law the employers liability bill that was
asked for by the employees Of the railroad
companies and which was presented by
them to the last legislature of Virginia and
defeated by the Democratic party.
We advocate the adoption of such laws
and such regulations as are proper and
necessary to insure the effective and per-
manent improvement of the public roads
of the Commonwealth.
We denounce the acts ofthe Democratic
legislature in its attempts to destroy the
life of the great oyster interests of the
State, by leasing to private parties the
best and most thrifty oyster rocks, under
the false guise of their being depleted and
useless, when they are now the most valu-
able and profitable grounds in tide water
for propagating oysters. We favor the re-
turn of these valuable possessions to their
original owners, the people of the whole
Commonwealth.