Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1909-05-28
THE OFFICE DUE
JUDGE WILLIAMS
Southwest Virginia Entitled to
Name Next Attorney-General.
The Judges Political Record.

Editor The News AS IA native of
the great Southwest, l would watt
greetings To the militant Democrats
Of that section and bid them be act
i've in furthering the candidacy OF
Judge Samuel w. Williams, who
aspiTeS To the position of Attorney
General. No more valiant Democrat
can he found i'm the borders of the
Old Commonwealth than "Sam"
Williams. For over three decades he
has been on the firing line i'm behalf
of the party at whose hands he now
asks recognition. Never once has he
falteIed in his devotion To Demo
cracy. Never has he sulked I'm his
tent, kicked out of the traces or
scratched n Democratic ticket. There
is no more familiar figure on the
stump in Virginia than Judge
Williams. There is scarcely town
or hamlet i'm the State from the little
county OF Dikenson, nesJled under the
shadow of the majestic Cumber-
lands, TO the white-sanded shores of
Accomac in which he has not been
heard OH the husting in Democracy
behalf.
Judge Williams is also n surviving
member of that kniRhlty Ia d OF SOL
diers who rushed To the defense OF
our native south land when the
tocsin of war was sounded in 1861.
These old veterans are fast passing
away. Many of them have already
passed over the river and are resting
like tired children i'm the arms of
the mother land they loved so well.
" Ere long the last surviving member
of that knightly band Will have
crossed over the river and he gathered
around the camp fire on the other
shore with Lee and Jackson. This
may be our last opportunity To vote
for one OF these old veterans, to
let us honor them while we may.
Let IL never be said that old Virginia
was the first of her sister states To
turn her back upon an old confeder-
ate soldier.
Aside from this IL seems 10 me that
abe southwest deserves representation
on our state ticket. Judge Williams
is the only candidate from this ,reat
section, which stretches from the Blue
Ridge on the east TO the CumbeIlands
OH the west, and which is over two
hundred miles in length, and COM
prises something like onefifth OF Vir-
rfs.a. - l.s 1T H..
at the last election gave Republi
can majority, the Democratic ticket
polled over two thousand more votes
in the ninth district than any other
congressional district i'm the state.
This section also east about one-lifth
Of the total vote polled in Virginia.
While the southwest has but one
candidate, Rockbridge county, the
home of his opponent, Mr. Catlett,
has three-Mr. Tucker, who is can
didate for governor; a. w. Harmon,
the present state treasurer, who has
no opposition, for reelection and
Mr.. Catlett, Judge Williams oppon-
ent for attorney general. This county
has the sergeant at arms of the
/ Virginia senate, while Augusta, Il
neighboring county, has the COM
missioner of agriculture, Mr.. Koiner,
who is a candidate for reelection. If
this sectioncan present four candi
dates without blushing, we shoul !
have no hesitancy in pressing the
claims of one candidate.
Let us show the esteem i'm which
Judge Williams is held by the
militant democrats of the southwest
by giving him n rousing vote on
August 5th.
Walter T.. Beverly.
Rocky Mount, Va, May