Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-26


 Hercules. It is his purpose to smite nip and thigh the Martin machine in Virginia, which Is all that Quayism was in Pennsylvania. or Gormanism iu Maryland. or more. for report saith that it mObilized in one camp the saloon and the temperance lodge, that Is. those who drink in one and those who attend the other. It is no- torious that at the last primary both classes I have named supported the machine candidate and he was triumphant
 Like all similar machines, the Martin combination is a pretorian that parcels out among its seryitors the spoils of office. Nobody can get a aomination for state office with out consent. and it rules Virginia with an iron rod in the name and by the authority of the democratic party. which it has by the throat. This ma- chike held a primary election in the Norfolk congressional district in 1901. at which all the ward heelers of New York Philadelphia and Pfttsburg would stand aghasf. That election was the issue in Virginia and the is- sue it will remain until the machine Is destroyed.
 u is everywhere conceded that Nii- gtnia Is the most uIastrious of the American commonwealths. She con tributed to civil liberty the tongue of Henry. the pen of Jefferson, and the sword of Washington. Nay, she iliamed the Christian civilization and exalted the human race with the lfaff oh fssra faf RnfNAT-f Constitution feil from the plastic hands of her Madison and her Mason, and to the republic she gave Kentucky and the opulent empire called the Middle West" Leader of the Rebellion of '76. she was the cit adel of the Rebellion Of '6l. ana m her generous bosom sleeps more Valor than reposes in the soil of all the rest of our hemisphere besides. When the South was at bay against what was practically the world in arms and the Old Dominion was bleeding at every pore, the vulture tore her tortured Titals and the van daIs carved from her side what Is now West Virginia and made 1t sn annex of Pennsylvania.
 And now after so glorious past
  the grasp of as constituencies and as remorseless a set of political harpies as ever operated a machine in con tempt of justice and in dedance Of people. What will the harvest be2 Time will tell
 Who is the champion that has en- tered the lists against the Martin machine? Ii is William A. Jones. Born near where repose the bones of "the worlds only Washington, citizen of that community every day of his life. educated at the institution founded by Thomas Jefferson, elected eleven times to congress by that dem ocrafic constituency, William A. Jones is a Virginian of Virginians. lt would be impossible for the ma chine 10 seduce this man, and they who know him realize that it is Un- thinkable that be should lend himself to the corruption of the least or the humbIest citizen, Preferment the most exalted. honors. the most rad iant. this man would scorn and put behind him unless they were the free offerings of a free people and not the iargess appOrtioned to him by a boss. And be it remembered the
  with their bosses everywhere, in- cluding old Virginia. God bless her.
 William A. Jones was born in Rich nond county in 1S49, and his dwell ing is on the same site of the house in which he was born. He was one of the boys of the Virginia Military in- stitute who stacked their arms in the capitol grounds at Richmond at the surrender of 1865. Then he attended the Coleman school at Fredericksburg SO famous as the preparatory Acad erny for students of the University of Virginia. Later he entered that university. in both the academic ane faw deDarrments and from the latter ne was graduated.
 He opened an office at Warsaw and was in the active practice Of hls profession when chosen member ot congress from the First district n ls9e. and he has been ten times re- elected, @ record equaled by no other