The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1877-05-10
Old Times Come Again.

Old Times Come Again
I The appearance of an advertisement fol
carving the mails in the State of Virginia,
in the last number Of the Richmond Wing,
is really an evidence Of the changed condi
ton of the political status OF the people un-
der the new administration. The publica-
ton OF Government advertisements is OF
course for the information OF the peoples
Under Grants administration they were
usually published in some miserable Radical
sheet that decent and intelligent men never
read. The result was that the money exI
pended for that purpose was a bride to the
hungry editor for misrepresenting the com !
munity in which the thing was published.
The change is good one and Postmaster
Key evidently intends that decent men shall
read the advertisements published from his
department. Good luck to the new move
ent..-NortolE Ledger. i'' -
4 This is severe on the Richmond Dispatch,
as that paper had heretofore been medium
through which the post-office advertisements
were given to the public. The reference
made to the Republican papers is not true,
at least so far as the VIRGINIAN is con
cerned. The VALLEY VRGINIAN is read
by three ssmes the humber 81 ssdecefft ana
intelligent menu that read the Ledger, to
draw it very modestly. 1t has probably the
best advertising circulation in the State,
reaching almost every county to regular
subscribers and read by hundreds who do
not subscribe to it. 1t circulates ia the ad.
joining States among the most intelligent
classes, and is a favorite wherever read. II
we would follow the weak practice of many
Of our contemporaries, we could publish ex
tracts from letters and papers every issue,
showing that the VIRdINIAN ranks among
the most popular weeklies OF the country.
The Ill temper and spiteful disposition ex-
hibited in the extract above is characteristic
Of the violent prejudice Of many Of the dem
ocratic newspapers Of Virginia which live,
not upon their merits, but because Of party
necessity. We venture the assertion that
no weekly paper in Virginia affords better,
medium for government or any other kind
Of advertising than the VALLEY VIRGIN
Ian. It is a demonstrated fact that local
advertisements attract more attention and
more inquiry, when inserted in this paper,
than in any other published in the Valley. /.
It is not unnatural that Republican adj
ministration should seek papers friendly to
it, as the agents Of communicating with the
public. Certainly no Virginia Conservative
ought to object, when it is remembered, the
course Gov. Kemper has pursued in publish
ing the Constitutional amendments. Every
eighth ten, sickly, imbecile democratic or
Conservative paper almost, was given the
advertisements and while the .VIRGINIAN
has one Of the largest calculations in the
State, and reaches a class Of Intelligent
and decent men" that no other Virginia
paper does, yet it was entirely ignored by
the State authorities in the instances named.
Republicans may pay their taxes and obey
the laws, but the State authorities did not
deem it advisable to encourage q paper that
chooses to differ in its views of public policy,
with those who abuse official trusts in the
name of Conservatism, which reaches a
class of persons as wealthy, as intelligent,
and as decent, as any other in the Common
wealth. 1t was species Of vindietive intol-
erance totally inconsistent with that :shigher
civilization which Kemper, prated about so,
much in his infammatory campaign speech
es, and entirely foreign to his duty as the.
Governor of all the people of the State. With
the class of persons whose prejudiees are re-
Elected in the paragraph taken from thu
Ledger, Republicans have no rights that
democrats or Conservatives are expected to.
respect, and think it a virtue to allude to
them in the most indecent and disrespectfuf
temper. People at distance may form q
correct idea from the spiteful sentences of
this extract, Of the insane bitterness of a
certain class of party bigots, who unfortu-
nately for the State and country, are sup.
Ported in important relations to the public,
The great maas of<he people have no SYM
Ipathy with thens forEhe il -temper display
ed is only an evidence of a want Of mental
force terlse aboveiE vocabulary the people
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