Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-05-03
MIR. SWANSON.


man, who aspires to high office, to
attribute to him the position of a
tool of another, as is done by the
opponents Of Mr.. Swanson, without
good grounds for the charge.
We suppose it is true that Mr..
Swanson is supported by Senators
Martin and Daniel and majority
of the Virginia Congressional dele
cation. Have they not a right to
their preference as well as the
humblest citizen?
From what we can learn Mr..
Swanson is self made man, who
has risen from clerkship in a store
in Danville to be a member of Con-
gress, serving his 7th term and who
is the ranking Democratic member
of the Ways and Means Committee,
the most important committee in
Congress.
1t did not look like he was the
creature of Senator Martin, when in
the fight last winter for Supreme
Court Judge he vigorously supported,
and helped elect, Judge Whittle over
Wm. Hodges Mann, the candidate
supported by Senator Martin.
Let US have some better reasons
for defeating Swanson than that he
is supported by the chosen represen-
tatives of our party.-Orange o.
sercer.
Our Orange contemporary strikes
the nail on the head. 1t could not
have explained its position and that
of every paper not blinded by parti-
sanship in clearer language. The fact
that Senators Martin and Daniel
choose to support Swanson is no
argument against his candidacy and
the futile effort of the Montague
press to work up sentiment for
their man on account of this support
is as tiresome as it is small. The
Petersburg Inde1-Appeal a few days
ago asked why our two Senators were
more liable to criticism for support
ing Swanson than were Congressman
Jones and others holding public
offices for supporting Gov. Tyler in
his fight against Senator Martin,
and in the face of this rather diff
cult question our Montague con-
temporaries observe panied silence
even our garrulous contemporary,
the Warsaw Neaos, crawling in its
hole. The Salem Times Register is,
however, an exception to the above.
and, after severely criticising Martin,
it defends its fairness in doing 80 by
asserting that it also criticised Con-
gresham Jones, when the latter be-
came so unfortunately entangled in
the meshes of an exploded boom. As
we have predicted time and again
the Gubernatorial fight is going to
develop into fight against Martir
and Swanson-not alone against
Swanson, because he, at least, has
conducted his canvass in a manner
that leaves little room for criticism.
Some Of our contemporaries call at
tention to the number of times it has
been stated that the junior Senator
will support Swanson, and ask If it
is not time to quit telling the people
of Virginia this fact, and yet we
awake every morning to find the
same old announcement in the
columns of newspaper that boosts
Mr.. Montague in it's news reports,
while SO far it has been unable to
make mp its mind to do so editorially;
and the Richmond Times is not the
only one that could be mentioned.
The Times, yirtuous censor of jour-
nalism in Virginia, has not yet
reached that point where it can re-
frain from partisanship and there
fore its news columns grow rather
uninteresting. In the meantime Sen-
ators Martin and Daniel go on work
ing for Mr.. Swanson, Indifferent to
the criticisms of men aud newspapers
who have only one object in view,
and that object to obtain position
where they will be the "Ins" instead
of the "Outs. -Fredericks5urq Star
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