Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-07-29
ELUSIVE AND DELUSIVE,

ELUSIVE AND DELUSIVE.
Our esteemed contemporary, The
Richmond News Leader, is nearly al
ways bright and generally very strong
In its editorial work. But recently.
since it began to set traps to have itself
caught in, it has frequently been cloudy
and anything but strong in presenting
Its views editorially. In no instance
has this been more strikingly true than
in its response to our remarks upon its
recent editorial: 1.-The Machine Trick
sters. 1t will be remembered that in
that editorial The News Leader rebuked
correspondent, wv. C. j., ," for speak
ing of the Democratic machine in Vir-
ginia as "a gang of political tricksters. -
and said:
Certainly the great majority of the
men prominently identified with what is
called the machine appear to be very
respectable citizens. We cannot recall
that any of them have tricked anybody
or stolen anything"
We called the attention of The News
Leader to the testimony it had given
about two years ago, when speaking of
the Democratic organization and party
previous to the new constitution. it
said:
I'VE took reckless young country fell
lows, or broken down men with no char
acter to lose, or coarse ward and pre-
cinct workers eager for jobs, and let
them do the perjury, the stealing and
smuggling for US. We created and hired
our rascals.''
And we asked our Richmond contem-
porary who constituted the I'VE" that
did these things? We inquired if the
same men were not controlling the
State organization now that controlled
it then; if the same men who consti-
tuted the machine then do not prac-
tically constitute the machine now.
But our contemporary, instead of
answering our questions directly, be-
comes elusive and delusive. In another
editorial headed Machine Tricksters. -
published on the 2lst instant, The News
Leader pleads the statute of limita-
lions against the crimes of its party,
which it had formerly so frankly and
graphically portrayed; and then tried to
evade the issue by inviting our atten-
ton to what it calls "the real machine
tricksters of this day and time in Vir-
GINA" The real machine tricksters.
according to the professed faith of our
contemporary, are DR.. S. J. Hoffman
and ". W. Logan, of Shenandoah coun-
ty, two Republicans, who have been
quarreling over local Federal patronage
and have said some hard things about
each other in the public print. This is
WIG WCoh PAOOA LLldI Inc IN0WS Leader
offers TO escape from the hole it had got
ten into by contradicting the charge of
its well-informed correspondent, "W. C.
j., and the sustaining evidence we had
furnished in support of the charge. This
effort on the part of The News Leader
is about as substantial as is Judge
Mann's explanation of his letters to
General Malone.
In its plea of limitations The News
Leader says The TazewelI Republican:
Quotes the Hon. Carter Glass, in
1900, denouncing the Democratic party
leaders as political brigands;' the Dan
vile Register as recalling and endorsing
election frauds committed by the Dem
ocrats prior to the constitutional con-
vention and The News Leader as con-
Tossing that such frauds existed and de-
nouncing them then. These things &C.
CURED in the eighties"
You are mistaken, not in the eighties.
1t was the discussion of the frauds COM