Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-11-30


mary election in August he was beaten
at every precinct of the twenty-four in
his home city, Richmond, by young
man vino had no political following; and
at the general election in November
hundreds of Democrats in Richmond
scratched his name from the ballot
which they deposited for the other can
didates of their party. In many other
cities and counties his name was strick-
en- from the ballot by numbers who vot-
ed for all the other Democratic candi-
lates. Can any stronger imputation be
cast upon the political integrity of any
man than has been placed upon Mr.. FL
Tyson by the people, the Democrats OF
his home city and State?
But if we have slandered Mr.. Ely
son land we deny that we have, for tell
ing the truth, though it be unwhole-
some, is not slander) what right has ne
or the Times Dispatch to complain of US
or others How long has it been since
he and it were making desperate efforts
to fasten upon IN honorable gentleman
a most outrageous SANDER? 1t was D..
Taylor Ellyson who hunted up that SELF
evident -falsehood about Judge Lewis
being an advocate of miscegenation and
it was the Times Dispatch that enjoyed
the distinction of first giving publicity
through its columns to the SANDER. Not
only did it first publish the SANDER but
it struggled on in a hopeless effort to
make intelligent, honest men believe
the SANDER was true. 1t did its work
in an assassin-like way. When forced
by decent public sentiment to deal talr-
ly with Judge Lewislit pretended to re-
cant, but continued in an artful way TO
uphold the SANDER. In an editorial
headed, 1.-THE Real Charges Against
Judge Lewis" published in the Times
Dispatch on the 18th of October, that
paper said: "No man who knows Judge
Lewis believes that he favors.or that he
ever favored mixed marriages. This
was an honest and truthful statement.
But the ,Times-D Dispatch followed the
statement with more than a column OF
the rankest sophistry, in mean en-
deavor to show that Judge Hundley was
correct in stating that Judge Lewis had
said at Chesterfield Courthouse that he
was opposed to the passage of mea-
sure to prohibit the intermarriage OF
negroes and whites, and that he was In
favor of allowing the intermarriage OF
the races. WeIsuppose the Times-Dis-
patch will try to avoid censure for such
a course of double-dealing and Islander
by saying that cts SANDER was uttered
in the heat. f::a,political.campaign. "
We have never yet become so deficient
in mental, physical and moral courage
as to say thing about public man or
politician in the heat.of political cam
paign that we were not willing to utter
after the campaign was over.
The charge made by the Times-Dis-
patch that the Republicans of Virginia
have always lifted their hands against
those who fought for Virginia's rights
in war and preserved her traditions in
peace, and that it is party of aliens is
gratuitously false. Of those who voted
for the Republican candidates at the
late election thousands were Confeder-
ate veterans, and many the sons of vet
Grams. They were and are men who die
what they thought was right, but who
have the courage and the disposition tc
let the dead past bury its dead. They
belong to that class of good and true
men who do not constantly boast Of anc
demand rewards for duty performed
and they are entirely distinct from the
class composed of professional Confed-
crates and bomb proofs who are con-
stantly claiming honor and reward fol
duty that, in many instances, was never
performed. That the Republican par
ty of Virginia "is a party of aliens" is
as untrue as is the claim Of superiority
which the Times-D Dispatch makes for it
self and for those for whose edifcation II
dishes out pabulum of hate. If the
Republicans in Virginia are aliens and
have not labored to advance the true in
terests of the Commonwealth, why die
the Virginia Democrats try so brazenly
to claim and appropriate the good
works done by the Republicans?
The Roanoke Evening World has also
made a bitter fling at us over the para