Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-10-22

was one tst-hght-and a mighty poor
night at that. The combatants seemed
to be clawing at each other ike two old
women and spectators would not have
been surprised if it had become a mere
halr-pulling match. At times the con-
vention, filling the main floor and first
gallery, reminded one of q storm-tossed
sea, with dozens of men on their feet
waving their arms and swinging their
hats, shouting for recognition or simply
yelling discordantly so that all distinct
i've sounds were drowned in a widely
confused clamor. This should be a lesson
and warning to Mr.. Good Citizen at
home. Many of the best men in the
State were members of the body; but
there was a considerable infusion Of
mere shouters, the fellows who talk
loud around crossroads stores and village
corners, well-meaning men, doubtless.
and at heart patriotic, but without
thought or any particular knowledge
of men or affairs. This element made
impossible anything like deliberate de-
bate or calm consideration. All work of
that kind necessarily was done in the Sc
clusion of committee rooms. All this can
be cured by proper attention of sub
stantial voters to the selection of rep
resentative and qualified men for dele
gates.
Will the News Leader draw a con-
trast between its own State convention
aud the meeting at Wise? We think
not.
We wish to inform our contemporary
that the account of the Wise meeting
was gross exaggeration. We have
been present at scores of joint debates
In this district between Republican and
Democratic speakers, and we have
never attended one where the Demo-
cratic speaker was not treated with
courteous consideration.
Then, we want to call the attention of
the News Leader TO the treatment
which was accorded Mr.. Taft at Bristol.
the home of Byars, aud for that pur-
pose will quote from the Bristol Herald
Courier of last Sunday. That paper
says editorially:
Bristol ought to be, and we believe
Is, chagrined over the treatment re-
ceived by MIR. Taft at the tabernacle
speaking Friday night A disorderly
element, composed principally of hood
lums and irresponsible boys, but shame
upon them, participated in by better
people, some of them silly women, made
of the audience disorderly mob, which
banded each other, Missed the speaker.
uttered Insulting cat-calls, and kept the
assemblage in an ill-humored uproar.
The newspaper men with the Taft party
said that it was the most disorderly DO
itical gathering they had ever wit
messed"
The Herald-Courier says much more
on the same lines. This disgraceful
conduct was from Democrats, at the
home of Mr.. Bysrs aud the hot-bed of
Rheaism.
The News Leader has again made a
mistake by cr.ticising the Republicans
of the Ninth when it ought to have re-
buked the ill-mannered ruffian men and
coarse women that espouse the cause of
Democracy, the cause of B. Jan and
Byars.
And the News Leader ought to recall
the recent treatment which one of the
honored citizens of Richmond. VIM. L.
Royal, received at the hands of Bryau
followers when he tried to speak in the
auditorium of the jefferson Hotel. He
had rented the hall to speak against
Mr.. Bryan, but the Bryan Democrats
were in attendance and SO disorderly
that he could not do his work intelli.
gently.
Pull the beam out of your ow Il eye
Mr.. News Leader, before you becom.
so frantic over the mote which you as
sumo to see in the eyes of Republican
citizens of Wise county.