Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-07-14

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Danville Register said:
''Oh, but they will tell US that was a
question of white domination. But this
was not fact. The result in the Fifth
District was not dependent upon Stokes
land precinct, and every negro vote
stolen there was equivalent to a white
vote IN Floyd and Grayson. 1t was the
determination to elect a Democratic
representative in Congress. just as was
the case in the Ninth District when
some of MIR. Rhea's followers sought to
take technical advantage of every op-
portunity."
Your own associates and partners in
crime, who were temporarily provoked
with your infdelity, but who are now
marching with you under the same Ma
chine banner, sneered at your profess
sions of reform and pronounced your
plea of justification fake.
And now the Roanoke Times is trying
to use the same kind of appeals that the
Democrats employed during their TWEEN
ty-year period of crime in Virginia,
when they stole, forged, perjured them
selves and lied about it, not to protect
themselves from threatened negro DOM
nation, but that they might get the Of
fees and hold political dominance in the
State. And for arousing the prejudices
of the white men in the Ninth district
against the Republican party and to
help the waning cause of its candidate,
the Roanoke Times has dipped its pen
in the same filthy inkpot that was used
by the Democratic newspapers during
the period of crime that the confession
of its editor so deplores. Here are a
few of the choice sentences that are
written with the fluid from that old
Democratic inkpot:
Refusal to submit humbly to black
heels on white necks in the eyes of the
Tazewen Republican is the unpardon-
able sin.
cit appears that every time the Re-
publican thinks of the loss of those dear
so, 900 and odd negro votes which were
such sure and solid asset for the re-
publican party in Virginia it falls into a
fury and writhes and squirms like fat
wood yard worm going on the hook
1t required very much "bedraggled
and besmutted imagination" to produce
this last above quoted paragraph. And
it evidences a lack of mental poise that
is alarming to those ourselves among
the number) who have so greatly ad-
mired the brilliant productions of the
editor of the Times. Just think of the
Stiffness of the proposition that the Re-
publican is IL writing fury because
of the loss of those dear so, 900 and odd
negro voters which were such a sure
and solid asset for the Republican party
in Virginia The humiliating confession
Of the editor of the Times, and which he
reaffirms, had proved that those dear
so, 900 negro voters" were for twenty
years stolen asset of Virginia Democ-
racy and would be so still if the Demo
Gratis had not decided, from wise party
policy, to destroy the asset. And it is
not improper to here inquire, what made
you destroy your stolen asset? Was ii
caused by a flashing conscience or an
honest desire for reformation, or was
it caused by guilty apprehension that
your party crimes would soon be met
with the punishment they deserved
the fear that you Democrats might &c
once too often to the we'll with your
pitcher?
With the publication of that "confes-
sion," the Tazewell Republican also
disputed the claim that even now in
Virginia under what is called reformed
Democratic rule we have honest cleo
ton methods and honest politics. We
pointed the Times to various instances
in which the Democrats had stolen from
each other and to two instances where
the Republicans have been robbed. The
Times has made no denial of our charges
| except one of them Therefore ua are
warranted in taking them as confessed
to be true. The one which the Times
says is not so, is the charge that at the
Democratic primary last year Harry
Tucker and ]. Thompson Brown were
cheated out of the nominations for Gov
ernor and Commissioner of Agriculture,
respectively. The Times in its denial
of the one charge says:
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