Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1905-08-11
A CENT ABOVE A SENTIMENT.

A CENT ABOVE A SENTIMENT.
We give below some comments on
Senator Martins business methods
from leading newspapers. We regret
that our space prevents more liberal
quotations. In the Richmond Times.
Dispatch of August 1st appeared the
following:
In his speech at Newport News on
the night OF July ed, Senator Martin,
according to the published report,
said: MY competitor says that II
appropriation is all we want, we had
better send a Republican to the Sen
ate. | would hardly have expected
such an argument from man who has
held Office under the Democratic party
since the time he left his mother 3
arms.
Il believe that southern statesmen
have spent too much time in talking
about sentiment and the Constitution.
Sentiment will not provide food for
your family or ralment for your wife
and children. / have tried to get for
Virginia part of what is going"
That part of the senator's remarks
escaped our attention at the time, or
we should have expressed our earnest
dissent and protest.
Sentiment may not provide food and
raiment for the body, but it is as the
bread of life to the soul and it's god
like ornamentatiOn.
We do not ignore the practical part.
No mt fn rrnf nc fnu va
is entitled to get, and we have COM
mended Senator Martin for the practl-.
cal work he has done. But if apprO.
priatiOns are to be had at the expense
of that sentiment which exalteth a
people. whatever is gained will be but
to make us poor. indeed"
The Raleigh. N. c., News and OBJ
server says:
Within the past week two United
States senators from the South have
made public declarations that must
shock every high minded man who
puts principle above appropriations.
In recent speech at Newport News
Senator Martin of Virginia, gave his
political creed as to what senator
should do in this brief paragraph: II
UolIcNc uudU Ii DuuUCouOh h"vO
spent too much time in talking about
sentiment and the Constitution. Sen
timent will not provide food for your
family or raiment for your wife and
children. | have tried to get for Vir
ginia part of what is going"
And that commercialIsm of the low
est order comes from senator from
the Commonwealth of Virginia, State
that has won imperishable glory be-
cause it's statesmen have been teachers
of sound governmental principles,
rather than devOting themselves Ito
get Virginia part of what is going. !"
Can the widest stretch of imagination
contemplate Washington, Jefferson.
Madison, Monroe, Mason, or Lee,
sneering at the craftsmanship that is
''talking about sentiment and the
Constitution ~ aud declaring that
these things Twill not provide food
for your family OF raiment for your
wife and children
The Montgomery, Ala, Advertiser :
1t is somewhat discouraging to hear
a Southern statesman like Senator
Martin of Virginia. saying, as the
Norfolk Landmark quotes from re-
C6ub spctCH III bHc VI db NOW
port News:
II believe that Southern statesmen
have spent too much time in talking
about sentiment and the Constitution.
Sentiment will not provide food for
your family or raiment for your wife
and children. l have tried to get for
Virginia part of what is gOing.'
That is tantamOunt to saying that
the Southern statesmen should discard
all sentimental regard for the Consti-
tuition and get for their States "a part
of what is going" In other words, get
your share without regard to the
method of getting it. Tillman put the
same idea IN more bluntly brutal
manner, but it means the same thing.
That speech so severely criticised
shows Mr.. Martins idea of statesman
ship. He says elect me BECAUSE:
1 secured large appropriations;
L secured positions for friends;
I answered letters;
l visited the departments;
[ secured 81 200, 900 for Virginia.
I did not waste time in speech max
ing;
l attended to business;
I got cannon for the Richmond
Howitzers;
cut it down with my little Ratchet.
Senator Daniel and the ten Virginia
Congressman were entirely relieved of
work or responsibility;
did it all, and 1t was all CONNER
cial.