The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-19
THREE GRIEVANCES.


There are times when endurance
ceases to be virtue. We think that
time has about arrived in the present
campaign. Colonel O'Ferrall's friends
have been forced to see him vilified,
without making counter attacks. The
supporters of his opponents have been
allowed to harp on every change of dire
full prophecy without response.
THE TIMES for one has got tired Of
that sort of stuff, and is going to talk
back. We held our peace until the
result in Roanoke demonstrated beyond
a doubt that Major Tyler couldn't carry
his own section, but now it is time to
talk back.
In the first place we have all due re-
spect for Major Tyler as high toned
gentleman of considerable ability. who
has excellent political prospects in the
future if his injudicious friends do not
kill them. The particular injudicious
friend we have in view to-day is II. c.
Preston, secretary of the Tyler Home
Club. He has been giving out to the
press a series of detailed statements re-
garding the standing of delegates. elect
and Of extremely general forecasts as
to those to be elected. These have been
30 extensively garbled on the one hand
and SO invariably wrong on the other
that he is making a laughing stock OF
Major Tyler's cam paign in every we'll
Informed circle. His first great break
was claiming in his table of delegates
chosen the delegations from Giles and
Scott as solid for Tyler long
before they elected. He dropped
Giles in a few days, but hung
onto Scott like grim death for a week,
only abandoning it Monday morning.
he has also finally abandoned the four
delegates in Clarke, which he stuck to
for nearly three weeks; but he persists
in filching all but one OF the Wythe
delegation, which is pledged to Kent.
We do not care to drag out the weary
details, but to give the public better
idea of his mathematical eccentricities,
we will merely state that he puts five of
the Roanoke city delegation in the
doubtful column. tits said that figures
won't lie: we believe it, but they some
times take up with strange bedfellows.
That is one of our grievances. We
wish that Major Tyler would haul down
Preston and use plain yellow flag.
Our second grievance is in regard to
this farmer candidate" business.
Everu man u,bo ounr Z, for,, g -. .
farmer, and all this claim of the farmer
vote for Tyler is Stuff The Virginia
farmer isn't to be caught with that so TT
of chaf. Major Tylers affiliations are
with land mpanies, coal operators and
big corporations generally. He is a
good business man and kept on the
right side OF the boom. He has farm
or two; lots OF wealthy business men
have; but farming is side issue with
him. The only kind of farmer who
has got right to do much talking is
the fellow with horny hands, who
chases mule and bull tongue
plow around tena acre lot all day
IN the hot sun, in order TO raise
Chicago or New York TO make corners
on. We will allow Major Tyler so dele
gates for every blister and 100 delegates
Tor every callous he has acquired farm
ing in the last ten years, and will wager
that no would be worse off than he is on
Preston's patent table. We ran farm
once in opposition to the chinch bug
cinch and a potato bug combine and are
qualified to talk. Haul down tina,
friend Of the farmer" sideshow and
stick to the main menagerie.
The third and greatest grievance is
the sectional howl. Hasn't the South
heard enough of that to last? major
Tyler is Southwestern man; therefore
he has mortgage on the support Of til g
Southwest" Roanoke, Henry, Frank
lin, Botetourt, Smythe and Bristol have