Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-09-30
DEMOCRATIC SPEAKERS IN ABUNDANCE,
Democratic Papers Say There are Many
Things to Be Explained by Them,

There are to be speakers in abun-
dance, we are told to carry the good
tidings of militant Democracy to the
people during the present campaign.
Let them come, they are needed here:
they may be needed in other parts of
the State. There is great deal to ex-
plain, and it will take silver-tongues
and persuasive oratory to put things
right, to interpret all of the riddles.
There is no objection to the seeming
vastness of the vote cast in the pri-
mary. Seventy-fve thousand or there
about of good, loyal Democrats going
to the polls and exercising their right
of suffrage, that almost divine right,
is very comforting. But just how the
newspapers got the figures so mislead-
ing and so small when they were really
so large, ought to be explained. Of
course 70, ,4S4 votes is correct, because
those figures were verified and laid be-
fore the country by the State Demo-
cratic Committee on Tuesday. the 3lst
day of August, nearly four weeks after
the election. Four weeks was certainly
long enough to work on them. The
figures crept in slowly, we ought not to
say stealthily, because that might re-
! fleet on the organization. But they
came like cripples from the field of bat
tie, like the halt, and the lame, and the
blind when summoned In one instance
a candidate had a large majority so far
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highways and byways came budgets of
ballots that changed the complexion of
affairs The candidate who at first
seemed to be elected by large major
ity, was making merry. He was sound
ing hosannas here, there and every
where; when 10! change came Ger the
spirit of his dreams, his trumpets were
silenced, and the horns on t'other hill
were heard. Then in rode the other
night, the real victor. 1t is needless to
say that had the result been promptly
announced there would have been no
complaint. But when those in charge
permitted such delays, the delays told
on those at the head of the affair, those
whose entertainment it was. The
friends of the defeated candidate in this
case are displeased, they may sulk in
their tents, they have some reason to.
But whilst this individual case has given
umbrage to many, it is not the real
cause of trouble, but only tends to ac-
centuate the troubles of the head of the
ticket. AS the drops make the ocean,
so do the sands of discord make the
mountain of difficulties now facing the
organization. Four more years may
the present oligarchy pull the wool over
the eyes of the people of Virginia. Four
more years may they hold the throttle
and drive the steam roller. At the end
of that time, if not before, there will
be change. The change will not be of
principles, but Of leaders. No State
can become the private property of a
few politicians and long remain so.
Pennsylvania was held in the hands of
the Camerons for a while. Rhode
Island is now the individual possession
of Aldrich. But Pennsylvania was
shaken from the Cameron grasp. Rhode
Island will be knocked out of Aldrich 8,
just as Virginia will be freed from the
junta who draw their substance from
the loins of her people.-Staunton Spec
tator (Democrat.)