The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-30

stead of impeding the hauling
OF saw logs, it seems 10 me thar
law should encourage it.
Judge Mann has declined To
meet me IN joint discussion
though l have challenged him
to meet me in ever District in
the State. Judge Mann is a
man of ability as we all know
and 1t Is a queer spectacle TO
the people of Virginia. in "A
campaign for the highest honor
IN the gift of the people. that a
candidate should decline 10
meet his opponent in open
frank discussion on the stump
The reason may be found ip
the fact that it is not me that
Judge Mann objects 90 meeting
but 1t Is his record; and / doubt
not that my good friend. the
Judge, would turn back i'm the
road, If he saw a saw Loo
hauled along the road that he is
about 20 meet.
The Journal Of the Senate
that disclOses the record of
Senator's Is what l open and
show TO the people. II is pub
Inc property-it belongs To- the
people, not 60 Judge Mann
Oi what use is 10 for Jud0e
Mann 90 say, 81 stand upon my
record, and when YOU ask for
lt, he replies, Il have got il
locked up in the Journal of the
senate, and no man must omen
rs under the penalty of being
accused of Singing mud". nv
record rs property, and I invite
j udge Mann. or any other
party, TO a frank criticism of II /
The people have the right 10
know the records of both candi. +
dates. The Republicans are in
possession of both. They can't
be hidden from them. and IL il
iar better for the Democrats TO
< now these records and pass
them IN advance. than that thev
should nominate a man without
considering his record. and
give the Republicans that
advantage.
Judge Mann's opposition 10
the Employers Liability Bin .
cannot be defended. It was a
bill intended TO give TO the
widow and orphan children Of
the men killed or injured on
the railroad, some slight com
pension for the loss of husband
)r father. Such is the law of
-he States of the Union. and il
Is the law of enlightened
that when a copora-
non takes the labor of a
human being and exacts from
am all of has powers of mind
and body in its service, that
s. hen that labor and its remun-
'ration Is taken from the wife
md children, and the corpor
ltion should compensate them
or 1t. Judge Mannn claims
hat IN his fight for years for
emperance in Virginia. IL has
been chiefly for the benefit of
he children of the common i.
wealth. He claims 20 have
aved them from a drunkard's -.
,rave, but when they asked for
'read IN this bill he gives them
stone. His action in effect.
as to attempt 10 save .
hem from a drunkard's grave.
nat they might be starved to
eath for want of bread. Hun
reds and thousands of widows :
nd orphans IN this State are
today because de :
rived of means of ADEQUATE
upport, and education, and of =
he necessaries of life, because ,
I the failure TO pass this En- :
ioyer's Liability Bill. So :
trong was the feeling in the
tate at the opposition to the bill :
y Judge Mann and others, =
nat the constitutional conven
.on put IL into the constitution
I the state where the Obiec
ION of the railroad attorneys
ould not affect it. Judge
lam voted for it then, because
ne constitution required it, but
men there was no such require
lent, and no such public in
ignation, be chose rather to "
axe the part of the corporation +