Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-06-17
Reply to Editorial In Enterprise OF
Last Week.

Mr.. Editor-You appear to be grow
mo generous as the campaign advances
as evidenced by your lnvitatloh W
answer vour editorial. We trust after |
YOU read the answer it Will not De
i'crowded out by more important
NATTER Now to the issue we nave
not one word to add to Senator
Martins statement. 1t is conclusive
and convincing to us and we DeneVe
To almost every other intelligent man
in the State, yourself and Mr.. Koyali
axcented. In fact we never hear tne
M alter alluded to now and supposed IL
had like all other campaign scandals
altered down and was only discussed
around cheap cross road bar rooms
where they chew niger heel tobacco
and drink five cent whiskey, "Argu,
mentu of this kind is always started
nv slick politicians for the express
purpose ofreachingthe class mentioned
and we confess we did not expect 10
see YOU try to dignity 1t TO hlgher
plane, after Senator Martin'svery PLAIN
language used regarding his railroad
affiliations in your presence last court
day.
There are other railroad matters,
however, respecting your candidate,
Gov. Montague, which we have been
irving to get you to enlighten your
readers on for the past three weeks.
True the delay is discouraging, but as
YOU have said you want the people 10
have "all the facts we are still hope
| ful of getting it in. You say also you
will then let them Judge for them
selyes.n Now that is sure enough
generosity. AS you have never before
allowed them this privilege you DOUBT
less think you nave enlightened them
sufficiently to give them trial. we
hope they will stand the test. Return
/ ing to your editorial in which you at
tack Sen. Martins first election and
| incidentally besmirch the character OF
Virginia's legislators, we call your
| attention to a fact, well known to you,
but thus far denied publicity in your
paper and that is this; the legislature
elected during the life time of Senator
Barbour, Immediately after his death
petitioned the then Gov. Mckinney
to appoint Hon. Thos. S. Martin to
I'm the vacancy. Was this legislature
debauched? Senator Martin con-
tinued a candidate and his candidacy
was made the issue over the entire
State. The Legislature convened and
elected him. l we'll remember you
saving wait until next time. Next
time came and he was reelected. You
then said give the people show. On
Senator Martins own motion TINS
show was given them and we expect
| confidently to see this his really fourth
successive victory. What you Will 90
then we don't know, except possibly
continue to refer to him as 1.-The I'M
known" Members of that first legis-
lature from this peninsula were DR..
LeCato, DIR. Smith and T. W. Russell,
the latter two supported Senator
Martin. We don't believe they were
bought. If DIR. LeCato were alive to-
day he wonld be for him also.
Now word in brief about Mr.. Royal,
who is none other than the same
Royall who sued the old State when
she didn't have a dollar in the Treas
ury and sent her Attorney General,
Rufus A. Ayres, to Jail. Virginia in
| her humiliation then sought the coun-
sci of Roscoe Conklin telling him she
had not a dollar to pay him with, but
would do so when she was able. he
took the case replying he felt it an
honor to be asked to represent the
grand old State. Royals machina-
tions did not end here, but during the
Bryan campaign as editorial writer on
the Times of Richmond did all he
could to defeat and defame that grand
man and within the last ten days even
has boosted openly in Richmond that
he went North and collected $3.50, 900
to spent in Bryan's defeat in Virginia.
In the press he speaks of honest cleo
tions. This is the man you would have
your readers listen to. This does not
complete his history either, but we
think it will suffice.
Drummondtown Martin Club.