Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-09
GLASS WILL NOT RUN.

not to De csndldate and that ne can
foresee nothing that will likely cause
him to alter his determination.
Mr. Glass stated that on December IL
be addressed letter to bis personal
friend, Jsmes a. Lindsay. Of Oharlot!es.
vile, declaring his determination not Ia
euier The race, giving Mr.. Lindsay au'
hority 10 make the letter public. Me-.
Lindsay aud other friends urged Mt.
Glass to Withhold the publication Of the
letter for snort while to await develop.
meDts. This be consented to do. Mean
while Mr.. Henry O. Stuart, a candidate
for the nomination, withdrew from the
contest on account of the illness of his
wife 10 Europe. This incident reueQed
the pressure upon Mr.. G ass by friends.
At the earnest request of some friends
be Immediately went to Richmond for
conference. Speaking Of the mstter last
night. Mr. Glass said:
"Whie the retirement Of Mr.. Stuart
considerably bettered the chances of my
nomination, it did not effect some OF
the considerations which Influenced me
before Mr.. S.usrgs retirement TO decide
not to become a candidate, aud while |
entertain feeling OF gratitude to friends
who have rendered me their support and
am sensible of the honor implied by
their belief that am worthy TO be the
nominee Of the democratic party for the
Office of governor Of Virginia, l shall not
be a candidate at the primaries this
summer"
Mr.. Glsss supplemented the foregoing
statement by writing the following letter
to Rev. DR.. Charles d. Bul g. Of the M.
f. Church South OF Alexandria, and a
prominent factor in the Anli Saloon
League Of Virginia:
The letter read as follows
III have been thinking Earnestly about
our interview Of lsst Saturday, in which
you appealed to ms to do nothing In my
supposed pursuit Of the gubernatorial
nomination in Virginia to divide the
anti saloon vote of the state. This sug-
gestion has caused me no little concern,
not because feel tha. 1t is not my right
10 appeal 10 that vote In the event that
| should be candidate for governor,
but because | would not have you or
any body else who Is my friend to think
that | would desire to be governor
merely because | oppose the open saloon
OF that | would ak anybody to support
me for gOvernsr only because | am hos
tile to the liquor traffic.
cit has never been my design to pre-
cipitate the issue of state wide prohibit
ton in Virginia with a view to my per-
sonal advantage 10 politics. bad con-
templated, II candidate for the guber.
natorisl nomination, to make fight
upon the broad plane of a clesD, honest
a1d absolutely independent sdminist a
on of the States sffalrs, without fear
or favor, without promise TO anybody who
might support me or reperlsal upon
anybody who might oppose me. | had
purpOsej standing for high conception
OF executive integrity, for fair but
never subssTvien, treatment Of the cor
porate interests Of the state, for con-
ant advance in mo1tSn educational
facilities, for vigilaat scrutiny Of the
fiscal affairs Of the state, for q retorna.
ton aud equalization in the system Of
taxation and for a constant and ever.
increasing concern far everything that
would inure TO the advantage Of the
commons wealth. | wanted ID be govern
or, not for the purpose Of succeeding
anybody else in any other Office, nor
with the Idea of having anybody else
particularly to succeed me. | merely
wanted to be governor after clean con-
I st aud, ] think, for high purpose.
Gas stated in Richmond The other
day and repeated to you last Saturday,
do not think opposition to the liquor
traffic is the proper political asset of any
nan, end would not use that issue TO
make me governor unless could feel
that the saloon could not be abolished,
or, at least, more surely abolished with
out my election to the Office do not
thing that to be the case as to me or as
to any other man at this time, and did
not recently give wide publicity to my
advocacy Of statewide prohibition, nor
to create the impression that | peculiarly
stand for that doctrine. have stood
for 1t for l6 years, and at each of the
four elections in Lynchburg, urdsr the
local option law, in voting to expel the
saloons from my town | did not besia'e
or fail to say that would prefer, and
thought the people Of Virginia should
have bad an opportunity, to expel them
from the state. think thst now |
have never believed 10 the country or
town unit. have never believed that
local option, with license to ship from
wet to dry territory aud thereby dis
credit the very doctrine itself, was al
efficient method Of dealing with the
liquor traffic. do not believe 50 now.
while | have long co-opersted in
an inconspicious way 10 the Anti.SIlooU
League and contributed to Its fund, and
voting AGAINST the open saloon when
could, | cannot speak for 1t nor assume
to direct its policy. ] did not attempt
to do this in my interview with the
Richmond newspapers. BsiDg more or
less comspiciously mentioned SIS a gnber-
Material possibility my supposed attitude
on the sui ject OF S ats-wids prohibition
was being discussed ia the State press.
As never have been, and as | hope |
never shall be, afraid to reveal my posi-
ton as to soy question upon which the
people of Virginia have right to be in
formed, | did not state to agoW, when
questioned upon the sutj Jet, my conV.c-
ton, long entertained and frequently
before expressed that statewide probi-
bition is the most efficient method of
dealing with the saloon question and