Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-09-09
"A DISTINGUISHED HOST"

The above is the caption of an
editorial In last weeks issue of the
Tazewell Republican, in which the
Editor, among other things, says:
I'm the making of new constitu-
ton the Democratic party in Virginia
has dealt ia most peridious manner
with the white voters Of the State.
Mr.. Wysor, the present candidate of
the party in the Ninth Congressional
District, is upholding and defending
the perfdy of the democracy, and is
insulting the honest but poor white
men who have been made the vic
Tins of democratic treachery. No
party has eyer made "A record more
fiagrant:y insincere than has the
democratic party in the past four
years on the suffrage question" and
that we have erected "a monument
of shame that will grow more con-
spicious and shameful, etc.
The editor of the Republican has
used so repeatedly such adjectives
and epithets as SHAME. "perfdy,'
"crime", fraud, hypocrisy,
"treachery," etc., when speaking Of
the Democrats, as 10 rob these of
their Objectionable nature somewhat.
de has exhausted their force. They
are so familiar to readers OF the Re-
publican that the paper would not
seem itself without them. However.
the public generally, both in and out
of the State, are pretty we'll aequaint-
ed with Virginia and the leading
citizens who compose the Democratic
party, and these epithets will be as
signed their due weight and impor-
lance by the thinking, honest people
of the community.
The burden of the editorial above
referred to is, that the Democrats
have deliberately DISTINGUISHED
about ten thousand white men In
the Ninte District, after a positive
promise that no white man should be
disfranchised or deprived of his
vote.
This same old cry, which is raised
purely for political effect, has been
SO often successfully answered that
further explanation and statement
would seem to be unnecessary, and is
unnecessary for all fairminded men
not blinded by rank partisanship,
but as "none are so blinded as those
who won't see," so far as the Taze-
we'll Republican is concerned further
statement is wholly useless.
However, once more let it he said
the Democrats framed suffrage law,
as nearly all the Southern States and
many of the Northern States have
done, which was not prohibitive but
restrictive. 1t applied alike to all
Its primal object was to put the
illiterate colored voter out of politics,
but admitted him even, if he should
see fit 10 comply with its reasonable
conditions. If any white man is left
off the registration books it IS his
!, ewH fault. Every avenue possible
some four or five-were left wide
open, so that every man in the State
might come In If he saw fit. The law
was restrictive, and prohibited abso.
lutely, no man, white or black, from
registering.
1t Is strictly in accord with the
facts to say, that every white mar
left off the books could haye gotten
on it he had tiled. Some were left
off on account of ignornnce, some
by negligence and still others b,
oversight. Anumber of men in thi.
town were left of through negligence.
hers by oversight-and some o.
them our best citizens, too-who, W.
. suppose are included among the ''ter
thousand" disfranchised, it is claim
ed, by the Democrats. AS Well NIGH
man who fails to pay his taxes o,