Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-02-14

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then that the example was set
Had the same gentlemen liowlec
then who are howling now, they
might, with much better effect
and more consistency, enter 8
protest against a Republican
Congressman securing the ap-
polntment of Democrat to any
| office. Now is it so great a sin
to receive an appointment to q
Federal office at the hands of q
Republican President? Did Chief
Justice White and other great,
true and tried Democrats, who
received appointments from
President Taft protest and re-
fuse to accept, and were their
appointments challenged and
criticised by the Democrats OF
| this country? Certainly not.
Then why so much noise, scandal
and infamy about Mr.. Buch-
anan's appointment, and why
such condemnation of him be-
cuase he is going to accept? Is it
sincere, or is it the selfish out
pourings of some disappointed
candidates for that Office, and
the Sympathetic wailings of his
C ,nfreres, who have gone before
/ but whose sores are slow in
healing? Mr.. Slemp knew and
Mr.. Taft knew, that the ap-
pointment of a Republican could
never be confirmed. When the
Vacancy occurred in the Taze-
well Office, it was not only the
Presidents privilege, but his
duty to appoint Mr.. Pendleton's
successor, and knowing that only
Democrats could be confirmed
ne appointed Mr.. Buchanan.
Now is Mr.. Buchanan to be con-
demned because he could use an
influence to secure that appoint
ment that his opponents did not
have? Certainly not, for we all
know, not ene of them would
have refused the pie because it
was handed out on a platter in
stead of a plate. Must mans
Democracy and his fealty to his
party be questioned and SANDER
ed, simply because a Republican
Congressman through a Repub-
lican President, secures for him
the appointment to an Office that
none but Democrat can get?
Now if Mr.. Buchanan's Demo-
cracy could be honestly ques-
toned, and he was in reality a
Republican, but outwardly cloth
ed in Democratic raimment, such
howl might be accounted for
and just criticism should be
awarded, but no such charge
can be sustained and none has
been made. In this great county
of Republican supremacy the
writer does not know a single
voter by the name of Buchanan
who votes any but the Demo-
cratic ticket, and l am informed
that in the county of Smythe,
where about one hundred of the
name are voters, and all his
kinsmen, that for the past
twenty-five years but one was
ever known to vote the Repub-
lican ticket, and the condemna-
tion and ostracism of his kindred
became so great, that he, with
his family, went to a far coun-
try where he has long since been
forgotten. But all this counts
for naught. Mr.. Buchanan has
cotton the pie some one else
thought was his, and which was
badly wanted by another, and
"lo the poor Indian" his political
annihilation must be accomplish
ed before his tormenters will be
satisfied, and they plan also to
despoil and rob him of his
possessions. Shall it be allowed,
in decency and fair play? Mr..
Editor, is it not the loss of the
Office to your Associate Editors"
of the article in question, that
constit tutes the real grievance?
And if Mr.. Buchanan through
his friends, did use an advantage
in obtaining the aid of Repub-
lican Congressman and Presi-
dent, was he not justifiable in
doing so? What more could you
expect when the county commit
| tee turned down the petition and
| will of 80 per cent of the Demo
cratic voters and patrons of the
two offices of Tazewell and
North Tazewell, for a Demo
4 cratic primary, to select by
| Democratic votes, the postmas-
ters? Mr.. Buchanan wanted g
primary and was willing to lei
the Democratic voters and pa.
| trofno of tho o&na nf Tnunwnl