Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-05-12
THURSDAY. MAY II, 1910.
PHONE No. GO
POLLY TALKS ASIAN.

ly) has again talked too much. In its
issue Of the 9Th instant, under the head
THE Republican Trump Gard" it said
some things that are not likely to be of
much service to Mr.. Stuart On for
mer occasion the News admitted that
Mr.. Stuart had helped to make the new
suffrage laws by which numbers of
white men had been disfranchised. and
it has been pretty sick over that admis
sion, which was, strange to say, the
truth Now, the News is trying to es-
cape its former folly by putting the
Democratic candidate in a more favor
able light. After stating that the Re-
publicans are making Mr.. Stuart's rec
ord In the Constitutional Convention
their trump card" the News SAYS:
This is all. This is the source of his
SHINING. he helped to frame and pass
law the object of which was to purify,
as far as possible, the electorate of Viz
ginia, by cutting out the more obiec-
tionable and vicious classes of negroes
IN the State. Does our contemporary
approve of this feature of the law?''
Yes, we approve of it if it were true,
but the promise of Mr.. Stuart to do
that thing and that only, was not kept.
1t was violated both in the spirit and
the letter. The following which ap-
peared in the above referred to editorial
shows that it was violated:
'If they 1.-THE Republicans) are glad
the negro was disfranchised, and ninety
nine out of every one hundred are. then
all this talk about the DISTINGUISHING of
the poor, illiterate white man is polite
al rot. The new constitution which Mr..
Stuart helped to frame gives every
man, black and white, rich and Door.
the same right to vote. The same quail
lhcauons apply to all, and if any man
does not vote it is his fault"
How does this comport with the first
declaration that the object of the new
suffrage laws was to purify the electo-
rate of Virginia ''by cutting out the
more Objectionable and vicious classes
of negroes?" And how does it agree
with the solemn declarations of Mr..
Stuart to the white men of Virginia?
IN his famous circular he said of the
suffrage clauses:
They all provide that the right of |
suffrage does not depend either on
property or education. The poorest1
and most uneducated white man can
and Will vote under the provisions of
any Of the bills. The Republi-
can leaders know only too well that we
are not proposing to disfranchise white
men and, that the blow will fall on the
negro, where it is aimed
The Clinch Valley News which is I'D
holding Mr.. Stuart's work in the Con-
stitutional Convention says:
The new constitution, which Mr..
Stuart helped to frame, gives every
man, black and white, rich and Door.
the same right to vote. The same quail.
lfications apply to all, and If any man
does not vote it is his fault"
So, Mr.. Stuart helped to make suf-
frage laws that put all men, white and
black, rich and poor, on the same foot
ing. Is that what he said he was going
to do? Is that keeping the pledge that
the poorest and most uneducated white
man "can and will vote under the pro-
visions of any of the bills?'' The News
declares that ninety per cent of the ne
groes have been disfranchised. and IL ,
must also admit that a very large per I
cent of the white vote has been dis
franchised by the operation of the suf-
frage laws that Mr.. Stuart helped to ,
make. p,
Polly had better quit talking about
Mr.. Stuart and the constitution. and re- ,
'ume its more natural and intelligent 8
all: polly wants cracker"