Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-08-04
"ooins Beyond the Bounds"

! Editor Daily Press.
Dear Sir;
A friend has called my attention 20
an editorial in your issue OF July 9th,
entitled Going Beyond the Bounds,
the first paragraph of which is as
follows:
If il is true that DIR. Cannon, Jr..
, Superintendent OF the Virginia Anti
Saloon League, has called upon minis
tiers in the state to furnish him with
lists OF voters for use by the Anti
Saloon League in the gubernatorlal
campaign. the doctor has gone beyond
the bounds in his enthusiasm over the
cause of Judgs Mann. The Anti-Sa-
loon League is privileged 10 support
Judge Mann il il so desires, but II
should do SO strictly as League. not
as a working branch of the Churches
Of the State"
The editorial continues to the ex-
tent of six inches more. the whole dis
cussion being based upon the truth
of the hypothesis contained In the
first line The undersigned has never
understood how the editors of news
papers can make an attack upon per
sons of standing and reputation upon
a mere hypothesis. II the editor OF
the Press desired 70 discuss this
matter, it should have written and
asked whether this charge made in
the columns of the Evening Journal is
correct. The fact that it appeared in
the columns Of the Journal was pre-
IL fllgQ
for the Journal for the last eighteen
months has usually made false or
misleading statements whenever my
name has been mentioned.
(1) Barely one week before the
editorial in the Press, preached a
sermon on The Relation of the
Church to the Liquor Traffic" in Trim
ity Church, Newport News. in which
stated positively that the Anti-Saloon
League OF Virginia did not nominate
any candidate for public Office. nor
did it support any special candidate.
The only part the League takes in any
election is to ask candidates to state
their proposition and past record on
the liquor question. and the League
then gives TO the voters of the State
the position and record OF said candi-
dates. The statement. therefore. in
your editorial that the AntiSaioon
League is privileged to support Judge
Mann If il so desires" is not correct.
fer the League supports no candidate.
its work being simply to give def
mite information to voters.
90 This being the policy of the
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with scrupulous fairness. the charge
that the League has taken part in the
present campaign. either for or
against eiether Judge Mann Or Mr..
Tucker. is absolutely false. Individual
members of the League, have OF
course, taken part in the present CAM
raign. but entirely as individuals
The League itself has through its
officiary done nothing whatever in
the campaign but to send letters to
both candidates. asking their position
and record on the liquor traffic, and.
having received the replies of the
candidates, the League has given to
the voters of Virginia, so far as the
newspapers of the State would per-
nit it to do so. a statement contain
ing the questions of the League, the
correspondence between the League
and the candidates. and the reply OF
the committee to the unproyoked at
tacks and insults Of Mr. Tucker. Ow-
ing to the failure of the newspapers
to print this statement, the League
published the statement in pamph-
let form and has endeavored to place