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

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The ardent admirers and supporters
of the Democratic candidate for Con-
gress In the Ninth District have been
very boastful of his attachments and
record in various professions and occu-
pations. But we have heard nothing
from them in praise of his skill and per-
formances as medicine" man. Pos
sibly this is one occupation that he fol-
lowed but for a short while and with
such disastrous success that the Demo-
Gratis would fain have it forgotten.
In his speech delivered at Lebanon
in May, 1902, we learn from the Leba-
non News that Doctor Stuart presented
theory about the suffrage question
and its proper treatment. Here is
what the News reported the Doctor as
saying:
THE suffrage question, he said, was
grave and intricate one, and the man
who thought he could solve it before
breakfast was badly mistaken. On this
question the convention, on assembling,
found itself composed Of the represen-
tatives of two great divisions of the
State-the one composed almost wholly
Of the Anglo-SaxoD, the other threat
ened with negro domination.
"A medicine that would cure the
sick man. would kill the well man.
and as both must have the same
prescription, the question was to the
sick man, how weak will it cure YOU.
and to the we'll man, how strong can
you stand it? Confronted, he said with
these conditions, and with the fifteenth
amendment staring them in the face,
the suffrage plan adopted was necessa-
rlly one of concession and compromise
He declared, however, that would it be
effective, and that under its provisions,
which he fully explained, NO WHITE
MAN WOULD BE DISFRAN-
CHISED."
This profound diagnosis of the case
was announced by Doctor Stuart, ac-
panied with the declaration that an eff
fective medicine" had been com
pounded, which was to be administered
to the well man and the sick man in
equal proportions, though "a medicine
that would cure the sick man would kill
the well man." This sounds rather
paradoxical and borders on ignorant
quackery. The results that have come
from administering Doctor Stuart's
medicine have been such as to warrant
the conviction that his medicine was a
veritable elixer of life to the sick man
and death potion. Knockout drops to
the well man. We would like to ask
what sense or reason there was for
giving a we'll man medicine that would
kill him? Certainly none other can be
offered than that the vitality and vigor
of the well man might possibly be
transferred to the sick man by a newly
method of transferring or
transfusing political power.
Doctor Stuart, you were powerfully
fooled by those so-called sick fellows
down East, or you practiced serious
deception upon the well men in your
own district. You allowed slick politi-
clans, not sick men, to supply you with
a formula by which you compounded
medicine" Your supposed antidote
to the poison, the understanding
clause" was the deadliest drug in the
But you administered |
powerful antidote to the sick man down
East, by using the modern discovery of |
You transferred or trans
fused into the body of the sick man the
immense political power of the negro !
electorate you helped to kill. This was
done by adopting into the constitution |