Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-13

i
member speech you once made nom
mating no for governor, after which
many OF my friends inquired whether
you wero in earnest; aud if you had
been more in earnest when you wero
candidate for Congress in 1886, aud
had not advertised iii advance your
expectation of defeat you might have
been elected. y
81 may be cynical, but for a long
time L have thought | detected in
certain mon of our party moro than
Willingness to drive of prominent
men until they can themselves be-
come leaders. While ilave almost
wept to SEQ mau after man of our old
warriors worn out with prickings
from behind, sheath their trusted
swords aud fall away from tho front
Of our battle, have often thought
saw and heard the chuckle of the
little fellows, who in these defec
tons see the chance of their own nd
vanceinent. Your weapons have al
ways been more powerful 10 pruning
knives against your friends than us
swords asaiut your enemies. If you
and others keep up your fire rs
steadily in the future as in the past,
yon will all have chances to be lead
era, and, unopposed, DO candidates
for The fat Offices you describe 30
lusliily MS enough to keep anybody
sleek and happy. Go on, among
the blind the onuoyed are kings"
Some mon would rather be big men
in II small party than small men in
big one. Or your rush Mt no may
be from force of habit. 1 prny you,
do not DO angry ut my smile if /
liken the function you have assumed
to Yourself in our party for years
past TO that of IL bravo but unreason.
ing fonr-footed friend. Every well
regulated farmer keeps collie to
drive tho pigs out of the garden
For years you have faithfully rushed
upon aud seized every struggling
Republican who has tried TO poach
upon tho power preserves of the
"mana9erial policy of our party.
You have always done your worl,
b'avcly, but not always dscrcetly.
Sometimes. when only expected to
pull by tho oars or nip ut heel, you
have taken throat hold and slaugh
tered. But YOU have had great
sport and moderate success. Vie
tim after victim has been bounced
through the fence, you barking
and he squealing and you have
come bounding back, plucky and
bloody, rs the lucklcss intruder
trotted sullcnly away into the pas.
turc of oblivion. You have made
- reputation at your business. In
fact, it is Your whole stock in trade.
But, Mr.. ELAN, let me say word
to you i'll all seriousness. Take
care that You do not ovcrtlo your
part. Take care that You do not
get the wrong pig by tho ear
SIT WAS considerable in YOU to
seek to palliatc my hot bloodcd
ImprudcDce in publishing my let.
ter, by tue plea that am not ac.
customed to elaboration and re
ticcnce.
81 know am not prudent and
thoughtful and rcticemt like the
late editor of the Wing. | have
always felt your superiority over
me in these respects, and resolved
to make some Of your calm delibcr-
ate uttcrance my study and mod.
els for future guidance. In fact.
two Of Your choicest productions
lie before me as q demonstration
of your overflow in the qualities
wherein / am lacking. One is the
platform written by you on which
was placed when ran for gov.
ernor, the other is the paper which
you recently presented to the Ma
tional Committee on the subject
OF kickcrs. Reading them care
fully can think of nothing like
them except Browning's poems,
from the perusual of which one
arises doubling whether it is the
writer, the reader, or both, who
are raving lunatics.
1t was n grave miStoko of iu1u