Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-05-10
Communicated
FIFE, FOR SHANIE.
lTOR VIRGINIA. CITIZEN:

"Please allow me space in your columns |
10 say what know To the public abou,
the changes in the Democratic party's
action and their forgetfnlness of the
years from 1870 10 1875. The Demo-
cratic party begged aud plead with the
Republican party to stop the hateful and
disgraceful way they bad of picking up
every carpe,bagger and scalawagger
that came along aud putting them in
office, and take men who were born here
in old Lancaster county, and put them
in Office and we would have better times.
The Republicans did take
the advice of the Democrats and LLOYD
Smith was elected Commonwealth At
torney; James L. Sanders, Treasurer;
Samuel G.. Eubank, Sheriff; j. b. Crale,
Commissioners OF the Revenue, etc.
Now If any one can find carpet
Dagger blood in the veins OF any of those
gentlemen we would be glad to hear
from them. As / have said before, we
have the very best material in our county
for supplying the Offices. and al! grown
right here at home; SO let us use il, and
beg all true-born sons of Lancaster TO
go to the polls on election day and cast
their votes for the candidates that were
born here among us. They are all good
men and true. Especially do urge you,
fellow-citizens, to cast your votes for
that sterling gentleman and faithful of.
ticer. w, N. Cundiff"
The writer of such stuff as this
does we'll to keep his name cou-
cealed. Unknown though he NAV
remain, it would surely have been
far better for him for his peace of
conscience and much better FOR his
candidate had the communication
been consigned to the ste-basket.
We do not, however, attach any
blame to the managers of the paper,
because We feel certain that a spirit
like this can find no response within
their breasts. Nor can we think
that it will find approval in any but
few moss-backs who may still
banker after the fesh-pots of old
Egypt and who would be content to
return to Anticipated desgetude.
The scri6bler fails woefully in bis
illustration, for, thank God, the DAYS
that were are no more. We should
be grateful that the times of scala
wags and carpet=baggers are of the
dead past-and we venture to guess
that this individual is one of those
who only "hearn tell of 'em," and
never experienced the fruits of those
villainous years. 1t is more than
probable, too, that he knows little
of the records and careers of some of
those whom he sets up as examples
and seeks to laud. His roll of
names is, In part at least, good
one, and we would not be 10th
| to see Lancaster in the hsnds of
this portion again, some of whom
are still among the living. In
formation fails to reveal, though
it may still be true, that LLOYD T.
Smith was elected by the liepubli-
cans as Commemorative Attorney.
We have always heard that he ran
as an independents Republican can
didate against Walter Gresham, the
Democratic nominee, aud that he
was defeated. We are Informed that
ne was appointed to the office at one
time because of vacancy. Our in.
formation also leads us to believe
that he was not born in Lancaster
county, but in Loudoun. fright
here we wish to say that this matter
of birthplace, having been used by
the Wdtchman's correspondent, we
merely aliude to it to show the ex-
tent of the consistency and fairness
that possesses his brain). AS to Jas.
L. Saunders Democratic and general
record, it is too we'll known to re-
hearse before the people of tals
county.
The bent Of the argument, though,
and the point we are aiming at is
the palpable dig at Mr.. Buck, the
Democratic nominee for Supervisor
in this district. MIR. Buck, like
many another good citizen of this
county, is Marylander. Neither
he nor any of the others, that
we can recall. are of the scala
wag description, or have the carpet-
Dagger blood within them. They
are good citizens who have cast
their lot with us, and good Dem |
ocrats at that. Aye, we recall
time not long since when Mr..
Buck and other good Democrats
stood loyal to native Lancastrian
for this same position when some
with views like "Subscriber" voted |
for a Republican, aud "Yankee~
at that, as they seem pleased to term
our Northern brethren.
This is day for progressive men.
not for laggards, and Lancaster |
should rejoice to be one of those
counties which are in the van.
Native talent has done much for
her, but who will deny that those
who were once strangers among us
have also done their part! The
couchant lance which has rusted
into rasping pen in the hands of
Subscriber" would stir us to war
on such men as Bellows, Squires.
w Wheaton,, Coulbourn, Tull, Gunby.
Messick, Ramps and many others
who are of Maryland or of the North;
on cameron, Newbill, Lee, Farinholt,
Ball, Pinckard-who are of our
Southern blood, but happen not to
have been born in Lancaster county.
A roll might be called and dozens
more added to this list, but this
Will suffice. To such benighted
minds as Subscriber" (thank God
hey are growing fewer) these men
re Foreigners" and should have no
,art with Us. /,
Pardon this dissertation from one
Who honors the good and useful
itizen and who felt it duty to notice
his narrow minded and contemuti-
lie thrust at go many of our best.
We hoped that this county had
rown so great and It's husbandry SO
early perfect that no co6dling moth
odld now be found to contaminate t
Is hfe-giVing sap with so insidious