Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-08-31


vember election in 1879. On Janu-
airy l, 1880, after the Democracy
had been in control of the finances
of the State for nine years, there
was floating debt of $l,969,143
and only SO, 494 of available cash
In the treasury. The State debt
was also increasing at the rate of
$1,000, 900 year, and under a taxa
ton at the rate of fifty cents on the
$780,"
ION October l, 1888, after three
years administration of the fnan-
ces of the State by the Readiust-
ers and Republicans, we find there
was in the treasury 81, 537, POS. The
Democrats got control of the finan-
ces of the State in 1888, and on Oc-
tober l, 1884, with a single year of
Democratic administration, the cash
In the treasury had been reduced
to $942. sea- reduction of six hum
dred thousand dollars IN one year"
These facts presented to an intelligent
press and public, caused us to say:
What will an intelligent public
think of Governor Swanson's mani
testify untrue statements about the
settlement Of the public debt? II
the Governor was willing to be so
unfair and incorrect in his presenta-
ton of the record of the Readiust-
ers and Republicans, and so entire
ly at variance with the truth when
he spoke of the work of his party in
its treatment of the public debt,
'rhGt credit should be giUn to has other
statements iclcrc he undertakes 10 deal IN
facts and figures"
Mr.. Glass, if he had then taken the
warning given by the Tazewell Repub-
ican, might have discovered that Swan
sons Surry Courthouse speech was
amenable to the saying: "Fdlsus in ,nao.
fdisus IN omnibus" false in one thing.
false in all. But it seems the Demo-
cratic press and leaders were willing to
accept as truths from Swanson the as
sertions he made about his administra-
ton of the finances of the State, though
they were framed in declarations about
the Republican and Readjuster manage
ment that were grossly false upon their
face.
The Richmond News-Leader has raised
objection to Mr.. Swanson because he
was derelict as Governor of Virginia
when he signed railroad bill that was
unconstitutional. The News Leader
argues from this act of Swanson that
he did not defy the railroads as he
claimed to do while he was Governor.
The charge that Swanson would sign
bill knowing it to be unconstitutional,
SO riled the editor of the Roanoke Times,
who is now slushing and gushing two
columns daily in the Richmond Virgin
ian, that he declares in the Vir0lnian:
three or four things that made me
hot under the collar and induced me
to write to Swanson volunteering
to come down here and get into any
newspaper l could to help get fair
play"
If this charge of official misconduct
against Swanson has made Mr.. Will
liams so hot under the collar, we can
suggest to the News-Leader and the
Lynchburg News, and to all those who
are hostile to Swanson, a plan by which
they can make the skin of the editor of
the Roanoke Times so hot that it will
ook like a living flame. That is to
place before the public in full detail !
some of the numerous other acts of |
Swanson while Governor that were in |
of the constitution he had
sworn to maintain and support.
There is that Act which was passed
10 transform the name of the Board of |
Fisheries to the name of Commission of
Fisheries for the only possible purpose
If doubling the salary of Mcdonald Lee.
Swanson approved this Act on March
he IL, 1908. And everybody knows
his was disgraceful piece of jobbery
o fatten hungry members of the tribe.
FOR the year 1908, there was available
or the policing, salaries, ETC., of the
Commission of Fisheries the sum of
so, 900, and only $21, 200 was collected
q 1908 in taxes from the public oyster
'eds.
Then. the News Leader might point to
q Act approved February %. 1908, by
;overnor Swanson, which authorized an