Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-09-29
PEERY SENTIMENT
GROWING FAST
Republicans Dumfounded at
Popularity of Democratic Can
didate for Congress-Nati-
Aonal Issues Overlooked.

NthiOiOettc Lil0G dcOlHe dfl AllS
trocrat. On hearing this one of the
few Tazewell Peerys with republi
can leanings remarked: "Who in the
h ever heard of n Peery being nj
aristocrat." Mr.. Hassinger's travel
ing companion and mouthpicce is moi
gifted with the faculty of nice dis
elimination i'll the use of words. lie
meant to say that George is blue
grass thoroughbred with an unblem-
ished pedigree of Anglo-Saxon-S Scotch
IRISH blood lines running back to the
jeans and lindsay clad men and
women who lighted the cabin fires
when the spruce and poplar trees
around Konnarock were saplings.
The campaign lier has appeared.
He is uberous and ubiqitous bird,
and yet when it comes to spotting
him he is the rara avis among politi-
cal pestilences-he just aint. there.
All campaign liers are of the same
hdieous species, but they are divided
into two classes, namely, the orig
inators and the disseminators. 1t Isl
a system whose working rules were
devised by Bcelzebub on one of those
lonely nights as he sat high enthron-
ed on that blistering bluff in hell, the
first week of his exile from paradise.
in every county, there is q campaign
liars headquarters where select
corps of experienced and gifted de-
generates hold council. Here the lies
are framed and at opportune inter
walls handed out to confederates in
the different precincts who whisper
them from the corners of their filthy
mouths. In this campaign both candi-
dates are high-minded Christian gen.
tlemcn, with spotless personal rec
ords. No true charge can be brought
against either; hence the ACTIVITY of
the campaign liar
They say Mr.. Hassinger has Civ
en- 100000 to one thing and another.
We do not know, do you? There are
two Mr.. Hassingers, Luther and
John, business associates. John is the
republican candidate, but it seems
that Luther is the check signer. When
the republican spell binders refer to
the alleged flow of gold through the
Hassinger fingers, they mean Luther,
but the impression is left that John
Is the boy who has scattered his
bread on the waters. Luther doesn't
need any votes and John does. The
republican speakers have made a
fountain pen and a check book the
issue OF this campaign, and they Of
Ter fortune made on lumber at
war prices us the only necessary
qualification in q Congressional can.
didate.
Ever since the prodigal son left on
MS Journey for far country, hu-
morists have been springing the old
: gag about the fellow who was born
i'll certain locality because he could
not help it and the other fellow who
chose that locality as his place of
residence,-always to the credit of
the latter. This hoary chestnut has
been pulled out of the ashes for use
IN this campaign. Our local 1ogicians
insist that because Mr.. Peely's pa
rents "stuck him here without his
consent" and Mr.. Hassinger of his
own free will left the Pennsylvania
flats to seek his fortune in South
west Virginia, therefore Mr.. Hassin-
ger is better qualified than Mr.. Peery
to represent the Ninth District in
Congress. Sticking through the poet
ic sophiStry of the republican speak
ers, like thorn through roses, lis
the obvious and very prosaic fact
that Mr.. Hassinger came here to
make money, and he appears to have
made it; and his alleged appreciation
of the beauty of the hills and sur
passing love and sympathy for the
mountain people, are incidental and
not primary. Mr.. Peery's ancestors
came to these mountains over blazed
trails; they defended their cabins
passed through, almost insufferable
hardships, conquerors; successive gen
erations, with identical interests and
common ideals, are so fused and
blended in George Peery's blood as
to make him a composite representa-
tive of Tazewell's history from the
settlement at Grab Orchard to the
present time. He is as native to the
razewell hills as the eagle to the
crag; instinctively, the Southwestern
people are his people. But, say the
aforesaid logicians, he was born here
therefore he is not in sympathy with
the ideals and interests of the peo.
pile and is not fit to represent them
in Congress. Which recalls the story
of "The One Horse Shay"
Mr.. Slemp was criticised when hi
said that George Peery was the leas
attractive Of all the candidates fol
Congress offered by the democrats
The criticism was unjust. Mr.. SIemI
was exactly right. With thousand
of enthusiastic and determined vot
ers turning out to hear him speak
with the tumult and shouting of th
multitudes making his tour over tn
district triumphal march, Georg
is becoming almost unbearably unat
tractive to the republican "leaders.
He sure. is cutting some swath for
tightwad "aristrocrat.p
Between eight hundred and thou
sand people heard George Peer
speak at Abingdon last Monday. A
the same time about two hundred, i
is reported, of "the old home town
folks turned out to hear Messrs. Has
singer and Summers. Due, no doubt