Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-09-03
Mr.. BYARS HEARD FROM.

The Democratic candidate for Cor
gress in the Ninth District, Mr.. ].
Cloyd Byars, has issued an address to
the people of the district. In his ad-
dress he undertakes to set forth the is
sues that are involved in the present
campaign. He starts out with some
very pleasant and fair suggestions for
invoking intelligent discussion of the
questions that are now before the peo-
pie of this district; but further on in
his address does violence to his own sug-
gestions. He says:
"Am asking too much of an Ameri.
can citizen, that he divorce himself
from prejudice in this campaign? Is it
asking too much of voter that he give
audience to honest conviction and fol-
low the dictates of an enlightened con-
science in the casting of his ballot? If
30, elections are a farce and popular
government failure"
How have Mr.. Byars and the Demo
cratic party, his party. in Virginia here
tufore responded to these questions?
When before did they separate them
selves from an appeal to the prejudice
OF the voters? When did they cease to
stifie honest conviction and infame the
passions and prejudices of men, and
drive them from following 1.-THE die
tates of an enlightened conscience in
the casting of their ballots?"
A Democratic solid South has been
constructed and held together upon IN
reasonable prejudice and beclouded con-
science. These have been the weapons
by which the Virginia Democracy have
brought political shame upon the Com
monwealth and placed the people at the
mercy of an INSCRIPTIONS machine.
Whatever Mr.. Byars has previously
done in the field of politics has been
wrought along with and for the benefit
OF leaders and party that lived and
thrived not only upon prejudice and pas
sion, but through the successful employ
ment of the most diabolical fraud. He
has followed the leadership of ]. Tay-
lor Ellyson and VIM. F. Rhea. Ellyson
has been enabled to drag his Shiny trail
all over the State and enlist among his
followers many otherwise good men
who were blinded from prejudice arous-
ed by partisan press and leadership.
Rheaism is a poisonous fungus that
could never have grown to such dan
gerous proportions in the Ninth District
had it not been nourished by fraud and
sustained by unintelligent prejudice.
J. Taylor Ellyson is still the political
headmaster of Mr. Byars, and will d.
rect his campaign as he did that Of R.
P. Bruce two years ago. And Mr..
Byars is still identified with the toad
stool of Rheaism, in that he was one of
those who focked to the State capitol
last Winter to help plant that poison
GUS fungus in what should be one oil
the most sacredly clean and healthy
departments of the State Government
the State Corporation Commission.
The people of the Ninth Congress
ional District have bravely and intelh-
gently destroyed the power of the un-
scrupulous politicians who had tri-
umphed by fraud that was condoned
through prejudice. And well may Mr..
Byars say, that he has IAN abiding faith
in the honesty and patriotism of great
majority of the people in the Ninth
District" Having this commendable
fslrh in his people, it is strange that
b, should in the latter part of his ad-
d -ss violate the excellent sentiment he
invoked in the beginning, when he
asked the people to put prejudice aside
ard to follow the dictates of an en-
n. htened conscience when they cast
MAR ballots. But this is what Mr. 1
Byzrs has done. He has appealed to I