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

| We are now 10 control OF the election
machinery in the state and the Ninth
district, and some of your periu,ers and
forgers in the Ninth are still being re-
warded with honors and high office and
remain in the councils of your party.
The Roosevelt men in the district
still have vivid recollection of the fact
that your men, who were expert gradu-
ates of the democratic training school
for fraud, in two successive Congress
sional elections-lS9S and l9OO-stole
the district from the republican candi-
date, that grand old Confederate hero.
General James A. Walker: aud made its
redemption almost hopeless to the re-
publicsns. They also recall how your
partisan registration boards were Sc
iected by partisan constitutional con
vention and were turned loose. without
taking an oath. with the avowed pur-
pose OF making the district safely demo
cratic, by DISTINGUISHING as many Tilt
crate white republicans as possible and
to register every illiterate democrat
that could be found.
It was at this juuc,ur- nat Colonel
Cambell Slehp was named by the re-
publicans 20 lead hem in Y hat was be
heved to be a forlo-u c fcr with th.,
constituencies Rhea ali his criminal
lieutenGnts- l. was then that Bascon,
Slemp came to the front as his father
helper, and by his great energy and SUI
perlor intelligence preserved the suf-
frage of thousands of white republicans
and so organized the district that Colo
mel Slemp surprised the democrats and
filled the hearts of the republicans with
JOY by redeeming it from democratic
fraudulent rule. 1t was then that the
Slemps blocked the game against Rhea's
messengers, who were sent out from
Bristol to your perjurers and forgers.
to tamper with the returns in Russell.
Buchanan, Scott, Washington and
Wythe counties and get the certificate
for Rhea. The Roanoke Times knows
full well that the purjurers anG forgers
did their work as directed, and it knows
that but for the quick and resolute
work of the Slemps the district would
again have been stolen for Rhea. Then
and there the republicans of the Ninth
district were bound to the Slemps by
an everlasting debt of gratitude
In four succeeding contests to that of
1902 the Slemps, father and son, I'D the
republicans-the men who are now for
Roosevelt and Taft-against the demo
Gratis, and each time carried the party
flag to victory. The most wonderful
and memorable of all these victories
was that which Bascom gained two
years ago over Mr.. Stuart. He had to
beat the biggest" d mocrat in the
district, the man the Roanoke Times
pronounced the biggest democrat in
Virginia" He had to struggle against
the biggest corruption fund chat was
ever raised and used by any party in
any Congressional district in the United
States. And he had TO fight an IN
scrupulous election machine, armed
with the most unfa& and partisan cleo
ton laws that we're ever written in the
constitution of any government that
even pretended to be democratic or re- |
publican But on the Sth day of No. |
vember, 1910. the republicans of the
Ninth district, now followers of Roose-
Welt and Taft, respectively, marched
fearlessly under the Slemp flag. and
Bascom led them to most GLORIOUS vic
tory, crushing the Stuart name and the
Stuart banner to the dust
Having failed to defeat the republi-
cans, with the Slemps as their candi-
dates, either through fraud or by de-
bauching the electorate of the district
the democrats concluded to try another
trick. They suddenly became the pre-
tended advocates of honest elections
and pure electorate. They had their
candidate for Congress make a PROPOSE
ton to Mr. Slemp that neither candidate
use any money in the present campaign,
except for LEGITIMATE expenses
Mr.. Slemp Immediately signified mis-
to accept the proposition, I
but coupled his acceptance with a re- {
as he should have done. that