The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-13
LYNCHBURG "ExTREsfISTs !"

LSNCHBURG "EXTRENISTS."
The afternoon Bryan organ, the NetCs Leader,
continues TO beat the air and to pronounce
anathemas upon the "sefanointed apostles"
wandering propagandists" and sextremists, !"
who have the temerity to insist that moral
measure" is really moral" measure and that
the votes Of senators and delegates upon moral
measures are moral" acts.
The Bryan organ may deceive those OF its
readers which read no daily paper other than
the two Bryan organs. for these organs are SO
narrow and unfair in their methods that they
do not admit into their columns contradictions
Of false statements they have made few days
ago the evening Bryan organ published false
statements concerning DIR. Cannon. the superin-
tendent OF the Ant-Saloon league Of Virginia
declaring that he had been asked TO leave the
floor OF the house OF delegates. DR. Cannon
sent to the Afternoon Bryan organ denial of the
false report In It's columns but 1t has never ap-
peared.
And yet paper which is so utterly devoid OF
justice and honor that 1t refuses TO print de.
NAL of its false reports has the audacity to
pTG&Siu OIL the subject OIL common justice anu
common honesty" and to exhort with verse of
Scripture for It's text,
In another column there is printed COM
imunicstion from Lynchhurg, followed by "a
telegram, addressed to Senator Featherstone
signed by number of the leading citizens Of
that city. This telegram urges the support Of
the anti-vce bill. Are these men extremists"
"Pharisees' ''bigots" wandering propagan-
dlsts.' "sef.anointed apoytles?" Those who are
acquainted with the sgners of the telegram,
know that they some OF the "sober-minded
Virginians" who demanding the passage of
moral measures There are hundreds of thou
sands Hike them who are disguised at the
spectacle Of few extremists who oppose moral
measures In the senate of Virginia preventing
the passage OF bills which mean so much to the
moral welfare OF the State.
Let the Bryan organs shrek and howl Let
these few senators, the extreme opponents of
moral measures. fritter away the time OF the
State and kill moral measures The frantic
effort to prevent the taking OF vote on the
anti-vice bill or the anti-gambing bill or the
antt-liquor shipping bill Will not deceive the
people OF Virginia Thanks to The Richmond
Vtrointdn, the eyes of the people OF the State
are focused upon these senator's, and whether a
vote is reached on these measures or not the
State will hold to a strict accountability the
men who have blocked the way of moral legisla.
ton.
The senator from Roanoke compared these
moral" bills to snakes" in his speech on
Thursday Afternoon. and declared that he would
not hesitate TO any sort OF parliamentary
tactics to Kill these legislative snakes"
According to the senator from Roanoke, when
President Wilson signed the Kenyon" bill he
signed a measure. as deadly and as pestilential
poisonous snake. and yet the senator from
Roanoke declares that President Wilson is the
"bravest, truest man ON the American continent"
Is the senator from Roanoke really going to
Kill the snake which his hero has turned loose
with his signature?