Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-02-06
Tl.e Roa.; G.ue.t;oa.


the writer's fertile imagination only,
might distort into on answer to my
circular letter in reference to our
proposed new road law. He starts out
by charging me with .'gross misrep-
resentation, false reasoning, mislead-
ing statements, etc. 1t required but
slight mental effort to prefer these
charges, and to prove them, he makes
little or no attempt; conscious no
{, doubt, that he could not sustain
them, and that the prestige of good
name together with the logic OF even
an Hon. Elk. or an Elk. HON. hard
ly know in this case, what arrange
ment the much abused prefix should
rightly assume-were entirely made
quate to the task which his fragrant
assertions had imposed upon him.
Having made the charges, and utter
ly failing to sustain them, and save
in one Iabored and verbose instance
guiltless even of an attempt to do SO,
they are hereby returned upon the
head of this Sir Oracle, who wears
his Titled trail, proud as a cockeryls
rainbow trail.n His little diatribe
was evidently written to his wards,
who, upon hearing his pompous rhet-
ORIG doubtless swelled the Elk. Hons
bursting pride with the loud outlaws
of approval so characteristic of their
race. His attempt at an argument
was so irrelevant and farletched, that
/ he has almost entirely relieved me of
the opportunity of making any reply
whatever. / had not supposed until
now that, the leading tariff reformer
of the land, Mr.. Cleveland, took
any notice of our little road
affairs down here, and thought
from his well known record,
and from the trend of his remarks
made at the Jackson Anniversary in
New York, that he was wholly alb
sorbed in that great issue, with
which he is so inseparably connected,
and that in that speech he had no
reference whatever to our little af-
fair down here in Accomac, and had
supposed that he had never given
thought to our Ex Hon. and his 1850
proteges. Butin this it now appears,
was wholly mistaken, as is shown
from the assurances made in the
gentleman's LITTLE say of last week.
He undoubtedly has had both the
ear and the confidence of the dis
tinguished cx.President, and knew
whereof he spoke, 1 therefore beg his
pardon, land bending low, and in a
bondman's key, with bated breath.
and whispering humbleness. lay
this.n "He hath optics sharp, 1
ween, to see what is not to be SEEM
Having thus, happily for him dis
posed of his far fetched tariff argyll
ment, or a portion of it at least, we
will now listen to what he has to say
about license taxes, and direct taxes.
1t seems if he prefers very serious
charge against my unfortunate
wards whose cause hereby cham
pion, in this, that he says virtually,
that they are terribly large guzzlers
of "tangle foot,n and besides, inordi-
nate gluttons in the use of the filthy
tweed. nThis fatherly Individual and
self constituted champion, has not
performed his fatherly offices with
due diligence I am afraid, or else he
fails from some cause, to exercise that
controlling influence, over his wards
good morals, that usually marks an
efficient leadership. Evidently, unless
he uses his persuasive powers more
effectively, or has recourse to more
frmness, or discipline, he will have
to resort to the guard-house, orthe
bastinado one, or else his, brigade
will loon not only pay the license
tax, but many of the other expenses
of government besides. When he
gets this road reform through all
right, he had better then go to work
and do little wholesome reforming
in his own ranks; at least he should
try and pursuade them not to pay all
their money toward the license tax,
but to save dollar now and then to
chip in toward roads, free schools
and the poor-house-well, we shall
see what we will see, when he gets to
work at it. Speaking of Federal tax
alton &C., he says, "that dare not
deny, that 1 have misrepresented and
and maligned the unfortunate poor
and that this is a severe charge &c.
If true, this would indeed be a severe
charge and worthy of all condemna-
ton, but fortunately the days in
which people placed implicit faith in
the utterances of Oracles, has passed
away, and, a few only, are now COM
PEELED to believe all that this modern
one says. No one who has read my
circular with unpreiudiced mind,
will believe word of the charge
true, and the man who makes the
charge, / don't believe thinks it true.
He had an evil purpose in making it,
and made it, regardless of all consid-
erations that should actuate fair
minded and honorable man. am not
afraid of my record concerning my at
titude or dealings toward the poor,
either at present or in the past, and ac-
cording to my means and opportuni-
ties, challenge comparison in that