Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-10-28
Mr.. FRENCn'S HIDE
A LITTLE TENDER

You say this is campaign of Men,
not Mud" l thank you for telling me,
otherwise would not have known it,
unless sight of the other candidate
suggested it.
No, Mr.. French, we did not try to
connect you with the Building and Loan
failure, as it would require ten times
the power of your Light Plant produces
to hold you in a position that suggests
the loss of dollar to you, but do
charge you with helping to create it.
You don't deny this, do you, Mr..
French? We also charge that if you
had not created it, some of the dear
people you now have such a tender
consideration for would not have lost
$685. on every $4,000 they put in the
institution you helped to create. You
don't deny this, will you, Mr.. French :?
Why, then, try to sidestep your re-
sponsibility by censuring those who
had backbone sufficient to stand by
their child in sickness as well as in
health? They should be respected for
not being gun-shy; at least, | believe
the motives Of those gentlemen were
just as pure and honest as yours.
This was simply failure-a business
failure-iust as you would be political
failure if sent to Richmond. You say
you left the Building and Loan Associ-
alton seven years ago. Why did you
not tell those people that lost their
money SO that they, too, could have
had time to save their money and avoid
the wreck? This was duty you owe
them-it is a duty demanded as a mat
ter of fair and honest dealing. Is this
the kind of guardianship you would
give us if sent to Richmond? If so, LET
the people know it in time.
| You say, Mr.. French, you stand for
"legislation for the relief Of the people
tfrom burdens heaped upon them by
misrule in Richmond" Mr.. French
for one of Pennsylvania Extraction t
criticise other states on misrule is ever
more ridiculous than your clumsy effor
at grandstand play. If 1t is your pur
pose to purify politics-a very laudabl'
!, purpose-why not 90 to a larger field
say Washington City, your recent.
adopted home They tell me that Their
r are Republicans from some of tn,
states who pay as much as ONE HUN
DRIED AND TWENTY-FIVE THOUS
AND DOLLARS for a seat on the Re
. publican side of the Senate. For in
} stance, Mr.. French. you are familia
with the case of Senator Newberry, ar
you not? Don't you feel that this is
right good case for a little missionar
work. ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY
r FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS used il
a wholesale purchase of electorate an
get nothing in return therefrom but
Republican Michigander. Think of il
Mr.. French. How shocking this mus
be to your sensibilities Until you ca
clean up your own shack, Mr.. French
l | would not display the gall teven IN
becoming an ex-Bull Mooser) by talkin
! about purifying the rule or misrule c
other parties or other states. Until 70
show some evidence of purity of hear
i and clean hands in politics by some ac
or deed, all of the idle prattle you an
| your staff may indulge in will not re
: commend you to right thinking pee
. pie. Until you purify the politics O
Iyour native state Pennsylvania an
relieve your party of the faint Of frau
and corruption, as in the Newberr
: case, modesty at least would sugges
that you keep quiet, or swear yo
} didn't say Reimbursement