Bluefield evening leader. [volume], April 14, 1908, Page 2, Image 2

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April gib. 1906, at the Post otfle
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DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
Election Tuesday. May 5. 190V
For Mayor F. M. Peters.
For Treasurer A. II. Land.
For Recorder—.1. E Crockett.
For Supervisor -A. Crazier Slow
ers.
For Coum ilinati-at-I.arge I titles
E. Clark.
For Count Ilmen;
First Ward \V. E. MeArter.
Second Ward M. I.. Wingfield.
Third Ward Dr. Wade II Si
Clair.
Fourth Ward Myron Marsh.
Fifth Ward—A. Lynch.
Sixth Ward Renton Crumi N :\
Seventh Ward— Hoge .Mas< n.
Eighth Ward A. R. Thompson.
•TWKKIHiK IU M, TWIOKIH.I IMii:
Our morning contemporary lias a
last had something to say upoi tn
vacclllating methods of the city
council in first granting and h*
refusing saloon licenses to certain
parties. It mak s a curious explana
tion of its |vosition of this mat r. it
begins by saying "the member• o."
the city council who vote on ques
tions which come before it have 1 - *
advised this [wiper why they v* ti n
they do." We were of the opinion
that our contemporary prided itsclt
upon being able to always discen
the underlying motives of the olfi
cials of its own party, and that th**;.
were good. It is the mouthpiece o'
the party, and should be abb* to giv •
reasons upon any stand its party :na.
take. In this case they say in effei t
“We don't, know, because they nav
not told us.”
The Telegraph further says. W«
have always been liberal enough not
to question their right to vote as
they please.” Tint we rather think
it makes som • difference as to whom
"they please.” They evident.,
pleased themselves and they were s
pleased that they refuse, and ih*
Telegraph refuses, to tell why tlw>
were pleased or how much they wer*
pleased.
Th • Telegraph follows this clause
by the following, which stales n,
position of its own nor enlightens i;»
readers upon the subject: ' By :h
record they make on their votes the
must be judged, and when they dis
please their constituents the right .
vote against them at the next el - -
tion Is the privilege of their < onstit
nency.”
But th** following expression from
the editorial columns or the Tele
graph shows how Ignorant our con
temporary can be upon certain q lec
tions
"Why some members of the city
council voted against certain .ippH
cations WE HAVE NEVER KNOWN
in fact we. have not asked for such
Information. NOR DO WE CARE TP
INTERVIEW THEM OR ANYONE
ELSE.”
This seems to he one r|iie-<tloii
about which our contenfpo!| try i«
anxious to know as little as possible
and the less it knows th • better 't
will be pleased, jf jt continues tc
defend the party its reason for de.
siring to know little is easpy ex
plained.
The above quot »d sentence is ther
followed by the following expres
sion :
‘ The public can have Its own opin
Ion about this without any effort o
our part to bias that opinion.”
Evidently the Telegraph does nol
desire to mak** any ••ffort to inf!
ence public opinion upon this oih
Jer-t and realizes that the least I
can say the better for the ring
But in speaking of the m»n wh<
chang i their vote* for reasoni
Whlrh the Telegraph cannot explain
it says;
“We have no defen«■ tn make foi
the men who changed their vote*.’
I* likewise has no condemnation
Tn other words it is - just -o” tjpor
the subject, Th« above-quote] sen
tence is followed h.V:
They must stand for themselves
We comm nt only on such portloni
of public utterance* fl* «<> de«m per
and space ”
It apje-ars that when n suhje
world i ke to keep |p the haehgrount
that it doe* not think It worthy o
time and space.”
