Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-10-29
\ "Promising" Candidate

4 "Promising" Candidate
\XIiTH ono graceful sweep of his fairy
w wand Henry w. Anderson, should he
be elected Republican Governor of Virginia
would correct all the defects that appear
i'm tho moral. social, economical and polti-
c.Sl warp and wool Of the State Wherein
the Democrats have failed TO attain per-
lection, after more than II generation of
effort for the Commonwealth, which. when
they came into control had been laid in
ruins by the party whose cause Colonel
Anderson now SO enthusiastically espouscs
he will speak the magic word and, 10 and
behold, all evils will disappear, and those
things that genuine, patriotic and unccas-
ing Democratic lab0rs have been insufficient
TO erect on tho ashes of desolation and
bankruptcy left in the wake OF Republican
misrue will spring into existence with one
application OF the G.. o. r. pnacea, which
in all time has been the favorite remedy
OF Office seekers.
But what guaranty have tho people Of
Virginia that Colonel Anderson will be able
to effect this marvellous overnight trans
formation in tho States affairs? Whence
comes his boosted power of substituting in
slant and benefccnt revolution for the
slower but moro orderly processes Of evo-
lution' The colonel answers: Look at
my platform. Is ii not beautiful thing.
full OF gorgeous PROMISES" But the peo-
pie reply: Look ut the record Wherein
docs that supply the guaranty?" And il
Is on the record that Colonel Anderson must
stand, however he may twist and squrm
i'll his frantic endeavors TO escape his
adopted party's past and present. If the
people Of Virginia believed in his powers
he would be their next Governor and lead
nj m bn Mot
but when they turn to the record and read
q. O. T. history as it has been made and
as IL Is i'll the making, they know his prom
iscs are not built on faith. Rather, they
are founded on hope in the fulfllmcnt OF
personal Observation-Disclosures OF the gov
ernorship and tho political rewards that
may come to The builder Of powerful po-
liticnl machine here in the heart of the
South
II is fatmous for Colonel Anderson to be-
iicre-and III justice to the Intelligence of
the man IL must be assumed that no does
not believe hat his party in Virginia can
be held apart and aloof from the national
organization of which II Is part and par
eel. or that his promises shall command
faith, in view OF the failure of his party
nationally to redeem n single one OF the
promises on which Mr. Harding was elected
Democratic indictment OF the present ad-
ministrations record is not necessary It's
condemnation comes with increasing force
from the mouths OF its own creators From
those sources which poured forth the
money TO defeat the Democratic admins
tration now comes the verdict on its sue
ccssor. Hear this Republican opinion OF
the Republican administration:
y year ago cast our votes to nut
certain men In Washington in exchange
her for
hut did not know il. The vote was all
"nt unanimous and reflected state of
pn"Ic mind. The burden OF taxatio had
become almost unbcarablc and promises
made hs by the men elected were so
explicit. direct ana apparently sincere
mat sign Of relief went M all over
'he country in anticipation of the lift
ing 81 tho burden. What has happened
we all know: and what has not happened
wc are beginning 20 recognize The
President called extra session to an
act specific remedial legislation, tho
r"adlusim.nt Of taxation and the
'NriH' After long. lahorious. humid
ana tcSiy summer to the hum Of words
WORDS, words. nothing was accomplished
except u recess. The country is still in
N" throcs OF despair doubt and dis
satisfaction. II has vet to learn what
taxes IL Is To pay either this ysar or
we NM ana II mas no way of nscer-
tanning now II can 20 ahead ana build
UP business. The convention of uucn
h'"Sh'cht also has mot. thought, and
"dJo"'hcd. The assembly OF brilliant
LEGISLATORS who could have solved its
Pf'"'ems Is silil sojourning in the pleas
W r"P'"l city ana we are yet 10 learn
"heh The grea; Republican parry in
''""S 10 reiecm its many promises to
The business world.
IN the lace of that national chapter Of
Republican failures and bundcrs will anu
virginia Democrat he so foolish as IN bc-
| l'eVe tnai Colonc! Anderson and his litIe
'o'er'c oil once seekers can fulfill the rain
! 10" promises they hold up as a political
i"i. II II were not so ridiculous. Colonel
.N"o'son PLATFORM of promises, set forth
80 i p"'ahci columns with his own partys
g'nia Intelligence