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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15
How Lee Net Funston In Havana.

From General Lees address in Indianapolis.
81 remember one day as l was sitting
in my office there came to me with slow
step rag of a man. He was thin and
worn and did not seem to have on any
thing but straw hat and a linen duster.
His appearance was sinister. and said to
myself, IF that man makes a movement
toward his pocket will have to kill him
in elfdefense. Finally he came closer
and putting his hands out'he said, IL this
the Consul General2' was so glad to hear
the English language that said quickly,
yes, yes; this is General Lee. What can
I do for your
"Well, he said, 4 have been colonel in
the Cuban army. l was wounded pretty
badly and have had fever l want to
get back to the States, and so l came to
see you
81 told one of my men to take the poor
fellow and fit him out with a suit Of
clothes and pair of shoes and whatever
else he needed and let him lie IN a bath
until the steamer sailed and | would look
after the transportation. Just before he
left it struck me to ask bis name. where
are you from?' l said, Kansas he re.
piled. What's your name? l asked.
Funston he answered.
49," said General Lee, 81 lad some
thing myself to do with the capture 81
Aguihaldo."
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15
THE VALUE OF A PLEDGE.

1t would be amusing, if it was not so
humiliating, to witness the efforts that are
being made by the Democratic press and
leaders in Virginia to explain away or get
rid of the party pledge to submit the new
Constitution to the people for ratification
or rejection. Most of these have been
contending that, although the pledge was
made in good faith, subsequent existing
conditions are such as to not only justify
but demand a violation of the pledge
This excuse for committing one of the
most perfdious acts ever perpetrated by
any political party is bold enough to at
tract our admiration though we detest its
moral depravity.
Another class of people, who are advo
eating the proclamation of the Consttu-
ton, have begun to deny that any pledge
for submission was made by the Demo
cratic party. We learn from the Rich
mond Times that Hon. John Goode, Pres
ident of the Constitutional Convention,
holds that view. In an address to his
constituents in Bedford county Mr.. Goode
speaks of the promise as "the so-called
pledge made by the Democratic Conven-
ton in Norfolk in the summer of 1900"
The Times tben proceeds in a QuiDbliDg
way to uphold Mr.. GooJe in his position
that it was no pledge, and "was only an
expression of opinion by the respectable
body of Democrats then and there assem-
bled" at Norfolk 1t is shameful to have |
the President of the Constitutional Con-
vention using such arguments to justify
the conscienceless act Of bis party and
usurpatlon by the law.making body over
which he presdes. 1t shows that partisan
prejudice and disgraceful disregard for
party honor are dominating this whole
movement for taking away from the peo'
pie the right to determine whether the
work of the Convention shall be received
and accepted.
In taking such a position Mr.. Goode
aud the Richmond Times place themselves
10 the attitude Of quibblers, and are not
sustained by contsmporaneous construc-
ton Of the true meaning Of the Norfolk
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15
They Turned Tail.

The Norfolk Virginia-Pilot says that the
attitude of Tillman taken in his recent
speech in the Senate was right, but depre.
Gates his apparent show of temper. 1t
also expresses its contempt for the Demo.
cratic Senators who deserted Senator Till
man when ne was discussing the issue they
had helped to raise. The Virginian- Pilot
says:
"While deprecating Tillman's show Of
temper, it is impossible to entertain any
feeling other than CONTEMPT for those
Democratic Senators who took to their
heels when the issue was precipitated. If
they do not like Tillnan's method of6ght-
ing, why do these courageous statesmen,
who turn tail at the first indication of
trouble, not do little fighting according
to their own methods? The fact lie that
TiIlman is about the only aggressive fight
er tie Democrats have in the Senate. If
the party could get rid Of some Of the
superannuated mediocrities it has In the
upper house and put younger :and more
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15
COULDN'T STAND HIM.

