Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-05-29
VIRGINIA CAVALIER AND
TAMMANY TOUGH.

4ICG1NlA ga ALlER AND
TAMMANY TOUGH.
Northern and Western papers
habitually get mixed when they talk
about Southern matters. For in
stance, hdre is the Albany Evening
Journal;
Senator Eugene S. Ives, of the
Eleventh district, that odd combina.
ton of the Virginia cavalier and the
Tammany tough, announces that he is
not candidate for re election, and
also that he has no ambition to sue
coed the late General Spinola as con.
gresham for the Tenth district.
There has been no special commo-
ton over a1r. Ives's retirement. The
State Senate will transact business
as usual, next winter, while the Fifty
second Congress will not DO embar
raised by his absence. Mr.. Ives was
the Chanticleer of the Senate, whose
voice was often heard, but was nev
er known to add one jot or title to
the sum of senatorial wisdom. He
was also the senatorial fashion plate,
adding faultless garments to rosy
cheeks and blond moustache. Du
ring his four years of senatorial OK
perience he was perfectly harmless
either to friend or foe; and we can.
not understand this fierce outburst
of invective from that leading organ
of Democracy, the Swine and Spirit
Gazette" which follows his declina-
ton of third term in the Senate:
"'Thnt is the first sensible thing
MIR. Ives has said for long time.
Though ayoung man he has had II
long turn at the public crib, having
held office since 1855. He has sci.
dom been true to the public interests.
He has spent his salary for the ndorn-
ment of his precious person, living
meanwhile on the income of his
wealthy wife. Now let him turn
to and try to earn some money. The
novelty of the sensation will do him
good. If Senator Jocob A. Cantor
were to follow the example set by
Ives and retire from the political
area the people of this city would
we'll be rid of two of their worst re-
personalities in Albany
Wherefore this unseemely and
highly personal attack on Leader
Cantor and bis chief fugleman9
What's the matter with Jake and
Genet Did they aid David B. Hill,
in enacting the role of good Lord,
good devil with the churches and the
saloons in the last Legislature? If SO
how? We are surprised at this
outburst of the official organ of the
liquor dealers, and are interested in
knowing the why and wherefore"
The State would like to correct
the Albany Journal. There is no such
thing as a combination of the Vir-
ginia Cavalier and the Tammany
Tough" The one is absolutely CD.
site to the other. From what we
have read in the New York author.
tiles on Tammany toughs and from
the Journals picture of Mr.. Ives we
are at loss to understand where the
Tammany tough half or his make up
comes in. We are still more at a
loss from the same journals type
picture to understand where the
Virginia Cavalier half comes in.
she was also the senatorial fashion
plate, adding rfaultless garments to
rosy cheeks and blond moustache, +"
says the Journal. There is nothing
of the Virginia cavalier in this, for
the Virginia cavaliers cheeks, while
often ruddy, are not distinctly rosy
and his garments, though clean, are
not of the faultless kind that makes
tailors rich and dudes intellectual
"He has spent his salary for the
adornment of his precious person,
living meanwhile Oh the income OF