Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-24
'Profitccrs of Youthfulncss" Won
Make Ago n Political
Dead Line.

TO the Editor OF The Times DispatclI
| Sir.--l am compelled to confess ar
10 admit. that | am rather touch
. .,er ana sometimes turbulent VIII.
TOO oid is audibly expressed In m
presence as reasonable and val
| oOJection TO besto~ing oiiice or hor
ors upon fellow citizen who is cor
sidered In all other respects To |
| worthy and fully qualified TO accci
] Them, for In making this ussertio
she !, Limit, of my lilo is rudely an
with Les" and in the incomparabi
army OF the Confcderacy. was s,
| vcrely wounded while defending i,
tGapitai city. And although MOI
| then. anyone who has tho temcrit
and audncity Ia list me among tn
discarded and dccadrnt. or places m
among the superannuatcd for life
| services. am prepared to willinEl
! sentence him or her to confinement
| In some asylum for incurablc Idiots.
! having heard this trif!ing tai
with navigating frequency in cor
nectlon with the candidacy of IIarr
st. George Tucker for the nominntioI
| LOT Governor. and knowing that II
determined to resent and to rcpuii
axe such superlativc nonsense. VIII,
II one has the time TO waste in hen
Ing, ing, thesc brainless propngandists. Ia
tucker IL trembling. tottcriny. esI
feeble specimen of abject dccre,,i1
tuuc, an expression OF worn M, ~,
n, rinw.y;; IN m object already too loni
dertakcr. However, fakes. fra,ids ,n
, ',is sun finger In this land OF fro
,nnikers. In the language OF Pa,
thcy forget to remember" that man.
OF them have voted for CoufcdeTn,I
veterans much older than Tucker
IN this connection. allow me =
chlaioSue only few OF the too oltr
t mho nave, nave achieved great tnlngs iil
| a penctaction. Bismark. the "Irot|
CHANCELLOR. when nearly SO ycor|
",a; co,ordinatcd and incorporated
Tres into the Imperial German pow
! eminent; Gladstone. when in the scn
anu yellow leaf, reformed a ntInhn
~ mr. al, hrli ,ins governmental praol
.tccs ana policles. and IL what ne do
sreu, had been done. the now unfor
.uhatc chaotic condition OF IreIan,
w S%n nave been prevented. Nowton
,Heu great scientific principles, for I'm,
WORLDS good. Marshal Fcrdinan,
i r"ch; commander n-chIcf OF the al
n .ns, ,g" E E armies to victory. whci
| 10 thesc, many other names coul,|
pe aduch. who, when past tho ar
iaini,; nave been. and arc now. n,
WORLDS bcnefactors, '
Without entering into tbc
pI party politics. let me declare re-
lohH personal acquaintance with jnr
.o ~, 'SoFSc 1uckcr. that he ia nos.
scHsed or vim. viEor. virilIty and vi
,an'y IN both mind and body. cnourIt
In ,u 10 spare; and to share with til
t tors ana ioud;mouthed soap bos ora
LOTS. Win their only hue and rrv
700 Old These profiteers
you.hiu mess and and conscientious oh
Jcctors 10 tho too old" would NO 5n,,i
gladly erect n kind OF poiItjrnI 49,
r'ne. an age limit. and all who mass
men anu women. veteran soldiers nm,
ssh,iorS-wouid leave all E-,p. bnhinI
both as voters or officer sreLcr. ~
saccoruihS TO the will and Wishes n
,m o 100 old" directors. tho men an,
women veterans and soldiers a.,
sailors: would be declared politicaiI,
,s iunct. But. thanks. the good ssnse
me liberal mindedness. the sense q,
justice ano the patriotism OF the Virl
gina voters, men and women ID,
100 oid policy will. on election div
pc relocated To oblivion. So mote
JUDGE JOHN T. GOODRICH.
fredericksburS. Va. April "a. ieo1