The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-08-27
NEW YORK WORLD
RETURNS TO rTg vOHrT
(Richmond Evening Journai)

(Richmond Evening Journai)
Although the New York World has
| lad it, attention called TO the inaccu-
racies Of Its comments on the recent
primary election. in which the treat
victory Of the .'wets" was alleged and
the revefsion Of sentiment in Virginia
recorded. that paper continues to put
out similar propaganda. Instead OF
Elving editorial expression to- the un-
founded stories Of . dry revulstcn In
the Ola Dominion. At IL now crediting
the foolish yarn to the Association Cp-
posed to National Prohibitions. which.
nc it's initial statement. AYERS that the
vote Of August was I'm ..overwheim-
ing reputation Of prohibition ~ It now
stands in Virginia" OF course. that is
utterly untrue. The worlds source Of
Information quotes dispatch from
Richmond, carried by the Associated
Fress the day after the primary cleo
.ion. as its authority In respect to the
eo-called "revulsion' Of sentiment. 1t
must not be forgotten that the press
bureaus Office IL in q wet newspaper
whose news Is more or less colored by
the Imagination OF its correspondents.
favoring the papers policy. As a mat
ter Of fact. several prohfbitionists were
defeated in districts where there was
three-cornered fight.
In the Thirty-ninth senatorial dis
election OF r. H. Stubs. OF Middtesex.
is announced as a wet" victory This
Is untrue. The incumbent, Senator
Mitchell dry. was reelected by sew
enteen votes In spite Of the triangular
contest. In Hanover. too. where the
former owner Of wet" organ was 4
candidate for the house. the returns
show his defeat. In the Oliver -Meetze
contest Fourteenth senatoriaD the
district has been wet for years. Oliver.
the successful candidate, IL . strong
man and good campaigner: Meetxe.
has opposed the regular man and
made enemies. divers victory is hardly
rebuke to the 'drys." As for the
several successes of the 'swets" In
be remembered that the vote in the
state was only about third Of nor
NAL: that the "wcts'' were we'll or
ganized. with the ''drys" in few in
stances exerting themselves We ven
ture that the districts which reversed
themselves by a small vote would. II
the fight for prohibition were renewed
go dry by larger majorities than be-
fore.
Much Is made Of the spectacular con-
test In which Captain Newstead Tabh.
OF Gloucester. won for tho house Of
delegates over four competitors Why
not? -Four "drys" competing against
one wet" 1t would have been little
short Of miracle had the wet" lost.
The worlds inspired attack on Virginia
prohibition closes in these words: THE
lesson Of the Virginia primaries shows
that the farmers of the United States
will not be led further to trample upon
the constitution Of their forefathers"
Inasmuch as the constitution OF their
forefathers has already been amended
by "the farmers Of the United States"
this bit Of piffle is hardly worth con-
sidering. We might add. however, that
Virginia has not the slightest notion
of reversing her vote Of 1914, and that
contrary to >the fervent hope of the
Al ISOLATION Opposed to National Prohi-
billions, DR.. J. Sydney Peters will not
be disturbed by the next Legislature in
the maintenance OF the office of pro-
hibition commissioner