The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-02-01
The Richmond: Times.

twitted with not being in sympathy
with the Democratic party in vir-
ginia.
If the Times is friendly in the
slightest to that party all thePosr has
to say is, may God save us from our
friends. Grant for the sake of argu-
ment that onc-tenth of the charges
of the Times are true, is it friendship
t" denounce the acts Of, and fight the
policy of friends? Is it party policy
or is it right for journal floating
under the banner of a particular par
ty to strike that party in the back,
and expose it's private affairs and
policy? We visit not! Does it
not look more like i'll disguised
hypocricy. or seeking cheap notorie-
ty, or both?
The Virginia SIN, the chief Pop
list organ in Virginia, pats the cs.
teemed Times on the shoulder, and
like an absttor at dog fight says
ego it old fellow" you are gaining
much notoricty and making many
votes for populism, Socialism, Re-
publicanism and SO on nd nauseom.
Now the very fact that such papers
as the Suu are iubilant over the per-
formances of the Times is enough to
close the doors of Democracy on that
paper. The charges Of the Times
are the merest vaporings. They are
absolutely puerile and without foun-
dation, Content with making many
assertions and proving none of them;
content with pointing out an evil and
suggesting no remedy, the position Of
the Times is really pitiful. 1t is a
well-known fact that one of the Ed
itors "f that paper, as counsel for the
English holders of virginia's bonds
moved heaven and earth to saddle
Virginia with load Of debt. Yet,
all the time loving her devoted!y; but
events proved that when his love for
her, and his cupidity clashed, his
love vanished like the idle wind, and
his cupidity got the master Of him.
After the election of our Supreme
Judges the Times came out in 4
lengthy article to The effect 81 did it
with my little Ratchet" Thank me,
YOU venersble Judges! Look not at
your stainless lives and hon
est worth, but look at me,
the great hob-goblin Of the Times. .
Now, truthful words are common
dable, but once upon time it was
thought that silence was golden. SO,
the Times has done this, and it has
done that, and some hay-seedcr from
WashingtonS county says, keep the
good work up thou high Priest.
If trickery is to be practiscd by my
superiors why can't do little OF 1t
too?"
Another hobby Of the Times is
election frauds. 1t says that gross
frauds are perpetrated by our cleo
ton officers. Here, for once, the
Times suggests remedy. But
what a remedy! Any in.
FAINT schoolboy could suggest better
one. 1t wants our election officers
appointed by the Judges. In other
words, if crude expression can be
paraoned, wants to Jump from the
frying pan into the fire. tits process for
purifying the ballot box is about as
logical one as placing a disintect-
ant upon high hill to nd the val
ieys and Dogs of noxious germs. The
only reasonable process, and we COM
mend it to the Times, is to remove
the n,otire for the act. Let tho Of
Ace be forfeited upon inquest taken
by a court on an information filed.
This might require a constitutional
amendment in order to be effective,
but if the evil is so all prevailing,
which the Posr denies, it should be
done. That is the remedy for the sup
posed evil, and we earnestly COM
mend it to the earnest consideration
Of our contemporary for its enlight-
mcnt upon subject Of which it dis
plays dense ignorance.
The Times continues to grow in
disfayor with Democrats. Whilst
its antics and performances were at
first amusing. they are now abso
lutcly tiresome.
The Democrats Of this section are