Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-09-29
A CAMPAIGN OF INNUENDO
AND INSINUATION.

sentiment for George Peery in
this county has been growing by
such leaps and bounds as to result
in a panic in the Republican camp,
and orders have been issued that ev-
cry local republican politician that
can wag Il tongue must prepare his
harangue and get busy at the cross
roads while the professional privates
and profteers who work in the blind
| alleys of politics pull the wires and
shake the bushes. And to the squea.
of the titmouse politician is heard
in the land, and school houses, store
porches, empty goods boxes, town
halls and theatres resound with the
vaporings of conscripted army of
jackleg lawyers, ct cetera, some of
whom don't know the Bonus bill from
hole in the ground
But if the reports that have come
in be true, knowledge of the .politi-
cal issues of the campaign is not a
necessary equipment of the speak
ers; it is not required that they have
even speaking acquaintance with
the Fordney- Nc Cumber Tariff bill of
denominations, the Ship Subsidy bill
that throws it's ubiquitous shadow on
the horizon, or the Bonus fiasco in
which the administration played both
ends against the middle. The voters
of Tazewell county are suavely and
sweetly invited to dismiss national
|nid international questions from their
minds, to forgret the Harding ad-
ministration, the Lodge-led Senate
and the peewee Congress and focus
their eyes on George. Peery, who they
say is so tall that his line of vision,
when he looks east, takes in only the
Peaks of Otter and the dome of the
Capitol at Washington; who is so stiff
that he is suspected of having black
gum sapling for back bone, and so
selfish that when they have fried
chicken for breakfast he divides the
neck among the children and eats all
the rest himself.
For use. in this County the Repub-
lican leaders have slated n campaign
of personal innuendo and insinuation,
of prejudice and near slander against
an opponent, that has no parallel in
hthc political annals of Tazewell. Why
this campaign of sinister inference
was instituted against George Peery
is n secret that is locked in the arc
hives of subway politics. The cue was
given by Congressman Slcmp in an
open letter to the Republicans Of the
district, and at once the padded clubs
began to batter to pieces the straw
man set up by Mr.. Slemp.
When it seems necessary to resort
to such methods in an attempt to
overthrow an honorable foe, the eff
fort brands itself as Campaign of
Desperate Straits. George Peery is a
tall man. His hat rests on six feet
and four inches of red-blooded, hon
est, modest manhood, and his line of
intellectual and moral vision squares
with and overtops his line of phys
zeal vision. The poisoned arrows that
fly from quivers of prejudice and
adroitly turned inference cannot
change his character, nor will they
in the least measure affect his repu-
tation among the people from whose
loins he sprang. He is entrenched in
the confidence and esteem of the
Tazewell people, and the attempt to
dislodge him by concerted cam
paign Of vicious innuendo veiled in q
gossamer web Of humor and banter
will not only prove futile but will
serve to strengthen the ties that
bind the mother to her son.
The rank and file of both parties
N this County will not be misled by
professionals who are in the game
for the swag and political leaders
who have axes to grind, and the cam
paign of poppycock now. in progress
is an insult to their intelligence.