Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-06-07
AS BIASED AS WE.

Some OF the Richmond papers
which have no love for Senator Mar
tin and can see nothing good in him
or anything that he does have
through this compaign, magnifed the
part or interest which he has shown
In the present gubernatorial fight.
He does not talk much, and pretty
nearly all that they have written
about his movements have been man.
ufsctured by them. Let him drop
into Richmond, where his profession
and public duties naturally call him
and where he has for years been fire.
quently visiting, or let him ride by
on the cars, and one of their report
ers hears of it and gets up a great
big canard. There is no local paper
which has been more biased or rabid
In the present campaign than have
some of our city contemporaries.
We have the kindliest feelings for
every one of them, but they have all
boosted that they are uews papers
and not organs, leaving the latter
cosnomen to be applied to some of
us country fellows. But if ever the
term ''organ" could be appropriately
applied to newspaper it certainly
will fit one or more of our city ex-
changes whom we refrain from men,
tioning out of our hitherto high
regard for them. Not content with
filling their columns with things
favorable to Mr.. Montague's can
didacy, going so far, to our personal
knowledge, as to cut out from cor
respondents letters things favorable
to MIR. Swanson, they do not report
the lists of delegates elected, ETC., as
the record should be. We note that
some of them fail to credit Lancas-
ter with but ten delegates when, ac-
cording to the ruling of the State
Committee, she is entitled to eleven:
and again, we CLEANED from their
columns that Lunenburg's six dele
gates were contested, yet they credit
them to Mr.. Montague.
The injustice done Senator Martin
mas been very great, as already noted,
during this compaign. He has done
or said nothing that was open to
censure. but some papers have
colored his every act and word, with
little regard for truth. Had he done
what Governor Tyler did the other
day in behalf of Mr.. Montague far
ing headlines woald have been stand
ing-matter for some papers; yet the
Governors little officiousness has
passed unnoticed, except by a cor
respondents pen. While on a trim
to the Southwest recently he told
some of Mr.. Montague's friends that
they should hurry the selection of
delegates in certain county in order
to give Mr.. Montague send-off and
help catch up with Mr.. Swanson
The advice was taken, a convention
precipitated just before the Spring
election, and as a result, it is main
tanned by some, this action caused
the defeat of the Democratic nomi-
nee. These things are CLEANED from
correspondents showed off into an
obscure place in the daily papers.
We say had Senator Martin been
known to do such thing what a
howl some of the press would have
set up!
The country press is often accused
OF being biased in our political pref
erences, and many of us are, but we {
are excused in measure because of
our individual ownership and per- I
'onality; but large daily newspaper I
IS STOPPING to a level which it would s
become incensed at if charged with /
lt when it fails to record correctly /
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