Senator Tillman, of South Carolina,
made another disgusting display i'll the
Senate on the 7th inst. From newspaper
reports it was the most disgraceiul speech
the South Carolina ruffian has ever made
in that august assembly. A newspaper
correspondent says: "He fairly Mortified
his Democratic colleagues with his admis-
sions of negro prosecutions and murders
in the South and his defence of lynching
and ballot box stuffing." 1t is told that
tie Democratic Senators were so much
outraged and disguised that, with the ex.
ception Of one or two, they left the Senate
Chamber while he was speaking, and re-
turned when he had concluded.
This speech came at very inopportune
time for the Democratic Senators. They
had been making fight on the Philippine
bill for the purpose of shaping record on
which to 60 before the country at the
election next fall. There has been a de-
termined effort to chow that the alleged
acts of cruelty by American soldiers in the
Philippines has never been equaled in the
annals of history. Iillman's admissions
and boasts have supplied the evidence
that is necessary to make the carefully
prepared plans Of the Democrats failure.
Their work of months to manufacture an
issue has come to naught.
The Lynchburg News oflast Satul day had
an editorial which was a very caustic criti-
cism of the South Carolina Senator for his
last violent outbreak. Several years ago the
Democrats brought Tillman to Virginia to
make a speech, and he said as mean things
then as he SAID IN the senate last week
but we DO not remember that the Lynch.
burg News or any other Democratic paper
in Virginia rebuked or criticised him. He
advised the Virginia Democrats to resort
to the shotgun policy as they had done in
South Carolina: In the Senate he has
frequently told how these things have
been done in his State and in other States
Of the South; but the speech last week was
rather inopportune, and that is why Till
man is being so severely rebuked by his
Democratic friends.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15
WhoOping Cough.

A woman who has had experience with
this disease, tells how to prevent any
dangerous consequences from it. She
says: Our three children took whooping
cough last summer, our baby boy being
only three months old, and owing to our
giving them Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy, they lost none of their plumpness
and came out in much better health than
other children whose parents did not use
this remedy. Our oldest little girl would
call Justify for cough syrup between
whoops. --Jessie Pinkey Hall, Springville,
Ala. This Remedy is for sale by Jno.
E. Jackson. druggist.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15
Don't Follow Advice After Paying For it.

In q recent article a prominent
physician says, at is next to impossible
for the physician to get bis patients to
carry out any prescri bed course of hygiene
or diet to the smallest extent; he has but
one resort left, namely, the drug treat
ment." When medicines are used for
chronic constipation, the most mild aud
gentle obtalnable, such as Chamberlain's
Stomach & Liver Tablets, should be en-
ployed. Their use is not followed by con-
stipation as they leave the bowels in a
natural and healthy condition. For sale
by Jno. f. Jackson, druggist.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15
No Loss Of Time.

l have sold Chamberlain Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoe Remedy for years,
and would rather be out of coffee and sugar
than it. sold five bottles oft yesterday
to threshers that could go no farther, and
they are at work again this morning-H.
r. Phelps, Plymouth, Oklahoma. As
will be seen by the above the threshers
were able to keep on with their work
without losing single days time. You
should keep bottle of this Remedy in
your home. For sale by Jno. E Jackson.
druggist
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15
The insane Course of the Democrats
Chicago Tribune.


One sweetly solemn and oonsoling
thought must steal over the student of
public affairs at this critical time. The
incredible folly and infatuation of the
Democrats carries its own punishment
with it. Never, since William j. BRYAN
shot upon the stage from the political trap
below and began bis harlequinade in the
sight of high heaven and to the gaping
wonder of the civilized world, has there
been such an exhibition of monumental
political folly as that which has been
made in the United States Senate by
certain inexperienced representatives of
the Democratic party. If Senator Patter-
son, of Colordo, and Senator Carmack, Of
Tennessee, continue their virulent attacks
upon our soldiers In the field the Demo-
cratic cause is lost as certainly as it was
when Bryan introduced to the multitude
free silver as panacea for all the woes of
mankind. There have been fools in all
ages, and this one is not TO be 40 excep-
ton to the rule. The lessons of history,
which have been severe and recent in the
United States, have apparently been
taught in vain. Who that remembers the
insane and frenzied attacks of Vallandg.
ham upon our soldiers in the field, or the
declaration of the convention that nomin-
ated George B. Mcclellan for President
that the "war was a failure" would
imagine that the ineal descendants of the
party guilty of these stupendous blunders
would follow so closely in the footsteps of
their predecessors? Vallandigham was de-
feated in Ohio for Governor by a majority
unprecedented for that time. Mcclellan,
although he repudiated the platform of
his own party, suffered crushing repulse-
If the Democratic party now intrusts it's
leadership to Carmack, and Patterson,
and Bryan who doubtless is urging them
on in their mad couese, it will in 1894 re-
peat the most ignominious experience it
has ever suffered.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15
In a Fine Frenzy, indeed.
Norfolk Virglnian-Pilot.

