Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-04-16
TUCKER vs. MANN.

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fuckers home paper: Judge Manr
seems to US to have taken the logica
position with reference to Statewide
prohibition by legislative enactment
This is too important a question fol
the legislature to pass on without pre-
viously having taken the sense of the
people on it. The proper course t.
pursue would be to submit the question
to vote of the whole people, and We
hope, IL the question is pressed at all
that it will take this course. People
will be better satisfied with the result,
whatever that result may be, If it Is
passed on by the entire electorate.
But If it take the other course, and
Statewide bill is enacted, let it be af-
ter canvass of the state on this ques-
tion. Should the legislature, without
such previous canvass, assume to
enact Statewide law it will be wise
on the part of the governor to veto it
and send it back to the people, Wea
heartily in accord with Judge Mann's
position on this statewide question,
without regard to our views of Judge
Mann's qualifications generally for gov
ernor."
Mr. fuckers aid and support would
not be expected by the temperance
people, and the issue would be made
and the lines drawn between Tucker
and Mann. The latter being an avowed
advocate of the abolition of the saloon
either by local option or Statewide
prohibition-would secure almost the
unanimous vote of the temperance peo-
pie of the State. This declaration on
the part of Mr.. Tucker, it would seem,
makes it highly probable that a State
wide prohibition issue will be made
during the primary campaign. n.-South
Boston News.
Mr.. Tucker has made it clear that he
is no prohibitionist, but in his effort
to play both ends against the middle
he has left it uncertain whether he IA
vors local option or not He says he
would vote for local option in small
college town, but by implication says
that he is uncertain how he would vote
in the larger cities. 1t so happens that
the larger cities are looking for a man
who is opposed even to local prohibi-
tion, and Mr.. Tucker is endeavoring to
look the part of such a man without
specifically saying he is it.-Danville
Bee.
Judge Mann's road to the gubernato-
rial nomination will be royalty easy as
soon as he can dispel the fears of the
doubling Thomases and inspire them
with faith in his sincerity and honesty.
Those that know Judge Mann have no
trouble on this score, but unreservedly
accept his Petersburg speech, with all
that it expressed and implied, as clear
and satisfactory declaration of his po-
sition on the liquor question. In that
speech he announced himself as unequiv-
ocally for the Democratic principle of
local option and as opposed to State
wide prohibition, not only as undemo-
cratic but as detrimental to the perma-
nent interests of the temperance cause.
-lndex-Appeal
Judge Mann. replying to the state
ment of Mr.. Tucker that the bank ex-
aminers bill offered in the last Legisla-
ture was killed in the committee before
which the Judge appeared to oppose it,
declares that he did not favor the meas
ure because he believed it unduly ex-
pensive. We agree with Judge Mann
there, and also in his point that it is
not necessary to have any new
high-salaried office of State Commits
sioner of Banking. Norfolk Landmark.