Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-07-24
HIS CHARACTER
NOT DEBATABLE

Richmond, Va.
Dear Sir:
have your published invitation to
a joint discussion with Senator Mapp.
BY your anonymous attacks upon my
moral character and your secret use
of the Anti-Saloon League Office and
equipment you have made my moral
character the dominant issue of this
campaign, because of course If / am
not morally fit to be governor, all
other issues in this campaign sink
into insignifcanee. Under these cir
cumstances l will not submit my
character to the Judgment of a de-
bate under any circumstances, espe-
eially when the attack is based not
upon facts but upon the subtle inu-
endo of a practical lawyer.
In this connection l will state that
after your Richmond manager, Mr.
Smithdeal, was discovered secretly
using the property, the Office and en-
ployes of the Anti-Saloon League in
distributing thousands of the red
light circulars you were forced out
in the open and published this same
circular in the daily papers, thus CIV
ing authority to your campaign of
character assassination by inuendo.
And to make your medicine good
and strong you added the informa-
ton that, to quote your own words,
I'VE find Mr.. Byrd recorded as voting
against bill providing for the re-
vocation of license of person con-
Quoting a pool room, bowling alley,
hotel or boarding house who know
ingly allows his premises to be used
for immortality, gambling or viola
ton of the liquor laws. Why did Mr..
Byrd vote against this bill? Mr. Mapp
enthusiastically supported this bill
and the other"
Following what seems to be your
established policy of trying to con-
vict me of some personal defect by
the publication of half truths, | will
call your attention to the fact that
you stopped in your recital of the
title of the above bill at the point
where you thought it would do you
the most good. You were not fair
enough to publish the whole title,
which is as follows:
SENATE BILL No. 329 SENATE
JOURNAL 1918, page 529.
"A bill providing for the revoca-
ton of the license granted to any per-
son for the privilege of conducting a
pool room, bowling alley, or other
place of amusement, hotel, boarding
house, or other special privilege, in
the event the person to whom such
privilege is granted shall use the
building where such privilege is be-
ing exercised, or any part thereof,
or any other premises adjacent there
to and used in connection Herewith,
for the purpose of prostitution,
gambling or violation of the prohi-
bition laws of the state, or knowingly
or negligently permit said premises
to be used by others for any of such
purposes, and providing what evil
dence may be used in such proceed
ings and prohibiting any person
whose license is revoked from ac-
curing other license for or engag-
ing in any of such business, and pre-
scribing penalties for violation of the
provisions of the act, and granting
authority to cities and towns in the
matter of issuing and revoking city
and town licenses for such privilege;
was taken up, read the third time
and rejected by the following vote,
ayes, II noes 10.
Senators who voted are:
Yeas-Messrs. Andrews, Barham.
Bowers, Corbitt. Davis, Holt, Jordan
Keith. Mapp. Matthews, Robertson,
Royall-12
Noes-Messrs. Addison, Byrd, Ca
non. Downing, Early, Jeffrys, Lacy,
Rison, Thornton. Trinkle-10."
OF the gentlemen who beside my
self voted against the bill. were Ad-
olson, Jeffrys, Lacy, Thornton and
Trinkle, all men. Senator Mapp evil
IDENTIFY did not consider that Governor
Trinkle's vote against this bill made
him a moral leper, because he was
the Eastern Shore leader of Govern
or Trinkle against Mr.. Tucker.
My opposition to the bill was due
to a provision which you carefully
refrained from stating in your pub
iished article and that was that any
person who "negligently permits" the
offense set forth to be done on his
or her premises shall be deprived of
their license and not permitted to
engage in any other business which
requires a license.
In other words, this bill made the
hotel and boarding house keeper and
places of amusement responsible I'M
der the penalty of absolute ruin for
the conduct of persons en- their prem
ises. 1t was not necessary for them
to know anything about it, they lost
their licenses and were to be debarred
from conducting any other kind of I
business and prevented from making
livelihood IL they did not use due
a.