The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-02-20
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 20, 1894.
SIX PAGES.
Is THE TIMES A TRAITOR TO DEMO.
CEACNc

is The TIMES A TRAITOR TO DEMO
CRAZY?
The Dispatch has now furnished us
with bill Of particulars IN its charge
that The Times is a traitor to the Demo-
cratic party Of the State and Union.
and we shall take up each particular
and notice it as we think it should be
noticed.
The Dispatch would be very glad now
TO modify its charge. that we betrayed"
the Democratic party into one that we
are 'unfaithful" 10 it, We do not see
that the case would be much mended by
that and we. therefore. prefer that it
shall remain as the Dispatch first made
it. 1t says it was led to speak Of The
Times coufse as a betrayal OF the
party by our reference to Judas Iscariot
as connected with itself. All that we
said of the Dispatch and Judas Iscariot
was that II was so submissive 20 the
action of party authority that If the
authorities Of the Democratic party should
publish Mandatory biography Of Judas
It TO Democrats as good precept There
was nothing in this which could, by
ony sort of fair construction. he held
a charge that there was something
in common between the Dispatch and
Judas Iscariot. 1t was nothing but a
very strong way of stating the Dispatch's
blind submissiveness to party commands.
The charge was of submissiveness TO
party dictation and not of identity with
Judas. The Dispatch, therefore, allowed
its supersensitiveness to charges which
never were made 10 lead IL into making
q very grave charge against The Times,
which 1t must now sustain, or it must
accept the position, in the judgment of
fair minded men, of readiness to make
the most reckless and fragrant charges
from pique and irritation, with no justice
whatever to found them on. Let us see
what 1t is able TO produce as grounds Tor
its charge.
It's first specification is that The Times
was lukcwarm in its efforts to elect the
democratic ticket in the canvass preced-
ing the election held November s. 1890.
This is SO childish and absurd that we
shall not stop to notice it, The Times
record In that canvass is before the
world. and there are some people who
actually think that in it The Times did
work for the Democratic party that was
entitled to even better consideration from
the party than any work done by the
Dispatch.
The Dispatch says: AT one period of
the canvass II really seemed that the
contest was going to be a desperate one
The chairman of our State Committee
thought so; many others thought so, and
we are forbidden TO doubt that The
Times was well informed as to the
opinion prevailing in the highest party
circles"
In this The Dispatch is correct. As
We received accounts of tho apathy ana
detection of hitherto staunch Democrats
and heard of the activity and progress
on the Populists. VIC were indeed alarm
ed and feared that the State would be
Democratic BY only a small majority and |
the Legislature by a. narrow margin. |
This was stated by the chairman. and |
We accepted it and accordingly worked |
the harder. Indeed. on the night before
inc election one Of the editors of this
paper wrote to distinguished Virginian
that nothing would surprise or delight
him more than decided Democratic
majority. But had we known then what
we now know about Snifhers and Nor,ou.
ana Petersburg, and Newport News and
the power and facility of county return
Ing boards generally. our anxiety would
have been-as IL now is-for the charac-
ter and integrity OF our party and nor
Tor It's numerical majority. SO that il
would now seem that the result OF that
election and its $1,000 majority might
nave been just as well known and under
stood six months before the eiect,oa a.
'ney We're the day after. So much for
Particular No. l.
IT.
Particular No. finds its Justification
In the fact that after the election. whom
The Times Was endeavoring. for the par-
'y's good. to lind out why Democrats
would not vote in that election. IL said
that the apathy proceeded from resent
inent by great body OF the Democratic
voters at the machine methods by which
the candidate for governor was nomi-
mated.
There was no election pending. ana