Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-10-13
LAST EFFORTS
UNAVAILING
Tazewell County Citizens Can.
not Forget Honor Paid Henry
Bowen, Bane Harman, Jno.
w. Crockett and Ed.
George by Democrats.
Communicated.

their broken lines i'll this county
some of the republican speakers have
visited the p0nticai graveyard and
evoked the shades of the revered and
honored dead to come back from the
vaihalla of peace and visit vengeance
on republican supporters of George
T.. Pee.y. In its sentimental and pre-
juuic.al aspects, Il more cunning ap-
Zeal could noe have originated in
the brain of Cicero; for when ghosts
begin to walk things begin to hap
pen. "'Ine dead and sceptered SOW
ereigns who still rule our spirits
from their urns" exert II potent and
powerful influence. There are voices
that speak silently into the ear Of
memory whose appeal cannot be de-
nied.
In the honor roll of notable Toze-
well men who have passed on, are
the names of many distinguished re-
publicans who at various times were
their party's candidates for Office,
WHO i'll nearly every instance were
elected, and each of whom left q
large and influential family connec-
tion to tenderly guard and honor his
memory. Among these men, trusted,
loved and admired, not by republi-
cans only. but by the Tazewell peo-
pie as u whole, may be recalled Capt.
Henry Bowen, gentleman unafraid,
afectionately esteemed by all the
people, twice elected to congress,
once carrying this county by ma
jority Of nearly fifteen hundred over
Judge John A. Buchanan who, per-
haps, was the ablest and strongest
democrat the ninth district ever had.
Will any republican claim that this
was republican victory? No. II
was vote of confidence in the abil-
ty and integrity Of Tazewell man
and an expression of pride that high
honor should come to II native son.
hundreds of Tazewell democrats vot-
ed for Capt. Bowen, and the shade
OF that chivalrous gentleman will not
come back to help hold intact a
crumbling political machine which is
dead to every consideration of local
pride and local interest
We recall other republicans. among
them L. e. George, Bane Harman.
John w. Crockett, James r. and Ebb
II. Witten, whose memories are
shrines where democrats and repub-
licans alike even now linger with
fender recollections of those lovabIe
and noble characters. How far from
the mark the claim now, for the pur
pose OF infiaming the minds of the
friends and relatives of those men
against George Peery, that the dem
ocrats of this county, and the Cedar
Bluff Peerys in particular, fought
day and night to compass the defeat
OF these men when they We're can
didates for office. When Ed George,
Bane Harman and John w. Crock
EFT were candidates for their respec-
tive Offices, as rule the democratic
organization i'll Tazewell was sus-
pended during the campaign; their
personal popularity and recognized
ability ana efficiency brought demo-
Gratis by the hundred to their sun
port who voted for them by choice
and without apology. George Peery,
when lad, worked in Ed Georges
Office and lived in Bane Harman's
nome, and if in later years, remem-
bering the kindness and help of those
princely men, he voted for them, he
sacriiiced neither principle nor the
good opinion of party friends. Hun
dreds OF democrats voted for John
W. Crockett, Bane Harman and Ed
George and the shades of those
great-hearted men cannot be sum
moned back to smite the represen-
tatlve of party that dipped its col
ors to do them personal honor.
When worthy son has claimed
the suffrage of the Tazewell people
they have never failed. All the Shafts
OF political bias and prejudice that
may fly from now until November
7th will not blind the Tazewell peo-
pie to the clear issues of this cam
palgn nor divert them from the line
of duty in the coming election. The
democratic candidate is one of Taze-
wells own, and he represents the
best traditions of her history. He
stands four-square and. the people
Know it. And the people, regardless
<of political affiliations, are going to
give him rousing majority in this
county.
Speaking of cemeteries, George
Ade says good, firstclass public
funeral is sort of welcome renef
from the deadly sameness of the
drifting weeks. G. A. further saws
that the corpse is supposed to be the
center of interest, but that very Of
ten someone else, sensing the dra-
matte possibilities of the situation
steals the show. The ninth district is
about to enjoy the fearful luxury of
a funeral that promises to be the
popular hit of the past twenty years
The mourners have ordered theii
sable robes and the hearse is ready
to back in for the remains. They are
trampling out the vintage where the
grapes of gloom are stored. The
Slemp graveyard with it's emblem Of
white crepe and it's mouldering heap.
of democratic hopes, will not be need
ed this time; its gates are sealed ant
cut flowers will not mantle its bed.
of myrtle. An old country churchyart
where the redbreasts love to built
and warble and where little foot
prints lightly press the ground ant
where the last popular intermen
took place away back in 1890-thi
neglected spot with its two lon
graves over which ghostly nigh
winds have howled for two decades
will receive the new corpse. The pa
tient is in extremis and it is hinte,
that DR.. Slemp, in trying to steal tn