Norfolk Virglnian-Pilot
The Charlottesville Progress has been
far and away the most strenuous advocate
of proclaiming the new Constitution. II
began its campaign for proclamation, il
we remember rightly, before the members
of the convention were elected, and before
anybody had the inkling Of an idea as to
what there would be to proclaim, and it
has pegged away steadily at its hobby ever
since, increasing in fervor with the flow of
its own eloquence. We have contemplate
ed the spectacle at all times with interest,
sometimes with amusement and occasion
ally with regret. When it "throws fits"
as it did IN its Issue of last Saturday, it
inspires feeling of hilarity only. Thus
it says of the pledge of the State Demo
cratic Convention as to submission:
"That in the language of the "pledge,"
as well as in the circumstances which
surrounded it's unwarranted making it
is only possible to construe it into sug-
gestion," a bit of friendly garrulity, or a
scrap of gratuitous advice-no more bind
ing, and but little more seasonable, than
would have been a declaration that it was
the sense of that convention that the
II IN. Arthur P. German be the choice of
the Virginia Democrats for President in
the year 1904"
Now see here-that is undulterated
tommyrot, and the Progress knows it al
we'll as other intelligent people. 1t is
absurd to say that there is the slightest
parallelism between what the Democratic
Convention did and what it would have
done had it declared for Hon. A. p. Cor
man for President in 1904.
In this case, the Democratic State Con-
vention was asked to commit itself and
the party to a specific proposition, towit
the calling of convention to revise the
Constitution. This the convention did
with the clear, distinct, unequivocal un-
Outstanding that the revised Constitution
should be submitted to vote of tile
people for ratification or rejection. Upon
these terms Democrats were appealed to,
and on these terms voted for a Constitu-
tional Convention. To say that the Demo
cratic Convention exceeded its powers in
thepremises, that the submission pledge was
a mere obiter dictum, is nonsense. If the
Convention had any. authority to declare
for Constitutional revision, it certainly had
authority to declare upon what terms it
was for such revision. If it could make
any declaration at all, for Constitutional
revision. it could certainly make quail
fed declaration. 1t did make a qualified
declaration which the Democrats of the
State subsequently ratified and which it
is useless to try to wriggle out of.
So far as the ViIginian-Pilot is con-
cerned, it doesn't propose to do any
wrigging, having small taste for sophistry
and none for hypocrisy. The Democratic
party made pledge. The men it chose
to the Constitutional Convention do not
propose to keep it,. And there you are,
and that is all there is OF it. We shall
leave the gentlemen Immediately con-
cerned to do the wriggling and the ex-
planning. Apparently, they are capable
and willing at the job.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15
ScIatic rheumatism Cured After Four
teen Years of Suffering.

81 have been afflicted with sciatic rheu-
matism for fourteen years." says Josh
Edgar, of Germantown, Cal. 81 was able
to be around but constantly suffered.
1 tried everything l could hear Of
and at last was told to try Chamber
lain's Pain Balm, which ] did and was
Immediately relieved and in short time
cured, and l am happy to say it has not
since returned" Why not use this lini-
ment and get well? 1t is for sale by Jno.
L. Jackson, druggist.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15
CONSOLIDATED COAL, IRON AND LAND
COMPANY.
Dividend Of Capital.

