Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-10-26

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The entire editorisl of The Roanoke
Times Just bristled with statements
similar TO those We have quoted. They
prove that the appropriation was a
Job, just as was Che appropriation
slipped in by Judge Rhea to pay Jim
Stone big salary as assessor of min
eral lands. It proves that the Republi-
can members ard the honest Democrats
who voted for such appropriations were
not informed as to the crookedness of
these special appropriations.
To tie four remaining items in our
bill Of particulars the Roanoke Times
has replied as deceptively and ineffect-
uslly as it did TO the first three. which
We have discussed above; ard we will
make 70 reference to any of these four.
except the last, of which the Times
speaks as follows:
The last count is on the transfer
of Floyd county from the Fifth dis
tfict 20 the Sixth. objected to
1t when 1t was done, and We object
to 1t now, chiefly because it is too
close an imitation of Republican
rascalities in Northern States to be
becoming to honest Virginia Demo-
Gratis"
We knew it was true that the Roam
oke Times, or its present editor, object
ed to the thing when it was done, and
We had fervently hoped that the obiec-
ton was based on some noble, manly
impulse. But here Gomez the Times
with confession that its objection to
the Fifth district outrage is not because
it violated the constitution or infracted
political honesty, but because it is an
imitation of the dishonest politics of Re-
publicans, somewhere, which it fails TO
point out specifically. This is the apol-
ogy or excuse which all dishonesty of
fers when arrsigned. And that the OBJ
lection of the Times is not founded on
proper motives is demonstrated by an
article which appears in that paper in
the same issue as the one wherein our
bill OF particulars is discussed. In the
editorial headed, "Redistricting The
State" the Times suggests that the
counties of Buchanan, Tazewell, Bland
and Giles shall be taken from the Ninth
and attached to the Sixth district. This
would make the district a shoe-string
district, two hundred miles long. The
mere suggestion of such thing. for
political purposes, shows that the Roam
oke Times has become fully imbued
with and is most capable exponent of
the crooked political methods of the
Virginia Democracy.
We charged in our bill of particulars
that the Virginia Democrats had looted
and broken the State treasury. And in
support of that charge we asserted that
the capitation taxes belonging to the
counties from the taxes of 1910 had not
been sent back to the counties. This
must have been true, as Tazewell has
since received her share of the 1910 poll
taxes, and inquiries have been instituted
to find out why she hasn't gotten her
share for 1909. Then, we said some
thing about the counties not RECEIVING
their share of the appropriation for
good roads. Tazewell county has since
received its share. The Roanoke Times
says that few people notice the Re-
publican. 1t seems that our criti-
cisms have been noticed at Richmond.
We also charged that the old Confed
crate soldiers were not receiving their
pensions, and out here they have gotten
none for this year. We also find that
where the pensions are being paid they
are being scaled ten per cent, the dis
bursting officers claiming that they
haven't money enough to pay the pen
sions in full From the appropriations to
the widows and orphans" the army of
machine office-holders are being paid in
full, but the treasury is too badly
busted" to pay the old veterans in
full. Fine management of the States
finances, is it not?
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