Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-10-29
A CARD FROM MIR. ROYALL.
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To the voters OF the Third Senatorial
District:
On account of limited time it will be
impossible for me to see many OF you
personally between now and the cleo
rion, and therefore take this method
of addressing you in my behalf.
The platform upon which l stand is
we'll known to you, as the same has
been constantly before you for several
weeks, and while the platform upon
which Mr.. Chapman stands practi-
cally embodies that for which ! have
been standing since my nomination
last April, yet l wish to point out
wherein he cannot and will not, how
ever sincere he may be in his inten-
tions, carry out his platform. After
endorsing President Wilson and Gov
ernor Stuart, Mr.. Chapman's platform
proceeds to advocate the enactment of
such laws as will successfully carry
into effect the will OF the people as eX-
pressed in September, 1914, on the
question of prohibition of the manu-
facture and sale of ardent spirits in
the commonwealth.
My record on the temperance ques-
tion is so we'll known that it needs no
comment, and l cast the vote that
made tie of 10 to 10 and the Presi-
dent of the Senate broke the tie. Had
it not been for my vote in the Senate
on this question you would have not
been able to have voted in the cleo
tion of September, 1914. 1t is very
natural for Mr.. Chapman to say that
he stands for temperance after the
State has gone 10000 dry, but | stood
the test when it took moral courage
to do so, and if 1 should never again
be elected to any other Office, shall
always be proud that l had the oppor-
tunity of aiding i'll the greatest piece
of moral legislation that has ever
passed the general assembly of Vir-
ginia, and shall continue, if re-elect-
ed to the Senate, to use my best eff
orts to see that Virginia is made dry,
not only in name, but in reality.
am both dry in theory and in practice,
and my record and actions speak
louder than words. Ask MIR. Chap
man what efforts he put forth in the
great tight on the Enabling Act and
whether he made any dry speeches
prior to the election in September
1914.
Mr.. Chapman's platform also fav-
ors the buiidig of good roads. / no!
only worked and voted for the bend
issue in Tazewell county, but one OF
the chief fights that is now being
waged against me is by those who
We're opposed to good roads, and be-
cause introduced the bill in the
Senate which enabled the people Of
Tazewell county to spend the mnoey
which they had voted for in the bono
issue, and to provide method by
which few people could not defeat
the will of the masses in doing so.
introduced the bill at the instance o.
a great number of voters of TaZewel
county, both Democrats and Republi
cans, who signed petition urging
me to do so. Did Mr.. Chapman wori
for the bond issue and did he vote fo,
it? l do not know, but l have hear,
that he did not. He can perhaps an
swer this himself and the voters hav
a right to know, and when he an
swers this question, l would like ais
for him to tell you whether or not,
he should be elected to the Senate ol
November End, he will undertake +
repeal the present road law of Taze
well comfy. Those who are in fnvo
of good roads are vitality interested i
how he stands on this vital questio