Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-02-12
GLASS GOES AFTER DR..
CANNON WITH GLOVES OFF
Declares Statements by Temperance
Leaders "Positiveiy Mendaeious."
No Direction Attempted.

WASHINGTON. ID. G.. Feb Ire.
preventative Carter Glass last night
made very deliberat" and quiet bat
none the less emphatic. comment on
the dispatch from Norfolk in The
Times Dispatch which contained the
statement tina, Dr. James Cannon
did not fail to pay his respects TO
Carter Glass. for without calling Mr..
GLASS; name. he declared the league
would not H. dictated 10 by politicians
who had bu, lately taken an interest
in the work"
Said MIR. Glass. when his attention
was drawn TO this criticism: If DR..
Cannon had me- in mind there was
no reason why he should hav" re-
Trained from calling MY name. That
is precisely what | do when | refer
to anybody: it is what an honorable"
man shOlll do. because innuendo is
mean and destestable. Unlike the
|, vices OF s:ntaX. constant usae" does
not make il right. and there is no
authority high enough to give it a
respectable status among gentlemen.
"PositiveIy Mendacious."
Il say. Furthermore. if the rcfrr"nc.
was to me-. as The dispatch from Nor
lOik states. i, was positively menda-
cious. have not sought to dictate to
the Anti-SaloOn I@ague. directly or
indirectly. or eyer cared to. have
taken not one whit more interest in
it's work latterlv than formerly
While I never :o,lch"d a drop of wills
key in my life. | have never failed
to vote for its expulsion from my
town. or to ivow my desire to vote
tor it's expulsion from the State. and
have always. when appealed to con
tribu,ed 10 the expense fund of the
Virginia An,i-Saloon League.
Il never have desired and never
shall seek to make my personal habits
or views on this question a source
of political notoriety. was not Onl;'
surprised lIt little irritated when
the State press some weeks ago Re
gan &c discuss my views OIL the ques-
ton of Statewide prohibition in CON
necton with the talk of me for Gov
ernOr
Nevertheless having no conceal
mentS to max" position fully and
frankly. ! had no reason TO suspect
that 4 declaration from me in favor
OF driving the oprn saloon from -Eir-
ginia would prove especially ObnONi-
Gus to DR.. Cannon or that. consider
ing my inconsequential part in the
crusade. il could he regarded by him
or any political portege of his as an
invasion Of the right to mCnopolize
hostility to the liquor traffic. did
not assume to state anybody views but
my own. and unless my nature shall
radically change. the time will never
come when ! shall fear or fail to do
, his wherever or whenever please.
Never Attempted Dietation.
SO far from undertaking 20 dictat"
| to the Anti-SaIoon League in what I
recently said on the question of State
! wide prohibition. there was no single
circumstance that more certainly
caused me to adhere to The decision
II made last December not to De- a
candidate for Governor than the sug-
, sestion that some persons might sus-
pect me of Icing charlatan enough to
seek personal advantage and political
prominence ont of question of con
science.
1T seems TO me- continued Mr..
Glass. that. after all his preparation.
DR.. Cannon would have experienced
no difficulty in shaping the policy Of
the State Anti-Salcon League as he
had designed doing, without finding
i; necessary to travel outside the do
main of truth to gratui;o,rsly asperse
a man who is not candidate for Gov
ernOr do not know that DR. Can
10. Tho
have made is upon the assumption