Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-08-18
MIR. BARNS REPLIES
Issues Statement Relative to
Position Taken by
County Committee
To the Voters of Tazewen Countv:

Puo'iSucu III tne ldZeWeIl teDuOllcan
of last week card so unjust to my
self, to the Republican party in the
county, and so full of mis- statements
of fact. that l feel constrained to
make reply thereto.
DR.. Greevcr assails my fairness as
man, as candidate, and as chair
man of my party, and very seriously
impugns the integrity of the Republi-
can County Committee. His attack
upon myself, my friends and the Re-
publican County Committee are pre-
ceded by the following statement:
"On the 9th day of last March l
announced myself candidate for
Clerk against Mr.. John T. Barns.
made my announcement subject to n
Republican convention. and / made
that announcement in good faith. Both
my friends and asked that this con-
vention 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 al
lowing Mr. Barns to resign and also to
call this convention. (See Tazewell
Republican, dated April 2Oth)."
This statement is altogether inaccu-
rate and untrue, except as to the dec
laration that DR.. Greever made his
announcement subject to Republican
convention. The statement that "the
county committee as called together
in April for the purpose of giving me
an opportunity to resign as county
chairman and to call convention is
not sustained by the only proof that
DIR. Greever offers-a local news item
in the Tazewell Republican of the
goth of April. which is as follows:
The Republican county executive
committee will meet here today. Ru-
NOR has it that county chairman John
L. Barns will tender his resignation
and new chairman elected. Action
will also be taken relative to calling
a convention to nominate candidates
for Offices to be elected this fall.'
So. DR.. Greever has been guilty of
the folly of magnifying "Madam Ru-
mor' into veritable existing per-
son 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 DIR. Greever is
proven by the fact that at that meet
ing no mention was made of my res
ionatiOn nor mac opyfb;po cold -,
that meeting about county conven-
tion to nominate candidates for coun-
ty offices. DR.. Greever's friends ON
the committee were present at that
meeting, as they were at the recent
meeting of the committee, and will
bear me out in this statement.
And now in view of the fact that
DIR. Greever announces that he will
not submit his name to the convention
that has been CALLED by this county
committee Il and my friends are justi-
fled in assuming that his clamor for
convention was not made in good
faith. The most objectionable part of
DIR. Greever's card is the intimation
that the county committee was a
plant tool in my hands. He says:
MIR. Barns, as chairman of the
committee, calls the committee to-
gether. and on the 3rd of August, the
committee IN A CUT AND DRIED
WAY. MAPPED OUT BEFORE
HAND, calls convention to meet
on September End. not TO name Re-
publican ticket, but candidate for
clerk only"
This is very unkind charge to
make against the county committee,
which for some years, has so faith
fully and efficiently directed the party
affairs. The committee is composed
of the same men now that constituted
the committee last March when DR..
Greever was so eager to have it call
a convention, and the same accusa-
tions of unfairness would have made
then as they are made now. The fol-
lowing named gentlemen now const-
tute the Republican committe for this
county, and have been for several
years:
Up ioPO W. OroCkSCt, !lr
Bluestone-R.C Wells,
Falls Mills-E. G. Compton,
Abbs Valleys. P. Mustard,
Pocahontas-J. F. Ward,
Burke's Garden--H. A. Long,
Gratton-J. Floyd Gillespie,
Cove Creek-J. w. Slade,
Graham-H. c. Galloway,
Tazewell-S. S. F. Harman,
North Tazewell, NIL. Peery,
Crockett's Cove-J. P. Whitman,
Gap Store-J. d. Daley,
Dry Fork-A. r. Beavers,
Benbow-R. S. Brooks,
Thompson valley-Wm. Claytor,
Freestone-E. H. Warner,
Rinhlaudq-W r. Snratt