Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-09-30

what excuse its party can offer for de-
ceiving the people by telling them that
the new constitution was made to re-
duce the expenses of the State Govern
ment and reduce the army of office
holders. Reasonable people are not go
ing TO be humbugged by all that talk
about progressive government
Then we made an item of the States
expenditures for educational purposes;
and showed that the appropriations for
the common free schools in 1908 amount
ed to only S475, 900 while the appropria-
tons for the universities and colleges
were $42S, $50.
We asked the News Leader then and
We ask it now if that is the proper way
to distribute the common school funds?
Another item to which we called at
tention was the cost of publishing the
amendments to the constitution, now
running in daily paper in each city in
Virginia Why the necessity for pub
fishing these amendments in that costly
way? Who had the authority to do it
and who gave that authority? And why
was it that the News Leader was given
six hundred dollars more to do the work
than the Richmond Journal offered to
do it for?
In our second bill of particulars we
showed where a job had been put up at
the last session of the Legislature by
enlarging the fees of county and city
clerks for certifying the poll tax lists,
and increasing the annual costs of this
work, possibly, to the extent of fifty
thousand dollars. But the wasteful ex-
penditure of fifty thousand dollars of
the tax payers money is very trivial
matter when they are blessed with pro-
gresslve Machine rule, and that fifty
) thousand dollars goes largely into the
! pockets of men who speak the lam
, guage of the tribe
Our Richmond contemporary becomes
indignant because Republicans object
, to the wasteful expenditure of thirty
thousand dollars for military displays
and public entertainments at the James.
town Exposition, which sum was large.
ly used by Governor Swanson in ex.
= hibiting and advertising himself. Oul
= contemporary says:
And because Governor swanson at
tended at the Exposition tn represent
the State, IS was his duty, he is de
nounced and derided by this Republican
- paper. Because ne wore clothes appro
pirate for gentleman and the occasion
he is described as arraying himself I'll
peacock regalia' and 'strutting' befor,
: our guests. Presumably, The Republi
f can thinks he should have neglected tn,
q Exposition and affronted the visitors b,
Ignoring them or should have met then
wearing hickory shirt, no collar, anC
his trousers supported by one cottor
: gallus fastened with a horseshoe nail. >
Our contemporary should remembel
that fine clothes do not make fine gen
' tlemen. A stovepipe hat may adorn
" head that is filled with vain and wicket
{ brain; dress coat may cover hear
II that Is evil; Partisan kid glove ma,
encase hand that is treacherous ant
unclean, and patent leather shoe MAJ
encompass a cloven hoof A lofty, gen
erous brain, pure heart, clean hands
IL and feet that are always ready to treaC
'e the paths of honor and integrity are tn,
things that make true gentleman-an
- such a man may be clothed in a hickor,
Al shirt and cotton galluses. This SHOULD
, be the spirit of modern Virginia. Wa
Is Governor Swanson more of a gentleman
In his fine clothes at the Exposition thai
lie he was as rustic youth when he tro,
the hills of Pittsylvania, dressed in
: hickory shirt and cotton galluses? Tn,
/ common people will not think so
in nor will they agree with the New,
E Leader that it was right to spend THIRTY
70 thousand dollars of the public revenu,
. to make him SO.
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