The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-22
GRAHAM. VA.
The Times Correspondent Replies to an
Insinuation Cast Upon Him,

The Times Correspondent Replies to an
Insfnuation Cast Upon Him,
Special Correspondence OF TuB TIMns
GRAHAM, Va, Sept. 2l.-The evan
gelists, Stuart and Culpepper, are con-
Quoting good meeting here under the
Emory and Henry oonvass which the
brethren leased for the purpose. The
city is under lasting obligations to a
few good men here who provided us with
such ripe spiritual treat. or these
public benefactors / cannot forbear
naming w. e. Bane, w. b. NJ ton and
Rev. L. X. Haynes.
Our people are about equally d.
vided in their praise of the two evan
CYCLISTS, although they are as dissimilar
as Munsey and Spurgeon. Graham needs
spiritual awakening and we expect
much good from these two men. Nav
God speed the good work.
There is an evil encountered in
travelling which cries aloud for remedy.
namely, the crowding into the plat
forms, at every station, of loafers and
persons having no business except to
gaze at the passengers. Most railroad
companies have posted orders how to
enter and leave cars, but the public per-
slst In boarding trains at the platform
from which passengers are alighting
and hence there is rubbing, bum ping,
crowding and delay. The VI hole trouble
can be removed by conductors enforcing
the rule that passengers must enter as
front and leave at roar of coach"
A writer in tho Headlight, published
hero, takes eXceptit Ms 10 something
said In former lc;r' ~ this writer.
MY picture OF the Gentry as it was
when In possession f the Headlight
contingent and hi. ,ncestors seemed too
oak for him, and puts ON his war
paint. Verify, the truth does some
times hurt, and iS is not always vel
come sight to s, o ourselves as others
see us. My duties in this re lation were
thrust upon me, but had soon planned
out the way to do my town and section
the greatest good. That plan is to con-
trast the wild and woolly past with the
bright and living present, to set the old
log still-house alongside the signing
furnace and mark tho magic strides OF
material development since the spirit of
the new South breathed upon US. But
ere the first picture was dry upon the
canvass | am charged with mistakes,
treason and straining the rhetoric
Nay, il that was all would be writing
about Graham and her marvellous pro
gress, instead of. the irresponsible
monthings OF chronic loafer. The
brainy Harry M. Smythe is editor of the
Headlight, and the criticism appeared
as an editorial, but was not the product
OF Mr.. Smythe. A certain Office loafer
conceived the little thing between
drinks, and imposed it on the public, as
he is in the habit doing. In his etfusion
he imputes to me an effort to cast slur
upon this section. OF all the young men
VINO nave ever come to Graham this
writer should be last to permit an Unjust
word said OF Tazewell county, and espe-
cially OF Graham. This people have done
more for me in ono year than it has for
the Headlight contingent and his three
generations Of ancestors. In less than
Twelve months from my entrance into
this blessed city the highest honor
within the gift of its noble people was
placed upon my unworthy head. Far
DC 1t from me, II it cost my life, topper
NIT oneunjust aspersion to be cast upon
my fair city's name c.. E. r