Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-08-19
A Reply to Boot Heel


o,e stvling himself BOOT Heel" I'M
der .ook to dodge rather than answer
onery relative to Capt. WIZARDS
nosition on the "Jim Grow" Law, by
asking certain questions concerning
the Hon. Claude A. Swanson. me
questions display such remarkable lg-
norance and partisan bias on the part
of BOOT Heel' that they scarcely
merit the time or space necessary 10
answer them. Evidently the gentle
man is "Willard Heller" or dis
ciple of one Crandall Mackey, OF Alex
andria. whose recent slanderous at
tacks on Mr.. Swanson have. with a
boomerang effect, made him (Mackey)
an object of contempt and ridicule IN
the eyes of all fair minded men.
Yes, Mr.. Swanson did go to Europe
in the summer of 1901. Worn out and
broken down, as a result of the ar
duous campaign preceding the Nor
folk Convention, he went away for a
few weeks change and rest. But he
returned in time to make whirl-wind
three weeks canvass of this State, in
which. at his own expense, he trav-
elled more miles, made more speech
es and underwent more hardships for
the success of the ticket than any
man in the State, barring only Gov
Montague, his successful opponent
for the nomination. Unless BOOT
Heep' is too poorly informed to
"speak in public" he should have
known this, and knowing it should
have been fair enough to have stated
it.
He should also have known, as the
Accomac News editorially very ac'
curately says, that the 9th Congress-
ional District (Swanson's) is not
NORMALLY Democratic" nor has II
been for the past generation. True
Mr.. Swanson, by virtue of his great
personal popularity, has always been
able to carry it for himself for Con
gress, even when the counties com
prising the "Bloody Fifth" have de-
feated his warmest friends for the
local offices and the Legislature. The
veriest tyro in politics knows that
man can carry more votes for himself
than he can for another. And besides
does "Boot Heel" not remember tina
Gov. Montague is from the same
county (Pittsylvania)and district 10Th
,, that Mr.. Swanson halls from. FRIEND
"Boot Heeln is the first person wh'
has had the temerity even to insin
,, nate that Mr.. Swanson did not do HI
!, whole duty on the ticket four year
ago The facts constitute an eloquen
denial; and Gov. Montague and hi
friends have never uttered one wor'
Of complaint.
Mr.. Swanson may never have inUro
duced into Congress a resolution II
favor of Temperance" land there ha
never been the ghost of a show o
y passing such legislation in that body
: vet he has, in addition to consist
ent, temperate life, gone on record L
favor of temperance" by Away
> voting for temperament measures, when
ever he had an opportunity to do SO
HAS Mr.. Boot Heel?" MIR. Swan
n sons position and record on the ten
J, perance question are entirely satisfaC
tory to the conservative, temporal
+ minded voters of this county, and
: the State at large. He has, throug
n the public press and from the pupn
platform, declared that he will Ell
force our existing temperance law
=, as he will all others, and that,
u Governor, he will sign any other goo
: temperance measures that Jude
Mann when he returns to the Senat
st NAV succeed in getting through Tn
s. Legislature. Supporting Mr.. Swanso
a. in this county and (my informatio
/, isl likewise all over the State, al
lie men, Including nearly all the preacl
ers.) whose temperance records can
be questioned and whose efforts hay
won temperance victories time al
apain-men who were living tempe
~ ance and fighting whiskey wht
- "Boot Heel" unless the writer
y guess at his identity is wide of Il
9 mark land company" were drinhI
- it.
~ Yes. "Voter" is "aClaude Swans'
~ supporter" and has good reasons
= the faith that is in him. Here a
some of them.
l. Swanson is the ablest o. !
ne three candidates.
of Q. He is the most conservative a.
ed safest of the three.
he 8. He is clean, honest, fearless
no and has, in the "bloody district"
ell the State, waged more battles
n Democracy and the people tn
as either of his competitors.
ny 4. He is the man most likely to
ay ceive the support of all factions OF t
by party, If nominated, and is best fit
A to lead to victory united Democra
er, against the common enemy, head
r. by Judge Lewis, in what gives pro
Use of being hard fight.
5. Sprung from the masses OF
people, trained in the hard school
of poverty and adversely; without p
nh corporation connections or pres
m. large personal interests to bias
srv Judgment or to demand his attenti
sed he is best fitted to make the best G
ley ernor.
ey. 6. And, so far as any man can