Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-12-15
WHO BE THE TRAITORS?

vain presumption it undertakes to lash
the Republican press with vitrolic,
slanderous pen. Its assumptions have
provoked from some of its contempora-
ries very strong retorts. The Bristol
Heraid-COurier recently speaking of the
Times said:
That newspaper still imsgines
that all of its contemporaries who
differ from it in their views of men
and matters are wrong in the
head
And, then, referring to what it be-
heved to be a lucid interval with the
Times, the Bristol paper said:
1T is to be hoped that the lucid
interval which our Roanoke neigh
Dor has experienced will soon be fol-
lowed by another one of greater
length, and then another and longer
one, and that they will continue to
recur with constantly increasing
frequency and duration until COM
plete sanity has been restored to its
sanctum."
And the Lynchburg News, resenting
the charge made by the Times that be-
cause the News was protesting against
venslity in politics the News was
"damphool, declared:
In assuming this attitude, our
Roanoke neighbor really takes com
mon ground with election crooks,
and voices the insolent philosophy
OF election rascaiity wherever it
fiourishes in Virginia. Ger
tainly, we'd infinitely rather be call
ed an honest damphool than self
indicted damphraud, a designation
which the Roanoke Times invites
1t seems that such retorts as these.
coming from its own Democratic con-
temporaries, would have restored the
Times to lucidity and caused it to desist
from further Prescriptions criticism of
the views and integrity of purpose of
its Virginia contemporaries. But such
has not been the case. In its issue of
the 9th instant the Times Kisses and
filings at the Republican newspapers of
the Ninth and Fifth districts SANDER
more venomols than any it has hereto
fore emitted. Under the head Trait
ors, the Times made, in part, the fol-
lowing remarks:
IN the few republican newspa-
pers in the Ninth and the Fifth con-
gress districts in Virginia we vet
notice the habit of trying to impress
on Southwest Virginia people that
they are different from other Vir-
glnians and on Republicans that
somehow they are apart from and
hostile to the other people of Vir-
glnla. For the miserable and de-
spicable men who do this kind of
work for paltry jobs and salaries
they may get, we have the most
profound and plying contempt
They rank, in our estimation, with
these few abnormal wretches who
would drive treacherous knife in
to the flank of their own mothers to
get for themselves some dirty and
blood-soiled dollars. For those who
do 1T from habit or ignorance or
base teaching we have but sorrow
and cnmnaSsi0n
The Times closes this inane and in
sane TRADE against the Republican
newspapers and Republicans of the
Southwest by saying:
I'VE are ali Virginians together,
all with the same share in the old
States glory and the same hope
and confidence for her future: and
those who try to make any of US
feel otherwise are traitors of the
foulest souls and the bitterest
breed"
The word ''traitor" is a dangerous
one for even the wisest and best men to
apply to their fellowman or fellow citi-
zen. And it is fearfuly perilous when |
ised by the light-minded, those whose
lands may not be clean and whose
iearts, perhaps, are not pure.
Possibly the Republican newspapers.
nd maybe the Tazewell Republican in
have in a measure sought to
IMPRESS the people of the Southwest
nth the conviction that they are apart
rom and hostile to some Of the other
sople of Virginia. But that we have
yer said that they are apart from and
,ould be hostile to all the other peonla
Virginia is untrue.
There is class of people in Virginia
at we have urged our people to con-
nm; and these are the traitors, if