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Evening StarFLOOD BYRD, Publisher.at the postoffir* at Wln-Va.. at s«co?d*claas matter._fiblished every day except Sundayy tit# Evening Star Publishing Co., Winchester, Virginia.Consolidated with Morning Nawa-ftem, The Weekly N#ws, Tbe Weekly Time*. The Weekly Mirror.SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail► oat yatr (in advance) .... 13.10 ■ aix month* (In advance) . 5 LTS . three month* (In advance) . .M Ter one month (In advance) .. .30By Cart Jar f For o«e year (In advance) .... 14AO For six months (In advance) .. 2.3* For three months (in advance) . L20 For one month .40Weekly .......... 10| MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS %P. The Aseocialed Preae la etcluelvely jit t entitled to the use for republlcatlon Mf alt news dispatches credited to it or sot otherwise creditad to tbla pa-per and also all local *ews publishedIf**Tuesday, October 27, 1925.DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES.Elect ion November *, 1025.For Governor1,H. F. BYRD, of Winchester Citysupport in the teeth of all the pretest of the offlceholdfr*. His courage ngr-er was shaken because his ow* political fortunes happened to be involved. Ip 1910-12, be led the fight for a tax commission against the arrsy of all the opposition that - sectionalism and selfish ness could m lister, and even to those who were closest to him in that c ampaign, he did not. show the least evidence of any concern as to tht political effect on him individually of his challenge of inequality. It is probable that he never thought of persona! lota. If be did, he put it down ns unworthy of him.The best test of any faw-msker is the character of the legislation with which his name is associated. To establish Mr. Byrd’s place in contemporary Virginia history, by applying that test, it is only necessary tp say that the two statutes that carried hisname were the Byrd liquor law and the Byrd primary law. The defeated measure most often associated with him was tht Byrd tax commis-aien bill of 1012. The control of !!-quor. the expression of the public willYoMiin elections, the equalisation of taxesC*■these were tbe three questions that I r* Richard Evelyn Byrd, fifteen years I g*ago, considered roost worthy of his study and legislative effort. Was there one among hia colleagues who had so sure an understanding of what jsh was and of what was not ephemeral? ( FI Was there one who had a sharper i eye for the light of themfirrow?Dick” Byrd kept his friends. Lon* after he quit politics, long after he decidbd his finances dhl not justify him In yielding to Importunities and In declaring himself lor governor, long after he became known to new voters as “Harry Byrd’s fatherMiFor Lieutenant-Governor,JUNIUS E. WEST,of Nansemond.For Attorney-General. JOHN R. SAUNDKRS, of Middlesex.! whereas the Democratic nominee had j formerly been 'Dick' Byrd’s boy”— through all the years many of those who valued toe accuracy of his judg- c'1 ment would go to him for counsel on PI public questions. After Harry Byrd Lt had been nominated the number of Llt; those who sought his advice aud as- W slstance had increased. Old students Ult; of affairs came to him because they knew him and knew be would under-stand what the younger Byrd, nects- £i sariiy on bis guard against placa- ®j hunters, might attribute to soif-ln-terest. Mr. Byrd would listen to all these old friends, pleased that they V* i bought he had influence with his .i3 son, and manifestly proud of his son’s advancement, but to all of them his answer wss the same, Leave it to 1 ■ i Harry!” dMuch depends on Harry. Much of bard responsibility, of hopeful eon-j fldence and of widening opportunity ) is left to him. and not least is left j him the political heritage of a father For Commissioner of Agriculture and !wlt0 believed in progress.Immigration, :-G. W. KOINEF, II TIM ING RHYMESof Augusta.of Richmond City.For State Treasurer, JNO. M. FURCELL, of Richmond City.ForSuperintendent of Instruction, HARRIS, HAJtT of Roanoke City.PublicFor Member of State Corporation Commission,LOUIS S. EPES, of Nottoway.II PPLIEGBy WALT MASON.lt;Wt BELIEVED 15 PROGRESSRichmond News-Lesder. f In the curious soliloquy he delivered Just before the Senate voted to unseat him, William Lorimer told how, when he came to Washington and had to vote on a multitude of questions he had not considered, he made it his practice in listening to the roll-call, to observe whether a oertain Republican was listed Aye or No. He always asked to be recorded on the same side, for experience satisfied him, Mr. Lorimer confided. that the senator be named was a safe :: bell-wether” to follow.Were an historical student called tp write the legislative history of Virginia for tho years of adjustment under the constitution of 1902, and were he unfamiliar with the equities of tbe issues then debated, he could have .00 safer working rule than to assume. Other things being even, that the side on which Richard Evelyn Byrd voted w-as the side of Virginia’s advancement. For during the years of his membership in the House of Dele-theli-wether of progress.The figure accurately describes the manner in which he was followed, but it fails to give the full implication of the character of his leadership.