Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-10-23
THE 1sroRY" OF A CARTOON.
Mr.. Edidr:

MIR. Editor:
Your ncighbor of the Republican
published an alleged cartoon last
week and explains it editorially so as
to make it plain to the Hill Billies who
read the paper. A little girl taking
first aid lessons in drawing made
picture of Old Red, and as help to
the limited understanding Of her little
friends she wrote underneath:
This is Cow"
But about he cartoon. A man in
boys clothes is presenting petition
to Collector Hart which reads: We.
the Democrats $500 of Scott, Do Not
Want Palmer, We Want Cullen cor
Mcconnell" Johnson of the County
Committee urges the collector to ap-
point Palmer mot Palmer or some
other man, but just Palmer). A man
with Irvine's name pinned on to 4c.
coat is urging Johnson forward with
his petition, and that's the picture.
Speaking of cartoons, the Digest
says: "a cartoon to be effective
should have easily recognizable fea-
lures, or style or both in its character.
And enough of fact or truth to attract
attention."
Now, knowing all the people sup
posed to be caricatured, and all the
conditions misrepresented in the pic
ture, | say unhesitatingly that not one
of the characters could be recognized
from the cartoon, and that not one
Of the statements made either in the
printed sections carefully prepared for
the snake hunters who can read, nor
the insinuations supposed to be in
mental reach of the bosses, and
shoulder hitters, has i'm it Il single ele-
ment of truth.
In the (500) bracketed Democrats
we find the limit of strength accord
ed to Irvine in county where he tied
Noel in 1908 when he made his great
race for the Senate against him, back
ed as he was by Col. Slemp and the
then unbeaten Republican party Of the
United States.
In this "a State election) Colonel
Slcmp then in his full power, swap
ped votes in all the three counties, for
the smaller Offices for votes for Noel,
yet in spite of all this Irvine came in
four votes of carrying Scott, and in
Lee and Wise received over 1900
more votes than Joe Wysor did the
year following in the same counties
for Congress.
And this same bracketed 5000 are
the people who carried that great
county last year over the Slemp tick
ct by good majorities and will carry
it again for Irvine.
But to this Cartoon" No man
knows better than the painstaking
slanderer who inspired it, that Irvine
had absolutely nothing to do with
Scott county appointments, and that
his object was to rally some Demo-
Gratis around the thrice disgruntled
Kane, and to discourage the disaffec-
| ton now so painfully evident in the
ranks of the ring CALLED Slempitcs of
the county.
: Now it's known of all men that
Slemp cannot win in this race with
out Democratic votes and the peripa-
5 tetic Carter to boost this hope claim
cd that he would get five hundred
"who had never voted the Republican
| ticket" OF course nobody believed
| this, or any other of his statements he
, made. 1t simply shows that the only
= hope Slemp has is in persuading
= Democrats to vote for a man without
r party, and whose only platform is
, opposition to Wilson, who justly. but
e modestly stands today the foremost
= man of all the world.
/, What would you think, Mr. Editor,
S of Belgian soldier who would desert
: his country and take service under the
S German flag? Hem light be half de-
gree more infamous, but he couldn't
s be such an exaggerated fool as the
Democrat who would desert his colors
to vote for Slemp.
2 Yours truly,