Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-10-01
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

EUl NOntHG v THnR0hHi HO'
Put your hand on your heart and ans
wer truly. Which do you think is the best
man to represent Tazewell and Buchanan
in the Legislature, J. Powell Royal or W..
P. Payne?
The Republicans had majority Of 4O2
in Tazewell County at the Congressional
eectional last Fall. How do the Demo-
Gratis expect to overcome that majority?
Do they expect any of the men they tried
to rob of the right to vote to give them
their votes now?
So, Doak's committee has made MIR.
King Crockett the Democratic candidate
for Sheriff. That settles his hash.
DO you think the counties of Tazewell
and Buchanan ought to be represented in
the House of Delegates by a man who
tried so persislently to disfranchise so
many white men?
w. P. Payne was member OF the
registration board in Maiden Spring District
last year. AK him how many white men
he insisted upon refusing to register by the
use of the understanding" clause.
Every Democrat who is now running
for office in Tazewell county was strong
supporter of the new Constitution, and
upheld the boards of the registration when
they refused 20 register so many white
men last year.
We see that ]. Taylor Ellyson, chairman
of the Democratic party in Virginia, is
claiming that his party will have a good
working majority in both houses Of the
next General Assembly. The time has
been, not very long ago, when Mr.. Ely
son could fix the majority he wanted In
the Legislature or on the popular voIe In
that respect present political conditions
are an improvement on the old conditions.
1t is now a little harder for Mr. Ellyson to
tell "where he is at"
We publish at another place in this
paper card from Mr.. S. S. F. Harman
denying a report that some one has been
circulating. There has been and is now
no understanding of ary kind between
Mr.. Haman and Mr.. Gillespie. Both of
these gentlemen are running for the sher-
iffalty because they want the Office. The
report which has been put in circulation
was intended to injure them both, and
will be likely to recoil on those who under.
take to use it.
When Major Henry and Mr.. Chapman
appeared before the board of registrars OF
Maiden Spring District at Richlands they
insisted that it was the policy of the
Democratic party that no white nan
should be dsfranchised. Mr., w. P.
Payne, who was a member of the said
board of registrars, controverted the views
of Major Henry and Mr., Chapman. in a
reply speech, and conteDded that the
board should give a strict construction to
the understanding clause" The board
then adopted Mr. Payne's views and con-
tiDued to refuse to register honest white
men because they could not answer satis-
factorily the questions put TO them
Afterwards two of the members Of the
board receded from the extreme position
of Mr.. Payne, but he stood to it.
We nder if the names of those com
mittees of three that Chairman Doak is to
appoint for each precinct, to see that
Democratic voters are not corrupted by
Republican money, will be published?
Candidates should be careful not to
treat friend to a glass of soda, and
friends should be careful not to accept
cigar from a candidate The spoilers may
be close at hand.
If the other members of the Maiden
Spring District board of registration had
continued to sustain Mr.. Payne in his ex-
treme views about the application Of the
understanding clause" not less than
three hundred honest white men would
have been refused registration in that dis
tict. Fortunately the other members Of
the board were more liberal than Mr.
Payne and registered many that would
otherwise have been rejected
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