Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-06-16
THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1910.
MOGOTOIOUS DODGING.


emerged from the land of fog, where it
has been wandering since it became so
sorely stricken with Stuart mania or
Stuartitis. And it has, in a moment of
partial sanity, caught another glimpse
of its old friend, The Tazewell Republi-
can, thus announcing the discovery:
Really we are sorry we have been
neglecting The Tazewell Republican
recently. We have had more impor-
tant objects to which to give the limit
ed space and time at our disposal
meaning Mr.. Horton, Mr.. Rose, Mr..
McGavock and other eminent Republi-
cans, and therefore, no disrespect to
the Republican. Furthermore, if this
esteemed contemporary will excuse US
for saying so, it has permitted itself
to fall into the unfortunate habit of say
ing the same thing over and over again,
which makes the task of considering its
able and impassioned utterances slightly
monotonous.
Our Roanoke contemporary pays US
great compliment when it charges US
with saying the same thing over and
over sgain-for what we are saying and
have been saying is unimpeachable
truth. We have been relating the vices
and falsehoods of the Virginia Democ-
racy, and we shall continue to do so un-
til right prevails and falsehood is over
thrown.
But after rebuking US for being
slightly monotonous" in telling the
truth over and over again, our Roanoke
contemporary, with the remark: ITO
diverge q moment from the Tazewell
Republican for illustration of this fact, 1"
proceeds to diverge into half column
discussion Of the protective tariff, PAN
les and insurgency declaring the pres
ent tariff fraud, a cheat and men
ace. Would it not have been well for
our Roanoke contemporary to have
paused before giving expression to its
half column of impassioned utterances
on these very new and fresh subjects?
Some of its readers, possibly, may con-
slider them slightly monotonous.
But our contemporary, while profess
ing SORROW for having recently neglect
ed the Tazewell Republican, is mani
testify endeavoring to withdraw its no
tice from the truths we have presented
for its intelligent consideration. The
Times lodges and avoids making any
response to cur specific charge that it
has created fanciful campaign plans for
the Ninth district and tried to credit
the paternity of the fancy sketches to
the Republicans of this district.
Our Roanoke contemporary seems de-
termined to persist in its course Of mis-
representing or misinterpreting the
campaign plans of the Republicans of
the Ninth and the we'll defined assaults
the Tazewell Republican has made upon
the record of Mr.. Stuart. The Times
says:
''Our Tazewell friend denies that it
attacked Stuart because he helped de-
prive the negro of the vote. 1t attack
ed him because he did not submit to the
negro voters and their Republican al
lies, who were fighting negro disfran-
chisement as hard as they could, the
question whether the negro should be
disfranchised. In other words, Stuart !
was right to vote to disfranchise the |
negro but wrong when with the ex-
pressed approval of his own constitu-
ents he voted against submitting to the |
negroes to say whether or not they |
should be disfranchised. Also Stuart |
was wrong when he voted to apportion |
representation in the State General As
sembly according to population, includ-
ing negroes"
Ahoo NOOo OAA ASOeAA1OhC AAACnQ
ly put words and differences to our cred
it that we have never uttered Here is
what we did say:
1.-THE attack made upon Mr.. Stuart is,
not that he took from the negroes their
votes but that he had violated his SOL
emn personal and party pledge to pre-
serve in its integrity the suffrage of
white voters. And we have attacked
Mr.. Stuart because of his violation of
the pledge made by himself and his
party that the new constitution would
and should be submitted to the people
FOR ratification or rejection. And we
nave attacked Mr.. Stuart because of his
failure to make good his assurance that i