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

officers, in their own way, and impose
upon them duties which these officers
have been faithful to perform"
This statement is so glaringly false
that it is sufficient to seriously impeach
the authenticity of every other declara-
ton he makes. The nearly thirty thous-
and men who voted for Mr.. Tucker at
the primary and every newspaper that
supported him knows that the state
ment is untruthful.
Then Judge Mann said
When the Democratic party took
charge of the State government twenty
five years ago our funded debt was
S45, 7lS, 1929. During Governor Nc
hinney's administration this amount
was reduced by agreement between the
State and its creditors to $29, S25, O24.
"a"
Here is dishonest effort to give the
Democrats credit for a reduction of the
State debt and its settlement with the
creditors. Everybody knows that the
reduction was made by the Riddleber-
ger Bill which was passed by the Re-
publlcans and Readjusters-the Ma
honeites-and the passage of which was
opposed by the solid Democratic mem
bership of the Virginia Legislature.
Judge Mann certainly ought to known
this, as he was about that time writing
to General Malone, having always
supported you because deemed it for
the best interests of the State, l shall
continue to do so.''
Judge Mann tries to rally the farmers
to his standard by proclaiming that
the State under Democratic admins
trstion has been looking after the inter
ests of the farmers, citing in proof
"Our Agricultural Department; the
Agricultural and Mechanical College at
Blacksburg and the Experiment Sta
tion.''
Why didn't he tell the people that the
light had been partially turned on the
Agricultural Department, and that in
competence, neglect, corruption, false
accounting, had been exposed? Yet the
Machine has chosen the man as its can
didate under whose administration all
this occurred. Why didn't he tell that
the Agricultural College and the Expe-
riment Station had been in such a state
of turmoil and contention as to practi-
cally destroy all opportunity for useful
ness?
And Judge Mann makes great spread
about what his party has done for the
public schools. He says:
E 1--WE have improved our primary
9 schools. During the past foul
years instead of spending our money
in fine Office furniture we have in
creased the average salaries of white
e male teachers from SAP 81 to $50 20
5 white female teachers from S29. SO t
} S39 u. During the same time white
children enrolled have increased from
25l, 7l3 to PIP, 1872; colored from ITO, is:
to ll6, OBS"
= The Judge might have truthfully tolC
=. that the public free schools were intro
duced in Virginia by the Republican
D, over the protest of the Democrats; an
that the Republicans in 1879 and 1sS
rescued the free schools from destruc
ton at the hands of the Virginia De
! mocracy. But the Democrats hav
been administering the schools for tn
past twenty-five years, and we will lie
the present Superintendent of Instruc
ton tell what great progress has bee
. made. In his last report he said:
,. 1T IS worthy of serious attention tina
more than 1900 county school lots ar
only one-half acre or less in size and
lie Is equally a matter of the gravest cor
lie Germ that only 168 school houses tout @
IS l772) have modern provisions for yer
tilation.
1t must be apparent that one of GU
" weakest points is the matter of teach
" ears salaries"
' The Democrats boast that the Stat
e school funds are twice as large as fou
years ago. The salary of the Stat
u Superintendent of Public Instructio
y has been increased nearly 100 per cent
u and his clerks from forty to seventy
five per cent. What increase has bee
u made in the salaries of teachers? Tn
! State Superintendent says:
There are white teachers in Virgini