Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-05-11
ANOTHER MARES NEST.


usual, has been made in one of the
counties of the Southwest, presumably
in the Ninth Congressional District.
This wonderful discovery is "blank
form of. money obligation, it being
apparently printed in type writer script
and representing an amount identical
with the sum due the State as poll tax
with the penalty for delinquency
added"
The Times prints in its editorial col
umns copy of the blank money obliga-
ton, which it says it has received from a
friend in one of the southwest counties
of the State. Our Roanoke contem-
porary says:
1.-The gentleman sending us the
above, who is well and favorably known
throughout the State, asserts that it
comes directly from the Republican
headquarters of the county in which he
resides, and insists that it but reflects
device by which the Republican party
proposes to qualify Republican delin-
quents for the election to be held next
FALL"
Our Roanoke contemporary then pro-
ceeds to say:
eve are frank to say that just at
this time we shall prefer no specific
charge concerning the matter. Our
friend may or may not be correct in his
conclusions. The single bit of paper
reproduced above may or may not rep
resent general scheme upon the part
of the Republican organization to pay
delinquent poll taxes out of fund
gathered for that purpose"
The Times then very artfully assumes
that if the Republicans are using "a
general scheme to pay delinquent poll
taxes out of fund gathered for that
purpose" they will, upon it's invitation,
disclose what they are doing and intend
to do. 1t then declares: ut is to be
hoped therefore that an official pro-
nouncement will be made upon this sub
ject, either by way of Affirmation or de-
NAL, so that it can be discussed and
treated from an absolutely intelligent
standpoint, and as involving clear cut,
well defined question of law and of po-
htical morality"
Now, this is pretty cheeky. The Re
pub1fcans will inform the Times that
they do not recognize its right to in
ouire as to what the Republican man
agement is doing, nor do they desire to
be instructed on questions of law and
political morality by the Times or any
other partisan Democratic paper or
leader.
If the Times is so eager to see the
law indicated and political morality
enlarged and advanced it had better be
busying itself with the Democratic
management in Virginia, which has been
VIGOROUSLY corrupt and rotten for the
past twenty-five years. And it could
prove it's sincerity as an advocate of
political morality better by quoting and
upholding the opinion of some one else.
than the partisan Attorney General,
who was the author and patron of the
first dishonest election law ever enact
ed in Virginia. Let it hunt down and
drive out the corruptionists in its own
party, before it assumes. to teach NOR
atty to the party and people who have
been robbed and defrauded under laws
of both legislative and constitutional
enactment. The Times says; "The
Times is no respecter of political par
ties in this matter of pure elections.
We recall the fact that the Times
made a great clamor last year about the
manner in which it was claimed the
Republicans had paid poll taxes in Scott
county. We then called attention to
the manner in which the mana
gers for Mr.. Wysor paid poll taxes in
Pulaski county, and nothing was heard
from the Roanoke Times, or any other
Democratic source, in the way of sug-
eestion that the Democratic voters who
had been qualified to vote from fund
gathered for that purpose should be
on the day of election.
Referring to the blank due bill, which
some friend has sent it, our Roanoke
contemporary says:
attorney General Anderson says
that such practices can only be allowed
at the price of violation of the laws
clear intendment. Is the opin-
ion of our Attorney General to be
laughed at and treated with contempt
nous scorn and defiance? - We
believe that if such schemes are In pro-
cess of execution as is charged by the
gentleman sending the blank form
1uoted in the foregoing, that Demo
cratic officers in this State have the ]
nerve and the willingness to contest not /
,nly the propriety but the legality of
,uch a course of action-and that to the
very door of the election booth by