The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-08-16
Carter Glass Makes New and
Sensational Allegations in
His Campaign
DECLARES THE JUNIOR
SENATOR STOCKHOLDER
Could Not Fight American
Tobacco Company Very
Hard Because He IS
Interested.


resentative Carter Glass, OF the Sixth
congressional district. spoke here to-
night in the city hall to an audience
which gave him liberal applause. The
congressman said In part.
In the literature OF his press bu-
reau my competitor enumerates among
his achievements the fact that he
made "a strong speech In Congress
against trusts and aided tndepend-
ent tobacco manufacturers" in their
competition with the American Tobac-
co Trust Marvellous. Why. my fell
low citizens. the Governors temper
airy appointee to the United States
Senate surely hid his light under a
! oushel'' during his service In the
! House; for nobody knew him there as
an inveterate enemy OF the trusts.
Quite the contrary; II was frequently
suggested that he was intimately iden-
tified with more than one trust. and
was especially close to the American
Tobacco Company. recently declared
by the Supreme Court to be an Ut
terry illegal combination. hurtful and
dangerous 10 the business OF the coun-
try. Before this decision came, the
company had strangled the life out OF
thousands Of Independent tobacco man
ufacturers aud reduced many OF the
tobacco planters Of Virginia, Tennes-
HfT anu 10 ptULIy anu VIZ
tnal peonage. Nothing could resist It's
cruel power. Right In my home town
OF Lynchburg. the blight OF 1t Is seen
on every street.
My competitor WAS for ten years a
member Of the Ways and Means Conn
naittee OF the House. especially charged
with the duty OF taxing and. In large
measure, regulating the tobacco busi-
ness of the country. His own district
a IN Ntesa hAA tAtna
ard tobacco manufacturing interests.
These interests were directly antago-
nized b. the American Tobacco Trust.
Under these circumstances my COM
pettsor had no moral right, while a
member of the Ways and Means Com
niittee of Congress. TO form business
connections with an Illegal monopoly
whole policy was bitterly hostile to
the interests OF the tobacco planters,
the tobacco buyers and the independ- :
ent tobacco manufacturers Of Nir-
ginia-
interested in Tobacco Trust.
My competitors literary bureau
with his sanction. exuitantiy portrays
him as an enemy OF this aawiess to-
baeco monster. but indict him as It's
friend and q part OF It, | charge that.
when the American Tobacco Company
prospered by strangiing the life out
OF its independent rivals, nay -eeHpet3-
tor likewise proflted by the transact
ton When the tobacco trust prov
pered by driving independent buyers
from the warehouse floors. thus max
Ing an easy prey of Virginia tobacco
planters, my competitor for the SEN
ate, as business partner in the Amer
lean Tobacco Company. likewise pro-
hted by the disaster to his consiitu-
ents. | charge that my competitor,
while member of the Ways and
Means Committee OF Congress, was a
large stoekho.der In the American To-
paceo Company whose methods have
not only met with judicial eondemna-
ton. but have caused loss and failure
ana misery To thousands OF independ-
ent tobacco manufacturers and tobac-
co growers In this country.
AS member of the ways and means
committee he could help tax out OF
existence the rivals Of the trusts in
which he held stock. As a member
OF that committee he could help
make regulations onerous to the tn
dependent manufacturers and burden
some to the tobacco planters. AS
member OF that committee he had
secret access to facts and circum-
stances and contemplated action that
would have enabled him to speculate
In the securities OF this great cor
poration-~a thing obviously incom-
patible with the duties OF a represen-
tative and utterly obnoxious to the
moral standards of the country Yet
We have presented to us the almost
incredible spectacle of the governors
temporary appointee. boasting In his
campaign literature or being a valiant
foe of an illegal tobacco trust in
which he had invested fortune and
In the successful achievements of
~ sH -, a
esed pecuniarily.
The public press and the people de-
plore the fact that the interests
have theis representatives In the halls
OF congress; but in this case, II seems
the American Tobacco Company had
one OF its stockholders on that great
committee OF congress to which all
bills having reference to taxation are
referred; to that committee which has
almost supreme jurisdiction OF all
questions relating to the regulation
OF the tobacco business of the coun-
try.
...- Mr.. Thompson Again.
Mr.. Glass sharply ridiculed the
claim that his competitor had boldly
defied the Pennsylvania railroad and
In this connection charged that the
same J. s. Barbour Thompson. who
figures in the railroad letters recently
made public bobbed up in Washing
ton a little while after Major Daniel
was paralyzed and avowed that he
was there to get Mr.. Swanson ap-
pointed as Senator Daniels successor.
On this point Mr.. Glass said: RE-
Gently there have appeared In the
public prints certain letters written
by J. s. Barbour Thompson. a rail-
road agent and lobbyist. Whatever
they may fail to disclose and what
ever Of doubt there may be as to
some things that they seem TO dis
close. there can be no serious cues
ton OF the fact that they present Mr..
Thompson al a railroad agent and a
dispenser Of railroad funds for the
purpose of controlling tho virginia
General Assembly ana for tha purpose
OF shaping or defeating railroad legis-
lation. II my rnpetitor In his pub
lie career was in tho habit Of boldly
defying railroads. does Il not seer,