The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
MILITANT PARTY
UNITED BEHIND
HENRY c. STUART
Man and Hour are Met
for Ninth S Re
demption.
DEMOCRATS ARE
READY FOR FIGHT
They Are Confident That Their
! Candidate Can Be Returned
Victor in November Battle
for Congressional Seat
Now Held by
Slemp.
ny ALEXANDER FORWARD,
Special Correspondent of The TImcs-

Dispatch.
4 Wythevillc, Va. March 21..--rf Henry
I Carter stuart does not represent the
Ninth Virginia District in the next Con-
gress of the United States 1t will not
| be the fault OF the Democrats OF
/ Wythe. nor of some OF the Republicans.
/ That this district has not been contin-
uously represented by Democrat has
never been the fault of the Demo-
Gratis of the neghborin.y county cf
! Pulaski. the only county, excepting
| Giles. where, through thick and thin,
in prosperity or in adversely through
good or evil report, the Democrats have
| kept the faith and answered tho call
| OF the party In its hour of need. AS
one who has known Wythe county poll
aitics Intimately for fifteen years. can
say without reservation that the DEM
ocrats are more hopeful. more enthu-
siastic. and, what counts better than
hope and enthusiasm. moro determined
than in any campaign since the Rhea-
/ Walker contests in 1898 and 1900.
] Twelve years ago. with list the same
1 sort of spirit as one sees everywhere
to-day, the party went TO victory This
was repeated in 1900
Brought Disaster.
Whatever blessings the new consti-
tuition brought to the people of the
State. the Immediate effects of its
franchise clause was disastrous to the
/ Democracy of Wythc. Every mistake
made by a registrar or by treasurer
was charged UP TO the dominant party,
and Republican leaders made the most
of the opportunity to insti1 resentment
into the minds OF the voters. Judge
Rhea lost the county.
Since then. for the most part. tile
:. .Iltemocrats haze been aassins. and de-
spondent. A month ago the onlookor
could have seen nothing in sight which
4 could change the situation. but the
r nomination of Henry C. Stuart haa
electrified the political air. Like the
warhorse at tho sound of martial music,
> the militant Democrats of Wythe are
shifting victory. Success is in the
wind. Tho old spirit IS here. the spirit
of courag ge and OF confidence the spirit
OF pride and of power, the spirit that
feels that the time has coma for which
they have waited long. Tho hour and
the man have met The hour has come
when many, even of the Republicans
OF the Ninth. are weary of pic.counter
domination of party affairs, with con-
rentions composed almost entirely OF
| Federal oftlce-holders and when the
i spectacle OF crooked knees, for thrifty
/ reasons, at the feet OF the dispensers
of Federal patronage sits no longer
easily on the political stomach.
The hour has come when it is tho
firm belief of the Democrats of Wythe
| that the nation Is ready for change
and that Democratic landslide is due
in November which Will sweep away
Republican complaisancc with condi-
tions which are making existence In
/ toierable to the man with moderate
4 means and rule by Cannonism for ma
/ tional power The hour has como when
a man, big. and broad and strong and
able, with tho good of his district at
his heart, can lead the Democrats of
the Ninth who through continuous de-
Il feats have not wandered after strange
gods, to victory.
i Stuart the Man.
i Henry c. Stuart is the man. Never
in the memory of living men has there
been time when the Democrats were
so united, Not a dissenting voice Is
to be heard The party is for the nom
inee to a man. II the supreme effort
is put forth, the district. under his
i leadership can be redeemed, and when
the votes are counted on the November
election night Wythe county will be
found to have done her full duty
4 OF course, the work is still in the
future. The campaign is still in it's
4 formative stage; committees are being
arranged, and the con.aso of en-
thusiasm Is to be carried to the remot-
est parts of the district so that every
man may catch the Infection Later
speakers, Will preach the doctrines of
better things at every schoolhouse aud
. from every platform. At the end every
voter is to he gotten 10 the polls,
. Coming to Pulaski county, her recent
political history was comprehensively
I told in the beginning. In the old
4 days, when the district was Denin-
I.cratic, and when Russell and Wythc
4 and Washington helped to swell the
majority Pulaski was Republican.
4 General Walker carried it in one cam
tpaign by 400 majority. Tor decade
things went along IN this way. But in
more recent years things have bright
4 ened. While the Democrats of other
counties We're sloomily letting party
matters drift, those of Pulaski were
maintaining q constant campaign, keep
Ing in touch with every voter and fos-
tering and preserving 4 party spirit.
4 The result was thut Swanson, in HIS
race for Governor, carried the county
by twcnty,four, Special circumstances
. and the general drift of the .istrict
in 1908 lost the county 10 ';iemp by
N seventy-one votes. but Judlse Mann
carried It by l0I. and Mr.. Trolingcr.
for THE House of Delegates last year.
by $50. 1t Will do better for Mr.. Stu-
art.
organizing for Fight.
T Practically all the county oflcers
Z are Democrats Chairman i. Frank
Wysor deserves most of the credit.
say the Pulaski Democrats, for the
gratifying growth Of party sentiment. l.
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