Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-06-09
THURSDAY. JUNE 9, 1910.
FALSE AND TRUE ISSUES.

uated policy Of misrepresenting the
leadership and membership of the Re-
publican party in the Ninth District.
Its scheme of projecting false issues
into the campaign and making the Re-
pubhcans responsible for its own fanci-
full creations has been such a dismal
failure that Democrats have been cha
grined and Republicans amused by the
efforts of our Roanoke contemporary.
OF course the purpose Of the Times is
to divert attention from the vital issues
and from the vulnerable record of its
candidate, Mr.. Stuart, by enveloping
those issues and that record in fog of
mystery, and directing the public gaze
to the ridiculous effigies the Times per-
sists in creating and presenting. II
Mr.. Stuart's head trumpeter imagines
that the discordant notes it has been
sounding will be received by the people
of the Ninth District as "concords of
sweet sound" then. indeed, has the
trumpeter placed very low estimate
upon the musical and political tastes and
intelligence of the voters of the dis
trict.
In its columns of the 5th inst, under
the head: THE Great Trunk Issue"
the Times undertakes to outline various
plans of campaign and place them to
the credit of the Republicans of the
Ninth. Not one of the plans mentioned
by the Times had its origin from the
Republicans, but each and every one is
a fancy sketch evolved from the fertile
mind of the editor of that paper. Let
US see if this is not correct. The Times
says:
The first (plan) was an attack on
Stuart because in the constitutional
convention he favored the new consti-
tuition taking the vote from the ne
groes. AS soon as the press
pointed out that the logical result of
their contention would be to restore the
negro to political power they skedad-
died away from it like so many bugs on
q dead log when the bark is pulled I'D. -
Now, we most emphatically deny
that the Republicans of the Ninth have
ever presented such plan of campaign.
Upon the contrary, the Roanoke Times,
to make its record consistent, at the out
set strove to make the negro the prom
inent issue in this campaign.
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
have attacked Mr.. Stuart because of his
failure to make good his assurance that
the new suffrage laws would be so
shaped as to remove the negro as dan
gerous factor in our politics and give to
the white men of his section more
power and influence in the affairs of
the State. This assurance or promise
was violated by Mr.. Stuart by his vote
to adopt into the Constitution the VIC
ious legislative apportionment which
has given one disfranchised negro in
Eastern Virginia as much representa-
ton value as three enfranchised white
men in the Ninth District. With such
serious charges as these made against
your candidate, Mr.. Roanoke Timez. ,
and they are sustained by the record.
no wonder you want to draw public at
tention from them by making false ae- :,
cusations against the Republicans. The ,
Times further says:
''The second plan was to call on all 9
hose whose votes had been taken from .
hem by Stuart to avenge the deed by
yoting against him in November"
The absolute Stiffness of such a plan
, sufficient refutation of the charge
hat the Republicans of the Ninth would I
yer have proposed or undertaken to n
Sc it. And the apparent sincerity :,
nth which the Times tries to fasten b
1ch an absurdity upon the Republicans ?
q serious impeachment of either the a