Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-06-30

for period covering the twenty years
preceding the PRONUNCIATION Of the new
constitution? That man is the brilliant
editor of the Roanoke Times. How does
his confession. made a little over two
years ago, comport with his recent
avowal: Where we have Democratic
States and Democratic rule we rid our
selves Of election rascalities, of fraud
and trickery?"
As we have previously stated. the
Roanoke Times offers q plea of limita-
ton against all the crimes of its party
in Virginia, and especially against the
Infamous Scott County Ballot. But, if
ten years did create a limitation, still
the plea would not be sufficient. The
Scott County Ballot crime was revived
and Reimbursed by the Virginia Democ-
racy two years ago when it was intro
duced at the investigation of the fitness
of VIM. F. Rhea to be made a member
OF the State Corporation Commission.
Rhea was confirmed, though he was the
willing beneficiary of the Scott County
Ballot and though a similar ballot had
been used at the same election in his
own city, Bristol. And the infamous
Scott County Ballot has since been APP
proved by the Virginia Democracy,
through the appointment of the author
of that ballot as Superintendent of
Schools for Scott county, and his recent
appointment as a member of the Board
of Visitors of William and Mary College.
But the Roanoke Times files with its
plea of confession and avoidance and of
limitation another plea. This addition
al plea asserts that the Virginia Democ-
racy have reformed since the new con-
sttution was in put in operation. Let's
see about this. About the time the ed
itor of the Roanoke Times, then the ed
itor of the Richmond News Leader. was
making the awful confession as to the
sins of the Virginia Democracy, a dis
tinguished Democrat of Southside Vir-
GINA wrote the following to the Rich
mond Times Dispatch:
rs the Democratic party in favor of
honest elections or not? For the fourth
time an act looking to the accomplish
ment of this lsudsble and necessary re-
suit has been defeated by the old-time
politicians, who have turned their at
tention from packing and dominating
political conventions to manipulating
our present farcical, loose and illegal
primaries. These patriotic gentlemen
who stuffed the ballot box to keep the
American gentleman of African de-
scent out of the saddle are still at the
old stand doing business.
In other words, the "old-time politi-
clans are still controlling elections; and,
as the supposed necessity for stealing
from Republicans has been removed.
they are now engaged in the more de-
lectable occupation of stealing from
each other. This has been made mani
fest by the repeated efforts of the anti
machine Democrats to have safe
guards" placed about the primary law.
1t has also been proved by numbers of
actual frauds committed at Democratic
primaries in Richmond, in Norfolk, in
Roanoke, and throughout the State gen.
orally in the Democratic primary last
year. when j. Thompson Brown was
counted out for Commissioner of Agri-
culture and, according to the belief of
many, Harry Tucker was robbed of the
nomination for Governor. It has been
asserted, and never denied, that one
thousand or more illegal votes were
cast at that primary in the city of Nor
folk. Only recently two judges who
helped to hold the primary in Fsuquier
county appeared before a magistrate
and confessed that they had stolen the
nomination for the House of Delegates
from the Hon. Moses Green who had
represented that county for years in the
Legislature. The Roanoke Times pub
ished the press report of the confession
of this crime in an obscure corner of
he paper, and did not give line of ed |
torial criticism thereon. If any of the |
Democratic papers had a word of con-
we failed to see it.
The Democrats have not only been
heating each other but they have rob-