Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-11-16
APOLOGIZE PRo VITA sUA.'


personal blackguardism by the
Martinsburg Statesman editors,
translated from whose hog Latin
means,
Two little monkeys up on pole,
Try to blacken Republican soul,
While Granny Davy
Is feeding her baby
Out of dirty political bowl.
A little knowledge and a few book
catalogues of high sounding for,
eign titles and phrases picked out OF
the domas mecessitatis Collegianl
Assiaorum, are dangerous things in
the hands of a dude editor and law
yer, enabling him to string up his
victims on the gibbet of abuse and
with a perverted Latin Jew-like in
scrlption for target, fling all the
billingsgate at command into print
for the want of a more creditable
and more honorable way of meeting
the unsuspecting and inoffending
object of his hatred.
1t is to our satisfaction and credit
that our political enemies are forced
to pick up the filth and venomous
reflections out of the political mire,
which we have heretofore scorned to
notice, and like the assassin's treach.
erous stab, so fatal in the dark, fall
short of the least injury in the fair
light of public opinion. These low
inimical resorts are our highest win.
dication. They brand with igno-
miny the characters and capabilities
of the authors.
The keynotes Of the Statesman's
animus are found side by side in the
apologies for the virtues of it's puG-
fishers. Our first great sin was to
" come here" and the next unpardon-
able offence was an unwillingness to
"get outD when we didn't like the
way "things were done," and dared
to have and express opinions of our
own, though we haven't mentioned
our contemporary editorially half a
dozen times year. Our next great
sin is in its eyes the same as that of
its Virginia " mongrel outcast," and
of every Republican,-the demand
for the rights of the colored men,
whom it never loses opportunity to
traduce, and in its desire to build up
and perpetuate the country and its
institutions, forgets that in fighting
the colored man it is fighting the
country and the constitution that
gave them life and liberty.
AS for naTrowness and bitterness
who does not remember the mean
and uncalled for aspersions against
everything Republican by that
paper, which now seeks to hide it's
shame in the dust and dirt it stirs
up out OF the political cutters and in
which it seeks to cover The HER
AID.
But argument and logic are wasted
in the direction of our contemporary
1t is welcome to all the pleasure and
satisfaction it can get out of ped.
ding the secondhand political gut.
ter snlpes our enemies have thrown
away. They suit the calibre of the
mental bore into which they fit; and
our compliments are extended very
kindly to the editorial medium of
vituperation for the soillng of its
dainty fingers, regrettiDg that it
wasn't justified in adding that we
wrecked a dog kennel or burned a
printing Office for the insurance.
We have been very unwelcome
witness of this vulgar monkey show
up a pole, and should courtesy or
duty compel us hereafter to exchange
amenities with the Statesman we
want it understood that we discuss
matters with the horse editor, who
never stoops co anything beneath
his calling, and has'no ugly sores or
CHASTITY skeletons fostering beneath
the touch of civility.
The monkeys can now come down
from their perch and make an apollo.
gy for their lives, while the hat is
passed around to collect for ne
cessary funeral expenses, and the
grind organ will play the time the
old COW died on
Two little monkeys up on pole.
Grinning at their own editorial scroll,
When put over the grave
Of Republican brave,
1t points the moral to their own dark hole;
And dear old Bevy Boyer
Now wonders how her lawyer
III ever cheat the del out of his own,
Without faint to Satan or SANDER ON
Blackstone.
A.....s
Col. John T.. McGraW was in town