Notice is hereby given that the stock
holders of the Consolidated Coal, Iron and
Land Company, in general meeting of the
Company, have resolved and ordered that
a dividend of capital amounting to $3.50
per share and another dividend of capital
amounting to $62.50 per share upon the
common stock of the Company, amount
ing together to $50 per share, be paid, and
the capital stock ofthe Company be reduced
to that extent. Full details in regard to
these resolutions or orders, including the
time and place of payment, will be fur
nished upon application at the Office Of the
Company in the City Of Philadelphia, Pa.
CHARLES S. THoREE,
5.l5-3n Secretary.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15
PERSONAL NOTES.

Daniel ]. Schuyler, the veteran attorney
of Chicago, is descendant of General
Philip Schuyler, of the Revolution.
Vassili Verestchagin, the famous Russian
artist, has established an open air studio
just outside of Fort Myer, near Washing
ton.
Sienkiewicz is said to be a demon Of
unrest, and from the time he starts a
Lowell until he finishes it he goes about
from place to place through Europe
writing little here and little there.
Samuel Wendell Williston has been
elected by the trustees of the University
of Chicago head professor of the depart
ment of paleontology. He is at present
professor of geology and anatomy in the
University of Kansas.
DR.. Charles F. Rand who is accepted
as being the first volunteer for the Civil
War, is still living in Washington, D. O.
He was also the first soldier to win the
congressional medal of honor for distin-
guished gallantry in action.
Marion Crawford has not been appoin-
ted to write an official biography Of the
Pope, as was announced, as the Vatican
holds that his forid and melodramatic
style would be unsuitable for the formal
record of the life of the Pontff.
Archdeacon Wiburforce is conducting
daily services IN Westminster Abbey for
workmen engaged in preparing the ven
cradle structure for the coronation. The
men sit on either side of the cloister
during their dinner hour and listen to the
service, enjoying their pipes the while.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15
SUBSCRIPTIONS.
THURSDAY. MAY 10. 1902.
MASTeRLY INACTIVITY.

The Tazewell Republican" has hereto
tore been the persistent advocate of an
$ corrosive party policy. We had con-
tinued i hope that justice woold be done
the Republicans of the State by giving
them fair chan to exercise their Con.
stitulional rights at the f'llot box, eithal
bv the enactment of an honest election
law, or by protection exten led from Con
gress against the oltrages that have been
committed at the Congressional elections
in Virginia. All our hopes on these lines,
however, have been blasted; and we have
at last become convinced that the supreme
duty of the Republicans in Virginia is to
adopt policy of mastery inactivity in
State and National elections, until pGblic
sentiment has forced the men who control
the legislation of the State to put in opera
ton an honest election law that will he
honestly administered. When that comes
we will advocate tie renewal Of an aggres-
sive policy, though the Republican party
should then be decidedly in the minority.
But when will the time for honest cleo
lions in our State come? We confess that
the thing seems very remote. 1t is true
that the advocates of the new suffrage
measure declare that it has been framed
from an earnest desire to purify elections
and get rid of the disgusting frauds that
have been destroying the moral tone Of
the State But the fact that the "under-
standing clause" is an admitted subter-
fuge is we'll calculated to destroy the con.
fiden'e of Republicans in the honesty of
the motives and professions of those who
pretend that it is intended to produce
pure conditions in our elections If fraud
is to be employed by Constitutional enact.
ment at the next registration Of voters in
Virginia, what reason can We have foI
hoping that honesty will be restored by
legislative enactment in the near future?
The whole thing looks to us more like a
deperate partisan game to perpetuate the
control of party machine than to relieve
our people from the hateful election meth
DDS that have disgraced our State.
With these conditions prevailing there
is but one sensible thing for the Republi-
cans in Virginia to do, and that is to say
that we will refrain from voting until the
honest men 10 the Democratic party shall
make good their promise that fair cleo
tion-law shall follow the adoption, or
rather proclamation, Of the new Consttu-
ton. 1t will be worse than folly for the
party to put up a candidate for Congress
in the Ninth Congressional District after
the constructors and benefcIaries of the
"Scott Bounty Ballot" have been reward
ed by their party for inventing and util-
ling that vicious device to confuse and
defraud honest voters; and after that bal
lot~has been condoned by a Republican
Elections Committee.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15
The Most Common AlIment.

