Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-06-24
THURSDAY. JUNE "a, 1909.
SANE OLD CANE.


The Lynchburg News has been smarting
under the criticisms made by orthodox
Democrats against Mr.. Glass, Senator
Daniel and other Democrats in Congress
who have voted for protective duties on
lumber, iron ore and other raw materi-
ais. The News is evidently afraid of
this continued criticism, and it has been
trying to divert the critical attention of
the Virginia Democracy from the recall
citrants, whose cause the News has so
earnestly espoused, by directing atten-
ton once again to the negro question.
In recent issue, under the head: THE
Virginia Campaign" the News turned
itself loose in a very unbecoming style,
with the evident intention of arousing
the passions of the white voters in the
State along other lines than those on
which they have lately been moving.
The News says:
The history of Virginia since Ma
hone lost his grip upon her affairs. has
been history of steady progressed
rapid educational development; of eco
nomically administered government; of
aid and encouragement to public roads
of unquestioned white man supremacy
IN all departments of government; of
race separation; of negro disfranchise-
ment- A prosperous people-a happy
people-a vigorous advancing Common
wealth-all these things can be said of
Virginians and Virginia at the present
time. Would this have been so, had
the Republican party held power?
Would that organization have shown
the wisdom exemplifed by Democracy
IN managing the fiscal affairs of the
State? Would it have scored anything
like the measure of success attained by
the Democratic party, in developing the
public school system? Would It have
been able to force a % cent straight
mileage rate and 2-cent mileage book
rate from the railroad companies?
Would it have instituted the Corpora
ton Commission
The motive of such an article as this
must be plain. 1t is not the first time
the owner of the News and the present
editor of that paper have resorted to
such means for arousing the passions of
their readers. Can it be that intelli-
gent Virginians will be favorably i'm
pressed with such arguments as these?
AS to the ability of the Republican
party to do good things for Virginia, his
tory has recorded some striking inst
ances- But for the public school sys-
tenn, inaugurated by the Republicans,
would we have such rapid educational
development? There was time when
the Virginia Democrats were either hos
tile or thoroughly Indifferent to the well
fare of the public free schools. Even
Senator Daniel declared in 1879 that he
would rather see every free school house
In Virginia burned than to see the State
refuse to pay any part of the public
debt, whose payment the Democrats
now pretend to be so anxious to avoid.
About the time Senator Daniel made
that declaration the schools were being
ruined by diversion of the funds intend
ed for their support. The Republicans
rescued the public schools from threat
ened destruction, and the Democrats
have ever since been claiming to be the
founders and protectors of the schools.
Talk about race separation, if you
please. The Democrats had made mixed
schools by putting white teachers in
charge of negro schools in Lynchburg
and other places in the State. The Re-
publicans in 1882 unmixed the schools
by removing white teachers from the
negro schools. The Democrats made
great howl against the Republicans for
that act, and none howled louder than
the Lynchburg News.
But the Lynchburg News claims great
credit for the Acknowledgement of the
negroes. How has that been accom-
plished? By systematic deception on
1he part of the Democrats, in the prac-
tice of which Mr.. Glass was one of the
chief actors. This Acknowledgement of
the negro has brought on the disfran-
chisement of about half the white men
in the State, and placed the State in
the hands of an oligarchy that rules
with an iron hand. The people of the
Commonwealth may be prosperous, but