Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-10-09
A SPECIMEN.
OFFICE OF
EDINBURG SENTINEL,

EDINBuRG, VA, Oct. 9TH, 1896.
| Dear Sir: Your reply TO Mr.. Williams
was referred TO the committee who con-
troll the political department of the
Sentinel, and they have just today in
formed rs that they would not allow IL to
appear We therefore cannot publish IT..
( Respectfully,
HIsEY g. SToNEBURNER.
The above letter speaks for itself The
Edinburg Sentinel published a letter. OF a
political character. of abont three COL
umns from W. I. Williams, Esqr. as
sailing the position Of the HERALD, aud
asking fifteen que ,tions to which we
were requested to reply. We replied to
the article aud in a conversation with
Mr. Stoneburner, he very pleasantly &C.
knowlsdged our right to space for re-
ply and requested us to send the article
as early as possible. We sent it on Tues
day merning. Mr.. A. l.. Henkel. one OF
the Editors or the Valley, Informed us that
he would publish the reply. Mr.. Acllwse,
q Q gentlemsnly Editor OF the Strasburg
Nacs, informed us that he did not have
room for Mr.. Williams article. but bad
he published it, he would certainly have
given us space for reply. All the gentle
men referred to above have the honorable
instincts which usually prevail among
newspaper men, aud We only regret that
Messrs. Hisey and Stoneburner have not
the exclusive control of their paper, as
we believe them to be incapable of an act
of that kind.
We do not behave that Mr.. William
was party to this disgfaceful transac
zion. We have always found him, IN the
most intimate relations Of life, for a
period of oyer twenty-five years, a cour-
teous gentleman and ve believe him TO
be incapable of such conduct. While we
differ politically upon some Of the issues
of this campaign, we regard him gentle
man, and notwithstanding the unfair ad
vantage taken by those who do not recog-
nize the ordinary courtssiss observed by
gentlemen and newspaper men, we here
say that we will take pleasure in pub
llshiug any communications from Mr..
Williams notwithstanding the fact that
, they may be antagonis,ic to the political
opinions entertained by us.
We recognize in the act, outlined In the
above letter, the spirit that actuates the
mobs who have endesvored to prevent
those who were true to the present.
Democratic Administration from eX-
pressing their opinions upon the stump.
1t is the same spirit that was exhibited
by few people in this place, who we
believe were controlled by a secret GU
envy Ind who endeayored to boycott the
HERALD, because we refused TO change
our political creed and align ourselves
with the mob OF Democrats and POpu
lists Tho deserted the Democratic party
and adopted a Populistic platform at
Chicago. The people of Shenandoah will
not tolerate this spirit of untairness. Th e
man that attempts to control them and
thinks that be has the power of leading
them IN one direction and in less than
three months attempts to lead them in
the opposite direction will find that be
cannot control our people. They have
the rights which even such mea as he
l,a fnada 70 raaneQt
What CALLING tyranny we would be
under if such LIEN could reach the p0si
tions 10 which their inordinate vanity
aspires.