Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1901-11-08
Entered at the Posto6tce at StGuntofa
Va. as second class mGSt matter.
FRIDAY. NOV. s.
A STRENUOUS LIFE,

President Roosevelt loves strenu
GUS life. This being the case be vii
surely lead one in few days, if he ha
not been leading it ever since the la
mented Judge Paul passed to tina
bourne from whence no traveller re
turns.
The number of applicants who will
besiege the President for the shoes o.
this deceased jurist will be as crows
in the Piedmont sc cton of Virginia. OF
as the tabled locusts of Egypt. Fight.
ing grizzly bear apon the Rockies,
hunting the white goat in the Sieras,
or the lion on the craggy slopes of Col
orado, will be mere pastime beside the
struggle he will undergo in handling
the multitudes who will seek his pres
ence to vouchsafe their counsel and
advice on this absorbing subject.
The ability of Virginia lawyers,
their splendid records as men, their
great learning, their. honesty, their ill.,
tegrity, their sacrifice for Republican
ism, if they be Republicans; and their
dlsloyalty and treachery to Democracy,
if they be gold Democrats; along with
their other blooming virtues, will be
heaped in such piles before him as to
stagger any ordinary mortal, and such
as would entirely overwhelm man of
less fortitude than our strenuous
president. The president will wonder
surely where all those great and good
men have been in hiding, why he has
not heard of the majority of them be-
fore, and how one little old fashioned
behind the time commonwealth like
this houses them all, and supports
them all. This will, if ne allows bis |
mind to dwell on the subject, give
him a night mare. But should he see
the candidates themselves, he would |
have the question fairly we'll answer.
ed, for be would see, barring a few
honorable exceptions, the hungryest,
most cadaverous gang of Office seekers
his gaze eyer fell upon. No State could
support and fa.ten such horde. They
must needs be lean and hungry, they
m ust needs wear their garments, and
shoes down at the heel, they must
needs allow their hair to grow little
long and their boards to go nnshaven.
The loins from which they sprung
were the lOins Of noble ancestry who
tOiled not, and this noble trait descend
I'D to their noble PROSPERITY, who toll
not. The President would see, if be
beheld them, a set of the most remark
3 bic characters ever congregat ed out
side of a lunatic asylum, an aims {
house or a joil. He would see in all of
hem men who badly need the place,
n all Of them men who are willing to [
'erve, in nearly all men who are unfit 9
20 hold that or any other position of
dignity or Importance.
Unless he takes the bull by the horns e
md quickly settles the.question. be is
liable to have all the Republican, all
he mugwump and ali the gold bug
awyers in Virginia, and not a few i
Democratic ones besieging the White I
louise and begging for recognition. G
We have no suggestion to make to the :,
President on this important subject, Ii
tut will say when he appoints one, we
'elieve he will wish he had appointed
bother. And no matter whom he an. e
olnts, he will make thereby one in. :,
rave and a Thousand enemies.