Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-10-20
g REV." HILL IS
COMING BACK
John Wesley Hill Here for Has.
singer-And MIR. Slemp's COM
ing, Too. Some mistakes"
Corrected.
BUTTON-BUSTER AND GOATS
WOOL WEAVER WITH lis


wool weaver of the hustings, is about
to blow in again. "Blow in" is right;
for this pinch-hitter of the ninth dis.
trict republican league is famed by
the wings of whirlwinds as he rides
upon the storm. We have editor Cal
loway's word for it that this "distin-
guished divine and linguist" is booked
to speak at Tazewell October 28th.
"Linguist," also, is right. Rev. Hill
has been here twice and no one will
deny that he speaks Gin tongues %
Had he been on the tower of Babel,
he would have been the whole show.
He is the copia verborum, flux de
bouche. ardentia verba and pons asin-
Drum of the American forum. Most of
the time he camps among the stars,
where he reigns supreme over a sort
OF polltico-religio hierarchy, but every
Two years he receives an inviting
radio from republican national head
quarters, and, rousing himself from
nlcditations on political morality and
brushing the star-dust from his eyes,
he murmurs, Swing low sweet char
lot" and descends to the land of vel
low-backs and parboiled perorations.
The first time John Wesley Hill
came to Tazewell. the people took him
seriously. 1t was war time and the
orator was loaded to the gills with
nonpartl5an sentiments which trip
ping eloquently from his tongue,
worked the people into a frenzy of
patriotic fervor. Surely here was a
Magnus Apollo of the pulpit and the
forum, super man who stood on the
heights hurting arrows of lightning
whiie lesser men looked up and adj
mired. Alas, that in 1920 he should
come back as republican campaign
er and reveal himself as an ass at
the Tyre and an eagle catching flies
me Tazewell people could scarcely
believe their own eyes when thew saw
their hero submerge himself in the
Wallow of partisan politics. On his
first visit, he was in favor of the
League of Nations. The league was
not then a political issue. When the
republican leaders repudiated the
League, Rev. Hill fell in line and re-
pudiated himself. On his first visit he
branded the memories of his hearers
with high praise of Woodrow Wilson
as man and statesman. Two wears
later, following the lead of the Lodges
and Reeds, he stultiiied himself with
scarhing denunciation of Wilson.
descending to the role of the ordln-
afy campaign scc.d and promiser. he
promised Mr.. Harding's "association
OF nations" lower taxes, a reduction
IN the cost of living, and delivered
himselI OF all the bunKum his brilliant
inventive powers could summon to the
aiu OF ms cause and the justification
or his salary. He stands exposed as
nothing more nor less than a repub-
hcan politician with an extraordinary
glft OF CAB which he uses to the best
OF his ability to influence people to
vote the republican ticket, regardless
Oh the men or measures for which his
party stands; with the mental and
moral elasticity of the professional
politician, in each successive cam
palgn he finds himself in favor of
his party's platform and his party's
candidates. Very much and very We
hemenUly In favor of both, and very
much and very vociferously opposed
to anything and everything dem
ocratic. as will be seen when he
speaks IN the interest of Mr.. Has
SINGER And, it may be added, he is
Just as eloquent, persuasive and con-
Vlncing in the pulpit as in the hus-
tlngs, and he can jump from the
fofdney tariff to the miracle of
changing water into wine without
batting an eye.
1t will be recalled that in 1913 Rev.
hill was very much in love with a
certain Presbyterian elder. In 1920
that same Presbyterian elder was his
pet aversion. More than once when
ne was deriding President Wilson in
his campaign speech at Tazewell, in
a voice Kissing with scorn he shout
ed: Woodrow Wilson, that. Preshy-
terian elder" etc., etc. Candidate
John Hassinger also is a Presbyterian
elder, but he happens to have a re-
publican affix. 1t will be heartening
to hear this shouting Wesleyan glo-
llfy the name of devout follower Of
John Calvin; and when it comes to
eulogistic extravaganza, John Wes-
ley Hill is all there.
The campaign liar is still busy.
Visitors bring word that down in the
western part of the district the re-
porIis circulating that every one of
George Peery's farm employees is
going to vote for Mr.. Hassinger. AS
a matter of fact majority, if not
all, OF the men who are employed on
the estates Of Mr.. William Gillespie
and Mrs. Geo. G. Peery, are going to
VoCe 1or MI. Feery, and some OF
them are staunch republicans. There
is another rumor floating around over
the district to the effect that George
Peely once said that seventy-fiye
cents day is sufficient wage for a
workingman. Which is another lie out
of the whole cloth. Keep your eye
pealed for the campaign liar; his
busy season. is not yet here. Usually
on the eve of the election, when it Is
too late to nail it, the he-lie Of the
campaign is given circulation-somc.
times in the form Of an affidavit
signed by some perjured degenerate
who claims allegiance to the opposite
party. The records of the two can
didates are an open book and the,
are clean. The campaign ler is vast
ing his efforts.
1t is happy omen that the won