Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-10-15

priety and force. The Vlrginian Pilot
says:
"The remarks of our contemporary give
opportunity to say some things that we have
had in mind to say since the purging Of
the electorate began, and which, surely,
Democratic newspaper may say without
having the sincerity of its advice suspec-
ted by Its opponents.
The first of these things is that if the
Republican party in Virginia ever expects
to amount to anything it must cut loose
from the negro. The Republicans have
the habit of saying that the negro in poll
tics is a scarecrow. That is not the fact
He is both an anachronism and menace.
The Republicans can never hope to &C.
complish anything substantial in Virginia,
or in any Southern State untilathey throw
the negro overheard.
The second thing we have in mind to
say is that the hope Of the Republican
party of Virginia lies in the white Repubh'
cans Of the great Southwest. And by
hope we do not necessarily mean hope Of
victory, immediate or ultimate, in the
State of Virginia, but the hope of making
the Republican party force in State at.
and an organization that will command
the respect of all good citizens. The Re-
publicans of the Southwest must assert
themselves and pull their party out of the
mire of pie.hunting, negro-herding politics
into which it has fallen. And inciden-
tally they must assert and maintain their
rights at the polls"
The suggestion of our contemporary
that the white Republicans in Virginia
ought to cut loose from the negroes is
now useless. A cutting loose has already
been effected, as the best men of the
cJlored race who voted with the Republi-
cans have been disfranchised because they
so voted. The vicious negroes in most
instances have been used by the Demo
cracy. We call the attention of our con.
temporary to its own city and county in
proof of the assertion. That the negro
has been used by the Democrats as a
scarecrow in politics is proved 10y the fact
that be is still made leading issue in the
politics of the State, though it is declared
that be has been eliminated from the
electorate.
The Virginian- Pilot says: "The Re-
publicans of the Southwest must assert
themselves and pull their party out Of the
mire of pie-hunting, negro herdiDg poll
tics into which it has fallen" In re-
spouse to this we will say, that the Vir-
ginia Democracy has been the most per-
sistent pie-hunting organization we have
ever known in politics, State and National.
There is not leader connected with the
party machine, from John w. Daniel
down to the commonest striker or heller
in county, city, or town, who does not
have as his chief ambition the holding
of power and the enjoying of the
emoluments of office. They have even
engaged in what our contemporary is
pleased to term "negro-herding politics.,
and they are practicing it still. That
power and place are the impelling princi-
Piles of the Virginia Democracy is proved
by declaration made by j. Taylor Ely
son few days ago to Washington Post re-
ported. When asked who he thought
was the choice of the Virginia Democracy
for President he announced that the
slogan of the South will be "Show us The
man with whom we can win" In other
words, Show us the man who can lead us
to the pie counter and we will give him
our unbroken, loyal support. 1t does not
matter about bis character, his past politi-
cal record, his color or his condition, if be
can lead to victory and give us access to
the loaves and fishes, we are for him.
Mr.. Ellyson is fair sample of the "pie-
hunting, negro-herding" sometimes ne
gro baiting) Virginia Democracy.
After again expressing our high regard
for our Norfolk contemporary, We would
advise it to pull the beam from its own
eye before expressing SO much solicitude
about the mote in the eye of the Virginia
Republicans.