The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-30
UNITE TO FIGHT
COMMON ENEM Y
Former Party Workers Aroused
and Join in Efforts to Redeem
Nintll-Majority Depends on
Success in Getting Vote
out-Republicans
Scared.
ny ALEXANDER FORWARD,
Srecini Correspondent of The Times.
Dispntch.

Dispntch
Bristol. Va, March 2s.-Possibly the
most striking result In Brlstol of the
nomination for Congress OF Henry c.
stuart is the elimination of factional-
fsni. This Is true not only of this
city, but OF all the tier of counties ~.
ing from New River to the Tennessee
line, which I have visited during the
past few days. But 1t Is the more
noticeable here for local reasons
One might easily think that during
the past thirty days tho party has
lost many adherents. for there are no
Rhea Democrats here to-day: there
are no Martin Democrats. or Swanson
Democrats. or Montague Democrats. or
Willard Democrats they are all stuart
Democrats.
All feeling and prejudice as between
factions has disappeared and has been
lost sight OF in the presence OF the
common enemy. Judge Rhea's friends
ana supporters, composing the bulk of
the Democrats of Bristol, are working
tically as Mr.. stuart could hope for.
Organization men at every point are
thoroughly IN line Nobody Is snIking
In his tent. Everybody is on the
job.
BESIDES said Rhca Democrat
yesterday. YOU never saw a Rhea
Democrat sulklng" Which. when o.e
comes TO think about Il. is true a
young professional man. formerly IN
active party worker, but for years an
pniooker. and 4 nere voter, told nae
to-day that when he walked out OF
lie convention hall after Stuart's
nomination. he felt all the old thrill
of the days when the Democrats weat
into battle 10 win. He was ready, he
said. to do what lie has done FOR years,
give his time and mis- talent TO the
cause,
Confident of Majority
City Chairman II. c. Peters has
every confidence in the ability of the
party 10 give Mr.. Stuart a heavy ma
tority. Republicanism IN Bristol, as in
Richmond, is mostly a negligible
quantity. The size of the Democratic
majority depends on the efforts to ge.
the vote out. 1t Will be gotten out
in November
Having read what / have had to
say about the Democratic spirit, one
might be tempted 10 ask what the Re-
publicans think about 1t. 1t would
be asking too much OF human nature
TO expect a leading Republican TO ad
nit tile possibility of Mr.. semps de-
feat. But IL requires no degree OF 4
mind reading to discover that they
are scared sick.
Of ba
emanatng from Republican sources
would make pleasing addition to the
columns of a humorous journal A
circular letter mailed by a county
chairman Is case in point. In this |
valuable document, the dear voter"
is informed that ALREADY the Demo
Gratis In their usual prediction style, !
and eight months before the election
are boasting they will elect him (Mr. !
StuarD. Let no Republican be deceived
by such idle boasts.
Further on. IN the same cpistle, the |
voter Is Urged to work for the sue
cess OF our brilliant young ongress-
man. He deserves 1t, and we hope
you will lend US all possible aid"
In the very beginning this chair
man says that The approaching Con-
Eressional election viii be one Of the
hottest and most vigorous ever wased |
in tho district
1t would seem that the voter receiv-
ing a copy OF this production would !
be tempted TO mark these sentences
and return them with A request for a
diagram,
Trying to Scare voterr.
Soaring the citizen with predictions
of what the Democratic party Is GO
ing ito do in the way Of disfrarchise-
ment is again being worked. To do
this a. statement is made In the cir
cular referred to, which is, to say the
least, somewhat misleading, 1t is
there stated that "In addition to COM
plex provisions of the Constitution,
that voters now have to comply with
In order to vote, this same Constitu-
tion also provides that the General
Assembly may impose on each votor a
proper qualification Of not over $3.50 |
How soon this will be done we can
not say"
OF course the real purport of the
SECTION referred to is not given. The
inference is that such qualification |
would control all elections. AS a mat |
ter of fact any one may SEQ for |
himself, that It would be made TO gov
ern only county elections, and could I
apply to no other offices.
"You. or your kinsman or friend"
pursues this strange and highly states
document, may be the next
one to be disfranchised, or be prose
cuted by Democratic Commonwealth |
Attorney, when you honestly try to
quality yourself to vote.''
The state of mind In which the
Republican party OF the Ninth finds |
Itself as a. result of Mr.. Stuart's nomi- I
nation Is clearly Indicated by these
experts. 1t Is conaidered necessary to
arouse all sort OF prejudice against the |
in his part of which Mr.. /
stuart wrote his name high in the his
kory of the Commonwealth.
But, above all, there is absolute /
necessity for a campaign Of educa-
tion. Such campaign is being plan
ped and will be the. centre OF po