The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-05
THE GLASGOW LETTER.

THE GLASGOW LETTER.
Following "a custom more honored in
the breach than in the observance,
The Times Dispatch has for mary
years refrained fr m giving advice or
within the party.
In the gubernator!al campaigns be-
tween Montague and Swanson in 1901
and later in the three-cornered fight
between Swanson, Mann and Willard,
this paper studiously avoided all SEM
blance of favortism, and likewise IN
the Senatorial campaign between Mar
tin and Montague in 1905 The Times
Dispatch contented itself with print
Ing the news fully and fairly. After
that battle had been fought out we
said that one great and lasting bene-
fit of the primary system was the
fact that the Issue between Senator
Martin and Governor Montague car
ried with 1t the certainty that Mr.. Mar
tain was the choice OF the majority of
the people OF this State.
In the Tucl'er- Mann struggle the
Fame policy OF non-interference was
followed. and but for unforeseen and
unioreseeahle contingencies The
Times Dispatch would have EXPRESSED
no opinion in this campaign favorable
or unfavorable TO the candidates.
When in the course of publishing
the legitimate news of the day we
We're brought face to face with the
charge that Mr.. Swanson. while :.
member of the Ways and Means Com
miitee Of the House of Representa-
tives, had been gambling in the stock
OF the American Tobacco Company.
and when Mr.. Swanson not only ad-
ritted the charge but boldly justified
his course, and declared that such
purchases on margins by man in a
Fosition of trust as representative
We're without the least faint of i'm
propriety. The Times Dispatch felt
compelled to say that in its opinion
Mr.. swanson had betrayed public
trust and was UNIT TO represent Vir-
sinia in the Senate or elsewhere.
From July until August 2s The
Times Dispatch withheld all editorial
comment on the charge that Senator
Martin had been a railroad lobbyist.
On August IS Senator Martin answer
ed these charges and following his
public statements, The Times DISPATCH
said. in part:
In his speech last night. which is
printed in fun elsewhere in this Daner
senator Thomas Staples Martin mn
SWered all the charges made by the
non. William y. Jones to the salts
faction OF The Times Dispatch.
me Ilmes-Dispatch has always
placed the honor of Virginia and her
hupHc servants above all other con
operations, and IT believes thar M
Martins connection with the railroads
IN 1881 in the light CT his explana
uon now given for the first time in
vowed then no intentional wrong IN
me honor, fame or welfare Of VIZ
GINA -
on the very day that this editorial
appeared Mr.. Jones received and rcas
iur'heaT; s:ltters" written in 1893 and
1885 by senator Martin. before and
"i'eF MS election. to Mr. w 4 Glas-
gov lobbyist-inchief for the Nor
folk and w-stern Railway.
Though these letters were read At
Petersburg on Tuesday. +, was no, i'm =
III early Saturday morning that this
paper received Senator Martins cow,
Tnents In reply. From tina, lime r,,t,
now The Times-Dispatch has carefully
considered this matter, and we now
offer our final conclusion to the nub.
lie.
we have no disposition to tear omen
old wounds From 1898 until the Con
stitutonal Convention put an end tc
all fear OF negro domination. this ma
per and its predecessor-The Ricb
mond Times-opposed the use of rail-.
road money in State elections.
Many differed with us then. In an.
proving the use Of railroad money %.
the best means of Keeping the s,a,.
under the control % the Democratic
party
That day has gone. The ner.oe.
were kept from the polls by moncv o.
otherwise, the Democrats were ken
In power ana the railroads were ara
tected'' We used the word .protec,e3
advisedly and it ls TO the Shame q
Virginia that we have to use M,
wore a, all
when John Barbour and John "
Daniel first undertook 10 drive an,
Mshoneism by the use Of railroa,
money, did they make promises 70 ~
railroads did they not only saw .tIou
us put Virginia IN the hands or Inc
white oitizensr-for nothing can h