Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-07-28

daily papers in Virginia. The very tone
of these articles indicates that they are
written for political effect and not for the
betterment of social and political condi-
TONS 1t cannot be possible that lhe in
telligent men who write these things be-
lieve them to be true. If they do, we are
constrained 10 place them by the side of
that individual which a brilliant Demo-
cratic contemporary has described as IAN
honest fool or clean man crazed by his
own fanaticisin and folly"
This is not thu first instance in which
the Democrats # Virginia have tried to
win favor by pretending to believe that
their political adversaries were for social
equality, nHxed schools and mixed mar
riages. In the memorable political con-
test of 1881, between the Funder Demo-
Gratis and the Readjusters, the same I'M
clean and uRtruthfuI methods we're en-
ployed by the Democrats that are now
being used The campaign of 1881 was
one of the Interest and most heated that
was ever known in this Commonwealth
and intelligent discussion was completely
consumed by the fire of hate which the
Democracy kindled on the political altar.
Do the Democratic leaders and our Demo-
cratic contemporaries desire to inaugEate
another such contest in Virginia 1t
seems so. If they do, upon their heads
be the blame and the painful consequences
that will surely follow. The Republicans
will regret 10 see this made by the Demo
Gratis a campaign of brutal SANDER, but
they will rot he frightened or drawn from
the performance Of duty by it.
Certain OF our Democratic contempor-
aries in Virginia have shown an unfair and
unclean disposition by reproducing COM
munication recently published in the
Washington Post over the signature of a
negro named Henry S. Ba.er. That
letter refers to the Booker T. Washington
incident and one which transpired on the
stage during the convention at Chicago;
and it argues therefrom that the President
and the Republican party are for social
equality and miscegenation. OF course
this letter is a contemplate partisan trick
1t was of Democratic procurement and
was first made public in the columns Of
the Washington Post, paper which is in
tensely hostile to President Roosevelt.
If such man as Baker exists and he ie
as friendly disposed to the President as
he pretends to be, he would never have
written such letter, and he would surely
not have published it in the Washing
ten Post, which caters go constantly to
Southern sentiment, and especially to the
negotiating element of this section. We
will not reflect upon the intelligence of
our Democratic Contemporaries in Vir-
GINA by charging that they truly believe
the letter of Henry s. Baker to be of hon
est intention or procurement. Nor will we
be so ungenerous to their sense of credu-
lily as to imagine that they believe what
they have written in the way Of comment
about that letter.
One Of our contemporaries, tie Roa-
noke Times, has for some weeks been in
dustriously trying to make the negro ques-
ton an issue in the politics of the Ninth
Congressional District On the 3rd inst
it contained an editorial headed, "a
Chapter In Colonel Semps Record" and
on the 18th inst. another, headed, 'How
Will The Ninth Answer ?" The purpose
of these editorials was to infame the
white voters of the district against Colonel
Slemp and the Republican party. To fur
ther that purpose our Roanoke contempo-
rary has employed the same vicious mis-
representations that have so frequently
been used by the Virginia Democracy
when driven to the desperate necessity Of
resorting TO the negro as an issue to save
them from defeat.
For the enlightenment of the Roanoke
Times we will state that "a Chapter From
Colonel Slemp's Record" was introduced
to the people of the Ninth District two
years ago by w. +. Rhea as a last, des-
perate resort, and that it excited for those
who used it only pity and contempt, from
both Republicans and Democrats. And
answering the question of the Times,
"How Will The Ninth Answer ~ we pre-
dict that its effort to again introduce the
negro issue into the politics of this district
will win for it the contempt of white Re-
publicans and disgust Of honest Demo-
Gratis.
There is not an intelligent, sane man,
white or colored, in Virginia that favors
social equality, mixed schools and mixed
There may be few Of both
-acea who do. but thew are either ignorant |