Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-05-13
The Second Stage

NoW tue uiSt part Ol TIE WOtk Oh
electing Henry G.. Stuart TO Congress
form the Ninth Virginia district and
defeating Mr.. Bascom Slemp has
been finished. Yesterday was the
last day for paying poll taxes TO vote
next November. Our Information is
that the work has been well done
The Democrats have applied more
system and energy than ever before
and have accomplished great results.
One of the best things they have &C.
complisehd is to prove that every
man can vote who will take the
trouble and use the foresight To earn
his vote. That fact itself knocks all
the life and meaning out of the Re
publican howl and the new State
constitution DISTINGUISHES white vo-
tiers.
The second part remains TO be
done. The Republicans are democrat
lied. The difference between the
jaunty confidence they try 10 assume
and the frantic appeals they have
been making and labor they have
been doing is evident TO all behold
ers. We think they know they are
beaten. They began their campaign
with the idea that the old parrot
like cries would be effective. They
found they we've mistaken. In the
Ninth district, as elsewhere in the
country, the people have learned
much from experience and observa-
ton. There, as in Massachusetts,
New York and other States they
have been voting the Republican
ticket because they believed what
was told and promised them. They
thought they were voting for
strong effective party which would
promote the prosperity of the coun-
try. They find themselves attached
to divided and helpless party, one
half of which is hitched To Wall
Street while the other half is in the
air. So they have determined quiet
" TO try a change. The Republican
leaders, perhaps do not realize this
feeling in Virginia any more than
they did i'm the three Congress dis
tricts in which special elections have
been held. In all of these they were
confident and talked To the night be-
fore election day of the usual majori-
ties II will be The same way here.
The people of the Ninth district
know that Henry Stuart is n proper
representative for them, that in Con-
gIess he will express the strength
and forward movement and character
and ability OF the district as he has
expressed them in every position i'm
which he has been tested. They have
seen Mr. Slemp voiceless figure,
unheard of outside his district follow
ing obediently the lead of the Can
non and Aldrich element, which the
thinking and progressive people OF
the country have repudiated. An ac-
tive campaign is needed To carry con-
viction TO many of these people who
are waVering, whose reason and in
clinations are one way and whose
voting habits and political associa-
tions are the other.
mat Is the kind OF campaign we
think the Democrats OF the district
intend TO give. They are solid and
thoroughly aroused. The old time
hope and enthusiasm have come
again. They will not be scared by
talk of bringing Mr.. Roosevelt or
any other Republicans in the dis
trict. They will welcome such visits
as evidence of how thoroughly scared
and desperate the Republicans are.
Not even MIR. Roosevelt with all
his fire and force can talk against
facts. Neither he nor anybody else
can reconcile Republican promise
with the pitiful and treacherous per-
Torrance or the boasts with the
plain realities. Roanoke Times.