Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-24
THE STATE PRESS.

| we wonder if the Republican papers
who are distributing campaign litera-
| ture as supplements to their papers,
which increases their weight about
double. are paying any additional post
age to the government. Republican
| postmaSterS, we presume, will never
be able to see this.-Cape Charles
Light.
| This literature" being largely the
product of persons foisted on the pay
rolls of the departments at Washing
ton, is doubtless considered govern
ment matter, and, therefore, entitled to
free transmission through the mails.
| Roosevelt must he a bully. No man
ever accused so many people of cow
ardice. or used the word coward with
so much profundity, who himself was
not a braggart bully or a buffer.
He talks like Sullivan, but doubtless
fights like Bob Acres.-Staunton Spec
| tator.
AS an exposition of Teddy. we have
noted nothing that SURPRISES this for
brevity and accuracy.
| Some OF our country people have a
mistaken idea as to the individual who
| is the Republican candidate for Con-
gress in this district. He is James NJ.
Stubs, locally, we believe. dubbed
Lying jim" ono disparagement in
| tended on our part.) This is not En-
Senator James N. Stubs, that so
many OF the people of this Shore have
known.-Eastern Shore Herald.
Apparently Hon. James NJ. Stubs
starts out we'll equipped for the race.
The Governor of West Virginia failed
| to issue the customary proclamation
calling for the national election sixty
f1g -fr,tt- tlaA al To
been issued. but dated back thirty
days. In case of a close election this
fact will be IA bitter bone of conten-
| ton. Undoubtedly the vote in West
Virginia will be illegal.-Culpeper Ex-
ponent.
| The vote will be Illegal If West Vir-
ginia happens to be the balance of
power and the Democrats carry it.
The desire to see our schools placed
upon the same high plane of useful
| ness and become the same great bene-
| faction to the country people that they
are to those of the cities, has alone
| inspired what we have from time to
time had to say on the subject, and
for Zion's sake we will not rest and
for Jerusalem's sake we will not hold
our peace" until our hope in this re-
gard is fully realiZed.-Brunswick Ca
Zette.
The determination and example of
the Gazette are worthy of all emua-
ton. There is no question before the
people of Virginia so important as the
Improvement of the public schools in
the rural districts, though there are
plenty of quite minor matters that re-
ceive more attention.
The Roanoke Times, which has
plainly suffered much, calls attention
to some of the alleged humor that now
gains currency. and offers the follow
ing from the much copied Reflections
of q Bachelor" in the New York Press:
when a new woman is visiting town
with curly hair. all women pray for a
rainy day, so they can know If it was
only 'undulated New women have
been seen. but In our experience in
knocking around the country we have
never come across a town with curly
hair"
The point seems to be we'll made.
The Newport News Telegram charges
favoritism in the management OF
State hospitals. and snys:
There is now confined in the city
Jail, we are informed, a lunatic who
has been a charge on the city for six
months. Another lunatic. who had
been incarcerated just as long. and
had been kept at the city's expense at
the almshouse much longer. recently
died in jail and was buried at the
city's expense"