Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-05-23

against republican candidates for the
past fifteen or twenty years are still
Kept IN position to do their dishonest
work-both against republicans and re-
beilious democrats? Now comes from
democratic sources undeniable proof
that our charges are true.
At the meeting of the democrats of
Tazewell county on the 14th instant it
was charged that corrupt means had
been or were being used to secure a
pocket delegation from Tazewell county
to the Norfolk convention. That accu-
sation was fiercely resented by the ma
chine leaders. The following letter
from the notorious Jim Stone. addressed
to MIR. G. W. Doak, was published in the
Clinch Valley News of the 18th instant:
State Corporation Commission.
Mineral Land Assessment.
James a. Stone, Assistant Assessor.
Bristol, Virginia.
Bristol, Va, April II, 1912.
Mr.. G. W. Doak,
Tazewell, Va.
Dear Mr.. Doak:-I have Just returned
from Washington, and had conference
with a hunter of our democratic
friends, and they are extremely hopeful
in fact, confident,-tha we will elect
a democratic President, if we do not
make mistake and nominate the wrong
man. 1t is argued that the proper thing
/ for Virginia to do is to send an unin-
structed delegation to Baltimore, and if
We want to win, it is absolutely the
thing to DO. Of course, if we want to
nominate man that happens to suit
our particular fancies and run the thing
through on the lines that We have for
the last sixteen years, then we might
nominate almost any good talker and
proceed to get licked"
wish you would please advise me
fully the situation in your county. If
you think it will be possible to work up
an uninstructed delegation, please ad-
wise. l would also like to know if, in
working up this delegation, you think
that some legitimate expense might be
incurred, to a small amount, to abso-
lutely secure this result, and if so. to
indicate about what amount you think
it would be.
Please treat this letter strictly conf
Dental and let me hear from you fully
by return mail.
Yours very truly,
JAS-CB. ]. A. STONE.
There appeared in the Bristol Herald
Courier of the 18th instant the follow
ing:
''James A. Stone received tele-
gram Tuesday evening from Taze-
well county giving the result of the
democratic mass convention held at
TaZewell Tuesday to select dele
gates to the convention to be held
at Norfolk May 23rd. The conv.n-
ton instructed its delegates to vote
for an uninstructed delegation to
the Baltimore convention.
"Mr. Stone has kept up with the
action of the various counties of the
Ninth district at the mass conven-
tiOns. Out of the Ill votes from
the Ninth district ninety-three of
them are instructed in favor of
sending an unrestricted delegation
to the Baltimore convention
So, it seems, that Jim Stone, under
orders from Washington, has been keep
ing up with the action" of the demo-
cratic mass conventions in the Ninth.
The promptness with which he received
the telegram from Tazewell announcing
the result here proves that he has not
only kept up with but that he has been
successfully controlling the actions of
these meetings in the Ninth.
A worthy citizen of our town remark
ed to US: What sort of a man is this
fellow, Jim Stone, who writes such let
ters on paper furnished by the Common
wealth with the printed head of the
State Corporation Commission theron?"
We replied: at is because ne is that
sort of man that a position was created
for him that pays three thousand dol
lars year. And it is because he is
that sort Of a man that he has been
selected to keep up with the democratic
mass meetings and to use Doodle, if nee
essary, to shape their actions"
There is evidence that copies of the
above letter were sent to other demo-
Gratis in Tszewell and the other counties
of the Ninth district. We are told that
Stone sent one to his friend and CO. |
worker, Mont Clark, in Russell county.
We would like to know just how the
Lynchburg News, the Roanoke Times |