Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-08-20

veyers 10 Shenandoah and adjoining
COMMITTEES nav find it convenient to test
their instruments 10y this well marked
lie.
Goo6pess Graciousl Give us a place to
hide man mp the country with Latin
name. has Just taken the hide right off
of Ms. aud not satisfied with this he
showers the squa-tortis down on the raw.
You see he didn't like our account of the
Woodstock and Edinburg game, and be
has worked himself up to such pitch OF
anger that the proverbial wet hen amt
IN it with bin. He is so mad that be
can't tell right from wrong, and be makes
mlstatements so fast that he gets tangled
up and falls over them.
! Now Mr.. Veritas. if you can Just get
down from your big brass horse, and be
common sort of a fellow like Us for
aw bile we will talk this thing over with
YOU. We are not bit mad, and now
that you have gotten all that naughty
g tuff off your stomach you feel better,
100, don't youi
You did a wise thing in your preface in
taling that your statement Is from
stand point OF strict neutrality, for no
one could have believed that from simply
reading the acticle, and they may still
have some doubt
1t maybe that we are lacking in iudg'
ment in such matters, but we really have
feeling of curiosity to know what you
would have SAID from an interested
standpoint, for we don't see bow you could
b ave given us a more bitterly partizan
and bhudly prejudiced account than the
one now in print, 10 say nothing OF the
cruel numbering of fscts. And you say
YOU don't give these things as the opin-
ions Of the people of Edinburg? We be-
lieve you indeed we do, for we don't
think there is a citizen Of that towh who
would endorse them.
Then, too, dear friend, you say you
were present at this game and
nearly all the other games between the
two towns, and therefore suppose you
speak from the card. Now, how can you
remember all that occurred IN these
games, when you can't even quote us cor
rectly although we presume you had the
paper before you when you wrotei
We never said the Woodstock players
we're assailed with volleys of rotten eggs.
What we did say was that some of the
dirty roughs went so far as to throw rot
ten eggs at some OF the Woodstock play
ers,J Aud sir, this is fact for which we
can get The sworn statements OF a mum
her of persons whose character for truth
fitness will Lot be questioned by any
one in the county who knows them,
That nice little NJther Goose tale about
one egg being thrown from kitchen in
the direction of the field, IS so sweetly
lender as to be simply ridiculous. And
this thing was premedltated, and the
ergs gathered mp before hand. as we
knoS from a reliable source. A gentle
man of this lace while en- his way home
on the morning of the game, stopped at
the house of lad, not iaI from Ednburg
and she informed him of the way the
! Woodstock club was to be treated, that
they we're to be even pelted with rotten
eeos. aud further said it was a shame
Ne have the name of one OF the parties
who threw the eggs, and know that they
we're thrown right at the players.
81 'the excitement and disorder existed
only IN the minds of some vinously ex-
cited jndiyiduas' This we suppose is
lonly a classical way of saying they were
ldruuk. aud also another sample OF seeing
things from neutral standpoint From
this we are to infer that the large num-
Der of Woodstock people, some Of whom
we're ladies' as well AS the Edinburg peO-
ple who spoke of the miserable conduct
they witnessed were drank and 'Neritas'
WAS duly sober From your neutral stand
point you did not hear the most CALLING
land insulting epithets that were hurled
at tie Woodstock pitcher from all sides,
did yOui
Now let me tell you something that
lbappened after the game. A citizen of
EdnLurg went to the owner OF che ball
grounds and asked him 10 have the
igrounds plowed up, and not allow any
more games to be played there, as taey
ibid not want to see their town again dis
graced by such conduct. Bat probably
THAT gentleman failed to see il from a
neutral standpoint
Your inaue stuff about the bitterne, 8
being confined to the children Of Edin-
burg, and what you heard leading cltl
z-ns Of Woodstock say IS too silly 10
notice, Besides you don't believe it
Yourself With whom do you associate In
Woodstock Give us the names of those
leading citizens you heard talk worse
than the lowest toughs.
Judging you from your article, we
don't think you would have seen any
ching wrong from yOGr neutral standpoint
had the crowd rushed in and murdered
all the Woodstock players and the um-
pire.although we don't think "a single man
of the Edlnburg team will say they were
ever mistreated by them, and we know
that the captain of the team said che
game was fairly umpired.
We never said word against the
Edinburg club or single respectable
citizen of the town On the contrary
we have always spoken of the Edlnbnrg
team IN the highest terms, and every
resident of the town knows that the
HERAID has been their stauuch friend.
We only attacked the conduct of the
ruffans at the ball game whether they
were from Edinburg or elsewhere, aud
IN so Icing We are upheld by every good
citizen Of that place and the county
generally, yourself alone excepted.
Your concluding remark about the
HERAID's article being "a cowardly, uu'
gen ilemanly and highly ERRONEOUS attack
on Edinburg," Is false, as every reader Of
the HERALD, yourself included, knows.
Good hva