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in favor of the rotation system. When it was realized that the present representative holds positions of seniority on committees, which are of interest to both counties, and these position would be lost with a change of candidates, it was agreed to by-pass the rotation system of election in the two counties, 'and retain the present Representative to our own best interests.
The incumbent has been declared the unopposed Democratic nominee in a county which has been solidly Democratic for longer than most of us can remember.
With the above information: why has Mortimer Marshall filed candidacy?
Is he trying to show that a Negro has a right to run for office? Everyone knows that. Voters must be 21 years of age, and even a 12- to 14-year-old child, who has been taught his Constitution, will be able to tell you that anyone can be a candidate—you, I, or the next-door neighbor—everyone has the right to ran for public office.
Is he trying to seek cheap publicity? Let’s hope not, for it does not become our finer sensibilities that our representation in the House of Delegates is a thing to be used as a source of obtaining one’s name in the paper and having one’s name thrown about in a cheap manner. The House of Delegates is a dignified body of gentlemen; for years of history, in which we Virginians take pride, our state governing body has been a good one. No true* Virginian, with any spark of self-esteem left, will appreciate the use of our Senate or our House of Delegates as a party toward cheap notoriety or publicity. In fact, the thought is offensive.
The answer to the question— why?— is unknown in these quarters.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Weaver had as their guests Friday at their, home in Harris Hollow Mrs. Jesse Hawkins, Mrs. George Butler and children, Franklin Duncan, and Mrs. M. L. Weaver. On Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Weaver and Mrs. G. C. Wayland had as their guests Mr. and Mrs. Bob Payne, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Huff and son, Mr. and Mrs. Cary Thornhill, and Milton Huff.
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