Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-02-07
MILLENNIUM HAS
COME IN TAzEWELL
Republicans and Democrats, Like
Lion and Lamb, Are Lying Down
Together.

Behold, boys, the long-looked-
for, hoped-for time has arriv'.
The political millennium has
come in Tazewell, and this paper
rejoices in being the first to
make the joyful announcement.
The skies >re brighter, the at
mosphere clearer. The day-dawn
has dawned. Whyfore? The Re-
publican machine, one Of the
heretofore most exclusive and
selfish on earth, has seen q great
light. Its rays reach from Taze-
we'll to Washington, chasing
away the gloom and haze of
political mystery. All is plain
as day now. There are no ways
that are dark nor tricks that are
mean. Political preferment and
pie no longer reigns and rules in
the councils of the mighty.
From the private Offices of the
distinguished, and heretofore
silent and astute managers and
rulers of the county's coterie of
the Great, clear through to the
highest rotentate in the White
House, blaze of pure, white
Illuminating and health giving
light shines, brighter than the
headlight on a locomotive The
millennium has come! Sing, we
dumb! Leap up, lame. Eat, We
hungryl The great day of your
emancipation has come! Why
fore and wherefore? Why, the
Republicans have actually recon-
mended and had appointed a
Democrat for postmaster in this
town! Would you believe it
could you believe it? 1t is a fact.
There is no mistake. No romano
ing in this.
In their unselfshness their
love of the Democratic party,
their appreciation of Governor
Wilson's election, they have got
ten together, and without dis
senting voice, have had a
gentleman, a Democrat, appoint
ed postmaster at Tazewell!
Wonderful transformation For
years and years these same, un-
selfish partisans have barred out
and ruled out every Democrat
who dared offer himself for even
the most insignificant Office. If
a mayor, Sergeant, school board
secretary, clerk of court, con-
stable, magistrate, senator or
legislator or what not, if a seat
even a back seat, at the pie
counter was involved, the Demo-
crat has been summarily and
forcibly dismissed. "None but
Republicans need apply" has
been the slogan for years and
years. But not so now. The day
for which this paper has waited
and worked has at last come!
All is changed. now. Democrats
and Republicans have met,
shaken hands across the yawn-
ing gulf, and pledged their
troth. Without even a question
on the part of the Democrats,
one of their number has been
seized, nolens volens, by the
nape of the neck and seat of the
pants and hurled headlong into
the cook kitchen, and bade be
seated. Not only so, but in order
to make room for this hungry
Democrat they actually forced
the occupant of the chair at the
table to resign at least year
before his time. He willingly
gave up hundreds of needed
dollars in an unselfish desire to
aid a brother, all with the hearty
approval and concentrations of
the chief cooks. Was there ever
such unselfshness, or such evil
dence of brotherly love manifest
ed before, in the history of a
sordid world? Boys, the millen-
mum has done come, | tell you.
Rejoice with us! Toot your
horns! Ring your bells! Make a
joyful noise! From Mr.. Slemp at
Washington clean on down to
the Office of our good friend,
Mccall in this town, the loud
Methodist Amen can be heard,