The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-03
"CATTLE KING" is
HONORED ATHOME
Dernocracy's Candidate for Con-
gress in Ninth District Will
Receive Enthusiastic Sup
port of People for Whom
He Has Done So
Much.
BY ALEXANDER FORWARD.
Special Correspondence of The Times-

Dispatch.
Lebanon. Va, Apr-. "a citizen
with honor in his own county. Henry
c. Stuart, will, at the November cleo
tion, turn Republican majority in
Russell into a substantial Democratic
majority. This Is about as certain as
anything in politics could be. IL Mr..
stuart does not carry Russell he will
not carry a. county In the district.
If 1t be true that nothing is moro
honorable or more excellent than to
have deserved well OF ones country
this turning to Mr.. Stuart on the part
of his neighbors and fellow-citizens Is
most natural. He Is the leading citi-
zen. the leader not only In business
but in endeavor. In c-spiritedness.
In effort fuor the material and moral
welfare and uphullding of mis- county
and her people.
Mr.. Stuart lives seven miles from
Lebanon. in Elk Garden Magisterial
District He is the road commissioner
Tor that district, and as such has In
terested himself in the building OF
better highways.
A splendid road Is Just being COM
pIeted from Blockford to Elk Garden,
built with combined State and county
FUNDS, largely through the efforts oc
the Democratic nominee for Congress. :
In his principle of alignng himself
with every modern movement for tho
good OF the people Mr.. Stuart
breaches and practices the gospel of
| good roads.
Ambrose Burnside ouillin. the states
man and publicist of Wise county.
whose patriotic effusion was given in
part a day or so ago in this corrcs-
| pondence. denoninates Mr.. Stuart
The Great Cattle King OF Russell
| County" Accepting for the moment
| the correctness OF this appellation. one
| should remember that there are kings
/ and kings. There are kings who build
up great personal followings by tho
judicious or injudicious distribution
of public offices throughout the mhn-
| archy and around the royal person.
Then there are kings who work and
plan for the good of those whom they
are suppos ed to rule, but whom they
/ in reality serve.
Henry c. Stuart. whether King or
not, Is cattle raiser. To add to tho
| enormity of the offeuse with which he.
is accused by Ambrose Burnside Quill
/ lin. 1t may be here stated that he has
perhaps 5000 cattle on hand at any
/ one time He has brought into this
! section the best blood In the world.
| With the desire to build UP the indus.
try in the Southwest and to help his
fellow mortals. he has sold breeding
stock at low prices and has done everv-
thing in his power to induce the farm
ers of Russellto improve the quality
of their cattle.
Owe 1t to oIr. Stuart.
The result is thac this has become
one of the great cattle counties OF the
state and with the inevitable permea-
tion into all sorts OF business. every
man in the county owes some part OF
his prosperity to Henry c. Stuart. The
nominee will probably rot relish a ref
erence to his benefactions. yet 1 must
quote one of the couniy's leaoing cit
izens. He said to me to-day:
'sIf we have churcn to be built or
a schoolhouse to be erected, or road
TO be constructed, or If anything at an
comes up which makes for the good
of the people, Henry G. Stuart Is there
with is brains and his time and ms
| check
Largely because of his sympathy and
aid the Russell school, now the Leoa-
non Agricultural High School. mas
weathered the storms of adversely anu
Is now on n firm foundation, with tho
state aiding in the hlsh senooi ahu
a agricultural work.
Thcre is an excuse for printing these
facts. for they show why Henry Y.
stuart will carry Russell county per-
haps by as large u majority as tnas
given Mr.. Slemp in 1905. The latter
received, 121O votes and Mr.. Byars
STA Mr. Sent's majority last NoSem-
ber was ninety-three.
An elderly citizen who has been M
innate with county politics for many
wears, tells me that he has consldert'i
Russell as normally Republican 1or at
least twenty years. in spite of the fact
r I1aYn0CratlC
tiles in the early nineties,
Vet. he also SAYS that Mr.. Stuarts
ncrsonal popularity would be SURF
ctent TO make 1t a tie this year. sWlt'i l
tho Democrats we'll organized, tho
county will give probably from aoo 10
800 majority for her son Ihere IS nv
division in tho party Usually a rae.
tion is TO ho found at the nome OF any
candidate, which Is opposed 70 him fot
,,a,.aora, reasons There Is nothing
az the Kind here. No Democrat In Rus-
sell viii vote for Mr., Slemp this year, year,
p,t there are Republicans who VIII
,ote fc. Mr. Stuart, The PERSONA
ec,,t,on has a great dea! 10 dc w1tll
this but.ln addition the natura! nrils
lis inhuencing the situation 10 'ats
extent. These men are here On up
ground, where all Nnlay see a'la taNs
with them.
Proud of Him,
,rbs peonle OF the county are gen.
erallv nroud of the fact that her most
<eminent citizen Is In the forefront
ZINE ana again Mr.. stuart has becn
solicited TO assume political honors.
out Has always declined because hls
business Interests demanded all hls
time, only when he had an oppor-
tunity to serve his people In the max
ing OF a Constitution did no consens
to giveis. his attention. New By way
or appealing To prejudice, one ~ the
county chairmen OF the district. ~
sending out circular letters In which \
attention is called 10 tha fact that MI
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