The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-08-06
fractional Politics

The Richmond Times-Dispatch is great on
seeing spooks and putting up ghost stories The
Extreme and its cohorts put up the shadiest
Iof political moves In that midnight conference
at Washington when on the wane of the moon
Ia devoted trio in conjunction with the SCARED
heroes. Jones and Glass trotted out a champion
ito enter at the eleventh hour a race that looked
like three of the hated clan could be handi-
capped In. 1t was 11:4o before the closing hour
tnat tneir nice young man" with silvern locks
appeared on the scene with smile that rnr.+
come off for a few days yet But how does this
reprehensibie connivance appear in the eyes of
the erect, who are privileged free -lovers free
hooters and otherwise free presum ptives? An
tnings are fair and righteous to them when the
others OK Is gored. No machine or Washing
ION bosses in their doings-not a whit
Ihese are actual occurrences. On the other
mana TUESDAYS Tee-deedie dunn dee pulls off a
shost story about the machine" sending out a
siate--made up of Elyson, Brown and Williams
in letters from headquarters Here ia where
with that awful machine" we have received
no such instruction. And that the iconoclastic
Extreme. or any of its pals should get one
and We left out. Is more than exasperating II
fs downright disloyal. ungrateful and negligent
on the part of headquarters" No use to send
one now; we wouldn't bow to any such man
date, and we publish this to the world so that
the skittish It'd. may know that there Is at
least one of the tribe to be flushed by the
shnst even should it turn out to be real.
BUT what about local aspects? For some
weeks the carehead press hereabouts that array
1actonalism before gun la fired having had
.he word passed down the thin "antf' line have
neen lnVeighing against Taylor Ellyson and Sam
"lliiams-two veterans of the Confederacy as
wen as in Democratic battles-and boosting two
Youngsters with turning hair who have never
cone anything to deserve office at the hands of
democracy or promotion at the hands of yfr-
Rinians hut this is enough: we have not been
IN a mood~this campaign to belittle anybody
ana would not now at the tail-end of cam
pa1gn but for the unreasonable persecution OF
those valiant and deserving men-Ellyson and
n ha frfc
abouts tyou know, those little fellows that fol-
low in the path of bigger men and do the sneez-
ing as their mentors pinch the snuff) Rut
enough; just read what an upstate paper has
to say of such capers-this from the Clifton
Forge Review;
The Northern Neck News published at War
saw richmond county. the home Of Congress-
man william A. Jones. is opposed to the re-
erection OF Lieutenant Governor Ellyson At
torney General Williams and Commissioner of
Agriculture Koiner, and Is urging the voters
IN Its part of the State to turn out on the dav
OF the primary, August 9Th, and vote to a man
Tor Machen, Pollard and Brown. From this
we would judge that the fitness of candidates
is not involved. but that in the primary there
IS 70 De test OF strength between the old ma
chine and the new machine in the Democratic
party. We believe the voters should take into
consideration the qualifications OF the several
EdhdiHates and vote conscientiousy and not al
low prejudice to control their votes The
injection OF factionalsm into the contest for
state officers Is unfortunate and we predic. that
those who responsible for 1t will discover
their mistake when 1t is too late We propose
TO support those men consider best quail
ned fer the offices to which they aspire This
Is the best course TO pursue in our Judgment
Virginia Citizen