Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-08-31
They ARE "SKEERED."

THEY ARE "SKEERED."
The Roanoke Times is very anxious
to have "high plane campaign" this
year in Virginia. In it's issue of the
oath inst. it had an editorial urging both
Democrats and Republicans to work to-
gether for that end. The Times says:
1.-The Times, for one, earnestly hopes
that the coming campaign will be con-
Quoted upon a high plane. Virginia's
two political organizations and their
leaders should unite in an effort to at
tain this end. They should refrain
from the Incorporate features that
have characterized so many of our po-
litical contests of the past. Conserva-
tism of expression ought to supplant
the fiery appeal to prejudice, modera-
ton should take the place of passionate
extremes, and the issues be so present
ed and so discussed that the campaign
of 1905 will pass into history as one
memorable for it's exalted tone and edu-
cational value.
This appeal Of our Roanoke contem-
porary for what it is pleased to call a
"high plane campaign" is very signifi-
cant. Such commendable disposition
did not control the Times and other
Democratic papers in Virginia during
the campaign of 1904. The Times was
especially conspicuous with its fiery ap-
peals to prejudice; and it was prOvok-
ingly unfair in it's treatment Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Congressman Slemp,
as well as the entire Republican party
in Virginia. We well remember how the
Times addressed it's philippines against
our party and candidates to the voters
of the Ninth Congressional District.
The Republicans of this district are not
likely to forget the unfair and bitter
editorials the Roanoke Times published
in 1904. The Times feels constrained
to offer some reasonable explanation
for its change of attitude toward Vir-
GINA Republicans and it gives the fol-
lowing:
Democrats can at last recognize
that they are confronted with foemen
worthy of their steel. The Republican
party now comes upon the stage of Vir-
ginia politics arrayed in new clothes. 1t
can now justly lay claim to the attri-
butte of intelligence and of many other
admirable virtues. True
the reason for its evolution from an inn
potent, discredited political organiza-
ton to one of responsibility and power
is traceable directly to Democratic leg
islation."
Virginia Republicans should be pro-
foundry thankful (?) that they have be-
come, according to the exalted ideas OF
the opposition press, "foemen worthy
of their STEEL" and that they are no
longer to be treated as foemen worthy
of Democratic "steal." Of course
Republicans have been deeply impress
ed with the Democratic legislation
which for the past twenty years has
been directed chiefly to evolving the
Republican party from an impotent,
discredited political organization to one
of responsibility and power" The
partisan election laws passed in success
sion by Democratic Legislatures and the
ultra partisan provisions of the suffrage
clauses of the new constitution were,
no doubt, enacted to make the Republi-
can party strong and respectable, and
not to prolong Democratic power in the
State.
The Times says it will not do for the
Republicans Ito point to the Democrat
ic party as a mass of corruption. " Per-
haps in this our contemporary may be
right, for in that mass are many thou
sands of good, honest men who have
been deceived by corrupt leadership.
The Republicans will dare to point to
the leadership and the record of the
Virginia Democracy as thoroughly cor
rupt, and will sustain their charges with
ample Democratic authority. So far as
the Republicans are concerned, they
are for an honest, educational cam
paign; but they should endeavor to
show from the abundant Democratic
record that the leadership of the
Virginia Democracy has been UNI
clean and incapable. 1t is this record
which makes the Times and all the
Democratic press in Virginia so eager
to conduct the campaign without razor
or spleen. They dread to have these
facts presented to the honest voters of
the Democratic party.