Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-10-15
NO REPUBLICAN
FROM EAST VA.
Writer Takes Exception to Sister
Bauer's Statement That Pea
nut Section Will Turn Down
Democratic Candidate.
Norfolk, Va, Oct. ..

GNiSOA 0s AN0WR.
In the last issue of the C. v. N.
see an account of speech delivered
in Tazewell by one Nettis E. Bauer,
whose name take it, would not have
been az popular there couple of
years ago as it appears to have been
recently. Time, apparently, makes
many changes in this busy day. Her
speech, as recorded in the c. V. News,
contained several erroneous state
ments, which may be misleading to
people who are not thoroughly ac-
quainted with the facts, and l de-
sire to have this to say about them.
Eastern Virginia vii not send u
republican to congress this fall. The
only contest between the parties is
in the Second District, where State
Senator J. T. Deal, Democrat, and
Menalacus Landlord, republican, are
battling for honorE. 1t is conceded,
even by republicans, that Mr.. Lank-
ford has no chance Of election. He
conceded that to me, personally, last
Tuesday afternoon in an informal
conversation. But as to Miss Bauer's
statement Of "free trade on peanuts."
Mr.. Deal, himself, was the first Of
fetal in this district to begin q fight
for q tariff on peanuts, and if no
should be defeated it would mean
that the tariff on peanuts, so far as
his platform is concerned, will be re-
pudiated. This plank is one Of tho
most prominent in his platform, and
one on which both republicans and
democrats heartily agree, In this Sec
ton. Mr.. Lankford has similar
plank in his platform, written there
several months after Mr. Deal pub
lished his.
Transports returning from France
did not lack ballast. Possibly Miss
Bauer In her statement regarding
this, was shooting ut random, rely
ing upon her belief in the ignorance
Of her audience, so far az nautical
matters are concerned, they being In
land folks. 1t would be as silly to
say that ship crossed the ocean
without compass, as without bal
last. Miss Bauers remarks in this
particular, to persons who actually
know, are silly. In the second place,
Uncle Sam had very little to do with
the Transports, except to pay their
hire. He hired the large majority of
them for the period of the war Many
others the majority Of transports
carrying our troops across the ocean
were British vessels, with which
the United States had nothing what
ever to do. In another place, no ship
captain would attempt to crosg the
ocean with a ship not properly bal
lasted. And if they rolled, Miss Bauer
can blame the elements and not tho
democratic administrations. The Lord
knows, if the government had taken
all the time necessary to see that
her ships were exactly fitted accord
ing to the most luxurious require
ments of the modern passenger liner,
the troops would not have all been
back yet, and what howl the Amer
lean people-and possibly Miss Bau-
er, although her name does not in
dicate that she took great deal of
interest during 1918 in the well
fare of American troopG-would have
hurled to the skies.
If Uncle Sam provided two saddles
for every horse in the army-praise
be. | happened to, serve for n year
and half in that branch of the SER
vice which used saddles, and while
| did not go to France my regiment
did, and / have learned, in minute
detail from those who returned. what
they did. Two saddles for every horse
what Of it? If he had had only one
saddle for each mount, what would
happen if that one broke. or was
burned, or wore out, of its own nc
cord? Such drivel on the part of an
alleged campaign speaker strikes me
as insulting to the intelligence Of
people of the caliber of those who
had the advantages for which Tazc-
we'll county has long been known.
President Wilson's lack of geog-
raphical knowledge almost resulted
in sugar factory in Hungary be-
ing cut in twainl Horrors! How dila-
tory in his study of geography he
must have been-that great man,
now in disrepute, but who held the
destiny of q world in the palm of
his hand, and to whom kings kow-
towed and princes paid homage and
came to seek instruction-not to
know of that sugar factory in Hun
gary. What great oversight in his
education; what a miserable careless
ness on his part, to overlook that
precious sugar factory in Hungary.
lie should have known the location Of
that plant. In fact, it is one of the
prerogatives of the President of the
United States to be personally ac-
qualnted with every sugar factory in
the world, as we'll as to have at the
tips of his tongue the exact location
of every factory on the face of the
earth. What if he had "cut in twain"
the sugar factory? There IL moth
ing to indicate that such action would
totally disqualify the democratic
party as political factor. Miss
Bauer must have been great hu-
morist, or her sense of humor must
have. on the other hand been enti-
rely lacking-either her sense of hu-
NOR. or something else
THAT President Wilson sat at the
peace tabla but didn't know what the
treaty OF Versailles was ?" Where are
the republican party's charges, of
eighteen months ago, that President
Wilson wrote the treaty with hio own
pen, and crammed it down the throats
OF everybody else around the big
table over there.
There 10 no record of any number of
automobiles being burned in France.
Automobiles could not be used for
ballast 0nVUau Mice D,,x.