The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-18
N DONALD LEE IS
TARGET OF GLASS
Candidate for United States
Senate Directs Shaft
at Commission
LATTER is PRESENT
AND REPLIES HOTLY
Speaker Attacks Record Of
His Opponent and Says
Swanson Was Very
Wasteful
Especial TO The Richmond virginian.)

Especial TO The Richmond Firginian.)
LANCASTER COURTHOUSE, VA.
July II. Congressman Carter Glass ad
dressed a large audience here to-day
estimated at 400 to 500 people, who
packed the large courtroom to Its fun
est capacity. The speaker was intro
duced by Thomas j Downing. mem
Der of the Northern Neck bar lie
followed the main lines OF addresses
delivered elswhere. attacking the
method of the machine leaders. the
subsidized and subserpient press, and
assailing with sarcasm and infectise
the administration Of his competitor
AS governor Of Virginia.
He said that Swanson was not the
author of the many progressive meas
ures claimed for him by himself and
his friends; that he had received from
his predecessor Il surplus Of $500. V0g.
that during his administration he had
collected 100000 more than his
predecessor had done and that he had
left a bankrupt treasury 10 his sue.
cessor. who had 10 borrow $3.50. 600
TO Keep the wheels Of government
running during the first nine months
OF his administration.
Jousts With Lee.
During his address Mr. Glass re-
ferred to the unfair course OF the
NfrEinian Citizen. owned and edited
by Fish Commissioner Macdonald
Lee, In publishing slanderous arti-
cles against him. and never publish
Ing his replied to them. This brought
Commissioner Lee to his feet. who en-
tered into n hated eolloquy with Mr..
Glass, saying that Glass has never
asked him to publish any contradic-
ton. Mr.. Glass replied that no fair
minded editor would wait to be ask
ed to publish "a denial OF any unjust
or slanderons article to which his pa
Per had given circulation.
He asked Mr.. Lee why he had not
published the letters from certain rail-
road officials that Congressman Jones
gave out last weak. Mr. Lee replied
he was away from home when the
letters were published Mr. Glass re-
torted that Mr.. Lee had publish ed
Senator Martins denial. which came
out two days after the letters were
published.
Salary Increases.
This retort set the audience wild.
md Mr.. Lee subsidized. Later on when
Mr.. Glass referred to the act Of the
Legislature in changing The name OF
the Board OF Fisheries to the Com
mission os Fisheries Ia order to get
around a constitutional provision that
stood in the way of increasing Com
missioner Lees salary from s goo to
$4,000. and his secretary's salary from
il 900 to $500, MIR. Lee arose and
read a list OF salaries or State off,
eials increased during Mr.. GLASS
term In the State Senate.
Mr.. Glass replied, n he voted for
these slight increases, he did so with
out having 20 violate his conscience
or the Constitution. and that Monta-
gue's administration had turned 10
swanson a surplus or over half a
million dollars, and that under swan
Hon. the Constitution had been ayaa-el
TO increase salaries from so to 100
per cent. and this bankrupted the
treasury and impaired the honor and
credit OF the Commonwealth He
ridicuied the boast Of Swanson that
he had deifed the PENNSYLVANIA rail-
road. provoking peats OF laughter at
the expense OF hts opponent.
Revenue Reduced.
He said that under Swanson's ad-
ministration the revenues as admin
istered by Comm issioner Mcdonald
Lee had fallen off from $4,000 10
$4,000, and that the tax assessmen nj
q had bean Increased sfas, 70. see III
which Sss, 600. 600 was on the proper
ty OF the people and only IS. 1000, 600
on that of railroad corporations
He closed with plea to the people
10 strike down the machine" and
restore Virginia to her former proud
position of purity. prestige and lead
ership among the States OF the Amer
lean Union.
Through his speech MT Glass was
literally applauded.