Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-04-14
STILL HARPING ON THE NEGRO.

ANhtt INV Wv iIE WLOUUa
Recently the Roanoke Times has been
repeatedly charging that the Republi-
cans of the Ninth District have been ap-
pealing to the prejudices and ignorance
OF the white voters of the district.
From the way the Times is making it's
tight for Mr.. Stuart, it is plain that it
considers the electorate of the district
stepped in ignorance and prejudice. No
other reason or excuse can be offered
for the inexcusable folly of the Times,
which continues its efforts to inject the
negro question into the present cam
paign in the Ninth.
The Times charges that it is the pur-
pose of Mr.. Slemp and the white Re-
pubicans of Virginia, if they get con-
troll of the State, to re-enfranchise that
element of the negro citizens that has
been DISTINGUISHED by the new constitu-
ton. This charge is both unreasonable
and untrue. Does the Times think the
Virginia Republicans of the mountains
would be guilty of the folly of placing
the negroes of Eastern Virginia on the
registration books again to have their
votes stolen by the Democrats and
counted against the white Republican
votes of the mountains? We have had
repeated admissions from the editor of
the Roanoke Times that in former years
the negro votes were stolen, and that
the Democrats committed all kinds of
crimes along with the stealing. The
white Republicans would prefer to re-
main minority party in Virginia, rath-
er than risk a return to the awful condi-
lions that prevailed when the Demo-
Gratis made false apprehension of
threatened negro supremacy pretext
for every known crime against the bal
lot box.
The most recent effort of the Roam
oke Times to arouse the passions of the
white voters of the Ninth is contained
IN an editorial of the 18th inst, headed
''Tekel." In that editorial we find the
following:
As we understand, the practical net
results of Mr.. Slemp's leadership and
management of the Republican party in
Virginia through four years are his own
election to congress and the capture for
Mr.. Kent for governor of Norfolk coun-
ty. That county VIGOROUSLY is the rot
tenest borough in the State. 1t is the
home of the fusion and division of of
tlces between the Democrats and the
Republicans. 1t is the place of the last
living relic of Republican power in Vir-
ginia based on the negro vote.
How do the white Republicans of
the Ninth district, the great white mem
district of Virginia, like the alliance and
association? How do the clean
blooded, pure strain, self-respecting
white men in the mountains relish the
association? How do they like being
brought by Mr.. Slemp into political
companionship and fellowship with this
ill-favored and pestilential political bor
ough on the coast with its strongly or
ganized negro vote?''
The Roanoke Times knows full well
that the backbone, the creator and pro-
tector of the rotten political fusion in
Norfolk county is the Virginia Demo
cratic Machine. The Times has been
and is now in full fellowship with this
Machine, and Mr.. Stuart is its candi-
date for Congress in the Ninth District.
The Times had better ask itself and the
Machine Democrats how it and they
relish the utilization and association be-
fore it puts the question again to the
white Republicans of the Ninth.