Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-09-12
AN EXPLANATION.

also say veracious) contemporary. the
Roanoke Times. seems to have regard
ed the nomination of the Hon. c b.
SIemp for Congress. by a convention in
which the followers of Nc. Roosevelt
were largely in the majority. as a great
mystery. In its issue of the 7th inst
ant the Times says:
AT last the great mystery of the
nomination of Mr.. Slemp for Coz
gress in the Ninth district is ex-
planned. The Tazewell Republican.
republican organ of the district.
tells all about it"
The Times very fscetiously remarks
upon our editorial of last week. The
Convention and The Candidate and in
its artlessly artful manner strives to
make the Roosevelt progressives of the
Ninth see that it is their duty not to
support Mr. Slemp, but to turn their
backs on him. and in this way, possibly.
help to elect the democratic candidate.
We remember that the Times two wears
ago used similar tactics, when it sought
to encompass the defeat of Mr.. Slemp
by infisming against him what our con-
temporary was pleased to call the intel
hgent 'insurgent republicans" of the
Ninth. A recollection Of the conduct of
the Roanoke Times in the Stuart cam
paign will be sufficient to point the
Roosevelt men to the path where duty
leads-and that is to help Bascom Slomp
once more overthrow the unfair and
treacherous democratic cohorts. led
two years ago by Henry c. Stuart and
led this year by Rufus A. Ayers. with
record as obnoxious to the masses of the
people of the district as was that of Mr..
Stuart.
Our Roanoke contemporary was so
much amused with its own flippant
treatment of our solution of the "mys-
terry of Slemp's nomination by a bull
moose convention, that it became reck.
less enough to ask the Tazewell Resub
lican a question or to call for an expla.
nation. The Times closes its editorial
as follows:
no
given US the facts that newspaper
being mine Of unexpected facts
let 1t favor us with the explanation.
Let 1T analyze and expound and pre-
sent unto us the exposition of this
political phenomenon of why the
hickory shirt boys from the sour
woods, all Roosevelt men, could not
rest or stay or draw rein or breathe
until the Taft man had been put in
the lead of the party"
We thank the Roanoke Times for CIV
ing the writer of this article (who is a
Roosevelt man such a fortunate on
portunity to declare that the question
Of supreme moment to both the Roose-
welt and Taft men in the Ninth is to
keep the democrats from ever AGAIN
getting control in the district. We all
remember too painfully how we had to
rink wormwood and gall during those
periods when the district was
held under democratic control bv frauds
md crimes as foul and black as
lell We refer to the periods which
AVE been so graphically portrayed bv
democratic writer with whom the
Times is very intimately acquainted.
This writer said:
I'VE took reckless young country
fellows, or broken down men with
no character to lose, or coarse ward
and precinct workers, eager for
Jobs, and let them do the periurv +
the stealing and the ballot box stuf. B.
hrg for US. We created and hired
cur rascals.
Every election we developed a
new stock of perjurers and BULLDOG e
ers. We took ignorant or reckless b
men and trained them to perjury. o.
made them our employed thugs.
We taught them how 70 steal bal .
lots, to obstruct voters, to forge "a
poll lists, to alter returns. to plav S
tricks Of low cunning We laughed c.
ana apolauded secretly and joined h,
our miserable tools in their hes by
lying for them, defending them in ~
the courte, covering up their Of Oh
lenses, ACCEPTING THE RE. Of
SUITS OF THEIR WORK" lin
By the way, Mr.. Times, your party Of
in the state is the aame tn