Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-06-20
THE CANDIDATES.

Commissioner of Agriculture,
the offices of Governor and
Treasurer being uncontested.
The Clinch Valley News has
been asked more than one where
it stands as between the several
candidates, and hereby and here
in declare its belief, that Mr..
Ellyson should be nominated and
elected to succeed himself as
Lieutenant Governor, and our
sincere hope is that such may
be the case. He has filled the
office with credit to himself and
the State. He deserves whatever
he asks at the hands of his party.
His services as the head of the
State Democratic Committee
have been acceptable and sue
cessful, and we feel confident of
his denomination and election
at the hands of an appreciative
party. With Stuart and Ellyson
at the head of affairs there will
be little else to wish or ask.
Next, we hope to see Mr..
Koiner re-nominated and elected
as commissioner of Agriculture
and Emigration. He, too, has
done well and made good. Under
his management, as we see it,
the Agricultural interests of the
State have grown and attained
a degree of efficiency unknown
before. Until Mr.. Koiner's adj
ministration few people, of this
county at least, knew that there
was such a department in exist
ence in this State. He may not
have done all that could have
been done. What man on earth
could do all that might be done
when it comes to study and
work in the great field Of agri-
culture in its connection with all
cognate interests? Here, as per-
haps in few other departments
the limit of perfect and entire
success is widest if not illimit-
able. If Mr.. Koiner had been
capable of doing thrice as much
as he has done there would still
be stretching out before him
uncultivated, unentered fields of
conquest. What other man could
have done more? Can his oppo-
nent, Mr.. Brown, pick up this
work on 4 cold collar, as we say,
and do the work better? He
opposed Mr.. Koiner bitterly, re-
lentlessly, and as many of us
thought, unfairly, four years
ago, but failed to convince the
people that his past record as an
agrlculturist on business man
entitled him to election to the
office.
Is the case in favor of Mr.
Thompson Brown stronger now.
or Koiner's case weaker, than
four years ago? We don't see
that either is the case. We are
for the best man, and should Mr..
Koiner be turned down we
pledge our best support to his
successor in the great work. but
we do not believe it would be
wise at all to put in new man
unless it can be shown that he
is the superior of the present
incumbent. Hence, with the
present lights before us we
shall support Mr.. Koiner, and if
our advice and opinion is worth
anything we hope the voters of
the county will do likewise, and
so far as we have learned, be-
heve they will stand by Mr..
Kioner.
And now, as to the office of
Attorney encral: Judge
Williams, the present incumbent
Mr.. John Garland Pollard, Mr..
Cummins and Mr.. King, the
two latter not we'll known in
this section, but gentlemen of
good standing in the State as
lawyers and gentlemen of
character.
Judge Williams being one of
US, is we'll known throughout
the district, and also throughout
the State by virtue of his oc-
cupancy of this important Office
10, the past four years. Mr..
| ollard il, perhaps. oEe of tbe
bast known and N ist pranincn,
lawyers in The State The Tim g |
Dispatch says that he has NOR, |
ability and fitness sor the place |
than all his opponents combined. |
This is a broad claim. but Der.
haps the Times-Disratch. being |
on the ground, knows. The |
office of Attorney General, by |
virtue of its intimate connection
with the great school system of |
the State, as well as for other
reasons. is one of the most |
important Offices to be filled. A
strong. broad cultured, brainy.
unseliish, fearless man is needed |
In this office. Judge Williams