The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1913-09-24

WINE engaged in or about their wort
whether such injury Is the result of ,bo
negligence of the employer. the in,ured
person. or anybody else
Under present laws. although a mann
iacturer or operator has to nav fo-
piece OF machinery broken, no matter
from what cause, yet if A man ia hurt mr.
Killed, either from his own unfortun.,..
lack oi care or the carciessness of A fe,-
.ow-workman, neither lie nor his admin
,strator can recover damages. although
ms vile and children may be len des-
ttntc and charge upon the county
onoh law may be hard upon the en-
pioyer, but the best modern thought de-
ate "'
Sixteenth: The tax laws and tho ON.
tire system OF taxation in Virginia viii
he amended and revised at the neyt Loo
lslature Different parts of the state AMI
different localities in several count;es
SHOW inequalities so broad as TO be almos,
or quite criminal The average assess.
ineht OF horses in Wise and Dickinson
Counties Is twice as high As in Tazeyeu
ailu COWS are assessed elOO head IN
i,ickenson aud 5000 a head more in Wise
than in Tazewell yet. what Tszcwrll
man would not laugh At us If we wore Ia
claim that ours were worth morn than
halt As much as theirs. Other counties
show up very much worse. These dis
ordinations exist all over the state. and
values must be cqualizcd. Every man in
virginia virtually assesses himself on III.
personal property lists, aud he who has
the least conceals the least All assess.
ments should be subject TO central re-
view in order to make them equal lin
der the present laws only mineral lands
aud surface over mineral lands. which in
cludes nine-tcnths OF the land In DIcken
son and ionr-iiiths in Wise, are subject
TO such review. What is sauce for us
should be sauce for the rest OF the state
rms matter Is OF immense Importance TO
ms aud we should watch carefully To pro.
tcct our interests
Seventeenth The law to prevent
spending money in elections, and 10 pre.
serve aud protect the purity of the bal
lot should be strengthened, aud every.
thing should be done to give all sides far
representation at the roils
Eighteenth Representation in the
State Senate and House of Delegates
should be rcapportioned on fairer basis.
according To population Southwest Vir.
ginia should have another Senator Wise
County should have Two delegates Dick
enson aud buchanan together one. and
Tazewcl. should have one. ] introduced
such q bill in the House last session
The Committee SO amended IL AS to give
Wise one delegate, Dickinson and Bnch
anan together one, aud razewrll one
After hard fight / got this hill passed
by the House but 1t failed in the Senate
With my present experience, IL re-elect
ed, believe | can pass this bill through
the house and force il through the Sen
ate
Nineteenth. II the Congressional Dis
tricts are re-apportioned, such re- .appor-
tiOnment should he made ON fair basis.
according tn population At the last
session a BIN was introduced taking Taae-
well, Bland aud Giles out of the Ninth
District, and making 4 shoe string out of
the Sixth District. one county wide and
three hundred anl my mIes long.
opposed this change in the Joint Demo
cratic Caucus, and. with the aid of others
there defeated il over the protest of many
party leaders. believed it both unfair
and bad party politics.
Twentieth; | am for aud ahsll use
every means in my power to elect that
fair and just man, that splendid citizen
and eminent lawyer. Elbert NJ Fulton,
TO the Supreme Court of Appeals of Vir-
gnia;
According To the custom OF all politi-
cal parties for scores of years, the last
three above and many other questions
will be settled in party caucus. and no
man, unless he is a member of the Demo-
cratic Caucus, will have real vote on
such questions
The people Of Wise and Dickinson
Counties sent me to the Legislature two
years ago. ! went to Richmond with my
mind made up to render them the very
best services there were in me. and TO
give my entire time to the work | Sc
cured good assignments On two of the
most important House Committees, at
tended their meetings faithfully. and
never missed single session of the
House, night or day. ! staid Oh the job
and gave from ten TO fourteen hours
work every day to legislative business
If am sent back | promise to work rs
hard, but cannot work harder, but
through the experience gained and the
work count for much more and accom-
plish much more.
Mr.. Litz represented this dis
trict in the Legislature of 1910.
L represented III IN the leglsla-
ture of 1912. An examination
of the House Journals shows:
He failed to vote on 335 roll calls
and voted on 292, an average of
40 per cent. failed TO vote on
- roll calls and voted on 66s,
an average of SO per cent.
voted for the enabling act to allow
the people Of the state 10 vote on the