Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1906-09-21
0DI0US POLITICS.
The Slemp Machine Appoints a
Murderer Chairman of Scott
County Republicans.
Southwest Times.)

lOouVnWeSJ Times.
The Republican leaders and news
papers i'm this district are trying hard
to throw sand in the eyes OF the voters
and draw their attention away from
lhe foul and III savored machine that is
now controlling the political destiny of
the ninth district and the Republicans o
Virginia.
Such papers as the Tazewell Repub-
lican and Damascus Blade which are
the chosen organs "fthe Slemp dynasty
are raising loud protests about Hon. j.
Taylor Ellyson AZ a political trickster
and Hon. w. ID. Smith, of Scott coun-
ty, and are raking up dead issues with
which TO scare the voters into voting
for Slemp.
Anxious, indeed, are they TO talk
about the party outside OF the ninth
but very little do they want to say
about the machine that is running
rough shod over the will OF the people
Oh lnlS OlSJflcL.
But we desire TO ask the voters and
thoughtful people not to be fooled with
all this hub bub about Roosevelt and
party issues but consider the conditions
as they exist in our own ninth district.
Examine the record of the men who
are the dictatprs of the Republican
party and distributors OF the federal
patronage i'm this district.
For an instance look at the Republi-
can organization in Scott county.
There the Slemps have recently ap-
pointed John Catron the county chair
man Of the Republican party.
Who is John Catron? He is the man
who murdered two election judges and
shot another in that county two years
ago and was acquitted by a packed
jury.
Listen
Il. j. Davenport, the present Repub-
lican chairman of the ninth district
was one OF the lawyers who prosecuted
Catron and what is his opinion of this
chairman of the Republican organiza-
ton in Scott county?
Listen again
Mr.. Davenport says about Catron,
"He is the damndest murderer I'M
hung
Thus speaks the district chairman
about one of his own county chairmen,
But why II Davenport knows this
Scott county chairman to be such a
william does he allow him TO continue
at the head of the Scott county organ
ization?
Because Davenport hasn't anything
10 do with il,
Davenport is simply figurehead-
Slemp is the chief boss and Summers
is the washer.
The Republican headquarters Of the
ninth district is in the office OF l.. p
summons, the chief mogul OF the pie
eating brigade OF the district and he
receives his orders direct from Slemp,
the boss of the whole show.
Campbell Slemp appoints Catron, a
red handed murderer the chairman in
Scott county and the ipse dixit of
Slemp is like the law of the Modes and
Persians, it changeth not, until another
more subserYient TO his will and a
more obedient tool is found.
Loyalty to Slemp is the first qualifi-
cation and the essential test Of fellow
ship, and thus does Slemp honor the
fidelity OF the murderous Catron of
whom his own superior chairman says
he is the worst unhung, and that great
i'm bulk apostle of Slempism, d. f.
Bailey, is shouting from the stump the
eXhortation to shoot and kill if neces-
sary to win, for this district must at all
hazards be held for Slemp that his
reign OF corruption and bribery may
continue and his horde of political par
asites be fed from public Golfers.
Now, citizens of this district, we APP
peal to you in all soberness.
Shall this thing continue? Is it not
time for the manhood OF the ninth dis.
trict 10 rebuke such politics? To over,
throw such corruption and teach those
who so tiagIantly violate the laws of
public morality and decency that the
citizenship of this country will not toll
crate such methods. Consider this
question well, and when November
comes if you cannot vote for Robert
Bruce do not stultify and dwarf your
moral nature with a vote for Campbell
Slemp.