Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-09-29
ftPJBtIGAS TICKET
Election Tuesday, November Sth, 1910.
For COngeSS-hiRth Congressional District
9. 8. SCEMP
OF WISE COUNTY.
HARD PRESSED.


After Mr. Slemp made his excellent
speech at Jonesville the Roanoke Times
declared it was going to have lots of
Fun" out of that speech. We have
been anxiously awaiting to see how the
Times WAS going to have it's fun. The
only funny thing that has been furnish
ed by the Times growing out of that
speech was its recent pronouncement
in favor Of protection and the acknowl-
edgement that our present great COM
mercial and business interests have
been constructed upon a protective
tariff
In despair the Roanoke Times has
determined to avail itself of the last
desperate resort of the Democrats in
previous campaigns and try to save Mr..
Stuart from crushing defeat by inject
ing the negro question into the cam
pAign Almost daily it dishes out its
nsuseating appeals to the prejudice of
the white men of the district, and this
after Mr.. Stuart has announced that he
desires to conduct the campaign on a
high plane. The Times ought to re-
member that every effort to use the
negro question has brought disaster to
the Democrats in the district. 1t was
so with Rhea and Bruce who tried to
use it. The Times ought also to remern-
Der that the Democrats in Virginia have
not been SO averse to the negro In poll
tics as they now claim to be. We re-
call the fact that in 1880 the late Sena-
tor Daniel spoke to large negro meet
ings and with negro orators from the
stand. We also remember that in 1881
negro orators were sent all over the
State to speak in behalf of Major Daniel
for Governor. We have in our posses
sion circular, signed by Daniel. Bar
bour and Mckinney, appealing to the
negroes to vote for them and noe for
Cameron, Lewis and Blair.
We recall further that Claude A.
Swanson, over whose appointment a.
United States Senator the Roanoke
Times was so happy, had two negroes
appointed postmssters in the Fifth dis
trict while he was representing that
district in Congress. And we remem-
Der that Ex-Governor Montague in a |
speech a few years ago at Tazewcll |
stated that the Democrats would not
have disfranchised the negroes if they
had voted the Democratic ticket,
Then, the Roanoke Times ought to
remember that it was a Democratic
Legislature that adopted into the Code
OF Virginia the provisions that permit
white persons and negroes with less
than one-fourth negro blood in their
veins to intermarry, thus legalizing
miscegenation. And the Times ought
to remember that the only times the
public schools in the State have been
mixed was when the Democrats put
white teachers to teaching in negro
schools and protested when these white
teachers were removed by the RepubI-
cans. If we mistake not there is a ne
gro High School In Richmond now in
which white teachers are teaching.
with protest by the negroes.
The white Republicans of the Ninth
district will not be Influenced by your
negro scare-crow and intelligent Demo I
Gratis will be Disguised with your futile
effort to vitalize a Dauseating dead is
sue. used so repeatedly in the past, only ;
10 bring discontinue to the Democratic !
andidate. h