The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-23
MANN TACKLES
AMHERST ROADS ! J
Finds Red Clay and Swollen
Streams a Tough Combi-
nation.
. ne SPEAKS ] AK s: IN 4 CHURCH Ct |yII'y Ct
Was the Standard B earerSin the
Time 81 Stress and Should
Supported Now.
AE SPEAKS IN A CHURCH.
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III AMHERST, VA, July 22-Judge VIII
liam Il. Mann drove twenty miles over.
the very worst of Amherst roads and
through a terrihc raln-storm to make a
speech alta big picnic given in his honor
at Pleasant View, in this county. to-day
Mr.. d Eggleston, Jr. candidate for.
Superintendent OF Public Instructions,
also drove to the same meeting but did
not have an opportunity to speak.
NJ The mountain streams were consider
ably swollen, and in one instance the!
newspaper man Of the crowd had to climb
out of the buggy In water up to his
waist to pull log from between the$
wheels OF the buggy, which had been
TANNED there as it hoated down the en-
ragged stream. E 5l III
The crowd. which Judge Mann found
eating dinner, was a large one for such
an Indictment day. AS there was no
other place found which would hold, the,
crowd. the speaking took place In the
asked If any one present objected. No
objection being heard, the church was
used for8Ethe purpose. t Isl Il
j Judge Mann was introduced by Cap
tain r. p. Eubank. He began by say
Ing that as he wished to speak princl-,.s
tpally about a moral question, there was
no reason why he should not speak in a.
church, though he was opposed to hold
ing political meetings In churches s3
After nurrying} over the subjects of
roads and educa ton, Judge Mann took;
up tho issue of the Mann bill to which
he devoted over half of his speech. 8
"a He said that he had taken up the tenn
perancc fight before the Legislature at
II time when. he thought that the saloon
Influence was dominant in the Democratic
.arty, and that It would be political death
TO any man to oppose them in the Legis-
ia. u,o Of Virginia that by The aid Of
the Woman $ Temperance Union, the Anti
Saloon League, the churches and nu-
merous petitions, he had won this fight.
He had not won alone. but he had been
the standard bearer. Now. asked the Judge
with great effect: What are you going to
do with your standard bearer? After you
have won victory, are you going to give
the standard to some other man
q i He \ then criticised the silence Of Mr..
Swansonaa and Willard on the issue OF the
Mann bill, 8 IS
He referred to the fact that the Mann
bill had closed up $50 saloons, and at the
same time had Increased the revenues
Of the State s205. 000. % &
b He asserted that there was an organized
movement on foot In this State to have
the Mann bill repealed at the next SEES
sion of the Legislature, and he appealed
to those who advocated It to stand by
him. This organization was secret, but
powerful intits workings.
Z He said that Tho Times Dispatch had
cartooned him, as holding his baby and
not recognizing It. but he said that tho
great moral principle which was en-
bodied in the Mann bill when It Was dra wn
was there when 1t was passed, and he
said that no was the proper one to nurse
his own baby Of but two years of age.
Judge Mann took we'll with the crowd,
quite large per cent Of which was
ladies, 1t was interspersed with hui
morous hints at his opponents and en-
PERTAINING jokes.
& He was already strong In the Pleasant
View section, but there Is but title doubt
that his speech Of to-day added greatly
to his strength, He drove back to AM
herst and made an address to crowd In
tho courthouse here tonight,
a Judge Mann seems to stand tho fatigue
of the campaign very we'll. But he re-
marked to your correspondent that his
nrm was SO sore from gesticulaiing that
he could not raise a pound with 1t without
pain. 55 Il