Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-01-20
WELCOME TO IKE FRAY.

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~ Mr.. Alfred B. Williams, formerly
,ditor of the Richmond News Leader.
has aroused much interest in the Jour
nalistic field. At this we are not sur
prised. he is most agreeable gentle
man and an unusually brilliant and in
seresting writer. He says and writes
What ne thinks, and though his thoughts
ire not always right they are so ex-
pressed as to amuse and entertain,
1ather than to anger. When he thrusts
lis sharp sword at an adversary he al
ways has it oiled with healing ONT
Inent, SO, that if a wound is inflicted it,
will, perhaps, cause pain, but not kill.
Of course everybody who knows him
likes such man. We do.
Whatever may be the reasons for the
purchase of the Roanoke Times by Mr..
Williams and his associates, one signifi-
cant purpose has already been disclosed
in its editorial work-that is the defeat
of the Republican party in the Ninth
Congressional District While the new
editor Of the Times is a shrewd and
torceful writer, he is assuming task
that other strong men have undertaken
TO perform and in which they have in
Ploriously failed. We remember that
Mr. Williams, while editing the News
Leader, was constant in his admonitions
D the Democrats of this district. One
IF his favorite themes was ISLAM
Temp" Now that he is nearer the
i,ene, he has already begun to lift up
ris voice in behalf of the Democracy of
the Ninth and hurl his javelins at the
epublicsns. But after the battle is
'Ter next November our esteemed con-
i-mporary will be informed by the once
gam defeated Democracy that he may
IL them how it ought to be done, but
oat they can't do it. The Times had
n its leading editorial on Sunday:
Now For The Ninth" And here il
art of what was said:
THE brave and faithful Democrats
q the Ninth Virginia district will make
mother fight this year. They act wise
= in beginning early.
Roanoke people proudly say that
i-oanoke is the gateway and the me-
tfopOlis of the Southwest, most of
which is in the Ninth district. FIVE
Expect the people of that district to be
close to US we must get close to them.
II we would have them our friends we
must prove that we are their friends IN
their time of need. They have no cam
.aign fund from which to draw, no of
flee holders to assess for the money to
employ canvassers and workers and to
pay the expenses of speakers and Or
ganization- The individual work.
ing Democrats of the Ninth will be call
ed on to go into their own pockets to
give them fair hope for victory in the
fight they will make for the State and
PARTY"
This editorial is closed with an appeal
IL Democrats in the district to heal all
f1ctional differences, and pledges that
tie Roanoke Times will give to that end
ell its influence and ability. The people
OF the Ninth have 30 frequently in the
1st heard these things from the Times
and other Democratic newspapers that
they have become familiar acquaint-
ances- Such remarks may inspire the
Democratic leaders and heelers of the
Ninth with new hope, and it may in
crease the circulation of the Times, but
the Republicans will be only aroused
and made more resolute. In business
way it will do Roanoke no good, neither
will it help the Times in the end.
What the Times is now calling upon
the people of Roanoke and other parts
of the State to do is merely a repetition
of what was said and done when r, P.
Bruce ran for Congress, and also when
Cloyd Byars was induced to be made a
sacrifice. When Bruce was nominated
at Bristol the sly old fox who manages
tie Democratic party was present and
to the affiuent Democrats of |
hss district to put up their cash, and said
every dollar they gave be would see
at another dollar was furnished from
J eastern part of the State. Thous-
gis Of dollars were given by enthusi-
tic gentlemen who were anxious to
t with their cash, but it awaited
hing.