Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1911-08-23
POLITICAL PARADOXES


moral and adorn his tale.
Montague. who has fed at the pub
lie trough longer than any other,
claims that machine hogs crowd all
others away.
Glass, while being a chronic office
holder, heaps anathema on the ma
chine for allowing no one to get or
hold office who does not train with
il.
Jones curses Martin for raising
money for political purposes, while
Ellyson has memoranda 10 Jones
Handwriting asking for part of this
money and receiving 1t.
Glass, the politician on the stump.
denounces Governor Swanson S ad-
ministration, while Glass, the edi-
tor, praised it to the skis in his
newspaper.
Glass, the politician on the stump,
denounces Senator Martin now,
while Glass, the citizen, six years
ago. supported him and wrote the
strongest argumentative endorse
ment, parts of which from time to
time are published by A. B. Will
liams in his Roanoke Times news
paper.
Glass, the conscientious patriot,
acknowledges he WROTE same, but
pleads be never SIGNED it, which
makes the child Of his brain a bas-
tard to be disowned by him.
Jones, who has failed 10 rise above
mediocrity in the Lower House,
claims that he should supercede
Senator Martin, who has forced his
way TO the leadership of the militant
and conquering Democracy of the
Senate and who. with Champ Clark
OF Missouri, has brought the scep-
ire of National leadership back to
the South.
Jones reads copies Of stolen let
tiers which would be rejected as ev-
idence in a Court of Law, and while
asking what they mean proceeds
without the slightest foundation to
assert that there was a yellow
Fog Fund" to buy the Virginia
Legislature and that Senator Martin
debauched the Virginia Legislature
composed of 40 men elected by us.
Jones asserts that Senator Martin
was paid lobbyist before the Vir-
ginia Legislature, while not one Of
the 14O members arise to sustain the
charge, and while such members as
Senator 7. II. Barnes, Judge L. D.
Yarrell, w. G. Parish and Mr.. Dunn
assert the contrary, and Senator
Martin brands il as maliciously
false.
Glass, in his speech in Lexington.
asserted that the machine dictated
every office in Virginia, while not q
man in his audience ever heard OF
an office in Rock bridge being die
tated by Senator Martin or any ma
chine, or any suspicion of such a
thing.
Jones and Glass charge that the
press OF Virginia is debauched and
subsidized for or by Senator Martin
when the statement bears it's OWL
refutatiOn in the fact that one of the
newspapers OF Lexington, the hon.
ored Rockbridge County News, is
supporting Martin and Glass at tn,
same time. And The GAZATTE de
sires to affirm here and now that it.
support OF Martin and Swanson i,
dictated by it's sense of duty sim
ply.
Jones and Glass are speakin,
light of the Judiciary of the Stat
because the great majority of tn
judges are supporting Senator Mar
tin. and charging directly or iudi
rectly that they have sold them
selves to him with the hope of hold
ing their Offices. The recklessnes
OF this is illustrated by the case O
our cwn Judge S. Houston Letcher
who is not candidate for re-elec
ton, while warmly supporting Sen
tor Martin.
Many more paradoxes could b.
set out but the above will suffice 70
the present, and forms part of tn
most astonishing puzzle and para