Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-07-22

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Mann in the coming Democratic PR
mary. And the papers that have no,
been in sympathy with Judge Mann
candidacy have taken precisely the CD
posite view. Some few of the Demo.
cratic journals, the Richmond Times.
Dispatch. the Lynchburg News anc
others, perhaps, have declined to dis.
cuss the question editorially. The 81.
ience of these papers is unaccountable,
unless we are warranted in inferrinQ
that they apprehend that Judge Mann
will be the nominee for Governor: and
they do not wish to be put in the awk-
ward position of having to support q
candidate whose integrity they have SC
very recently questioned.
However. in discussing the matter of
these letters very few, if any, of the
Democratic papers seem to have OBJ
served the real vice which they disclose.
Some of them assume that the sin con-
| sisted in the fact that Judge Mann WAS
IN lS79-sO secretly giving personal and
political support to General Malone. at
time when he was struggling to crush
the Democratic party in Virginia. This
they regard as crime.
There was nothing wrong in Judge
mann's personal and political support
OF General Malone from a moral
standpoint. The General was a much
better man than most of thosee who
decried him in the days when the
Democratic party was rent in twain by
the public debt question. He did moth
ing then to advance the Readiuster
cause that the Funders were not ready
and willing to do for the benefit of their
cause. If he sought the aid of negroes
and Republicans, so did John W. Daniel
and the other leaders of the Funder
Democracy. The cry which these latter
afterwards set up. that Malone and his
followings were striving to place Vir-
ginia under negro rule, was false then
and is false now. So, Judge Mann
could in 1879, in 1880 and in 1881 have
sincerely tied himself to Malone politi-
cally as well as personally without in
any way impairing his, Mann's, claim
to good citizenship. But this he could
not have done without cutting himself
off from the Democratic party as it was
then constituted in Virginia or as it is
constituted now.
Judge Mann's party friends are just
as far from the truth when they assert
that the letters to General Malone from
Judge Mann disclose nothing that re.
fleets upon Mann's personal and politi.
cal integrity. These letters show that
Judge Mann has been suppressing the
truth as to his political connection with
Malone, and that he has been procur.
ing others to assist him in this disbon.
orable effort. He had repeatedly de.
clared that he had not sought the Judge.
snip OF Nottoway county from Genera
Malone and the Readjusters; and he
had, just before the publication of these
damaging letters. gotten Mr.. Smith. nov
treasurer of Lunenburg county, to write
and publish letter in support of his
avowments. His letters to Genera
Malone, written in 1879 and 1880, show
that he has been suppressing the truth
In fact, in plain language, had beer
lying about the matter. Now, this /.
the vice of which Mann is proven guilty.
If his declaration, that he had not fol.
lowed Malone and had not sought the
Judgeship of Nottoway county, was oc
casioned by faulty memory, is he moi
mentally disqualified to be Governors
II the statements were made for the
purpose of concealing the truth, he is
morally unfit for any position of homo,
or trust. Guilty of duphcity to both
Malone and the Democracy, he now
stands convicted by himself and his OWE
witnesses of untruthfulness. Shall such
man be made Governor of Virginia?
Victim Of Stage Fright