Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-07-23
THE MALONE LETTERS.
Making Votes For Judge Mann.
Various Comments.


much: 1--WE do not deny, rather we
affirm. that one and that the larger
element of the Resdjuster membership
of the General Assembly of 1880
(when the letters were written) had
been Democrats of strait record and
were then still such in their relation to
Federal politics. We also agree that
the action of the State Central Committee
then was usurpative and ill-advised
and paved the way for the actually of
schism in the Democratic party by
forcing the Resdjuster to organize
what Judge Mann calls "a separate
party to carry out their debt policy"
The Roanoke Times, another Tucker
paper, says: ''The letters written by
Judge Mann to General Malone, and
which have been paraded by fuckers
stupid managers, are credit both to
the head and the heart of the writer"
Still another Tucker paper, the Arl-
ington Virginian, says: 'Tt depends
upon how calmly one can look at them.
A Tucker man here. and very influential
one, said yesterday that he thought the
publication of the letters great mis-
take and would really help Judge
Mann"
Petersburg Index-Appeail
The anti-Mann dailies of the State.
while not discussing editoriaily Judge
Mann's three letters to general Ma
hone In 1890. sensationalized the
matter to the limit yesterday and
elected superstructure of headlines
on foundation which had little or no
existence in the text of the letters.
The obvious intent of those head
lines, in many instances, was to create
an impression on the public mind that
Judge Mann had been guilty of some
grave act of political immortality; that
he had rivalled the offense charged
against Mr.. Tucker of voting for
one and working for the other-iu
short, that he had been disloyal to the
Democratic party, and that record OF
infidelity and treachery had been ex-
plotted that would damn him personally
and politically and consign him to inevi.
table defeat in the pending primary
contest.
Intelligent readers, with their Gu
riosity whetted by these exaggerated
and misleading headlines, read those
letters with keen and inquisitive in
terest, and experienced a sensation of
disappointment and disgust at not
finding those Readiness supported by
the text. There is not a scintilla of
evidence in these letters discreditable
to Judge Mann as a Democrat or as a
man.
IDanville Register.)
The effort of Mr. Tucker to divert
attention from his own doubtful political
loyalty by charging that Judge Mann
was elected Judge by the Readjuster
party, aided by General Malone 80
years ago utterly fails of its purpose.
1t has been abundantly shown that re-
lations between Mann and Malone were
merely friendly mutually, and that
Mann distinctly declined to pledge any
political support to Malone, even
though the latter was his friend. Any
service he may have rendered Malone
was in the choice in the Readjuster
caucus as between Malone and John
E. Massey for the caucus nomination,
which really decided the matter.
But what can be said in behalf of Mr..
fuckers evasion as to his application
for a federal judgeship under a Re-
publican administration. He admits
that though he did not personally ap-
ply the application was with his acqui-
essence and that after Judge Mcdowell
had been appointed, ne CTucker) prompt
ly withdrew his endorsements filed with
the department of justice. He does
not offer those endorsements for inspec-
tion as vindication of his party loyalty,
but appears to have destroyed them or
put them out of the reach of publicity.
Why? Are they damning to his claims
of party loyalty? Do they confess hos
tility to Bryan in 1896 and subsequently,?
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