Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-03-10
6ETTIN6 HISTORICAL.

in boasted possibilities as to what can
be done for Mr.. Stuart as the candidate
in this district And the lightning ar
fist sometimes gets his colors mixed.
For instance, in writing about the NOM
nation of MIR. Stuart, the Roanoke
Times of the End inst. said:
Henry C. Stuart went to sleep
Monday night fully determined that he
would not accept the nomination for
Congress for the Ninth District. Tues
day he accepted it. He did not accept
it rs conscript drawn willingly into
the service"
If Mr.. Stuart has not been violently
conscripted the word conscript has
heretofore been misinterpreted and its
meaning misunderstood.
The above statement in the Times
was followed with nearly a column of
hysterical gush about the candidate and
the Democratic party in the district and
State. Here's one of the paragraphs:
zine State will help the district and
the district will answer the State. The
fighting will begin now and will continue
until the last poll is closed"
Yes, the State Democrats will help
the district Democrats with Doodle and
fapdoodle oratory, just as they have
helped in previous campaigns, and the
answer the district Democracy will give
will be; "Woe is mt! Confound your
filthy Doodle and your silly oratory.
We wish the polls had never been OPEN
ed for this fight You East Virginia
Democrats are great fellows to cheer
US on to fight, but never help US to sue
cess in our local fights. When the gen.
eral State fights are won, you fellows
down East tell us to stand aside. that
the Republican Ninth does not deserve
any share in spoils.''
In one of it's closing commissions the
Times shouts:
''Our people are square; they are lee
by square man and should see that
their opponents are made to square anC
toe the mark"
When did you and your people ''git
so Jule?" When did twisted triangle
or complete hyperbola present the
acknowledged appearance of a square,
Were your people square when they de-
ceived the citizenship of Virginia by
pretending that they intended to refer
the new constitution back to the people
for ratification or rejection?
Were your people square when they
made the electoral boards and refused
to let the Republicans have member
ship on those boards?
Were your people square when thew
refused to permit the Republ cans to
have one of the two election clerks at
each precinct in the State?
Were your people square when they
provided for the printing of election
ballots by a solid partisan Democratic
board, and that no Republican is permit
ted to see the ballot until he enters the
booth to vote?
Were your people square when they
wrote in the suffrage clauses of the
constitution every devilish device and
obstruction that could be originated to
keep Republicans from exercising suf-
frage?
Were your people square when tn y
violated their pledge that no outrage
law should be made that would deprive
any honest white man OF his suffrage.
no matter how poor or iliterate he
might be?
Were your people square when they
dragged Floyd county from the Fifth
and stuck it into the Sixth District, in
violation of the spirit and letter Of Tho
State Constitution, for the oren and
avowed purpose of robbing the Repu J.
licans of certain victory in the F,ILh?
We could fill column with questions
just as embarrassing az these must ~.
if our Roanoke contemporary would
answer them truly
As to the insisterce that the Reyub-
leans of the Ninth should he made to
be square and toe the mark" tia is ga
reasonable ss the requirement made by
the wolf that the lamb should not mud