Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-10-21
EIeCtion--TueSday, Nov. s. 1904.
ROOSEVELT AND THE DUNKARDS.

The Old Dominion Sun is heroic 10
to the last though deeply panied that
the Democrats should remind DUNK
ards and Quakers of language In
which they are gratuitOusly lnsulted.
1t is now endeavoring to prove that
the Dunkards have nothing to resent
but have since grown more fond OF
Roosevelt Oh account of his uncalled-
for and unmerited assault upon them
as citizens than ever before. Now
Mr.. Roosevelt referring to them and
the Quakers did say this-and 1t VIII
be found in bis book entitled "Thom-
as H. Benton on page 81:
"A class of professional nOn-combat'
ants is as hurtful to the real healthy
growth OF a nation as Is class OF IRE
ea tiers, for weakness or folly is ma
tionally as bad as vice or worse, and
in the long rum Quaker may be quite
as undesirable citizen as is duellst.
No man who is not willing TO pear
arms and to fight for his rights can
give good reason why be should be
entitled to the privilege OF living IN
free community"
To prove its proposition in the face
of the above language wherein they
are depicted as worse than 'fire-eat
ers" or "duelists," the Sun goes to
some remote corner of Indiana and
procures "a letter. purporting to have
been written to one w. j, Showalter
n 4 a,
it. Here is the missive:
"Cappa, Ind, Sept. 10, 1904.
wv. ]. ShoWalter, Washington, ID. @
Dear SHIN reply to yours of Sep
TENDER 18th, concerning Presiden
Rooseyelt's attitude toward those VIII
do not believe in war. | will say tina
while your statement may be correct
| question it. Even if the presiden
is "a war-like man, as you say, and
elecJing him We should be thrown int
war, | would say that we can stan
war, famine, pestilence, fleas, flies
flood, frogs, and all the other plague
of Pharaoh, but oh! / pray you, do no
give us another Cleveland. w
couldn't stand another of his admins
Iratlons, and that is what We wOul
get from Parker. You have thanke
me in advance for the names of man
brethren. l will do you a greater fs
vor than you asked. | will not sen
them. Their reply to you would be i
substance the same as mine, but the
might not take the care to expires
themselves pleasantly. Like me, the
are for Roosevelt. Their minds al
made up"
After such timely and concluslN
evidence as letter from an unname
Indiana "Pharaoh'' who for all "
know, may run gambling den or
liqnor joint, and may actually live &
he seems to prefer to do, in the con
pany of "fleas, flies, flood and frogs
The Sun remarks:
I'VE commend this letter to the a
tention of our neighbor of the Specti
tor. who has recently devoted some a
tentlon to this phase of the pendln
election and in his usually luried styl
painted Mr.. Roosevelt as terror
one of the most orderly, cOnserVatiV
intelligent and prosperous elements
Virginia communities.
When our esteemed contempOral
commends campaign literature to u
will it not be so good as to give I'll
author name or cOnfine itself to cor
munications which have been receive
by it and thus bear its Endorsement
evidence on which a sheep killing d.
might be hanged, and not evidence
the "lleas, flies, flood and frog" vari
ty, which for all we know may con
from the most instantaneous, capabl
accomplished, and cheerful liar in s
HoOsierdom.