The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-08-17
Says Mr.. EIlyson Substitutes
Party Machine for Peo-
pie of Virginia
DENIES HE SOUGHT
AID OF RAILROADS
Never Spoke Of Captain Will
lard As He is Quoted
Explains Big
Expense

In reply to a recent interview sp-
pearing in the press of virginia from
Chairman j. Taylor Eliysoa, the Hon.
a. j. Montague. when seen Mt his Of
fee In this city, gave cut the follow
ing;
MI. Ellyson says that l have made
complaint agasnst her CktrgiHia's4
people lie knows this Is untrue, So
he AT once proceeds to substitute the
Democratic party for the state. aud
then. The present party management
for the party itself. Ii IL this indie
fensibie substitution Of the party mani
%agernent' for the party. and the State
that honest Democrats resent, and il
is this very substitution. his making
the organization. the servant greater
1ban its master, the party. that con-
st.tutes the Machine. SO Mir. EAly-
sons shameless Substitution in itself
eonfesses the existence Of the Ma
chine.
He next contends that inasnuch as
/ have held office for twelve years
should not eriticise this Machine, Here
he and / again differ. for / believe
mat though one has held one thousand
offices for enc thousand years. he Ii
not deprived of his right nf criticism
~ his party or It's management 1
have never treated public Office as a
bride 70 seeure my silence
1T Ia true that / was United States
District Attorney for "a little over
four years under appointments by
president Cleveland. and Chief jus
'tice Fuller, respectively. The Ma
chine did not make these appoint
ments. vas subsequently, nominated
for AttefneY-Generaf and the Govern
orship. but | Imagine that no candid.
or Informed man in Virginia believes
that these nominations were accom-
plisllsd or dictated by the present
party management or the Machine, In
fact met the covert ard cunning OPP
position OF the Machine al every stage
Of faF campaign.
= Non Partisan Appointments.
But Mr.. Ellyson gratnitnUSlY adds
that | held appointments EHaer Re
publican administration far two
years intending thereby to tmpeach
my party loyalty. | served as one ct
six delegates of the United States To
the Pan~American Conference at RIO
IN 1906, lasting four weeks ind ! serv-
Hd as one Of four American d~elegatcs
20 h International Conference on
hfarfrtrr8 law at BRUSSELS. In the fail
of 1909 and 1910, the two sessions
consuming about four weeks. Thus
TWO rnanths and not 'twe years vera
employed by me under these two non
partisan appointments made by PRIEST
dents Roosehelt and Taft. respective
" and without my KNOWLEDGE or that
~ any friend of mine. go far as I
know.
But the grievance Of Mr. Eiiyson
now seems 10 be that these two mp
pointnents were rendered TO me- in
stead OF to n Machine man, And does
not this sustain my argument that the
Machine endeavors always To maligr
any free Democrat who NAV hold OF
fee or appointment. But 1t is known
that the Machine his presented Ma
chine Democrats To the President for
high positions. Did these Machine
recommendations make Republicans Of
these Democrats considered or named
by tho President Mr.. Eslyson's con
tention implies that Of two appoint
raerts made by a Republican admin
istratlon. the Machine mar IL 81 Demo-
crat. and the anti Machine Democrat
Is a Republican. Consistency and
truth lie outside OF the pathway OF
the Machine.
Beelcuds the Issue.
but Mr.. Ellyson heciouds the issue;
II is not the raising but the dIstribu-
tion OF campaign. contributions for tho
years Of 1891 and 1893; 1t was the
private and secret distribution OF funds
by MIR. Thompson and others to candi-
dates for the Legislature, and to per-
sons after those candidates were elect
ed. that makes the issue. And In con-
n~ection with this issue. I stated at
Staunton that such unofficial and prt-
waite distributions of money in 1891
and 1898. were not justified by the
present clafnor or white supremacy
and / cited General Fftz Lee as favor
ing white supremacy as murh as any
man. living or dead. and that he re-
scented these secret and sinister con
trtbutions by Mr.. Thompson and
others, | made no mention OF Mr..
Ellyson in this connection, and why
should he now come forward to defend
these private distributions Does he
not thereby again confirm my conten-
ton that the Machine Is practically
the attorney or partisan agent OF I'M
fair methods
MIR. Ellyson next demands tina
these candidates who received these
private n unofficial contributions
should he .ssataeds indeed, he declares
that not to do so is AS cowardly as It
is cruel But pray who car name
these men except those who paid the
money! The cruelty and cowardice
are with the men possessing and with
holding this information. would.
therefore. refer Mr.. Ellyson to hts
friend. Mr.. Thompson. and others. Blu,
does not Mr.. Ellyson recall that a
great effort was once made to have
these guilty men named? General Lee
urged his particular point before the
Legislative Investigating Committee
Of 1898, but without avail, Why did
not Mr.. Ellyson then cooperate with
General Lee and Others In the erorr
to have this committee name the re-
cipients Of these secret funds?
Letters No Reflection.
referring to Mr.. Ellyson's COM
ments upon the campaign of 1897. l
would say that the quotations made
by him from the letters of mine con-
tain nothing rejecting upon him. upon
the party or upon me. I 10 not know
whether the railroads contributed to
that campaign or not. I was a subor-
dinate candidate on the state ticket.
and had nothing whatever to do with
the finances. save to sugge to Mr..
lCoutinuad ON Seventh paGe.l