Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-03-23

paced the floor for hours with the tOOtl
ache rather than permit one of th'
children to 60 to such an unreasonable
man for medicine.
Between you and L, there is con
siderable feeling against Hay ant
Choate. don't say that there is any
thing wrong, but do wish they woul(
be little more discreet in their acts
The Democrats take up everything an6
make the most of it, and there are foo
Republicans who have no more sense
than to trail right along with them.
''Then there is the trust question
Every body is prosperous and making
money, yet they keep up a continual
talk about how the trusts are oppress
ing them. A couple of weeks ago young
Billy Weaver. who is drummer, and
who travels for a Chicago wholesale
house, came home on vacation, and
he has the town almost crazy on the
trust question. He wears colored shirts
with wide stripes, and vests that don't
match his coat and pants, and every
fool boy in town is trying to initiate
him. I used to think the boys of this
community were chuck full Of common
sense, but nowadays any hare-brained
person can come to town and turn
their heads. Well, the way Weaver
goes on about the trusts is caution.
He reels of his so-called statistics by
the yard. I undertook to correct him
one day on the public square, but he
personally knew of the organization OF
trusts ard was prepared to prove by
the statistics every assertion he made.
He has sharp tongue, and foolishly
permitted myself to become excited.
When saw that my neighbors were
actually sympathizing with the up
start refused to continue the discus
sion and abruptly left.
"WelI, this young snob has got John
Sanders. the hotel-keeper, and Roger
Williams, proprietor of the livery sta
BILE. clean daft on the trust question.
He has convinced them that the trusts
will take all the drummers off the road;
that the hotel-keepers will lose all this
patronage, and that the livery stable
keepers will likewise be affected. They
have organized an antitrust club, and
up to Monday night had the names of
173 members enrolled.
Feeling that something should be
done to check this movement, decid-
ed to call on the editor Of the Repub-
lican paper. and urge upon him the
Importance of being more vigorous in
his denunciation Of demagogy. As a
matter of fact, our. editor has shown
but little ginger in his paper since Abe
Shelter was appointed postmaster.
The editor had Indicated willingness
to serve in the position, and as be had
fought our battles for many years,
rybody was satisfied for him to
drop into the berth. He had no oppo-
sition for the place, and when the term
of the Democratic postmaster expired,
it was supposed he would be succeeded
by Editor Warren. You can imagine
what a surprise it was when word
came from Washington that Abe Shet
tier had walked off with the plum. 1t
appears that Abe's wife is some sort Of
kin to Lyman Gage, and that he quiet
ly turned the trick through the Secre-
tary of the Treasury. Well, Warren
has been sort Of offish ever since, but
he announced his paper would contin-
ue to support the Republican party.
When called upon him, he heard my
ideas about the trust question, and
then asked me if l wanted him to run
his paper against his own interests. I
thought he meant the postofice ques.
tion, but it seems, or at least be claims,
that the paper trust has increased the
cost of his printing paper, and that,
owing to the organization of capital,
ink is higher than it used to be. I
found Warren to be one of the most
unreasonable men in town, and gave
up trying to do anything with him.
"Warren is supporting Brick, but at
the same time expounding the miser-
able heresy of the Constitution follow
ing the flag, and this isn't doing US
any good. His paper also goes out of
its way to harp about the Clayton
Bulwer treaty, thing our people
don't know anything about, but
which they all seem to be against.
Speaking of newspapers, / have
been having quite time securing
suitable reading material for my home.
You know we took the Chicago Tri-
bune for years. never went to Chi
cago but what I dropped in for a chat
with Joe Medill, but since bis death
the Trib has become wholly unreliable,
and never hesitates to criticise our
noble President. I stopped it and tried
the Inter-Ocean for time, but it, too,
got to be faultfinder. Then I switch
ed to the Times Herald, and it was all
right until this Porto Rican tariff
question came up. Now it is worse
than anY OF them. I have taken the
weekly Indianapolis Journal for years,
and many is the club I have gotten up
for John News paper. But the Jour-
nal has also gone astray. 1 tried the
Philadelphia Press for a time, but
everybody gave me the laugh when 1
quoted from it's splendid editorials,
and called my attention to the fact
that its editor is Postmaster General.
"Postmaster Shelter and myself are
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