Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-06-09
Mears or Jones.

The Democrats of the LIST Congress
sional District will, OH June 10th, bel
called upon to decide at the primary
polls who shall represent them IN the
next Congress. Two distinguished, able
men are aspiring to the high honor.
The Hon. ". A. Jones, the present
incumbent, has held the posluoh'
without opposition, for sixteen years.
While he has made us a high, clean
official. his record has been anegatlVe
one. So far at least as the Eastern
shore is concerned he has accom-
nlished but little. His present ad-
yocates are able to point to only one
snecial service, namely, the several
CONCENTRATIONS of $50, 900 for dredging
Cape Charles harbor, the chief benefi-
ciary of which is the n. Y, p. q KY.
Co. a private corporation abundantly
able to take care of its own harbor'
Opposed to Mr.. Jones is the Hon.
Ohio f. Mears, a native of Accomac
and now a resident and citizen OF
Northampton county. MIR. Mears Is
one of the prominent lawyers not only
of the Eastern Shore, but of the State !;
and is a citizen against whom no word
of reproach can be truthfully uttered:
If elected no one who knows him will
question that he will make us an able
and efficient representative.
Isn't sixteen years long enough 10
honor one man and one small county
with this high office, when there are
other men in the district who could
fill the place equally as wellY North
ampton, our sister county has not had
congressman since 1920, and then
for only one term of two years. The
Eastern Shore has not had a demo-
cratic member of Congress for long
number of years. Isn't it now our
turn?
Eastern Shoremen are wont to COM
plain that politically we do not get the
State and National recognition our
prosperity and Democratic strength
entitle us to receive. The fault, II we
do not, lies with ourselves. IL is now
easily within the reach of Eastern
Shore Democrats to honor one OF
their distinguished citizens with a seat
in the next Congress. The District is
geographically divided into three sec
tions, each, in round figures, having
about one third of the vote. The new
portion of the district-the Newport
News Peninsula-holds the balance OF
| of power. The interests OF this sec
ton are naturally similar to ours ana
dissimilar to those of the Old Western
Shore portion. Added to this fact, Mr..
Jones' long and strenuous opposition
| to the admission of this new territory
to his district $50 long has he held the
place that he has come to look upon
and refer to the seat as belonging TO
HIM have very naturally alienated
| their support, and it is foregone
conclusion that Mr.. Mears will carry
| the whole Lower Peninsula by large
| maiorities, while reports say that
| Mr.. Mears will receive highly credita'
| BILE minorities in all of the counties IL
the old Western Shore end (even IL
Richmond, Mr.. Jones' home county
vet with the exception of two orthret
lcounties which are claimed for Mr.
Mears, local pride and home interes
will lead that section to support Mr.
IJones. 1t is then up to the Eastern
Shore with her splendid Democratic
=. numbers to decide the issue.
| Northampton, the home of hi
adoption, will give him practically
solid vote-the largest, too, she eve
polled. Will Accomac, the county o
. | his birth and early manhood, the hom'
of his entire family do less? Certain
citizens who for personal fayors re
ceived at Mr.. jones' hands-such a
postofices, custom houses etceter'
+. land these had to be given some one
may feel called upon TO cast their IN
dividual votes for Mr.. Jones; but 1t l
inconceivable that the masses of tn
citizens of Accomac will by their vote
, | for the ninth time Us years. honor
Western Shoreman when they hay
a home man, worthy from every stand
} point, of the honor to which h
? aspires! They owe it, too, to them
selves and their county as we'll as t
, Mr.. Mears to maintain Accomac'
i political prominence by registering
: big vote.
FL Let every qualified Democrat go t
=, the polls on the 18th and give MI
Mears one of our old time majoritie'
And once again let the voice of on
f Eastern Shoreman be raised in GU
e behalf in the halls of our Nationi
congress.
Accomac Democrat.
| lime 1906.