More people suffer from rheumatism
than from any other ailment. This is
wholly unnecessary too, for cure may be
effected at very small cost. 6. W.
Wescott, of Meadowdale, N. Y, says: 81
have been afflicted with rheumatism for
some time and it has caused me much
suffering. l concluded to try Chamber
lan's Pain Balm and am pleased to say
that it has cured me-" For sale by Jno.
Z. jackson. druggist.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15
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THE negroes are leaving what is known
as the the "black belt" in Virginia so
rapidly that the farmers are getting alarm
ed over the question of securing sufficient
labor. They ought not to object to this,
as it removes all danger of so-called negro
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15

governor Montague is reported to have
recently declared that the Democratic
party "must cease to be a party of op-
position" 1t has long ceased to be party
of opposition in Virginia and is as COM
plete party of appropriation as the world
ever saw. 1t is now trying, by the adop-
ton of New Constitution, to make the
appropriation permanent,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15
Wisdom Comes with Age.
indianapolis Journal.

indianapolis Journal.
1t will be noticed that thus far none of
the older Democratic Senators, like
Cockrell and Vest, of Missouri, and Nor
gan, of Alabama, are taking conspicuous
part in the assault upon American soldiers
in the Philippines.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15
CONSOLIDATED COAL, IRON AND LAND
COMPANY.
Dividend Of CAPITAL.

Notice is hereby given that the stock
holders of the Consolidated Coal, Iron
and Land Company, in general meeting
of the Company, have resolved and
ordered that the Preferred capital stock
of the Company be called in for redemp-
ton and cancellation and that the capital
stock of The Company be reduced TO that
extent. Full details in regard to this
resolution or order, including the time
and place of payment, will be furnished
upon application at the Office Of the
Company in the City of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
CHARLES S. THoRNE,
5.I5.3m Secretary.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15

Veterans on both sides of the Civil War
are deeply interested in preventing the
destruction of two historic building in
St. Louis. In one Julia Dent became the
wife of Ulysses S. Grant. and in the other
the Inflated Sarah Knox Taylor was made
the bride of Jefferson Davis.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15
And a Good lob It Would Be.

Omaha Bee.
Perhaps the true explanation of the
postponement of the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition is the desire to give St. Louis
a chance to finish up the job Of exposing
and unloading all the rest of its Doodle
municipal officers.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15

THE Richmond Times says; owe deny
that Senator Tillman is fair representa-
tive of Southern Manners" How about
him being fair representative and ex-
ponent of Southern political methods?
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-15

resolution for submission. Even Mr..
Glass, the author Of the resolution, never
pledge, but that it was pledge to sub
nit TO a restricted electorate. The Pres.
ident of the Constitutional Convention is
trying, in his eagerness to sustain pc.
litical crime, to out Herod Carter Glass.
A few days after the ledge was made at
Norfolk, Mr.. Glass, in an editorial in the
Lynchburg News, in discussing the reso.
luton he had written, said: ~"Another
objection was removed by the declaration
in favor OF submitting the new Constitu-
ton to the popular vote for ratification or
rejection,
Senator Daniel, Governor Montague,
and all the prominent men Of the party
who appeared in the campaign Of 1900,
did not hesitate to treat it as an unequivo-
cal pledge for submission of the new Con-
to the people, and bitterly de-
nounced as untrue the predictions made
by the Republicans that the pledge
would he violated by the Democrats. 1t
seems that the Republicans had more
accurate estimate of the sincerity of the
pledgej than did Major Daniel and the
other honorable men Of his party.
Hog can the Democratic party in Vir-
ginia expect to enjoy the confidence of
honest people when the President of the
Convention lines up as a weak quibbler in
support Of an unrighteous act? How can
honorable men believe that the work of
the Convention, presided over by such a
quibbler and dominated by spirit Of
per6dy, will be such as will reflect credit
upon the virtue and intelligence of our
people?