Ka kammala wannan magana: Bayan ya yi aiki a matsayin editan jarida da kuma mai wallafa, Glass ya lashe zaben majalisar dattijai na Virginia a shekara ta 1899. Ya kasance wakili ne ga Yarjejeniyar Tsarin Mulki ta Virginia na 1902, inda ya kasance mai ba da shawara ga manufofin rabuwa. Masanin tarihi J. Douglas Smith ya bayyana shi a matsayin <unk>mai tsara tsarin rashin haƙƙin mallaka a cikin Tsohon Dominion.<unk> Ya kuma inganta ci gaba na kasafin kudi da gyaran gyare-gyare. Gilashin ya lashe zaben majalisar wakilai ta Amurka a shekarar 1902 kuma ya zama shugaban kwamitin majalisar kan harkokin banki da kudin a shekarar 1913. Yin aiki tare da Shugaba Wilson, ya wuce Dokar Tsaro ta Tarayya, wanda ya kafa tsarin banki na tsakiya ga Amurka. Glass ya yi aiki a matsayin Sakataren Baitulmalin daga 1918 zuwa 1920, lokacin da ya karbi alƙawari don wakiltar Virginia a Majalisar Dattijan Amurka. Glass shi ne dan takarar da aka fi so don takarar shugaban kasa a
Babban Taron Jam'iyyar Democrat na 1920.