Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1901-11-22
THEY DO NOT REJOICE.

1t leaks out that the appointment OF
Mr.. Henry Clay Mcdowell to fill the
vaca, U. s. Judgship caused by the
deatl of Judge Paul. has not given
great number of our Republican
friends unbounded joy. Just who
woula have filled the position to their
satisfaction has not TRANSFERRED, in fact
no two seem agreed on the person who
would have entirely filled the bill, but
it is certain that Mr.. Mcdowell is not
that man. Now they assert that be is
really not Virginian, that he lives so
close TO the line be has been as much
out Of the State as in it, that he is
lawyer in a small county where big
men would hardly stay, that he knows
conn aratively few men in Virginia
beyond his immediate neighborhood,
and could not in that remote quarter
have nad legal experience OF such va
ried lind as is calculated to round him
for t multitude of ponderous ques'
ton. which must daily come to the
after ION of judge, and therefore
will lake many costly errors, before
he b ZONES used to the load he will
hav o bear, no matter what his ca
pac Y. They say further that there
was political reason which demand
ed n an appointment, that the par
ty il irginla was not strengthened
the, y, nor were the political ambi-
tom Mr.. Roosevelt. AS strange as
it IL seem, few of them, say our in
forl mt, ever knew that any Mr..
Hen, Clay Mcdowell lived, much
less mat he lived in Virginia. and
tina, nis name suddenly appearing on
the political horizon, was as great a
surpl lse as the appearance of a comet
to the ancients.
W. readily confess our sympathy
for our Republican friends Many of
the old time leaders must have been
sorely tried by this affection. Many
won : have served their country in
this apacity, and many feel that it is
uni, st to those who have borne the
heal and burden of the day, laboring
in the vineyard from early morn, to
reward with all the wages those who
have worked so little, Oh for so short a
time, and give the faithful nothing.
But our friends must grid themselves
for more and deeper affections. The
lord of the vineyard hath many in
store Ior them. They have read, Or
heal if they cannot read, how those
who humble themselves shall be exalt-
ed. Possibly there are many who will
be e. allied, but there are vaster num-
Der Who will be humbled. The lord of
the lneyard will surely do with his,
whaa seems to him best, or as suits bis
Owl sweet will, and be will also reaffirm
the ooctrine of the first being last, and
the last being first. There is a tenn
pestuous sea awaiting many of our
Republican friends, who are out in
sailing crafts, seeking anything that
flo air ON the political waves. 1t will
be Il ssed, and will toss them, as few
poll, cal seas have been tossed by this
boreas out of the north, who from the
caverns of his unfathomable mind
sen ds forth gentle zephyrs or hurri-
canes. But there is one thing the
politician must, and we suppose will
do, indeed there is one thing he must
do if ne expects to live through the
storm, and that is, he must bow his
head humbly before the powers that
be, L must kiss the rod, eat crow, and
be good. He must smile and look
pleas ed, he must laud the work of his
master no matter whether he likes it
or not, he must sing praises. he must
lift up his voice in adulation, and fol-
low in his footsteps even though it be
to mixing their dinners. 1t is humili
atiDg, we know, it appeals to our SYM
paties, we feel sorry that it is so, but
they who serve as vassals to this polit-
ical King, have sold themselves to a
h alo master, that is if they be white.