Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-07-07
Communlcated.)
MONTAGUE AT HEATHSVILLE.

"oush the weather was hot al
deathsyllle ON court day, the Gov
ernor felt quite a frost. He eyi.
IDENTIFY realized that he was in a Sec
ton decidedly unfayorable to his
aspirations. Ii he had come simplv
as the Governor of great State, he
would have been accorded an en,hu-
slastic reception; but coming as a
chronic office-seeker, endeavoring to
displace tried and true public SER
want, the people sized him up at his
true value and gave him a respectful
hearing with very little enthusiasm.
To a man so accustomed to play
ing to the galleries, the unrespon-
siveness of the crowd apparently
caused cold shivers to chase each
other up and down his back, and
finally the shivers showed them
selves in his speech. At times, after
making a great bid for applause,
and failing to get it, he halted and
stammered and appeared ratified.
The fame of his oratory has been
spread broadcast over the land and
the people were expecting some
thing fine, but they We're doomed to
disappointment. They had heard
better speeches at every public meet
ing they ever attended, and this time
were disgusted.
But then, opinions differ. The
News says: ga more modest and
engaging presentation of personal
claims never fell from
the lips of candidate. =
There was no personal attack upon
the Junior Senator
1t ought to be interesting reading
to have a definition of what the
News understands to be "personal
attack"
The Governors address was sub
stantially the same as the published
speeches delivered at other places,
and as the Times Dispatch has never
been accused of being over-friendly
to Martin, it is rather hard on that
paper to have its reports declared
"garbled accounts and distorted mis-
representations"
1t used to be saying among The
Rebublicans just before election that
there was zone more President in
the Bloody Shirt" and they waved
it for all it was worth. The Gov.
ernor, having realized the benefits
of abusing Martin in getting his
present position, evidently thinks
there is zone more Office in fighting
Martin" and spends the time for
which the people pay him So, 900
year in raising the black flag and
fighting manfully-with his mouth.
1t was spectacle for the gods to
weep over to see the Governor of the
Commonwealth trying to make polit-
ical capital by "criticising" Senator
Martin. He endeavored to show,
first, that the "Junior Senator" had
never done anything worth mention
ing; and second, that what he had
done was wrong; and third, that if
he had done anything not included
in these two classes the credit for so
doing belonged to other people. He
claimed that Martin had never made
speech upon any public question
until forced to do so.
The Governor seemed to think
that this omission was an awful
crime. But to most people the fail
ure to utilize every opportunity for
elaborate "wind- jamming" will be
considered more of virtue than a
fault There are too many wind
TANNERS already, from the Gov
ernor down, who are only too ready
to make spread eagle speeches upon
the slightest pretext.
He deplored the low plane to
which the Senate had fallen, and
endeavored to instil into the minds OF
his hearers the idea that if he were
elected to a seat In the Senate
the tone of that body would be i'm
measurably heightened = that he
should sitze that low down, son.
cry" Senate by the scruff of its
neck and the seat of its trousers and
fling it to such high plane that
the jump of the COW over the moon
would be nothing to it. The thought
which appeared to be rampant in
his mind seemed to be that "he wa:
the 'b'hoY' to measure up to the high
standard of Epps Hunton and the
Others who had so honorably repre-.
sented Virginia in the past"
He seemed to be trying to convey
the idea, without openly saying so
that he was about the only man in
the State who had the necessary
craftsmanship and ability to fill the