Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-07-23
POLITICS AT COURT.
Curlett Sharply Rasps the opposi.
ton Leaders.


Delegate Curlett spoke. as advertised,
last Monday at Lancaster court. There
was no other speaking. Mr.. Curlett
carried out his program and handled
attacks upon him by the Warsaw News.
He also paid his respects to the school
superintendency matter. He laid bare
the purpose of leaders of Richmond
county to vote white Republicans
against him in the primary, and read
the primary law. He was acquainted
with the reprehensible tactics of lead
ers i'm the memorable Piuckard- Well
ford contest of some years ago. and
served notice that he would have none
of it this time. If otherwise, he would
expose the dealings and make a hot
fight before the State Committee.
He stated that the leaders who were
with him before were now bitterly
against him because of his support of
the Fish Commission bill that brings q
$45. 600 annual appropriation back to
Tidewater, a bill that had unanimous
support-save one man-in the two
houses of the Legislature. He had
asked one of these men if he should
have the bill repealed or amended at
the next session in event Mr.. Tucker
was elected. The reply was; no. The
whole opposition to the law hinges on
the miserably low plane of opposition
by the bitter faction against Commits
sioner Lee. With partisan friend in
the Office, salary and appropriation
would be all right.
Mr.. Curlett refuses to be identified
with any faction. He would like the
support of both, but as Mr.. Lee was
supporting him some leaders and hood
lums were bitterly fighting him.
He showed the righteousness of ene-
mics by warping the SO tax on crab
dredgers into one on the ordinary crab
bers. There is not scintilla of truth
that he favored taxing any but hard
crab scrapers of Hampton, who were
willing to pay it.
Worse malice yet was in the charge
that he favored $40 tax on shot-guns.
A Richmond county friend of Mr.. Well.
ford announced that Mr.. Wellford-s
large land-owner-wanted such a tax
on all shot-guns. 1t was taken by dis
reputable enemies to Lancaster and
charged to Curlett. This, too, was
false and malicious.
Politics seem to be sliding the Mann,
Curlett way. The abortive attacks or
Mr.. Curlett by certain politicians over
the signature of W. H. Rice in the N.
N. News are helping Mr.. Curlett. The
same appears to be true as to the Ma
hone letters against Mann. Here, as
elsewhere throughout the State, the
publication of these letters is deemed a
huge mistake by fuckers managers.
These are the things Tucker has claimed
to have had cup his sleeve, but they
have fallen fiat throughout the State,
and now Mr.. Tucker is endeavoring to
shoulder on others the blame for their
publication. Sentiment is that few
more days will show conclusively the
disgust of Virginians at such dirty tao
tics. Judge Mann wrote these letters
to Malone who was his personal friend
more than year before Malone de-
serted the Democrats and went to the
Republicans and many a good Virginia
citizen was a Malone Democrat at that
time. The contrast is being made in
this to Mr.. fuckers seeking Through
friends. he says) judgeship from
President Roosevelt while Mr.. Tucker
was still out of the house of his fathers
mot consorting with Virginia Demo-
crafts