Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-02
REITERATES CHARGES
AGAINST CAPTAIN KENT
Declares Wythe Candidate For Gov
ernor Was Guilty of Deliberate,
Crafty and Ro9uish Theft' About
Which He is "Now Lying'-R. G.
Southall Addresses Meeting.

Before a cheering and applauding
crowd that overflowed the Corporation
Court room at the city hail, Congress
man Carter Glass, of i.ynchburg. last
night replied directly from the shout
der to the counter-charges OF Cap
tain William p. Kent, which were
made public yesterday afternoon, ana
branding him as a coward, falsifier
and that he acted dishonorably in
waiting until so near the close of the
campaign to make public his sensa-
tional charges against the Republican
gubernatorial nominee. And in reply
ing to Captain Kent, Congressman
Glass sent a message of warning TO
Congressman c. Bascom Slemp, the
Republican State chairman, that he
had better put on gum slippers and
tread carefully
Following a few preliminary re-
marks. Mr.. Glass replied to the charge
of cowardice at the commencement
of his stirring address. Kent says |
am a coward" he said. maybe SO,
but it's exceedingly unfortunate for
Kent that | didn't find it out before
| made the expose that Kent is a
rogue"
Proclaimed II Month Ago.
Mr.. Glass was nearing the close OF
his speech before he took up the
charges that he had acted in dishon-
orable manner in not making public
the charges at an earlier date He de-
clared that in every speech he had
made in the campaign save two. start
ing in his own district the first OF Oc-
tober. he had proclaimed that William
p. Kent was unfit to be governor OF
Virginia and that he had no moral
right to hold the exalted Office.
Il did not say it in his presence
when | first made the statement a
month ago because he declined to be
present and left the hail." declared
Mr.. Glass. But | supplemented my
remarks by saying that / hoped that
he had one friend left in the hall
who would bear my message to him.
4 know that he received it, / don't
think that he received it, / know IT,
Mr.. Glass went on to say that he
did not ia. to distress any man and
that for mat reason he again and
again asked Kent to withdraw from
the race. Kent heard it often, he
said. Il showed the documents to his
party chairman, c. Bascom Slemp. |
gave him every opportunity that chiv-
airy might demand and manhood
prompt 10 put aside his aspiration TO
be governor of Virginia.
mot an IrpuIsive Theft
What would the people Of vir-
GINA have thought OF me If had kept
silent and the great executive chair
of a proud Commonwealth had been
filed after the election of tomorrow
by a man who committed, not an i'm
puIsive theft. but deliberate. crafty
and roguish theft. about which 2e
years afterwards he is lying7 What
would have been thought Of me II that
degradation had been brought on my
state when ! could have stopped IL.
I make this explanation to you not
ir apology to Kent (apPlause) Coward
may be. but thank God that had
courage 10 tell this thing on my own
responsibility as a citizen Of this Com
monwe@lfh and as a representative Of
II In the congress Of the United
States.
AS for G. Bascom Slemp. who. !
sec by a publication in a Washington
paper today. <as iatruded himself into
this discussion. ! send him this mes
sage: That he'd better put on gum
slippers and tread carefully
Don't think that am hard man.
This hes caused Kent pain ane may
God have mercy on his soul am not