Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-10-08
Swanson Unonnosed7

(Harrlssonburg News-Record.)
IL begins to look as though Senator
Swanson will have no opposition in the
primary next year.
Our good friend, Carter Glass is still
unable to figure out how he can over
come that $4,000 majority Mr.. Skan-
son got over him last time, and the
more he figures the more he thinks
seat IN the house in his hand is
worth two seats in the Senate with
Claud Swanson and $4,000 majority
between him and them.
We admire the mathematical view
point of Mr.. Glass very much, for we
always liked to see man calculate
well before he is ready to swear he
! has the answer And especially is it
/ u pleasure to see Mr.. Glass take all
the chances into his calculations with
| such keen appreciation of his great
chances OF losing everything and his
| small chance of winning anything.
And if Mr.. Glass is out of it, who
can the opposition put up? Mr.. An
drew jackson Montague is highly sat
isfied with his job in the house
!c2stwise he prefers it TO an an at
tempt to get into the senate by the
driving Swanson-out route. And Will
liam A. Jones-well, he got so "het"
up last time i'm his attempt to be
smirch the reputation of the grand old
man of the Virginia Democracy, that
ne has not even recovered his wind
as yet.
And Harry Tuckcr-nay, nay, "our
larry" still prefers to look longing
ly toward the executive mansion IN
Richmond rather than anxiety of Il
set to with Mr.. Swanson over seat
in the senate.
And so it goes. The truth is that
Claude Swanson has made good to
such Il splendid extcn; that even the
men who covcS his seat know that
they would have Il mighty slim chance
Of defeating him.
1t was quite some job that Swanson
had to tackle when he came to the
senate. A people used 20 senatorial
timber like John Daniel, have set
pretty high standards and only Il
man of unusual attainincnts could fill
shoes acceptably to them.
And then 4 man who has to play
the role of team mate to that sturdy
and seasoned old war-horGe, Thomas
=. Martin, who has more good friends
and warm admirers in Virginia than
any other senator in her history must
be hard worker and Il faithful pull
cr.
Frankly, when Claude Swanson came
to the Senate we feared he came with
too large place to fill-for man
who can measure up as successor to Il
Daniel and colleague of Il Martin
must fit a big place.
But Swanson made good with Il
vengeance. He has worked and work
ed, giving the little busy bee pointers
on the art of improving each shining
hour. BY that same sheer force of
character, determination to succeed
and willingness to work that carried
him from the humber ranks of coun-
try school teacher up to the chief
magistracy of his native state, he won
his proper place in the United States
Senate.
AT the same time he has won the
sincere admiration of the white house
n thing the Glasses and fuckers and
Jonses all thought they could prevent
him from doing and which they did
try to circumvent.
And that is why the people are be-
hind him so solidly that not Il single
one of those who covet his place has
been able to figure out how they can
get it.
1t looks. therefore, rs if he will
be unopposed. OF course, none of
those who covet his job wants Vir-
ginia to know that he will have no OPP
position yet, but down deep in their
hearts they have about decided that
it is too much like certain defeat for
them to attempt to make the race.