Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-04-04
TUCKER'S DECISION
CLEARS THE WATERS
Will Not Enter Primary Against MIR.
Stuart For Gubernatorial Nomi-
nation This Summer.

The announcement by Harry
st. George Tucker mo, not
honorable, that title has
been tackled to so many near
little of late that it has lost
significance) that he will not be
a candidate for the governorship
in the primary this summer,
but will remain in the ranks and
fight for progressive legislation,
insures a walk-over for Mr..
Stuart and leaves many voters
all over the state in very happy
frame of mind. No good demo-
crat could take pleasure in the
defeat of Harry Tucker and
many voters on both sides of the
Blue Ridge would have cast their
ballots against him with great
reluctance. 1t will be double
pleasure to vote with him for
Mr.. Stuart, and it is predicted
with much confidence that all
sections will unite on him as Mr..
Stu arts successor.
The southwestern people are
very fond of him, as they were
of his father who used to come
out here and shake hands with
our yeomenry when all our
villages were sweet Auburns
and the rare visits Of distin-
guished men were events that
drew together the whole coun-
try-side. And we have not for
gotten the splendid futility of
the fight made at Baltimore to
have the delegates register the
will of their state in her cho ice
for the presidency. But he has
acted both wisely and gracefully
in deferring the fulfillment of
his ambition to be governor.
Aside from the eminent fitness
of our candidate, it is due a
great section that the next
governor shall come from south
western territory. Floyd and
Robertson before the war, and
Tyler since, complete the list of
governors furnished by this sec
ton of the state; and balance of
power east rather than lack of
material west of the dividing
line is responsible for this in
equality of representation. Not
since the war has the office of
governor been filled by gentle
man of finer grain or an exec
utive of a more delicately
balanced practical idealism than
Hoge Tyler. His administration
sustained the best traditions of
the capitol; and as private
citizen he was one of the first to
espouse and most Jealous to
champion the revived ideals of
government that tided Woodrow
Wilson to the presidency. And
there are others in our south
west who have fought modestly,
though valiantly, in the ranks
that in character and qualifica-
tions measure up to the average
standard set by our eastern
brethren who have been at the
helm of state.
Pre-eminent at this time
among these is Henry Carter
Stuart, who on all sides is now
acknowledged to have an open
road to the governorship. VIM.
A. Jones, Carter Glass and
Harry Tucker are the only men
in the state who could dispute
the way with credit to them
selves, and they have finally
| decided not to enter the contest.
And did Mr.. Stuart's brand of
democracy need vindication,
the refusal of these men, who
are standing on the firing line
of the new political dispenstion,
to challenge his leadership gives
ringing answer to any false
alarms that may hereafter find
covert birth.
Mr.. Stuart does not belong to
the class of quixotic politicians
who start on big-game trails and
stop to burrow for mice, but his
work on the Corporation Com
mission left convincing proof
that he is in full sympathy with
the reconstructed democracy for
which Grady blazed the way
and Bryan has borne the torch.
And his work as a corporation
commissioner brought quick
recognition all over the state
that he has the equable intellec-
tual and moral poise and honesty
to make his convictions count
and speak for themselves in un-