Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1928-05-26
A QUESTION OF VERAclTf'


We have read with interest "A
Letter to Liberty from Senator
Glass" in the issue of that magazine
for May 26, 1928. The distinguished
statesman deals in 'glittering gen
eralities" and it is evident that IN
this interview, at least, ne was
caught off his guard and was not
accorded the usual congressional
courtesy of changing what ne actual
" said before it appeared upon the
printed page, where it would be
mercilessly viewed by those most
bitterly opposed to him and his
policies.
1t seems to US chat the distin-
guished Virginian weakened his case
and strengthened M. Sidney Suther-
lands position and his quotations IN
not re-stating what ne did say OF
intended to say and thereby remove
any doubt as to his actual position
in the premises. IN this respect
Senator Walter +. George, or
Georgia, whose statement OF cor
rection appears in this same issue
occupies a position Of vantage ana
leaves no ground for misconcep-
ton of his views in the premises.
But what does Senator Carter Glass
say? Here it is:
There has been left on my desk q
copy of Liberty, dated April 2S. con
tanning what purports to be an in
tefyiew with me by Sidney Suther-
land on the subject Of the Fifteenth
and Eighteenth Amendments to the
Constitution of the United States.
1 desire to warn you that the pur-
ported interview, almost from the
beginning to the end Of il, is mac
curate and largely fictitious. What
ever may be my views on the ques'
tions discussed by the writer OF fhe
article, nobody who knows me or my
habit of speech could believe that
1 had ever been guilty Of the coarse
utterances attributed to me By your
Mr.. Sutherland. have usually man
aged to think and talk as a gentle
man should and to use the English
language in a fairly measured way.
whereas your Mr.. Sutherland has
put into quotations and ascrlbed TO
me his own crude thoughts and
Objectionable verbiage. h
This young man came into my
sick bed room at the Raleigh Hotel
unapnounced, and sought to inter
view me ON the subject Of the Con-
stitutional Amendments which be
has made the basis OF his article.
I positively declined to talk to him
for publication. referring him to
carefully prepared articles by me,
which completely reflected my views.
Upon his insistence and purely for
his own information, / consented TO
explain exactly why, in my opinion.
there was no analogy between al
legged violations of the suffrage
amendments in the South and the
actual violation of the Eighteenth
Amendment and the Prohibition Act
in all parts of the country. That was
all: and nothing that 1 either
thought or said could afford justi-
fieation for the article which Mr..
Sutherland wrote and which you
published depicting me as section
al ruffian, speaking harshly and IN
temporarily of those whose views on
the question involved differ from my
own. SHa
every respectfully,
GARTER GLASS"
We are gratifed to know. that
Senator Glass has put a true value
OR his alleged utteranceS, when he
characterizes them as depicting him
as "a sectional ruffian". We did
not feel that it would have been
appropriate or in accord with good
breeding to use language concerning
him even approximately as harsh
He even goes so far as to say that
he has usually managed to "think
and talk as gentleman. Still,
the very able Virginian does not
enlighten US as to what he did think
and as to what ne did say. &
Mr.. Sutherland publishes the fot'
lowing statement in this same issue
'arnis ID q Presidential eisctaoe
year. The question OF prohibtdon u
an important, one. The politicians
aud the partisan editors throughout
the country have revived the subject
OF nullification, bearing down eM'
phat'cally on the strange thesis that
q bargain might be struck In nul4
Neation! That IL it be proper fF
CERTAIN commemorative to ignore the