Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-10-22
Congresswoman alice Rob.
ertson and Ex-senator
Marion Butler Speak
BUTLER SCORES VA.
Declares Taxes That Should Go For
Schools and Roads Go to Keep
Up $1,000 Office Holders.

Congresswoman Alice Robertson
of Oklahoma, last night made ar
address at the rally in the Opera
! House held under the auspices OF
the city republican club. The speak
er told her hearers that at one
time she was president of the anti
! suffrage association, and added that
| when suffrage became operative she
did not enlist but was drafted and
called TO the colors and responded to
duty. The women she declared won
I the respect Of others by their work
/ The speaker told of the progress
made by the republicans in Okla
/ homa.
| Miss Robertson urged the women
! to take part in politics and first at
tend the precinct meetings. Out in
Oklahoma her slogan she said. was
81 cannot be, bought, | cannot be
sold, | cannot be intimidated." There
are few women said the speaker who
/ want office. She told of the repub,
licans finding the cubbard bare when
! they took over the government. Con-
! Guiding the address she urged the
women to enter politics and hclr
make them clean.
Marion Bntler, former United States
Senator from North Carolina, opened
his address by declaring that toda!
! Virginia should be the greatest state
in the union, but he added, to-day
Virginia don't count The democratic
party he asserted has got n halter
around the people, and be said they
don't care about it and neither does
the republican party. The people
of Virginia she asserted are worse
/ than the slaves of Europe who left
European shores to get rid Of the
trulc of tyrannical kings in order
that they might enjoy freedom Con,
tinuing said Mr.. Butler, your peo-
Pile Of Virginia are slaves to a po-
! litical machine. We need to fight &c
make Virginia safe for democracy
/ One out of only ten persons in the
state vote. Only $4,000 votes were
cast in the last election for Cover,
nor, and there are $4,000 office hold,
CT in the state"
/ Today there is he said an office
holding oligarchy. Virginia he de,
cared had to increase her taxes tc
pay the office holders.
The speaker also told his hearers
that there are $4,000 iillterate chill
/ dren in Virginia. The taxes that
should he said be for schools and
good roads are used for the support
| of the office holders he said.
The roads in the state ne declared
are the worst in the United States
! Virginia he asserted has no educa'
ton. no roads and nothing except
$4,000 office holders. The state he
said is ruled by the machine. Con,
cluding his address he urged his
hearers to vote for Henry w. Ander,
son. republican nominee for COVER
nor, in the election which will be
! held next November.
! The meeting was presided oyer BY
ID. j. Wolford, president of the
city republican club. Among those
on the stand were Capt. Fountain
Beattie, candidate for clerk OF
courts; John Barton Phillipas, candl,
date for clerk of the courts; Ferdl-
nand De Vaughan. candidate fo1
clerk of gas; Mrs. Henry Lockwood
candidate for the state Legislature OF
Arlington county; Mrs. Ola '. Bell
Mrs. Alice Strauss and Charles 5
! Stoler.