Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-02-29
B0ASIER AND MllLYGnlllE

10 ANOA NiASdNlOu anu anger
because of the rejection of its unholy
scheme to make the Sixth district
monster. 1t is amusing to see the in
consistent and ridiculous reasons it pre-
sents in defence of its plans for vio-
latiug the constitution and outraging
political decency.
On the 22nd of February, 1912. the
editor of the Times, in correspondence
from Washington, said:
The redistricting bill should be
put through and the Ninth and Fifth
made safe as nesrly as possible.
Not only our regard and sympathy
and fellowship for our brethren in
these districts but intelligent sell
fishness demand this action. We
Rave learned by experience and OBJ
servation what q powerful machine
The Republicans can build when they
have control Of a congress district.
and Of how fast the power and in
huence of such a machine spreads.
10 the few years Of Mr.. Slemp's al
most uudisputed supremacy in the
Ninth district, county after county.
a!1rg the eastern border Of that
district, once surely Democratic.
became Republican or doubtful. If
The Republicans had two districts
from which to operate. their infiu-
ence would spread eastward cease
lessly and irresistibly. 1t would not
be lorg before the Democrats in
middle and eastern Virginia would
find themselves forced TO fight for
control Of their districts and coun-
ties"
How does this agree with the recent
frequent boastings OF the Times that
the Ninth district as it stood had been
made safely Democratic by the results
of the Stuart campaign two years ago?
And how does it agree with the denun-
ciaticn and boasting INDUCED in By the
Times in its issue of last Saturday?
wherein it said:
Political mollycoddles in Virgin
ia congress districts in which there
has been no serious fights by Re-
pu6licans in years gave a Repubi-
can victory in a Democratic caucus
of the Virginia assembly. They de-
feated the redistricting plan. They
did exactly what the Republicans
wanted them to do, allowed them
selves to be bluffed and scared.
There is rejoicing among the Re
publicaIs, especially in TazeweH
county. The rejoicing of
the Republicans will not last long.
The Democrats of these two close
and contested districts here in
South West Virginia are real men
and fighting men, used to real bat
tie. They are not mollycoddles.
They cannot be dismayed or bluffed
or scared or discouraged.
at Is all right. In the Ninth we
scared the Republicans white and
sick last time and came within an
inch of whaling them. Their coun-
ty rings have been smashed and the
whaling will be completed next No
vember."
What kind of thing was the Roanoke
Times, If not a mollycoddle, when it
tried to frighten the Democratic men,
bers of the Legislature by telling them
that they would soon have to fight for
control of middle and eastern Virginia.
If the Ninth and Fifth districts were
permitted to stand as formerly? The
nollycoddle Times Of the 2lst instant
fairly quivered with fear as it thought
Of the undismayed Slemp and the ire
Iistable Republicans of the Ninth and
Fifth. But on last Saturday morning
t summoned up its courage sufficiently
% call the Democrats in the Legislature
who opposed the Williams redistrict-
ng plan mollycoddles, and to magnify
he Democratic leaders of the Ninth
md Fifth into real men and fighting
men, used to real BATTLE The Times
orgot that Mr.. Williams claimed in the |
aucus that seventy-five per cent of the
ounty chairmen and Barney Campbell.
ir. Stuart's brother-in-law, had wired
i'm to put his redistricting bill through
} make, if possible, the district safely
democratic.
And the Times proved itself molly
oddIe on Sunday morning, though it
too reverent to usually stain its Sun
~ morning columns with doubtful