Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-10-01
BYARS A DEMA6OGUE.

Mr.. Byars, the Democratic candidate
for Congress, has developed into a
dangerous demagogue, not an intelligent
one. He has disinterred that old battle
cry of the Democracy, Government by
Injunction" which was written in the
Democratic platform of 1896 by Altgeld.
the anarchist. The term is one of OPP
probrium, hurled at the courts, and is
only fit to be used by demagogues and
agitators. 1t has been discarded by the
intelligent Democracy, even by Mr..
Bryan, as too coarse and dangerous to
be written again in Democratic plat
form. The effort of Mr.. Byars to re-
vive such term and to try to make it
an issue in the Ninth District is a re-
Election upon the intelligence of the
people he wants to represent in Con-
gress.
Recently, in a critical review of the
address which Mr.. Byars directed to
the voters of the district, we severely
and justly rebuked him for trying to
use the term Government by Injunc-
tion. This so provoked the Democratic
candidate that he gave out an interview
in the Bristol Herald Courier, reiterat-
ing his intention to use the opprobrious
term that other intelligent Democrats
are now ashamed to employ. He also
tries to sustain himself by further
praising Samuel Gompers, the labor
leader and agitator. Mr.. Byars for
gets that the respectable Democratic
press of Virginia insisted that Gompers
should not be recognized in the Demo
cratic convention at Denver, and that
his plank should not be written in the
Democratic platform. He ought also
to realize that every Democratic paper
of any force in the State is fighting shy
OF the Gompers plank, and not one pa
per has been stupid enough to make use
of Gompers and Government by In
junction to help the Democratic cause.
Mr.. Byars ought also to understand
that there is no organized labor vote in
the Ninth District that will consent to
be delivered by Mr.. Gompers to the
Democratic party; and that the labor
ing men of this district have done too
well under Republican administrations
to be fooled by his appeals to them.
They must know that Mr.. Byars has no
sympathy for them, except that kindled
by the desires of an interested politi-
clan and office-seeker. We doubt if
Mr.. Byars ever performed a day of
real manuel labor in his entire life.
Not satisfied with reasserting his
Government by Injunction" issue,
Mr.. Byars, in the aforesaid interview.
makes some very inapt and insulting
references to the Republicans of the
Ninth; and some very absurd CLAIMS
for himself and his party. We quote
from the interview of Byars:
"The Tazewell Republican has under
taken a big job when it proposes to
browbeat rne into adopting its views on
the question of government by injunc-
ton. If it wants to do the community
a real service, let it urge its own candi-
date to set an example worthy of emu
lation. Let it demand that the de-
hatchery of the electorate in this dis
trict be discontinued.
when it comes with clean hands and
honest purpose, earnestly desiring to
improve conditions, advocating purity
in elections, the upholding of high ideals
in public life and the development of a
lofty sentiment among the people that
will scorn and repudiate the corruption
ist Of ones countrymen, then and not
until then, will join hands with it and
endorse its views"
These remarks of Mr.. Byars are so
insincere and untrue that they stamp
bis cry of government by injunction
with insincerety.
He charges that the Republican cleo