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

sincerely Of the Times by asking it a
lot of questions about the suffrage and
registration laws. We asked il the
Times thought these laws in the new
constitution were fair and non-partisan.
The Times promptly said yes. We then
showed that Mr.. Stuart, on the floor of
the constitutional convention, had af-
firmed that the election laws would not
be fair If one of the clerks of election
was not given to the Republicans or mi
nority party. The Times then respond
ed by saying, that it was not fair, but
was made unfair to meet any emergen-
cy that might arise in the future, if the
negroes should again in considerable
numbers be permitted to vote.
We also asked the Times if it sp-
proved of the arbitrary powers given to
registrars. The Times said it did. A
few months thereafter the Times was
declaring that the registration laws
were dangerous, that registrars were in
vested with sutocratic power, and that
the election laws of the State should be
thoroughly reformed. Here are two
different positions taken by the tickle
Times, within a few months, on very
important questions. What position it
will hold when it next speaks on the
fairness of the suffrage laws no man
can tell. But that position will be de-
termined by the purDose it has in view.
II the Times will pardon us for the
above depression, we will proceed to
name not one but several instances of
corruption in the Legislation or the ad-
ministration of Virginia affairs by the
Democrats.
1. There was the corrupt changing
of the name Of the Board of Fisheries
to that of the Commission of Fisheries.
This was done to double the salary of
Mcdonald Lee and increase the appro-
pristions.
2. The increasing Of the salaries of
the clerks of the House of Delegates
and the State Senate during their
terms Of Office, and giving to the
clerk of the House of Delegates five
dollars day during the time the House
is not in session, twenty-five months.
3. That job that was put up at the
closing hours of the last General Assem-
bly, making an appropriation of ten
thousand dollars for special counsel for
the State to assist the Attorney Gen.
eral That was a job for the Dickey
Byrd, who was already on three or more
payrolls of the State.
L. The last appropriation Act of the
General Assembly shows an appropria-
ton of forty-five thousand dollars for
salaries and expenses of the Commits
sion Of Fisheries. When the Board of
Fisheries was established the appropria-
ton was four thousand dollars. and it
was specifically stated in the original
Act that the unsalaried members of the
Board should receive no compensation,
except their expenses. If the Roanoke
Times will examine the appropriation
Act of March 9Th, 1910, it will find that
it appropriates as follows: ITO the I'M
salaried members of the Board of Fish
cries of Virginia the sum of four hun
dred dollars each for extraordinary SER
vices performed by them" This was a
job, a loot. Will the Roanoke Times
deny it?
5. The said Act also appropriates:
To pay commissions to Commissioners
OF the Revenue, examiners Of records, ct Get,
one hundred and twenty-three thousand
dollars. These examiners of records
are useless as has long been demon
strated, and the places are retained for
the benefit of proteges of the machine
-"Dickey Byrd" is one of them.
6. A much whereas" act, approved
March II, 1910, makes an appropriation
of four thousand dollars to provide
replica in bronze of the Houdon statue
of George Washington, and provides
for the appointment of ga commission
Of three suitable persons" by the Gov
ernor, to present this replica to the Re-
public of France. This was to give
Junketing trip to Paris for three of the
members of the tribe. The three suit
able persons appointed by the Governor
were his nephew, Col. James Mann, Mr..