Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-07-05
Said the Spider to the fly

"Mr. Ryan sat throughout the day
and kept tab on all that was going
on. He frequently leaned forward to
make some observation to Senator
Martin, who sits directly in front of
him, and more than once these little
conferences were of some duration.
Senator Swanson, Senator Martin.
Congressman Flood and Thomas +.
Ryan up to yesterday had been voting
consistently for Underwood, and thus
had the unbroken support of the Vir-
ginia organization.
We quote this interesting news
item from Tuesdays Baltimore Sun
for the delight and edification of the
Clark and Wilson supporters who
assembled in mass meeting at the
courthouse at Tazewell to select dele
gates to the Norfolk convention. BY
actual count that mass meeting con
tanned three men who favored Under
wood. Ryan Martin Swanson Does
that triumvirate combination sound
good to the Democrats of Tazewell
county?
Delegated as agents of the Demo-
cracy of Virginia to represent "that
sovereign state" in the national con-
vention they went there cooked and
primed to act as clogs in the wheels
of Progressive Democracy-they went
there to fight every move made by
Bryan in the interest of the people
they went there deliberately to mis-
represent the sentiment of their
constituency--they went there deter
mined to thwart the will of major
ity of the people of Virginia; Martin
holding whispered consultations with
Ryan, Wall Streets most notorious
agent, while Bryan, the peoples
champion, was fighting a giants
battle to rid the Democratic party of
that incubus! Did we send Senator
Martin to Baltimore to sit at the ear
of Thomas F. Ryan and conspire for
the nomination of man who is not
the choice of three fourths of the
Democrats of the State? If we did,
we should be satisfied, for he did his
work we'll. Did we send him there to
work cheek and jowl with Thomas F.
Ryan for the elevation of Parker and
the humiliation of Bryan? To withhold
his vote and his influence from Clark,
when he had secured more than a
majority of the delegates? To keep
the line of his fourteen fellow con-
spirato.s unbroken until the Wilson
stampede started and the dead line
had been passed? No! Senator Mar
tin knows that he betrayed the
people; that he besmirched Virginia
with stigma almost as odious as
that which attaches to Murphy
manacled Tammany Hall. Virginia
and New York-tne only two delega-
tions that sent bull-mad barkers to
the platform to froth slander and VII
tuperation in Bryan's facel August
Belmont behind Stanchfieldl Thomas
F. Ryan looking across Thomas S.
Martins shoulder, while Hal Flood
told the Commoner that a thousand
Virginia Democrats as good as he had
written their o. X. on Ryan's back
! and sent him to Baltimore!
( Senator Martin appealed to the vot.
ers of Virginia to send uninstructec
delegates to Norfolk. He got acros.
with it. He took with him an unin.
, structed delegation to Baltimore. By
: one vote he failed to clinch with the
unit rule. AT the head of the fourteen
, delegates. sitting within three feet
of Thomas F. Ryan, he fought botl
Clark and Wilson to the last ditch
His game has been exposed. If tn,
3 people Of Virginia, thus betrayed b!
him, do not demand bis head when Ri