Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-08-17

lished in the Tazewell Republican of
last card 80 unjust to myself, to the
Republican party in the county, and so
full of mis-statements of facts, that l
feel constrained to make reply thereto.
DIR. Greever assails my fairness as a
man, as candidate, and as chairman
of my party; and very seriously impugns
the integrity of the Republican County
Committee. His attacks upon myself,
my r. s-she Republican County
Con s.e are preceded by the following
statement:
ION the 9th day of last March l
announced myself a candidate for
clerk against Mr.. John T. Barns. l
made my announcement subject to
Republican convention, and l made
that announcement in good faith.
Both my friends and l asked that
this convention be held at once, and
the party organization, of which
Mr.. Barns is chairman, went so far
as to call the Republican Committee
together way back in April for the
purpose of allowing Mr.. Barns to
resign and also to call this conven-
tion. (See Tazewell Republican,
dated April 20th.)"
This statement is altogether inaccu-
rate and untrue, except as to the decla-
ration that DR.. Greever made his an
nouncement subject to a Republican
convention. The statement that 1.-The
county committee was called together
in April for the purpose of giving me an
opportunity to resign as county chair
man az d to call a convention" is not
sustained by the only proof that DR..
Greever offers-a local news item in
the Tazewell Republican of the Goth of
April, which is as follows:
strTho RppuhliCan County
tive Committee will meet here to-
day. Rumor has il that County
Chairman John I. Barns will tender
his resignation and a new chairman
elected. Action will also be taken
relative to calling q convention to
nominate candidates for offices to be
elected this fall"
So, DIR. Greever has been guilty of
the folly of MAJ nifying Madam Ru-
NOR" into a veritable existing person
or fact. That the meeting of the county
committee on the Goth of April was
called and held for other purposes than
those named by DR.. Greever is proven
by the fact that at that meeting no
mention was made of my resignation,
nor was anything said in that meeting
about county convention to nominate
candidates for county offices. DIR.
Greever's friends on the committee
were present at that meeting, as they
were at the recent meeting of the COM
mittee, and will bear me out in this
statement.
And now, in view Of the fact that DR..
Greever announces that he will not sub
NIT his name to the convention that has
been called by this county committee, /
and my friends are justified in assum-
ing that his clamor for a convention
was not made ih good faith.
The most Objectionable part of DR..
Greever's card is the intimation that
the county committee was plant tool
in my hands. He says:
"Mr. Barns, as chairman of the
committee, calls the committee to-
gether, and on the 3rd of August,
the committee, IN cut and dried lCdy,
euery nOUe mapped out before hand,
calls a convention to meet on Sep
tember End, not to name Republi-
can ticket, but a candidate Cor clerk,
only"
This is very unkind charge to make
against the county committee, which
for some years, has so faithfully and
efficiently directed the party affairs.
The committee is composed of the same
men now that constituted the commit
tee last March when DIR. Greever was
so eager to have it call a convention,
and the same accusations of unfairness
would have been made then as they are
made now. The following named gen.
tlemen now constitute the Republican
Committee for this county, and have
been for several years:
c. w. Crockett, Tiptop.
r. c. Wells, Bluestone.
f. G. Compton, Falls Mills.
S. p. Mustard, Abbs Valley.
J. F. Ward, Pocahontas.
H A. Long, Burkes Garden.
j. Floyd Gillespie, Grafton.
J. w. SlaGe, Cove Creek.
H. C. Galloway, Graham.
S. S. F. Harman, TaZewell.
NJ. l.. Peery, North Tazewell.
j. P. Whitman. Crockett's Cove.
j. D. Daley, Gap Store.
A. r. Beavers, Dry Fork.
r. S. Brooks, Benbow.
VIM. Clayton, Thompson Valley.
E. II. Warner, Freestone.
w. B. Spratt, Richlands.
]. Ed. MCGUIRE, Cedar Bluff.
d. Green, Paint Lick.
]. Saunders Gillespie, Pounding Mill
M. F. Brown, Poor Valley.
w. R. Bowen, Liberty Hill.
S. F. Allison, Lockhsrt's Chapel.
VIM. Bandy, Baptist Valley.
If, as Dr. Greever says: mo good
reason has arisen, so far as we can see,
for calling the convention, other than
that they had gotten their every trap
set," etc, why did DR.. Greever's
friends appear on the 3rd of August?
The above is another fling at the county
committee which is aggravated by the
following vitriolic paragraph in DR..