Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-09-07

SNSsiOh was unlSned, however, when
Senator Martin in his Richmond speech
said any fool ought to know that us"
meant the railroads. Mr.. Ellyson.
State chairman of the Democratic par
ty. had given a different definition to
the word ''Us."
Now we would like for the editor of
the Roanoke Times to tell US who are
WE to whom he refers so frequently
IN the editorial which appeared in the
Richmond News Leader of March. 1908.
Did and does it embrace Martin, Swan
son, Flood, Rhes, Byrd, Ellyson and
the present leaders and followers of the
machine faction? They were the lead
ers when the awful election crimes were
being committed. They were the bene-
fciaries of these crimes. They belonged
to 1.-THE gang" 1.-THE boys" 1.-THE or.
ganization, the machine" then. Do
they belong now? Have they been
working for cleansing or fouling. the
elevation or degradation of public senti-
ment to consider soberly whether it is
good for Virginia to bring up her young
men and the children of the coming gen
erations in this loose atmosphere of
morality, of holding perjury and theft
as matters to be regarded indulgently.
laughed at as trifles and regarded as pa
triotic service?''
Haven't you the same old trainers in
your training school? Have you mate
rally changed your organization since
the organization" or machine" did
the unholy work you so glaringly re-
vealed? Have your party workers.
whom you have acknowledged to be the
worst of political crooks, been trans
formed into political moralists and doors
of honest acts? Is that faction of the
Democratic party which the editor of
the Roanoke Times now labors for still
dwelling in the atmosphere of loose
morality" and still clinging to the be-
lief that perjury and theft are trifies to
be rewarded as public service?''
On the 18th ultimo the editor of the
Roanoke Times had six columns printed
which he specially prepared: "For the
Young Voters" That was the title or
head Of the six column editorial placed
by Mr.. Williams in the Virginian. One
paragraph of the volumnous editorial
was another startling revelation made
by Mr.. Williams. Carried away by his
zeal for his candidates, he seemed to for
get his former claims that his party
had reformed in Virginia. He said:
If calculations are correct, Mar
tin and Swanson will come out of
the bluegrass country to Roanoke
with some Ii, 600 majority.
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700 of possible S34 votes were
signed up for Martin, and a we'll
informed, active politician from
Franklin told me the other day
that if Swanson was in Jail he
would get eight-tenths of the vote
there, so thoroughly are the people
attached to him.
In his appeal to young voters of Vir-
ginia to rally to Martin and Swanson,
Mr.. Williams gives an illustration of
Swanson's strength and tells the Young
men that in Franklin county eight-tenths
of the Democratic vote of that county
would vote for Swanson if he were in
jail. That means that if he were in
Jail as a criminal or charged with a
crime. We are warranted In conclud-
ing that the editor of the Roanoke
Times used this as an illustration of
the sentiment throughout Virginia for
Swanson. Can it be possible that the
political morality of even one county
has become permanently perverted
by the training which the ''organiza-
tion," the now organization of the De-
mocracy, gave to young men, whom
they trained to commit perjury, to
steal ballots, to obstruct voters, to
forge poll lists, and to alter returns?
If this training continues to bring forth
corrupt fruit in Franklin county, why
will it not bring forth the same in every
other county dominated by the organi-
cation? Verify, morality is not of up
ward growth with the machine faction,
if we are to listen to Mr.. Williams.