Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-02-14
is IT A SIN TO
ACCEPT OFFICE?'
millennium" Article Proyokes "A
Democrat TO Speak Gut in Open
Meeting.
February II, 1913.
Editor Clinch Valley News:
c. IL. llRI.ll L -

SO the Millennium" has come
in Tazewell, Republicans and
Democrats, like Lion and Lamb,
are lying down together!
The frat column Of the first
page of your last weeks issue
contained these startling head
lines, and it may be that those
who do not know, and who are
not familiar with the Inner
circle" Of the Democratic arena
in Tazewell county, would be-
lieve that you, or some member
of your staff, had written this
great excorium of present day
rolitics, but when the article is
given close inspection and con-
sidered with some knowledge Of
past and present happenings in
this great" Innerc ircle" between
certain favored members of the
Democratic county committee,
one may readily see the ear
marks of two or three Of the
gentlemen who have been, and
are now, the chief actors, fur
nishing wisdom and entertain
ment for their few supporters
and sympathizers, without re-
garding or considering what
may be best for the success and
elevation of the Democratic
party in this county. No Mr..
Editor, while your generosity
has stood a strong test in thus
assuming responsibility and
authorship of this mastery
peroration on politics and the
pie-counter, you have not de-
ceived the reading and thinking
public into believing you to be
the originator of such an un-
orthordox vision of the millen-
MUM. But Mr.. Editor, as you
have assumed, or will allow
yourself to be charged with be-
ing its author, l know you will
not refuse to give space in your
valuable paper to this feeble
epistle, not to the Romans,
but to the Bosses, neverthe.
less, and will answer few
questions that naturally will
arise in discussion of the mil
lennium", and the probable birth
of the idea that has brought
about such Utopean results in,
this day and time of social,
political and industrial strife,
that the Lion and the Lamb"
may lie down together in com
plete safety and accord, and en-
joy their peaceful slumber, that
a hungry appetite, after a post
office, can secuYa,, when one has
gotten, and while he is eating,
the pie. The only serious menace
to this heavenly dream, is oc-
casioned, because unfortunately,
there are not enough postoffiees
to 60 round and the ones who
can eat pie are liable to create
discord and stir up strife, just
in order to show US that the
millennium" has not come,
though we have made consids r
able headway in reaching that
goal by electing Woodrow Will
son. And that reminds me, A.
B. Buchanan was the only one
Of the applicants for the Taze-
well postoffice pie that wanted
Mr.. Wilson instructed to bake
it, but that is neither here nor
there. | am DEPRESSING from nv
subject. / started out to ask you
to tell us Democrats, when the
Lion and the Lamb" began
the negotiations for this great
peace treaty and a pie-counter
division? Has it been so very re-
cent, or was it in the fall |of
1911, when the Democratic
county committee, through its
chairman, issued a circular letter
to the Democratic voters of this
county, and scattered it broad
cast, calling upon them to vote
for G. w. Greever, Republican
candidate for Clerk, after that
committee had violated all pre-.
cedent and every rule of the
Democratic party policy and hac
cast aside one Democratic as
pirant for the State Senate anC
had elevated another, without {
submission to the party, and il
the face of the protest of tn,
party; that same committe,
which decided to let no Demo
crat sacrifice himself in the in
terest of his party, by contestini
for the county Offices, though
there were many willing candi
dates, and the chance to vii
was never so good; that sam
committee which allowed two o
three Of IL aita members to force S