Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1909-06-11
A Lost Opportunity.

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then?
One blast upon his bugle horn,
Were worth n thousand men,
Such is the question which is ask
ed by hundreds of men Throughout the
state, i'm regard to the recent local
option election. Where was Judge
Mann, while the friends of tenn
perance were waging war on the
evils of liquor i'm his home city.-the
town where, if he does not vote, he
spends much, if not the greater part,
of his time, and where he owns the
properly in which he maintains a res
idence?
Can Judge Mann answer the ques-
tion, "Why in the recent fight he
took no part in the cause in which
he has for the last thirty five years
labored so diligntly?' Can it be that
his really in sympathy with the
liquor peo pie, and by this means is
trying to show them that they have
nothing to to fear from him, should
he be elected Governor of Virginia; :;
that without lifting a finger he
watched the cause for which he once
usht,N down i'm such an over
whelimng defeat, when his influence
mig Int have done so much toward
strengthening that cause?
The answer given by Judge Mann's
campaign manager when he was ask
ed by reporter If the Judge would
speak in favor of local option in
Petersburg, was that the judges time
was so filled up with other engage
ments that he would be unable To
give any time TO this most vital
question, and that Judge Mann had
not been invited. Had Judge Mann
been sincere i'm his desire 10 benefit
the cause of temperance, would il
not have been possible for him 10
cancel an engagement and make at
least one speech for the cause which
he championed so strongly in times
past and at other places?
But this would not have been nee
essary. During the local option fight
Judge Mann spent one or more nights
in his home city of Petersburg, and
also other days i'm Richmond, only a
few miles away, and with splendid
railroad facilities for getting TO
Petersburg, either by troIly or steam.
When il was asked after the elec-
ton why Judge Mann was not in
Petersburg on the day of the election
hn tnI n, 20 l..
Truly the people of Virginia have
been laboring under misapprea-
hension. They thought that Judge
Mann was fighting for temperance
through the length and breadth of
the State, and not at the place where
he votes.
Stop one moment and think, SOW
ereigns of Virginia: Is Judge Mann
really sincere in this desire to pro-
mote the case Of temperance in Vir-
ginia, or is he simply using his
means TO ride into office? Is he not
playing fast and loose with both
sides? Judge Mann claims there | a
been no deal between himself and the
''fNOA pScpiC' 81 uSe OllC IlOllClb illOIS
To think. IL is an undisputed fact
that the leaders of the liquor peo-
pie are inclined TO support Judge
Mann. Does il seem natural that the
liquor dealers would support man
who had "for thirty five years "been
an avowed enemy TO their interests,
unles there was a strong and suflici-
ent reason for doing so? We do not
think so. And what is this reason?
The only natural answer is, that i'm
case Judge Mann is elected Governor,
the liquor people believe that they
will have nothing TO fear.
Can Judge Mann serve the temper
ance people and the liquor people?
Can he serve God and Mammon? If
he is faithful TO the one, he must
needs betray the other. Which shall
ii be-one or both? Let the PEOPLE
draw their own conclusions.
But bear this IN mind: Judge
Mann had an opportunity to prove
to the people of Virginia that the
sincerely and honestly advocated
the cause of temperance in the op-
portuniGy that existed in Petersburg,
and yet he failed to do so.-Rich-
mond Evening Journal.
6-1-I-l Adv