Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-10-06
REPUBLICAN TICKET
Election Tuesday, November Sth, 1910.
For COngTaSs-Hinth Congressional District
@. B. SLEMP
OF WISE COUNTY.
WHO IS THE ANANIAS?

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We notice that Mr.. Stuart in his
speech at Chilhowie, on Wednesday of
Last week, declared that those who have
been critic'sing and exposing his record
in the Constitutional Convention are
Ansniases. Can this he true? Let's
see about l..
II 1900 the Democrats of Virginia in
state COW ention at Norfolk made the
holding 81 constitutional convention a
party issue. In the platform there
ado ted thu Virginia Democrats pledged
thai no ms who was a voter prior to
1Scl. nor Il descendants of such, should
be ceprived OF suffrage; and made the
further pie dye that if q new constitu-
tio0 was framed that it should be sub
mic' ed to the people for ratification or
rejection. Did Mr.. Stuart and the Dem
ocrstic parry fulfill these pledges?
Who is the Ananias?
In 1901 Mr.. Stuart became a candi-
date for membership in the Constitu-
tioDsl Convention, with the assurance
to the people that he would vote for
submitting the constitution to the peo-
pie. He violated that pledge as we'll as
the pledges of his party and voted for
proclaiming the constitution.
Who is the Ananias?
In the fall of 1901 Mr.. Stuart issued
a circular addressed to the people, head
ed: WHITE MEN HEAR THE
TRUTH" in which he said:
LET me say first that none of the
Suffrage plans submitted to the Con-
Vention contemplate the disfranchise-
ment of white men. On the contrary
they all agree in providing means where
by the white man is and will be fully
protected. They all provide that the
right Of suffrage does net depend either
on property or education. The poorest
and most uneducated white man can
and will vote under the provisions of
any of the bills
Both the property and educational
qualifications for registration and voting
were written in the constitution which
Mr.. Stuart helped to make; and thous
ands of poor and uneducated white men
in the Ninth district have been deprived
Of their right to vote by the under
standing clause" by the permanent ed
vocational clause and by the poll tax
qualification.
Who is the Ananias?
On the 9th Of May, 1902, a meeting
was held at Lebanon, Va, by the pro-
curement of Mr.. Stuart and his friends
for the purpose of relieving him from
his pledge and that of his party, made
to all the people of Virginia, to submit
the new constitution to the people for
ratification or rejection. Mr.. Stuart
addressed that meeting, and as reported
in the Lebanon News, "having for the
subject of his discourse the new consti-
tuition framed by the convention of
which he is a member" In that ad-
dress Mr.. Stuart said that the cost of
making the constitution had been COM
planned Of but that the cost would
amount to about 500, 900. The actual
cost was 1894, 1924.
Who is the Ananias?
He said in this address that 1.-THE con-
vention had saved to the people the sum
Of $3.50, 900 per year. This was in ref
erence to the annual expenses of the
State government. Under the OPERA
tions of the old constitution, in 1908.
the expenditures of the State for run
ming the government were three mil
lions of dollars. This year, 1910, the |