Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-10-28
Letter From Brunswick Counh.

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Mr.. EDITOR:
Alberta is at the junction of the Sea-
board Air Line with the new Virpinian
Railway, and is about nine miles from
Lawrenceville. IL is thought that there
will be town here some day, and there
Is talk of building railway from Law
renceville 20 this p 1T But Just at
present, our peopl, ,slS md dream of
I rothiug but Governors. aud are as much
exercised on the subj-c as the people
! OF England were about the Spanish
Armada. when they expected it to APP
pear off the Lizard" The advent of
Capt. VIM. P. Kent, the Republican
candidate, last week, added To the *
cltement. The old hide-bound ID mo-
Gratis imagined that because he was a
Republican, and not the choice of a pri-
mary. that he must necessarily be a
Mr. Nobody, but since hearing him
they've changed their minds. They
ind that he is every inch a man; with
charity for all and malice towards
none AS a veteran of the Spanish
war, he has worn the garb of a soldier.
and served beneath the banner of our
glorious "Old Fitz;" that banner which
like Henry's at Ivry, has always been
the orifiamme of war When the ''old
Confeds" knew this their hearts went
out to him at once.
| Capt. Kent and Mr.. S. H. Ho1e. of
Roanoke, reached Lawrenceville on the
18th inst. and on the 18th there was a
sort OF political tournament in the court
house. There were two Democratic
speakers present, ready and willing to
tell the people how they ought to vote,
viz: Judge S. w. Williams and Hon
F. r. Lassiter. A joint discussion was
finally agreed upon as follows: Capt.
Kent to open in an hour to be followed
by Judge Williams in an hour; then Mr..
Hoge for half hour and Mr.. Lassiter to
reply and close the discussion in half
hour. Our circuit court was in session.
but Judge West very kindly adjourned
bis court from IL a. m. to 2 D. M, to
give the speakers the use of the court
house.
This meeting had been extensively ad-
vertised by both parties, and when Can't.
Kent arose to open the discussion he
was greeted by an immense throng of
people who were anxious to see what
manner of man they might have as their
Governor after the first day of Febru-
airy, 1910. The Captain was Just a lit
tie hoarse and commenced with a era
clous apology for the note of his voice
AS his ailments are now matters of
public concern, beg leave to state that
nothing very serious is the matter with
his throat-only slight tonsillitis from
speaking out of doors-''sore throat. {"
as DR. 0. w. Holmes says, sounds al
together too commonplace in plain Eng
llsh. After the apology the speaker
proceeded to arraign the Democratic
party and their time serving candidate
for Governor. Ready to worship VIM.
Malone and his party whilst they were
In the majority, and now Just as ready
to rend his old associates because he
thinks the day of their destiny is over.
he then proceeded to read extracts
from Democratic journals all over the
State, more than sustaining his every
contention. Finally, in his peroration
he said: Now, fellow citizens, all this
and more, was endorsed at the polls by
more than 30, 900 Democrats who voted
for Mr.. Tucker" AS soon as Captain
Kent concluded his address he left i'm
mediately to catch train to fill other
engagements. He was followed bv
Judge Williams. candidate for Attorney
General. The Judge is an old cam
palgner and knows what will tickle the
boys IN these parts. He PLAYS onlv one
tune, but he plays it very well. All he
needs Is fiddle with one string and ON
that string he will make music with va
riations; the burden of his song was
niggerl niger! niggerl
But l must do the Judge the Justice
to say that he took his physic like a
man, and when Mr.. Hoge smashed his
violin into smithers, he did not even say
I've the pieces" But sat with his
hand to his jaw like a man with the
toothache, half way inclined to have it
out, but dreading the ordeal. Mr.. Ho0e
IN his reply said he had heard that
speech a few times before, but he pro-
posed to let the dead pest bury its
dead, under the new constitution the
negro is no longer factor in our poll
tics. He then read the following letter
from the Auditors office:
Richmond, Va, Sept. %, 1909.
MRS. Susan ]. Jones,
r: F. d. No. 2, Abingdon, Va.
| Dear Madam:
Replying to your letter of che 9th
inst, the reason why your claim can
not be allowed this year is because the
money to pay pensions has completely
given out long before your name was
reached. We have about 2, 500 in the
same fix as yourself.
Yours truly,
(SigneO S. M. O'BANNoN,
Pension Clerk.
They have doubled the salaries of
State officials in the past five wears
from SLY, 1888. 48 to 1914, 300. 76. They
have doubled the expenses of guarding
the Capitol from $40, 377. 81 to $40, $50. 7S.
and the same is true as to guarding the
penitentiary, from $27, sol. 40 to $780,
$50 O5; and for this reason they are not
in position to pay off old Confederate
soldiers. In other words, they have
been guilty of taking care of themselves
at the expense of old Confederate
soldiers.
The Republican platform with refer
ence to the Confederate veteran is as
follows:
We recognize the Confederate Vet
eran as the proper object of the States
tenderest regard. 1t is a debt due to