# 10 th,in,,• TVhile lhe m6™hant princes trSJLto *rmb,p’ w'i8h,°syou i»f your »POOR POLICYThtrs ar# men in gaudy faimtn men who ride in costly car*, who * ■slow in making payment for tbe codfish and cigars/ Oft ,1 hear the merchant princes make complaint of stui:as they; They come in and buy on: quiacosr run up bills and do not pay W# can M# them ride iu splendor . scorching on the sunlit hills, but; they bring no legal tender for our empty, yawning tills. The** mis- r guided men go tooling by thA woods . and cataracts, but no person are they | fooling, all -she village knows the ' dodging bills they should have long i facts.* All the people know they’re j since paid, beating betting bills fori board and lodging, for plug hats and j lemonade. Oh, the butcher and ther grocer shudder when they see these j lads, for the sheriff’s drawing closer and they cannot get - their scads. j» These poor deadheads, much de ’ plaudits as they go their way, think the voters are aumlnng an ... splendor and display. But, as solemn 'he, “Owing for embalming fluid, they scamper o’er the iea.” And thedruggist sadly twitters, as he seesthem pass his shack, “They have purchased jugs of bitter# find they letme hold the' sack.” And the hardware man is say, as he weighs a three-inch nail, “They have time for pomp and playing, but no time to bring tbe kale.” Better walk, obscure and humble, than to know a driver’sdelegate from Frederick and Winches- bill*, ter. he brought with him the reputa- [ ggi-; lion he had gained by his editorials In Th^ WinrWfr star and by hHthe Winchester o.ar «uu oy sn, aUAB|AiBaiAa earn achievements as a lawyer, notably in LVuHDILIIPL IIL the Massey-pilot libel suit, brought II* Mrby that well-remembcred readjuster, that master of rough-and-tumble de-* hate Parson John E. Massey. Tho General Assembly was prepared to] find Mr, Byrd a man of ability, but ftNERVOUS WOMANwas captivated both b.V his manner Weak. Blue. DlSCOUracedi —‘ of presenting his arguments and by ] n ,, « « 1 * IJ* *the power of his logic, in a »mth Relieved by Taking Lydiasession he displayed so much canscRv f? Dj-LL,m« M#lt;1ir!nethat he was chosen speaker of the **• **HbnainS lYICfllCincsecond House to which he was elevi-jgg^Sqmothlng for which even Viv-glnias «00 years of legislative hlstow1 and could not sleep, had crying 8.v»eld few parallels. By the end • l1- ”'T1 tho blues,t«« session of !»os ft W3|, „|a|n v didn’t care’f I- -■ - — 7)lj|}M t(3 n♦hat the Old Dominion had in RichardEvelyn Byrd what is given her no. J more often, unfortunately, than one*’ in a generation—a legislative leader possessed of the qualities that mad-h.m accepted without question am followed almost without protest. ) .lu l910 bya Richmond; publisher that under Mr. Byrd the jgfllcc of speaker of the House of Del-: gates had become for the time th\ most important in Virginia.Intellect, fundamentally,Cincinnati, Ohio. —• “I'* '■ ” *....... a a It spoilsandMM- lived or died. My right side was very bad and 1 had backache and a weakness. I read about your med- uByClfoiand wrote — — ther information. I cittook Lydia E. Pink- Etham's Vegetable Compound, Blood Hlt;....._,_____^JMedkmc and Liver ’ *iePills, and used Lydia E. Pinkham’a 3rfc »* salts in every and am able to dom7aas.nss'a^TO kton.,1 ■ tircl.v. TW, apptM „ “7l‘^Sln“?'iT. F K.0^1E^L,129 Peete Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.Jw speeches In tho house and itcl*° to the occasional stai•.gave th W5®m to Amwer Lettersg , m'Pn OB® of written PhflaSlphia, Pa,—“I have used your1 «_ L5 *r condensation In bis dls- medicinea for nervousness and a run-tf ilBctive autograph, had passed acros down system with a severe weakness.?esk and had beoa print- After taking LydiaE. PinkhamsVeg-2ST .»«- feel likeitWll.Inrn.; PinkhUD'. S»W-:: comical. Every one of them feare ’ a different woman ana nave gamea in'r*tr*tln}barbed ssfsbeI Courage, Independence, and a sine HohT' 2649 S*Uth St.,PhUadelphia,Pa. . «»« of p, .S.U.w,nwaU«Srywh««.values madlt;s hia intellect of 8trTlcr *1 AitoourlTT °f *rc r.om’nonwcaIth , ( AKB 01* TIlANKNM MimSLi'l hrotber-ln-Jaw o: . —---«»d in r J**#*VhaLUmc sec’ Wc wiiSl1 t0 than!: our i4euds neigh-l of„ thr, Ocmorratic ] bors for their” kind during the rf-?,-! ’ Byra yl®lded no ai- sickness and deatli c ur daughterto the roganizatlon during ] and also for th* usa .ii:ir cars andof his Hgislative activity. * the beautiful flowery‘ he would MR. AND MR^JAMES BELL.
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The Daily Independent
Winchester, Virginia, US
Tue, Oct 27, 1925
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