Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-16
TICKLE AND INCONSISTENT.

WIG SoASSSiuS newspapers we
have ever known the Roanoke Times is
the most tickle and inconsistent. 1t
changes its views on great public ques-
tons to suit the occasion at hand. We
have recently had two very striking ev-
licences of this disposition of our es-
teemed Roanoke contemporary. They
were given in its editorial columns Of
the 7th instant.
1t is remembered how the Roanoke
Times during the campaign last fall
appealed to the Republicans of the
Ninth district to vote for Mr.. Stuart.
though he was the Democratic candi-
date, because of his high qualifications
to represent the district, which the
Times considered superior to party or
political convictio, 1t seems the
Times has changed its views, no,e that
they are to be applied to Republican
in the Ninth, who represented Lee
county in the last Legislature. Wei
learn from the Times that Mr.. C. C.
Talisferro, Democrat, who represent
ed Orange county in the last General
Assembly, on the 18th of February.
1911, wrote Mr.. ]. M. Lucas. of Lee
county, expressing wish for his cleo
ton to the next Legislature. In that
letter Mr.. Taliaferro said:
And l feel perfectly satisfied
that If the representative men of
both the Republican and Democrat
ic parties in Lee county will unite
IN your election to the next legisla-
ture, that the State will have
faithful and efficient representative
for whom she will always be proud,
and to this end unhesitatingly rec
ommend you to my Democratic
party voters in Lee county as q man
after my own heart and who will
Know no party in the legislature
that conflicts with the interests of
the people of the entire State.
Cordially wishing you success, 1
remain"
The Roanoke Times makes strong
protest against the sentiments and sug
gestions of Mr.. Taliaferro. 1t says:
THE Democrats of the Ninth dis
trict have made a splendid and
wonderful fight against heavy odds.
They are trying CALAMITY to secure
possession of the counties and to
send Democratic representatives
and senators to the legislature and
they are doing it in the interest of
the State. Therefore, it seems
rather hard, while they are making
this kind of q fight, to have one of
their opponents armed with an Off
cial political recommendation and
endorsement from one of their fell
low Democrats holding an impor-
tant position in the party and the
legislature"
Here is confession that the Times
in its appeals to the Republicans of this
district last year was thoroughly insin- |
cere. 1t was not so much seeking for
them a capable representative in Con-
gress as it was striving to give the |
Democrats absolute control of the
Ninth. The Times did not hesitate to
use the endorsements given by moon |
sinners and venal men, who claimed to |
be Republicans, to win the support OF |
Republicans for Mr.. Stuart. But, now |
the Times thinks it awful for Repub-
hcan to be shown favor because he is |
endorsed by distinguished Democrat
from the eastern part of the State. The
Republicans of the Ninth will in the
future know just how sincere is our
Roanoke contemporary when it makes
false appeals to them as it did last year.
The Roanoke Times, however, was
more grossly inconsistent in an editori-
al headed, New Election Law, Want
ed, which appeared in the same issue,
that of the 7th instant.
Possibly the Times has forgotten that
last year the Tazewell Republican put
series of questions to the Times about
the election laws of the State; and that
on the End day of August, 1910, the
Times tried to answer the questions.
Among these questions were the follow
ing:
18th. Do you approve of the des-