Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-10-07
Campaign Liars

III IL be true indeed that all liars |
shall have their portion In lake |
that burns with birthstone and |
fire, " his Satanic majesty will have
a great gathering in of the sin
present generation from among a GER !
tain element of the Repubii can par
ty in the Ninth Congressional Dis |
t-ict Of Virginia.
We use the above language edvis-
eddy and with no remote idea of sac
rilege but as a fitting reference to
some OF the vile and vicious Islander
ers who are going up and down the
district deliberately disappearing
and maligning the Democratic NOM
inee, with reference to a number OF
matter knowing full we'll when so
doing that their stories have no
foundation in fact.
Mr.. Stuart, in his speech Mt Chill
howie the other day, pilloried for
the scOrn and contempt of the truth
loving people of the district, man
of his county named Johnson, whom
he branded as a leading member of
the Ananias Club and a creature IN
worthy of public notice.
In dismissing this man from fur
Their consideration, the Democratic
leader said: "But l cant be bothered
with carrying around ammunition
small enogh TO shoot at johnson. II
there is anything L always did hate
TO do, 1t is TO shuck nubbin. I
will add that ] am heartily ashamed
that this man was born on the soil
OF Russell county, aud that he ever
called himself a democrat.
Johnson is the man at whose door
is laid responsibility for the state
ment that the mass meeting held in
Russell county in 1902 To- take action
with reference 10 the new Constitu-
tlon was composed of only seven
men, four OF whom voted in favor of
submission and three for proclama-
/ ton.
Mr.. Stuart declares that johnson
then a Democrat, but now a Re-
publican-was the secretary OF the
meeting; that he signed the report
as secretary, certifying To the pro
ceedlngs; that there were present be-
tween 400 and $50 citizens; that the
meeting was voluntary gathering
composed OF voters of both parties.
and that after he had appeared and
explained the Constitution, and es-
pecially the suffrage clause, reso-
luton was unanimously adopted,
requesting him to vote in favor of
proclamation.
People OF the Ninth District will
not hesitate in making up their
minds as who is telling the truth
about this matter.
Another instance. Not long ago, n
Norton correspondent writing in
The Roanoke Times said that an or
binary locking stranger had gum
shoed it, into that town unheraIded.
and that whenever he could get any,
one TO listen IN him he was spread-
ing tale that Mr.. Stuart Is n hand
landlord, and that he is unpopular
with his tenants. According TO the
correspondent, this mysterious stran-
ger apparently had no other business
in Norton than that OF slandering
the Democratic candidate for Con-
gress, and that he disappeared as
mysteriously rs he had arrived, 90
Ing perhaps to some other section
with the purpose OF poisoning the
minds or the unwary and creduIous
who might chance to listen to his
contemplate fabrication.
We don't know anything about
this case personally, but we venture
that this "gum-shoe artist didn't
start out on his own notion.
The public may judge where he
probably got his credentials and
commission.
These are striking examples of
the eminent fairnss'' with which
the Republicans always conduct
their campaigns in the Ninth Dis
tIict.