Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-08-14

Mr.. Hume is one OF the leading cham
pions of pure food legislation, and has
twice been unanimously elected as first
vice president of the national pure food
and drug congress. He is hard work
er and one who does not undertake
anything he does not believe in and
when once he starts in Oh subject he
never Ii ts up until he has won his fight.
Mr.. Hume has been criticised in con.
neciion with the Rosslyn charter. He
is large land owner at Rosslyn, a
stockholder in the Rosslyn Improve.
ment Company, and firmly believes
that if the locality were incorporated
it would be less disorderly, and that
proper municipal regulations and gov
ernmont, even though it cost more taxes,
that every expenditure would be amply
repaid, although the present conditions
at Rosslyn (since the new Court
House and jail have been built are
some what changed. The locality, how
ever, certainly would be under better
control from the Washington roughs if
it was Incorporated than it can be un-
der any county system,
Mr.. Hume has been to every State
Democratic Convention and was at
Chicago as delegate sent by the Staun
ton convention. This fight is not one
of personal aspersion and individual
attack. TIE candidates are gentleman
well-known and respected, and in urg-
ing the name of Mr.. Hume, his friends
do not care to attack Mr.. Caton-far
from it; but they believe that the best
interest of the city and county will be
served by sending business man with.
out entangliug alliances, to represent
their business interest. We have too
many bad laws, many that are on the
statutes we're doubtless placed there
without regard to the peoples welfare
and to crafty the ambition of certain
gentlemen of the legal profession who
believe they could better the code by
changing it with the unfortunate result
of entan9ling their constituents and
adding to their own employment.
The people have these ideas, they
may be incorrect, but holding them,
they are asked to aen6 from this bust
ness community business man.
Mr.. Hume has done much to aid per-
sons out of employment, both in the
city and county, by securing work for
them, and he never fails TO assist ell
whom he can. When the Coke army
was in Alexandria county, and the
county was unable to feed them, Mr..
Hume, from his own means, provided
food to supply their necessities, saying,
thsG as long as he had dollar he could
not see these poor people starve near
his home.
At the urgent request of his many
friends and against his personal private
interest, Mr.. Hume has consented to
become candidate for the House of
Delegates, 1t Can be said, without dis
paragemeDt to any one, that If elected,
the city and county will be ably repre
sented by business man who fully un-
derstands their material needs and who
will fearlessly and honestly represent
them. The record of Mr. Hume as a
former member of the House of Dele
gates and in the various offices he has
held in Alexandria county, prove,
without the possibility OF contradiction,
that he is fully capable of making a
first class business representative, and
all who know him and his work for
the city and county of Alexandra,
must admit that no one in either has
been more consistent, earnest, active
worker for their advancement than has
MIR. Hume. VIRGINIAN.