The editorial referr d »o deserve
ft piaee among contrlbuMons to hu
trior. Why do p think thi
Mark Twain Is the only living Am r
Jean humorist, anvway'
The editor of the Telegraph
that he doe* not know «}o som
memh *rs of the city council vote
against certain appll* atior* for 1
cense. Hoe* he deny tha* Jo- a
ed a Republican caucus f here f)
question of who were to le* grant/
licenses this year was dlsniM1' I an 1
passed upon? Why wan lie, a pro
nounced "dry" loan ( w hen talking
to the preachers» present at such a
meeting? He and A .1 Hearn tell
Hie local Anti-Saloon League lead
ers tlint they are dry do not tie
Move in saloons and will help to turn
them out- anti yet attend the me*
ill Us. of |{ publican* where the ques
Hon Is decided. Hid they raise their
voice against granting till liquor li
reus *8, or did they say grant licenses
'o them only who art.* willing to sup
port tiie party ticket in a substan- )
tial way? Did Mr. Hearn say that
t ■ I Moved In grunting license to
t lends only, and not to party ene
tiles? Wo have it on good authority
that all these tilings took place, an;!
will a denial be forthcoming?
The ringsters were caucusing
nearly all night last night and were '
busy ■tixlng things." Hut they can’t
; 't them "fixed" to suit all the ling
Hie crowd looked very blear-eyed
'oday as the result of much caueuB
ug in the wee small hours. It looks
i ke a house divided against Itself,
because th • bosses are having a hard
lime In tixlng up a pill that even
■ ill the gang cun swallow.
The Telegraph would be tickled to
i leatli if it could Inject an Issue into
the local campaign which would
it aw attention from the gang.
From the growth of the Tele
gaph's candidates' eoluinii there are
lot of men in the party who are
■it* hungry.
The following communication wa.
.rule.! us by l)r D. K. Hawk, and it
,>itD11s1i«*. 1 by request of Dr. Hawk
nd Mr. It. A. Marks:
“Th* Anti-Saloon League dysired
> •liminiite tin* temperance questiot
Tom local politics. It is equally
' 'Eirou of having every convention
>t all political parti* s declare th >!r
i proval or disapproval of the pr> *
t ; lan for liie disposition of Ho
estiun. Of tiiis plan certainly no
I nlelligcnt citizen can be ignorant.
"We do not desire, however, oiti
pret ntative to trespass upon the
•ourtesies of any political conven
‘ on. We do not believe the "zeal’
, >f our representative sent to tin
1 ntocratle convention deserves our
ensure or the censure of anyon*
sc. Wliat he did was done by the
i ier of the executive commit!**.
■ ie r ‘quest was made Hot it verba 'y
uni iu writing that the paper be
iirst. read to the convention and
, '■ n. if without objection, referre 1
'*> tie* committee on resolutions.
“It was addressed to the sec • *•
| iry and was. therefore, through him
I he property of the convention. That
'' should have been quietly ‘re
rred by the chair to the comniitt *
>:i resolutions' Instead of tlrst being
ad to and acted on by the. conven
1 i»n in accordance with our request
1 is certainly not complying with
hat request and does not appear t >
i as being in accord with th<> usual
'F I of order in deliberative bodies.
| “N’ot until we rend it in your i>a
| er of th* 11th did we have any in
‘Imation or encouragement to he
ieve the paper would be read to the
■invention at all. Our re present a
he call *d tor the reading of th*
’•aper at the time In keeping with
i rr request and at the instance of
one of your executive commltt***
ien. t»ut. was not *v**n then informed
'hat the paper would be read.
" E X E C r TIV E COMMITTEE.”
