Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-09-06

cratic prophets at the recent Bristol
convention! Who was the Moses who
iourneyed all the way from Richmond
to the far Southwest to lead the Demo-
Gratis out Of the wilderness? J. Taylor
Ellyson, of Building & Loan Association
fame, the leader of the Virginia Demo-
cracy, but man whose questionable
career caused his resignation from a
public board in his home city and who,
when after numerous and vain efforts
to secure public office, offered himself
as candidate for Lieut.. Governor in the
primary last fall and was defeated in
his own city by the voters who knew
him by nearly two thousand majority.
He was carried through by his machine
in other sections of the State.
Republicans, let your minds revert to
the conditions that obtained in the Ninth
District in the days Of Democratic as
tendency and pause if you have any
thoughts of reverting thereto. Remem-
Der the "Scott County Ballot" and re-
member that it was given out at the
Bristol Convention that its author
would manage the Democratic campaign
this Fall. Remember the debauchery
of the ballot-box, the falsifying of re-
turns, the voting of dead men and the
concomitants of those dark and evil
days. "Rheaism:" Perish the thought.
With that illustrious leader we will not
deal but will draw the vefi of charity
and politically exclaim de mortuis nil
nisi bonum. But have conditions chang
ed? "The voice is Jacobs voice, but
the hands are the hands of Esau." Con-
ditions have, however, been improved
in the conduct of elections and proba-
bilities of fraud have, to some extent,
been removed. And why? Does any
one imagine that it was the desire Of
giving free expression to the will of the
people? Fond delusin. In the recent
Constitutional Convention it was gener-
ally conceded by the Democrats that
their reason for desiring change. was
because they were tired of fraud. Sat-
urated and satiated with political cor
ruption the inevitable reaction took
place and the people reaped the benefits.
But before that convention completed
its work, it usurped the dearest rights
of the people, trampled upon their con-
stitutional guarantees and proclaimed
fundamental code under which the Com
monwealth must be governed for many
years to come. Now, they ask Repub-
hcans of the Ninth District to vote for
their candidate.
'Lord God of Hosts, be with US yet,
lest we forget, lest we forget"
In this campaign measures and not
men must be the issue. 1t is to be
campaign Of National import. 1t is to
determine whether or not those vast
problems of government, conceived and
being carried out by that Incompatible
statesman and Republican leader Theo-
dore Roosevelt, shall be completed or
whether Bryan, with his erratic and
dangerous theories shall be put into
power. Undoubtedly the election this
Fall is precursor of the Presidential
election in 1908.
The question in the Ninth, therefore,
is not Slemp VS.. Bruce, but Republican
ism VS.. Democracy. The history of the
first is the history of the progress of
our common country, the history of the
latter, a chronicle of financial panics
and melancholy gloom. The Democrat
ic party cannot point to single instance
of constructive legislation that they
have put upon our statute books, whilst
the Republican party claims credit for
what we are today. Under her princi-
pies the grand section of Southwest Vir-
ginia has flourished like green bay
tree, it has blossomed like the rose.
We don't want any more Democratic
rule for our section, we are satisfied to
let well enough alone. With Shakes
peare we believe,
"The friends that thou hast and their
adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul
III - ,4ooI -
The Democratic party is wont to elect
its congressman in the Ninth District
about two months before the election
and its president about two years be-
fore. The election is going on now Tin
the newspapers).
Two thousand Republicans in the
Ninth District must vote the Democrat
it ticket in the Ninth District in order
for it to win, and this they will never
do.
Mr.. Bruce may be nice man but ne
is on the wrong side.
A Valuable Piece Of Ground.
One of the most valuable pieces Of
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