Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-09
GILES JACKSON BRANDS
REPORT As FABRICATION
Never Even Suggested That Negro
Lawyer Should Take Part
In Trinkle Fight.
SAMPLE OF CAMPAIGN METHODS
Republicans Spread Broadcast In
Ninth District Mendacious Story
About COlored Intervention, Which,
Has No Foundation in Fact.

|
| Has No Foundation in Fact.
Neither in my private capacity rs
citizen nor as a member OF the Ma
| tlonal Hannibal Democratic League.
am taking the slightest part in Nir-
ginia politics. said Giles Is. Jackson.
prominent negro attorney, hast night
The report that ] was going to use
! my influence in the Ninth District
against Congressman SlHmp Is ton 10.
SUD even to deny. I have no interest,":
| or influence there, nor have ever ,e-
ceired from any person in that dis
trict an invitation to come there and
speak. 1t is "a fabrication pure and
simple. without even the scmblance Of
truth.
Ordinarily. neither OF tho ma jor par
| ties in Virginia would have had the
temerity to suggest that the other side
was seriously considering rc-enforc-
ing its campaign with speakers or the
colorcd race. Since I'll. adoption or
the new Constitution, it has been ac-
ceptcd that the race issue has been
forever divorced from politics. and will
not again arise 10 disturb the pleas
ant relations that exist now between
the white and colorcd elements OF the
population.
FAI<E NEWS Is CIRCULATED
ny HEPuBL1CAN ORGANIZATION
Eut the Republicans Of tho Ninth
Virginia District. where Congressman
e. IiaScom Slcmp is fighting for re-
election have given currency to a re-
port that the Democrats OF that dis
trict have extended a welcome to an
offer OF support from Giles -. jackson,
Of Richmond. and the news has been
assiduuusly circulated by the Ninth
District Republican organization.
Ja"ksoW's proposed pilgrimage ~
the Ninth was duly chroniclcd in Il
Bluctcld. w. Va. paper. in dispatch
purportinE to have cmanated from
Bristol. Tile article gave tho impress
sion that Jackson had been invited by
out and make speeches for Trinklc.
tpon being appraised that Slernp's
agents were circulating the story, pro-
ducing the West Virginia report TO
substantiatc their assertions. rrinkic
headquarters in Bristol promptly
sought out the Bristol correspondent
OF tho Eluefeld paper. establishing
easily tho fact that no such story had
been sent out OF Bristol. Apparently
tho whole tale WIS cooked up for po-
liiical purposes.
REPUBLICAN PAPER
PRINTS JACKSON STORY
The abingdon Virginian. violently
Republican in its policies, Gloats over
tho news" in this fashion:
headquarters at Bristol that Giles y.
jackson. a negro, was to campaign
with Mr.. Trinkle, has set the Ninth
District on fire. The coming Of Giles
u. jackson is as maddcninS 10 Ninth
District colored man as noutinG red
flag in the face OF Mexican bull.
They hate Jackson. and are saying as
much. Jackson's record is we'll known
to Southwest Virginia colored people.
and IL Trinkle. Governor Stuart or any
other of the Democratic candidates
supporters believed they could fool the
colored people Of tho Ninth. they Ger
tainly are u poor lot Of guesSers
The same newspaper. under Rich
mond date line. adds the sensational
information that it is understood in
Richmond that the decision TO enlist
Giles jackson on the side OF Trinklc
was reached only after mature con-
sideration by Governor II. c. Stuart and
Mr.. Trinklc himself"
According Ia leading Democrats OF
the district the Jackson story is typi-
cal Of number Of outside issues Ninth
District Republicans are trying TO in
ject in the present campaign TO at
tract attention. The 6. q. r. speakers
have found il hard to demonstrate to
district enjoying unprecedented pros
pcrity, the iniquity of the constructive
measures OF the present administration,
and have been driven to cultivate sem
Stations Of the kind that has just been
punctured by Giles Jackson
STUART AND TtINKLE
SPEAK IN WISE. TODAY
To-day Candidate T.. Lee Trinkle and
Governor Stuart will make campaign
speeches AT Wise Courthouse, a few
miles from Norton. The Governor went
to Wise County from Kings Mountain.
y. c., where on Saturday he made the
address Mt the celebration OF the bat
tie anniversary at that place.
One OF the most encouraging signs
from the Democratic standpoint is tho
warmth OF the reception that has been
accorded everywhere in Wise County to
Candidate Trinkle. The county has for
years returned substantial Republican
ma jOritics IL is estimated that so per
cent OF the taxes are paid by indus
tries and Developments controlled by
NortherE capital whose owners are af-
nliated with the Republican party, and
large proportion Of the voters are in
II direct way connected with these in
terests.
The change Of attitude is explained
by the attitude OF big business to the
Wilson administration. Wise County
industries are enjoying degree of
prosperity never before equaled in it's
history, and there is a general dispo-
sition on the part of the bcncficiaries
OF this prosperity TO let we'll enough
alone. Merchants, capitalists. big far
mers and cattle raisers who in former
years gave car to the Republican as
sertion that Democratic rule was in
com patible with commercial and indus
trial prosperity, have in large numbers
seeded from this faith. and are sup
porting the Wilson administration.
Accordingly, every Trinklc meeting
i'm the Wise County region has been
marked by encouraging enthusiasm.
Zig and demonstrative crowds attend
cd the meetings at Norton. Stouega and
Bis Stone Gap. The enthusiasm at the
iast-named town was all the more sig
nificant since II Is the home town Of
Representative SlemD himself