Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-08-25
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

r EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.
The Virginia Democracy pretend to b
70 greatly alarmed by threatened imperial
. ism aud social equality. If ever eithe
2 comes Upon the people it will be at the in
. stance of the Dsmo cracy.
Mr.. Wysor has announced his purpose
to pound his brand of Democracy into the
people of Tazewell and of the Ninth Dis
trict. He had better get some one tC
, pound little common sense into his head,
if he wishes to succeed as a missionary OF
modern Democracy.
The Rothchids and the Sugar Trust are
the hackers of Mr.. Parker. The first nam
ed are represented by August BelmontAnC
the latter by Senator McCarren. The
Rothschllds want to make another raid
on the United States Treasury like the
one they made through the Cleveland bond
sale. The Sugar Trust wants to gain the
advantages it secur ed by the Wilson Cor
m an tariff law.
Mr.. Wysor read the "Henry s. Baker"
letter and commented on it In his speech.
He treated it as a verify. Does Mr. Wysor
not know that the letter is fraud, and
that the Washington Post, in which it was
originally published, has admitted that it
is unable to locate the author? Mr.. Wysor
ought to inform himself better before un-
dertaking TO instruct the people. 1t is no
credit TO his intelligence to be using a
fraud to advance his personal and political
interests.
In his speech last Monday Mr.. Wysor
made fun Of Col Slemp's capacity as a rep
resentative of the people. 1t is true that
Col. Slemp is not lawyer and is a plain
farmer. But Mr.. Wysor should remem-
Der that this is an era of business and COM
mon sense, not of brilliant sentimentality
For this reason the people of the Ninth
District will prefer to have the plain, COM
mon sense farmer represent them in Con-
gress, and will vote to let the brilliant Wy.
sor remain at Pulaski to sciDtillate and re-
fleet upon lost opportunities.
The Democrats in Tazewell county al
ways shout and crow in September and
weep and wall in November. In pursuance
of that custom they are shouting and crow
ing now, and they will surely weep and
wall after the election in November.
In his speech here last Monday Mr..
Joseph q. Wysor declared that the politics
of Tazewell county had been blight on
its manhood. He meant, of course, that
the fact of the county being Republican
was blight. The Republicans of Taze.
well will take great delight in assisting all
they can to blight Mr.. Wysor's prospects
and hopes to represent the district in Con-
gress.
Mr., Wysor on last Monday played the
part of the cheap demagogue, when he tried
to score point against tie Republicans
by sneerlng at the negro band from Poca-
hontas who furnished music for the Re-
publican meeting. He said GAS the
Degro band goes out, let the ladies come
Mr.. Wysor did not tell the
ladies that he had used the same band at
Pocahontas to attract crowd for him, and
but for their music he would not haye Sc
cured the small audience he did get. But
Mr.. W. sor is like all the other Virginia
Democrats, he uses the negro for both Of
fensive and defensive purposes, and if he
ever reaches the Democratic hades he will
be certain to try to hold "nigger" between
him aud the fire, MIR. Wysor's statesman
ship is rapidly developing into negrophobia.
So much for association.
The Richmond News Leader says: "In
our view, the Democrats of the Ninth
Congress District of Virginia will waste
their opportunity if they make tLeir fight
on the negro question. 1t is old, stale
and played out. The people of that sec-
ton have no interest in it. They want to
think and vote on something, new, fresh
and real" Our Richmond contemporary
is suggest x something that will be i'm
possible of accomplishment by the
Democracy of this district. The party
here knows nothing but stale issues and
could live on nothing that was fresh and
real. 1t has an issatiable taste for things
that are decayed and issues that are false.
Only dead issues can inspire the
Democracy of the Ninth District, unless