Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-07-14

oenatt, ooserfeu mr. Martin. "BaC
men occasionally get into man,
places where they ought not to be
The Senate will expel those mer
who are convicted of corruption il
they do not get out of their own &C
cord.".
CORRUPTION NEARER RICHMOND.
With fine irony, and looking Gov,
Montague full IN the face, Senator
Martin declared that s'corru ptiou
has crept in nearer my competitor
than Washington. Graft has crep
in under his very eyes" Then b,
told of "hagrant, wanton graft in
the sale of school registers that cost
lS cents and had been sold for rs
and they assure me the half has no,
yet been told. (Applause) | in.
vite my competitors attention {
little more to these things and 1
little less to Washington, for these
things in Washington are being rap
idly punished. He has been a mem
Der of the Board of Education fol
seven years."
The Senator took up the Corpora.
ton Commission under Gov. Mon
tague's administration as something
that ''should bring the blush to tbs
cheeks of every patriotic Virginian.' %
"My distinguished competitor" !"
added Senator Martin, "made cam.
paign four years ago on a platform
that included good roads. Judging
from the roads l went over this
morning from fredericksburg, thai
plank has not been made good. But
you can't build good roads on hoi
air. / am for good roads, but this
is an age for doing things, as my
competitor says. / think it is better
to build 100 yards of good road
than to make 100 eloquent speeches
on the subject"
81 have done as much toward get
ting that resolution for constitu-
tional amendment for election of
Senators by popular vote passed."
said Mr.. Martin, cas- my distin-
guished competitor has done in
building good roads. If the gov
ernor thinks l can go to Washing.
ton, when Democrats compose ONLY
about one-third of the Senate, take
charge of things, and run the gov
ernment, he is sadly mistaken. The
Republican majority in the Senate
is opposed 10 election of Senators by
the people. ] shall keep hammering
away on the subject and do the best
| can"
The Senator concluded his hour
of vigorous speaking with some ref
erence to his career In the Senate.
de said he did not talk much. 81
am not addictedto indulging in orato
ry on the foor," he asserted, "but let
any one show where the interests of
Virginia have suffered by my silence.
only speak when / think it can
serve some purpose, and then in a
plain, straightforward way" He
said he had been trying to get things
for Virginia, so that she might not
be eternally behind the northern
states In such matters.
Senator Martin took his seat and
aggressively waved a fan.
GOVERNORS FINAL WORD.
With much spirit Gov. Montague
went into the history of the primary
law. ave are troubled" he de-
clared, mot so much with colored
men as with colorless men. This is
no time for being on the fence. 1t
is time to ride horse. If you can't
get horse, my friends, get a goat.
When did he support the primary
law? He got aboard the cart when
the tail was down. The Junior Sen-
ator-says he did nothing against the
primary, but what did he do
for il?
1--WE have tried to get the pri-
mary legalized. Nearly every friend
he has in the State Senate fought
the legalzation of the primary. Let
him line up his friends for legaliza.
ton"
"Fhe Junior Senator says that
corruption has crept in nearer to me
than Washington. All, / defy any
one to say have not met corrup
ton with fearless 'front.'"
Gov. Montague pointed out that
he had no power over the Superin-
tendent of Education. He was elect.
ed by a legislative caucus and not
by the people. "He was nominated. %
the governor added suavely, "by the
friends of the Junior Senator"
The governor defended his course
with reference to the Corporation
Commissioned explained thatJ udge
Crump was chosen by the Legisla-
ture and could not be removed by
the governor. He defended also his
record on good roads, and said he
knew as we'll as anybody that good
roads conld not be built on hot air.
During the last eight years, he de.
clared, the Legislature had been
controlled by the Junior Senator'S
friends, who had left nothing un-
done to embarrass him.
"Well, I've just got my foot in
the stirrup," he remarked a moment I
later, as he took his seat in the
midst of great cheering.
SENATOR MARTIN STRIKES HoME.
Senator Martin then began again
to hit out from the shoulders. The
audience came around to him slow
ly, but it was only a short time be-
fore he had captured them as com.
pletely as had bis distinguished COM
petitor bat few moments previous
ly. He said the governor was mac
curate again when saying that the
legalization of the primary had been
defeated in the State senate by his
(Martin's) friends. "There were ak
teen State senator's who voted for the
hill," said the Senator. "Nine OF
them were my friends and seven OF