Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-09-15
ATTACK MADE
ON REGISTRARS
Republican Speaker Says Demo.
cratic Officers Are Unfair
Delegates Are Chosen For
State ,sTi>sseution In
R0sassiiSke.

court room was comfortably filled
when the speaking began, but the
audience was somewhat thinned out
when the meeting closed.
MIR, Gillespie was the first sne:.h
er He didn't touch on national po-
litical questions, but confined his re-
marks to discussion of State and
local issues, with particular reference
to certain features of the Virginia
constitutional Convention of l0O2
and an alleged conspiracy by demo.
Gratis of TaZewell County to dcfraud
republicans of their suffrage rights
and privileges. No one questions Mr..
Gillcspie's sincerity and honesty of
purpose in bringing these matters to
public notice, and if his bill OF pur-
ticulars can be supported by reliable
evidence the honest democrats of
this county will repudiate the Offend
ers. No one who knows George C
Peery and can appraise his char
acter without bias, political or Other.
wise, will believe that he would
sanction the disfranchisement of n
single republican who has n legal
right TO vote even if by so doinr
his election to Congress wcro nssur,
ed. There are miserable little crooks
III both parties, and Mr.. Peery is no
more personally responsible for ths
crooks in the democratic party than
Mr.. llassingcr is personally rcspons.
iDle for the crooks in the republican,
party. The charges made tuesday
are ugly and serious. They will bo
thoroughly sifted. Mr., Gillespie prom
ises u public apology if he has been
misinformed. If the charges arc true,
tho dishonest registrars will be Civ.
en- the air and the odium of public
disgrace
For the most part, Mr.. Gillespie's
address was on high plane and of
a much better brand than that usual
ly dosed out to TaEewell audiences
by imported spell binders. lie has
trained mind that has the habit of
hcwing to the line. He chooses his
words with caution and scores his
points with force and directness. Ills
speech was made in behalf of the
republican candidate and was there
fore necessarily characterized by
political bias which super glorified
Mr.. Hassinger and, at best, damned
his opponent with faint praise. Evil
IDENTIFY Mr.. Gillespie has read Shakes
pcare and made Mark Antony his
model as an orator. Mr.. Peery Ia an
honorable man." but he also is n
democrat and n candidate for Con-
gress and Disagreement by implica-
tion is the club the republicans are
using in their effort to brain him
politically. He is growing less and
less attractive to republicans as n
candidate as the election approaches
and the reports come in.
When Lou Summers cut loose, poi
son gas and liquid fire filled the court
room and national political issues
were befogged behind smoke screen
of words which vomited from tho
sweat-oozing speaker like vapor from
an erupting volcano that has just
swallowed cloud burst. Words,
words, words They flowed, they
poured, they slushed, they gushed,
even as the waters that came dowr.
at Lodore. Jno. w. Daniel and Par
son Massey once locked horns In
joint discussion. Massey opened tho
debate and while he was speaking
Daniel jumped to his feet and shout
ed "You have told fifteen lies in fif-
teen minutes" Possibly so, possibly
So" rejoined Massey 81 speak very
rapidly" Lou Summers is q machine
gun with a sawed off muzzle which
shoots in every direction Mt once,
back fires, blows up, and before the
befuddled spectator can say "scat"
its parts and opens up
again.
He is remarkable man. He j, a
composite and inexhaustable edition
of Jules Verne and Baron Maun-
chausen dedicated to politics and spill
ling itself In perennial verbal floods
over the ninth district.
In one breath he can spiel hoary
protection argument" in stock since
mckinley was In Congress, garnish
1t with vituperation of alleged local
democratic thieves, denounce the
League Of Nations, cuss Grover Cle-
veland and Woodrow Wilson and slip
In eulogy to a deceased Tazewell
republican. He can serve all these on
one dish with a mixed sauce of vine
gar and tears without losing more
than half dozen of his listeners. We
INSIST that Lou Summers ia a re-
markable man. He is O professional
politician and he happens to be a re-
publican. His speeches have no force
because ne is an illogical scatter brain
Vituperation and denuciation are his
stock in trade. Where these fail of
their purpose he is out of juico. He
is law unto himself and Offers mo
proofs Of his statements and charges
But it is interesting to observe hia
mental mechanism In operation. for
it offers possibilities Of new phvsch.
illogical discovery. But hearing Lon
IS like reading 1.-THE Wandorinp
jew" Once is enough.
Both speakers forgot to mention
either Harding's or Slemp's name In
any connection. But they did not
forget to pile mountains of praise
on deceased Tazewell republicans
who had been office holders and who
left behind large and influential fam
lily connections.
But 1t was only when they reach
ed Mr.. Hassinger that the molasses
barrel was tapped This plain. un-
assuming and somewhat ordinary
gentleman was suRar-coatcd and mn