The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-04-08
aGIass and the Newspapers. j"

Under this caption the South Boston News,
or which K. H Beazley is editor and r. {.
Beazley is owner and manager. edtorially ad
mits that it Is the paper which Congressman
Carter Glass charged in Richmond with having
refused to print notice of his candidacy for the
United States Senate when he offered to
pay advertising rates for the article
In beginning the editorial the News says:
Why uplift the club of Hercules TO brain IA
gnat or crush fly" After devoting almost a
column to a satirieal review of Mr.. Glass speech
up to the time he charged that of the
papers in Virginia had admitted that 1t had
sold its columns to my competitor, the News
says:
In justice to all the rest of newspapers in the
State, and after the assertions made by Mr..
Glass. who declared he had the proof in hand.
his refusal was unjust to the fraternity and cow
ardiy the part of MIR Glass. An insihuasfeh
without explanation is the worst form OF
why did not Mr.. Glass again repeat. after
he had made quotations from the paper, why
didn't ne. like man, stand UP before that audi
ence and proclaim that the paper referred to
was
rhe soush Boston News
for that was the paper from which he had quot
cd There is not man of moral courage In
Virginia to-day that would make a grave charge
against his fellow citizen in public mass meet
ing. and then refuse to give his name. And
that's just what Congressman Glass did Vir-
gnians will overlook Mistakes pardon errors
but Will not condone waIton injustice ana cow
ardice.
with regard to the insinuation that the edi-
tor has been bought, or the editorial columns
su hsidized, or that he has ceased to fight ring
and political combines against-the rights of the
people Is absolutely false
THE editor of this paper has pecuniary
Interests in the same further than to draw
his Very modest salary. Mr.. II. e. Beazley Is the
owner, proprietor and business manager As
such h" reserves to himself the right to reiect
any -adNerlAsen,eIst. he theep prape=. 49,
Since the establishment of the paper In 1890
1t has never accepted a single liquor or bar
room advertisement. The advertising columns
or the paper are for sale. No one has right
70 force their owner to sell them to whom he
dos f1pf rich ,leyI,
! the United States Senate.
| whence cometh this great reformer, any.
way? With what faction has Mr.. Glass been
afhliating? If we mistake not, in the great
Montague and Martin senatorial contest in 1895
Mr. Glass was supporter of Mr.. Martin the
reputed head of the me ehine-the ring Ana
heard 1t denied, that Mr.. Glass only few months
ago proposed to Hon. Hal Flood that il he would
make the race for the Senate. that he iCflassl
would support him most heartily. Mr.. Flood
is of the big four of the so called Mar
! tin machine
Why such sudden Change In your factional
affiliations? There are reasons, no doubt
Perhaps Governor Mann. whom you so 10y
ally supported three years ago. and in whose
behalf YOU were willing to break the heart Of a
wite and mother, and blot out the sunshine from
the life of sons and daughters when there was
no need for ii, by arraylng before the public a
long settled family feud chilled your zeal when
he appointed Ex-Governor Swanson to fill the
vacancy caused by the death OF Major Daniel
That was an awful slam. Ingratitude and
lack of appreciation are bad things. and surely
Governor Mann was guilty of these. And then
there was another chance, first-cfass chance
for Governor Mann to do the handsome thing
but alas, Mr.. Swanson again got the plum
mo. Mr.. Glass the people OF Virginia viii
hardly think that you are more righteous than
they The machine that you are fighting SO
hard against has given you for many years a
comfortable berth. large enough for your ca
pacity, if not for your arrogance and ambition
The statement that you had letter from
the publisher of this paTer in regard to pub
fishing Your card is positively untrue.
Ginning Hallmark he
only thing that reached this office and that was
presented by Mr.. r. S. Harbour"