Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-10-27

lTEEhI OELECIlUN
| SEEMS CERTAIN
AS Campaign Draws to- Close
Election of Democrat to Con-
gress is Forecast of Prog
nosticators.
1t is written in the stars that
George c. Peery will be the Ninth dis
trict's next representative in the ma
tional Congress. The republican poll
t'cians are making their last stand,
with Waterloo i'll sight They see in
evitable defeat and are in secret re-
treat before the tidal wave Of demo-
cratic victory. Gloom, deep, dark, i'm
penetrable gloom, through which no
ray OF nope filters; a cloud that has
no silver lining, has settled down on
the camp. of the republican "leaders,"
'oiilce-holders and official prognostica-
tors. Coming events-a back draft
from the ides of November
cast their shadows before, and no
dancing patterns Of light relieve tho
creepy blackness Of the engulfing
shadows; the distress signal has
sounded, the s. o. S. from the sink
ing ship, the "Help me Cassius or 1
sink" is searching the seven seas for
succor. All the old tricks, and many
new ones, have failed. The republican
politicians are stewing in their own
grease. They have SO often made
night hideous with the cry "Thiefl
Thief" tnat nobody any more SO
much as pricks an ear. This time,
however, the cry became so insistent
and clamorous that, sensing the death
note in the throats Of the walters. the
democrats dug. into their jeans and
TINS" it was discovered, are both
sagacious and scarce. The "long
green2 rolls and the two-to-one teas
ers that bulged and beckoned in the
good old times when Harding was
an editor, have been withdrawn from
circulation, and democratic sports
must be satisfied with feast Of VIC
tory without the sida-dishes.
And not only are tho republican
politicians hopelessly beaten In the
district, but they arc on their Inst
legs in Tazewell County,-another
instance of frying in their own fat,
Tor the anti-Peery campaign in this
County was befuddled from the start;
the speakers were caught under their
nwn dead-falls and the achemsrs were
clipped by their own snares. Mr..
Slemp laid down the bars for the per-
.sonal attack on the democratic NOM
inee and his local followers fell over
each other in the rush to support and
amplify his charges. But they soon
found that instead of landing on a
sheep they had wolf by tho enrs.
There is no distinct difference be-
tween the rank and file of tho two
political parties in this county; thoy
are one and the samc people and they
believe III fair play. They did not
relish Mr.. Slemp's spiteful illusions
to George Peery; still less have they
relished the unkind insinuations Of
hostile neighbors and county mon
who entered the lists against him.
The tactics which wcro expected to
unhorse George Poery served only to
bring to public notice his sterling
qualities of mind and character, with
the result that hundreds of republi-
cans in the county will endorse his
record and repudiate the unfair CAM
paign against him at the polls. 1t
now seems certain that George Peery
will carry Tazewell by safe ma
jority, but the victory will be in no
sense u democratic one. 1t will be n
protest against bunkum, and it will
be nonpolitical endorsement of a
clean, able, trustworthy Tazswell
man, who during thirty years OF
Christian usefulness has intrenched
himself in the confidence and esteem
of his people.
Tho campaign slogan manufactur-
ed for Mr.. Hassinger ia to tho effect
that he believes at ounce Of perform
ance is worth ton of talk, and yer
Mr.. Hassinger says he stands square,
ly behind the Harding administration,
which places him somewhere in that
vague, miasmic region which lies be-
tween the devil and the dsop blue
sea.
When Lou Summers was here in
the early part of tho campaign he
told the boys the Bonus bill would bo
law and the money handed out bo-
fore Christmas. Mr.. Hassinger also
stands behind Mr.. Summers. In fact,
the Hassinger endorsement Of Mr..
Summers for the congressional nomi-
nation at Bristol was used as club
to squelch Louis aspirations and whip
him into line for Hassinger. MIR. Has
singer believes an ounce Of perform
ance is worth ton of talk and yet
he seems to have a psnchant for
standing behind vorbal windmills.
When MIR. Hdssinger comes to on
the morning after the election, he
will conclude that in standing behind
Lou Summers and the Harding ad-
! ministration, he lacked about eight
years of the Wilson administration in
guaging safe position in the rear.
Posters are out announcing that
John Wesley Hill and G. B. Slemp
will address the voters at Tazewell
Oct 28th. Where is Mr.. Hassinger? :?
Has he been lost in the deal? It is
rumored that he, too, is to be here. 1t
does not seem quite fair to give Mr..