The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-03-15

Of the Headquarters Committee, and therefore
the change was more a change in name than In
fact The Journal heads this editorial ''Dr Can
mons Demotion," and speaks thusly:
ut is possible that the Anti-Saioon League
Is discovering that Or. Cannon's viilincaticn
OF many honest people is working to the dis
credit of their cause. and have denoted him
in order to get him out OF the limelight OF
criticism"
Really this is too sudden summersault Tor
the average reader. 1t is equal to tina. amazing
effort OF a few days ago, when The Journal in
frantic fear, screamed out that Judge Mann was
It's Rock and Refuge! We have hardly re-
covered from that The Journal shor.i remem-
Der that there are limits beyond even which 1t
cannot go. On Friday & declaring at the
head Of the column that ''Dr Cannon's Change"
was more in name than in fact that he was still
at the head and II simply trick. and The
Journal was still "suspecting" On Monday they
say that they made a little immaterial error"
"an inadvertent error" but they do not apollo
gize for the editorial of Friday. They turn
great summersault. and declare that inasmu"h
not even chairman OF the Headquarters Com.
mittee, that 1T is possible the League has de
NOTED him for the sake Of the cause and in or
der to get him out of the limelight of criticism.
Pitiable, is II not that newspaper should
allow its spleen to cause it to make such a pitt
able exhibition of itself? Could anything be
more utterly shameless? On Friday "Dr Can.
mons Change trick. more in name
than in fact" On Monday "Dr. Cannon's
Change" is Or. Cannon's Demotion" He has
been reduced in rank by the League because
he has brought dscredit on its cause. II DR.
Cannon is chairman of the Committee it is
trick to keep him in power! If he is not chair
man of the Committee 1t is proof that the League
has reduced him in rank. 1t matters not wha.
action DR.. Cannon may take The Epentno Jour
mol will continue its vicious. malicious and
shameless villification, as was declared in the
Legislative report
/ DR. Cannon voluntarily resigned the Superin.
tendency of the League several weeks ago At
the recent Convention his work was endorsed
and he was reelected on the Committee and was
4 reelected chairman of the Legislative Com
mittee, although it was known by the Conven-
ton that he wrote the report which The Journal
declares was "a villifcation OF many honest peo
ple.' Two weeks after -he Convention he was
! reelected to his same place exactly upon the
Headquarters Committee. which he has held
} for several years, But on Friday, according to
i The Journal, he had played trick and was still
at the head, in fact II not in name, and when
J The Vir0inidm Saturday showed that to be
false. on Monday the League has reduced him in
rank! Certainly, from the above statement OF
facts our readers will sea that If there has beer
"viiihoation of many honest people" by Dr. Can
non, or the Legislative Committee, or the Anti
/ Saloon League Convention, The journal is MOI
l included among "those honest people"
! And then The Journal deeiares
} "The journal has nothing but a specula.
3 tive interest in the demotion of DR.. Cannon,
:. but the majority of Virginia people would
E have greater confidence in the Anti-Saloon
=. League if he were entirely out of it,"
Here The Journal follows in the footsteps o.
the Supreme" and expresses the ''speculativ,
interest" rather the real longing of all the sa
loon-keepers and their allies, the wet" newspa
l pers. that DIR. Cannon may be denoted from hi.
5 position in the Anti-Salocn League: indeed, tina,
. he may leave Virginia altogether. OF what yalu,
would 1t be to the AntiSaloon League that sucf
people as The Evening Journal should hav.
= greater confidence In it and its work. Part o.
the work of the League is to stir sentiment t.
/ the point of excluding from the homes of the
people newspapers which advertise Sunny Brool
whiskey, Book Beer, etc II the people of Wiz
ginia were to believe that The Journal which
had confidence in the Anu-Saloon League. ane
was commenting 1t. they would Immediately
become suspicious Of the League, or would con
clude that The Joarna! had become ashamed
of it's occupation az travelling salesman for the
intoxicants, and had cancelled its contracts with
I Sunny Brook and other ouch destroyers of our
youth No greater calamity could befaII the
| Anti-Saloon League than for the people Of yir.
ginia to believe that The Journal and the other
wet" newspapers had greater confidence in 1t.
| Finally. The Journal declared that there was
no effort on the part of The Journal to make 1t
/ appear that DR.. Cannon would leave Virginia, .
] The Journal OF Friday said: without DR..
Cannon in the forefront the hurly burly ,cill all
be over. We soiII miss his Christian utterances