Evidently Senator Hale Is trying
l o break Into the ranks of Dr. Long
1 uul Harriman. He has attacked bit
terly the favorite l»igg*'r army Dili
of Taft, and the more beloved war
navy measure of tin- president. Ami
aorse and more «*r it. Hah* actually
called til** Philippines a "pestilence.,”
and impolitely referred to the sec
retary of war as an official who put
in all his time away from hiH /Tuial
duties, chasing office at government
expense. Among other tilings lie
said:
“What is going on. without sena
tors or the country being aware of
i it, are the enormous increase* of
the military establishment to the
prejudice of all other appropriations
i and claims. We cannot get consid
eration of other hills because, as
everybody knows, the revenues are
, waning and we are likely to be ron
j fronted with a deficit, and in not
J many months ahead we shall be
1 found spending more money than
i comes into the treasury from the
. existing sources. We cannot pass
the omnibus appropriation hill,
which has thousands of Items that
ought to he paid as much as a note
«t hand; we are to have no river and
1 harbor bill because It Is a poacc
bill; we can have no public build
ing bill because the military ex
1 pent** are mounting so rapidly that
Senator Male said senator- did not
realize that 70 per c» nr. of the rev
enues of the government were today
expended for what has been termed
I th*» needs of the present, past and
'font a heretofore strong supporter
s i that Senator Hale said was true,
but he did not say all that the fact*
tb» revenues sincf the expenditures
nearly ffck.opn.noo, and they are
increasing every month Mr. Male
again t reckless war eyfienditurtg in
almost a statesman — w 1
plaln of wrongs co.uulft tcc-M: bcj hli
own party but not c»\k!y 4 utotl't- •
1st or rebuke. Parkersburg fv oTiium.
Our catceuid contemporary, h
Harrisonburg Tines, u strong Re
publican newspaper, speaking of tin*
recent state Republican convent loti,
says:
It was plain to nil that .• was :»
'white man's convention.' A colored
man stod about as much show of
felling Justice there as n tieorgU
negro would have In the hands of a
mob. Although the convention was
almost solidly white, no negro dele
Kate was allowed to speak, and the
delegation from Henrico count},
composed of w hite* men, was turned
out simply because they were e e *t
od by a majority of colored men
District Attorney Thomas Lee Moore
made an exceedingly able speech in
their behalf, but it was useless to
combat prejudice, with reason, and
•he vote against them was almost
unanimous." ..
Is our contemporary sure that tli •
unsuccessful Henrico delegation was
composed of white men? Our Im
pression was to the contrary. How
ever. if r he true* that we wer * mis
taken and our contemporary Is cor
reet. tin* case reflects even a worse
case of rat*.} prejudice than we had
supposed. To repudiate* negro dele
gates because of their being negroes
was bad enough, but to prejudice
• he lights of white men for the* rea
sons stated by the* Times reflects
a much more acute state of ne •
phobia. Lynchburg News.
The Parkersburg Sentinel says:
"Roosevelt Is playing polities like a
panting horse. So far as the n>
groes are concerned he is playing
both ends of the string against the
middle. lie jollies the whites by
swiping tiii> darkeys one, like the
Brownsville affair, and then offers
taffy to them by asking congress to
pass a law to compel the soul lien
railroa Is to give blacks the same ac
commodations as whites. And it so
happened that the very day lie sei t
this colored message to Cong res the
Taft white Republicans of Virginia
kicked the niggers out of the Repub
lican delegate convention, refused to
let them speak and refused to elect
any of them a delegate to Chicago
He asks the impossible while his
henchmen are doing the real thing."
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Lucas County, )ss.
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state aforesaid, and that said linn
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DOLLARS for each and every ease of
Catarrh that cannot be cured by the
use of Hall's Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and sub
scribed in my presence this Gtli day
of December, A. D. 1886.
A. W. GLEASON,
(Seal) Notary Public.
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SHIP CASK I P AGAIN.
Washington, April 11.—Argu*
m» rit will probably be heard by the
United States supreme court tomor
row in the case of Sheriff Shipp, of
Chattanooga, Tenn.. and nineteen of
his deputies, who are charge i with
contempt. The charge resulted from
the lynching in Chattanooga of Ed.
Johnson, a negro who had been con
victed by the State courts of assault
ing a white woman. Attorneys for
the negro appealed to the supreme
court, and while the appeal was
(lending the. negro was taken from
the jail by a mob and hanged. It is
alleged that Shipp and his deputies
did not take proper precautions to
protect the negro.
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fight between the Taft adherents and
those who favor an unpledged dele
gation developed today In the Third
district Republican convention. The
Taft men favor the election of Har
ry \\ Ooldard. of this city, and
Erank Hartley, of Webster, as na
‘lonal delegate*, while the anti-Taft
force* are tad by Hoi. Samuel \v
Winslow, of Worcester and llarrv
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