Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-07-01
Sam Jones at Norfolk,

sailing iu Norfolk. The Tirsinian Of hat
city has criticized his utterances severely,
singing out cerlain characteristic remerka
and slaog expressions from hia discourse 'or
that purpose. Commenting upon .hem itssid
in i,s issue of Frdey:
1T is difficult 10 realizs that man Who
preteuds TO convert sinners FROM evil ways
should utter such coarse and, al times bias
pheuous language before al audience which
contains 30 many christian ladies and gen.
tlemen so many modest girls aud children
and venerable matrons. This city has never
before witnessed such an exhibition of
cosrseness in language from q stand erected
fov.,be furtherance ofGod's honor and glory
The comuopeet vendor Of disreputable not
t.ums, who cries aloud from street corners
the value CT his warss, never eqnslled IN
slang the utlerapaes CT this man, Dbo dares
10 point the read 10 heaven BY roears OF
such 5iliiEesEate." "Ibe laTglnlGn
would consider itsef false 10 every c:ciasa
Of right and du,y il II failed TO condemn
these shameful u,tersnces from she lips OF
one gifted by God wi remarkable intellect,
and who prostitutes tho Slorioua gif. Of
speech by expressions that would not GO to!-
Grated in any home circle, aud which BE-
ing erected In Coos honor"
Mr JoDea's reply &c the Virgini0ns art:
Gle was as follows: "I;ali the strumpets, ba!
keepers and gamblers ws.e TO Sc TO work
cappiDg With me | would leave town LIS
because they are against n that | am fighting
them aud after soms father illustrations
and strong sreumcns he wen! on. III the
new sDape;s OF The country could bust ne l
would have been desd long ago, but they
can't hurt me- When ants crawl over ne
thev Can only make me Itch
Il bave never said q Sulgar word from
this stand. and the man who says | hava is
q foul-mouth liar have met conditions in
Norfolk which require plain talk
I will say for the editor OF the VirginiGn
that il be wants TO do good in town let him
go around and do it BY visiting these poor
families. And he informs us this morning
that some people have written TO him com
mendng his course.
Il Wish ne would give the names of the
people commencing him, and the number
of people who stopped their advertisements
end their papers yesterday. 1 make it o
rule of my life never to take any notice of q
man until he begins to push. Who is he
now that gets to tuggtog ct ne? He re-
minds ne OF sn aut crawling up az Gle
phapt's trunk. When you people patronizs
such sheet you are just aiding an influence
which Ia not the best for the community.
He hasn't been here at ali, and he has to
ken me to task for somethingI never said.
Re quotes me Now, If you have gos
money and wont give, you just move youf
carcass and let some gentlemen have your
eests,' when ] ssid 10 addition, if you
haven't got any money you ara just as vel
- Il, 7 tIoE
here. He doesn't want to come here. All
be wants to 90 ia TO sit on his door mat and
! bark, and bark, and bark. When you run
ageiust Sam Jones, I tell you, you run
against buzz saw"
In its issue Of yesterday the Virginian re
plies under the caption Of" "The Jeky!l Dnd
Hyde of Samuel Jones :"
1.-The Virginian can we'll stand the abuse
Of Samuel Jones. 1t recognizes the fact that
it is part of his nature to be abusive No
one has escaped his cslumDy, or his vulgar
and coarse criticism. Venerable ministers
and their younger associates In the 5srVice
of God have been insulted and viley csit-
cised because forsooth, they had not come
up Mr.. Jones's conception Of their calling.
Vituperation, shameful and shocking in lis
tone, has been the principal vocabulary of
this man. who prostitutes the livery OF the
Gentle Master he claims to serve. He com.
prises 10 his make up the strange case of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde. with this exception,
that, instead of fleeing before daylight, when
| the insistable deform;ty Of his second nature
| comes upon him, he stands up before vast
| audience of hearers, composed, as has been
previously remarked, of maoy christian la-
dies and gentlemen, 90 many modest giyls
and innocent children and venerable mat
| rons, end gives uttersnce to his coarse and
shameful illustrations.
'In another column will be found extracts
from the sweet and loving remarks of the
Divine Saviour, aa delivered on the Mount,
and. in contrast, are extracts from the utter
apces Of Sam Jones in the Tabernacle. How
different-how very dlferant-ere the words
Of the Master as compared with those Of the
creature who dares to represent Hin !"
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