The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-25
N DONALD LEE.
GIVES HIS SIDE
SAYS TELEGRAPH REPORTS OF
GLASS MEETING WE'RE
sided.
CALLED HIM TO TAW
COMMISSIONERS EDITOR TELLS HOW
HE PLAYED THE WILDS
WITH LYNCHBURG
CONGRESSMAN.

| Coming Back at Congressman
Carter Glass for statements made III
his Lancaster speech, and charging
that the accounts which got through
/ over the wires the evening OF the day
of the speech were Glass" coiored.
| Commissioner of Fisheries w. Melon
aid Lee in his weekly newspaper, the
Virginia Citizen. OF Irvington. makes
readable contribution TO the iitera-
| ture of Nirginia's notable senatorial
cSanpaign.
AS The Richmond virginian was
able by dint of strenuous eNertions to
get account by wire of the Lam
caster meeting. being rather more for
I tunate than some Of its contempor-
aries, Ii now gives Mr. Lees account
of the proceedings. emitting only MIR.
| Lees excoriations of the correspondent
/ who sent out what that gentleman
| characterizes d one sided account. The
Virginia citizen account follows:
/ Reports from Baltimore staff cor
respondent and the Times Dispatch
writer here mot connected with us)
endeaSored from 80 to 80 +. NJ. TO
/ get fair reports through To their pap
ers. but were shut out. The Warsaw
Office closed after MIR. Brent got his
! through
1 But the tale has been told. exparte.
! We do not purpose entering fully into
| the other siGe--our side. to be sure
! but the five hundred know We are
nearer the facts.
They came from the region round
about, the beyond Jordan
! one time, twelve years ago. snap
/ judgment WAS taken OH the sover
eigns of Lancaster by the heneticent
machine that grinds this Dis
triet The result is history. Laneas-
TRANS repudiated gum shoe and pri-
yate carpara telephone tactics, and has
ever since been rid of machine CON
! troll.
Advertised by his bureau of public
lily 10 speak on Monday in Southamp-
/ ton Mr. Glass was switched off here,
and the six counties were beat for
/ recruits. They got 'eu-and some
thing more beside. Mr. Glass is past
! master at sarcasm and invective. lie
| trotted fast and loose. ANY horse can
make tracks" when travelling alone
i He paced UP and down, and trotted
I down and UP. and then galloped
/ across fields to the tune OF a most ap-
j preesative audience. He champed the
+ DIT, and curriers' yelled satisfaction.
! We enjoyed hts buffoonery for an hour.
! Congressman Glass pitched into the
4 machine and swanson for about an
hour-saTne stereotyped speech. When
t be got to the South Boston News
Ne began 10 fear our finish He
/ touched on our paper lightly, and was
going TO leave the subject ia q way
| that sentiment was divided whether
| We should answer or not. Charging
/ that the subsidized press and the pap
ers supporting the machine were dis
| honest III publishing only one side,
/ We called him TO taw, Then i'm
ported rooters set up ii. terrible how'll
when we arose. Our Lancastrians
/ yelled defiance at them. Standing on
/ bench in front OF Glass we" de-
manded that he be fair and give a.
I hearing. He asked the crowd to let
Us be heard but we" had told them
! II was our county and court. and IL
we did not speak there should he no
I more before midnight. After that we
had the audience and all the floor we
i wanted, He went talking about the
South Boston News. Again he took
I il ous on poor Beaslev as he found
cred
He steered clear Of illusions 10 us
for another hour, OF which time he was
trying TO get on his feet again His
crowd tand he had them) made lame
attempts az sIasmodic hurrahs Some
or ms adherents later publicly remark
ed tnat MIR. Glass should have closed
with his first hour But he did finally
I reach appropriations OF the Swanson
administration, and as he did So we
got closer TO the front He was a
( Tong time reaching the Commission of
hisheries and when he did YOU would
nave maryeled at how lightly he
1 touched IL : We gould take no ur,-
bragg at it, for he qualified II by say
ing that he did no, blame Mr. Lee
but. aha haaSsae Sssa BsssAN f6ss,4 SsQs aasiy,xs
his oath OF office by not vetoing the
Dill. Then. In n death like stiffness
We read the list OF increases of salaries
that he tGlassl voted for In his last
session In the Senate--among these
/ the Increase of clerk OF railroad COM
mission nom $1,000 to 1880 and
charged that he supported this sinec,ire
! because the man was from Lynch
| burg All his answer was 10 effect that
| he did not remember the items. He
marked back To Swanson's depicting the
treasury. and again We asked him If
ne did not advise him In 1907 to use tho
| million dollars In the treasury for ey-
penditares for the peoples good and
that II he denied 1t was there not an
editorial from his paper In 1907 to that
erect He then said this was his
meeting and he would allow no further
interruption. Dersive cheers from our
side drowned everything, ana IL was
our turn to appeal for hearing for
him. adding that SO long as he at
tackled us personally he would have 10
answer. He disciaimed that he meant
anything personal, and dealt in no
further illusions to us.
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