Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-09-21
KEEP THE RECORD STRAIGHT.

Just as we expected, the Roanoke
Times, the champion of venal politics
In Virginia, is provoked at the Taze-
well Republican because it has made
some serious comments OIL the recent
effort of the Virginia Democracy to pu-
rify itself. The Times seems to have
been particularly enraged by our discus
sion Of the recent primary campaign
and the pointing out to the anti-machine
leaders the causes that led to their
crushing defeat. The Times remarks:
Fortunately the chief Republi-
can mouthpiece in this section, the
Tazewell Republican, is of intelli-
gence so limited and vocabulary so
scanty that it is incapable of doing
much harm"
Perhaps our intelligence may be more
limited than is that of the Times. but it
seems sufficient to recognize vice when
seen and to make the vicious howl with
rage when, in plain terms, it exposes
their vices. And, then, our vocabulary
may be scant when compared with that
of the Times, because we have never
been persuaded to study an unabridge
dictionary and use every possible word
we could find to color and conceal vice
and give it the semblance of virtue.
Does the Times see the point we are
making, or will it have to study its un-
limited vocabulary to find it?
The Times, speaking of the Tazewell
Republican, says further:
at tells US of corruption, of the
'office-holder's trust, of footing and
raiding the State treasury and of
'bankrupting the State"
Now, why didn't the Times, if it
wanted to be fair and truthful, tell its
readers that these expressions were all
quoted from Democratic authority, Just
as we quoted from the editor of the
Roanoke Times when we used the fol-
lowing confession:
I'VE took ignorant or reckless
men and trained them to perjury,
taught them how to steal ballots. to
obstruct voters, to forge poll lists,
to alter returns, to play tricks of
low cunning, laughed and applauded
secretly and joined our miserable
tools in their lies by lying for them
In the courts, covering up their Of
fences, accepting the results of
their work."
And right here we will ask our Roam
oke contemporary, whether or not the
"WE' who trained the ignorant and
reckless to commit these crimes, are
still in charge of the State Democratic
organization; and whether or not those
who benefited By these crimes are not
largely in control of all the departments
of our State government
The Times further says:
ITO keep the record straight, we
call on the Tazewell Republican, as
we have called on Mr.. Glass and the
late Hon. W. A. Jones and our Rich
mond contemporaries, to come to
bills of particulars.
1--WE challenge them to name one
instance Of corruption in the Iegis-
lation or administration of Virginia
affairs by the Democrats. Also to
specify one instance of looting.'"
We feel tempted to again file bills of
particulars. as we have frequently done
at the call of the Roanoke Times. But
now, as then, we shall expect the Roam
Pike Times, while not disputing the cor
ruption of the acts mentioned, to laugh
1t them as trivial The mental and NOR
II perceptions of the Times have be-
tome so warped by it's jealous support
Il corporate interests and machine poll
ics that to it crooked things look :,
traight and straight things appear to ]
. crooked II you ask the Times for a !