Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-08-05
FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1903.

The EdlnDufS ct'tt"'C', "
editorial management Of Mr. Nj. L.
Walton and partly owned by tna'
gentleman, is "grieved beyond the
mower of utterance that the Shenan-
aooh HERALD takes SO hard the di|
ferences in the democratic party III
this county" Evidently the gentle
man wanted to say something and
aid not know what to say. The
HERALD has not lost one moments
sleep on account of the differences IN
what he calls the democratic party
II is true that when the Se''t'''@ oe-
noupced the committee on creden-
tails of the Seventh Congressional
District Convention as being pack
ed" when it decided against the
"true democracy Of Shenandoah
and its representative failed to pro-
test AGAINST their report in the con-
vention, we commented upon such
proceedings, as any newspaper has
the right TO do.
He IS altogether mistaken about
us. We are still the kind OF demo-
crat that the editor of the Sentinel
professed to be when he wrote; "Ihe
silver craze will soon be overpast, and
the people who argue so eloqdently
IN its favor will recognize that 1t was
but sweet dream of their child
hoods ftful hours"
Hear him, as he expressed himself
on Senator Daniel. IF Senator Dan
iel and others want to force silver
down the Threats of sound money
democrats who have INDUCED too
patiently his heresy on this subject, 1t
would be well TO see if some other
senatorial timber is not in the woods,
&C." Probably he had his eye on
particular piece, which would tit his
mirror illustration. And to show
how successfully Senator Daniel did
force silver down the threats OF some
sound money democrats, hear HIM
again in his editorial column exclalm;
Gree silver at l6 to ! is the battle
cry for victory in 1900"
The above illustrates what that
writer means by
"We had been raised up in the
idea that the newspaper was a poht-
ical compass,ever pointing to the star
ofparty principle"
Again this gifted writer tells us;
'The democratic party in Shenandoah
can easily and satisfactorily settle its
internal difficulties without calling
upon outside political enemies for
either diagnosis or treatment"
We think he has now a fine OPP
portunity to give the people an Illus
tration ofthe case with which internal
difficulties in the party can be settled.
They could be settled, we have no
doubt, according to that writer's
idea. if the democrats of Shenandoah
would choose him as the supreme die
tator of the party, forbid any other
democrat from aspiring to an office to
which he aspires, and so long as the
party would implicitly obey his COM
mands, harmony would prevail.
Unfortunately, according to this
writer, for the peace Of the party,
there are other democrats in the
county who believe that they have
as much right to express their opin-
ions as has the editor of this self con-
stituted organ of democracy, and so
long as they are of this opinion, it
will be difficult to have harmony IN
their ranks.
Now please understand that we
have not attempted to diagnose the
political differences which to-day, we
are sorry to say, prevail in the demo-
cratic party in Shenandoah. a true
diagnosis of the disease, we think,
would be very distaStetul to the
editor of the Sentinel. Nor are We
disposed to suggest a proper treat
nent," for, in our opinion, the demo
Gratis of Shenandoah have already
found the proper treatment, and the
editor of the Sentinel Is now pam
fully wriggling under it.
The democratic party has nothing
to fear from "outside, political enc
mics" She has been successfully
fighting them ever since the Prlnci-
pies of the party were first ehuncla'-
ed. Her great danger is from self ap-
pointed leaders, who at one time de-
nounce the free silver craze" as a
.svain delusion and a snare" and then
in terms equally violent denounce
those who will not follow the twain
deIusion," because the editor of the
Sentinel has been converted to the
doctrines which he so bitterly de-
nounced.