The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-11

| It's correspondents. These writers are
| usually given first place as leaders, while
| the modest editor appears In briefer space
| below them as second fiddle. The follow
| Ing excerpt will give better than any
| words of mine the state of the public
mind of Virginia preceding tho angry
contest which resulted In the election OF
Andrew jackson to the presidency:
$50 deeply are we impressed with the
Importance of removing the angry dscord
| that prevails, that, In our humble
thoughts. not only political men and poll
teal nssemblages OF men should have 1t
| in view, but, above all men. we should
| suppose, It would most properly become
tho province OF those plus and holy
men, whose sable cloth betokens they
are not Intermediates with the things of
this world, and that theirs is n graver,
moro dignifled and an evangelical pur-
pose. Yes, we would shy to them, almost
as the only hope by which 1t can be
effected--Abstain. fly from political meet
ings! At your desk or in your pulpit.
or wherever else you may erect your
altar of devotion, offer prayers in all the
fervour Of your love for piety. that this
incorporate zeal of your fellow-citizens
may abate! Redouble your efforts in
public and In private In praying to our
God that this political animoslty may
be buried and no more heard OF In the
land, and that such feelings may give
! place to those that will make all the ways
of our people ways of peace, of harmony
and concord"
In this connection the communicate
gives the text of n resolution adopted
mt Jackson meeting In Middlesex coun-
ty, which expresses the patriotic sense
of Madison and Monroe, who subsequently
declined to serve as electors on Che
Adams ticket. This resolution should
be committed to memory by all whose
party zeal outweighs their sober judg-
ment:
Resolved. That It be recommended to
the friends OF General Jackson to be
firm. but mild-to look upon the intem-
perate course of their opponents with the
eye of reason and philosophy.
Editor in Best Sense.
M Mr. ba Ritche was, think sfor in
choose" says wit, ito represent the
bS Of dsren she g aSlss c HRSn
some triangular. some square. some
16blolngaand the persons acting these parts
shall generally find that the triangular
person has got into the square hole, the
oblong into the the triangular, and a
the round hole. The officer and the office,
the doet ana the thing done seldom ,yon
made for each other"
But the Office and the officer, the thing
Ia be done, and the doer of II do fit at
times so exactly as TO justify our belier
thai Editor Richie was designed for the
Enquirer and the Enquirer for Editor
Richie. He was a square person, who
had not TO squeeze himself or TO be
squeezed by others into hole united TO
receive him. Had Philosopher Square.
that eminent judge OF the fitness of
things-lived in the stormy days OF the
younger Adams. particularly during his
second canditure for the Presidency, and
known Thomas Richie as intimately as
any one OF his friendly contemporaries,
II ewould have remarked. how admirably
the office fits the man. the man the of
flee,
Enquirer among the rank and hle of the
Democratic army, and so misapprehensive
of its utterances had many of them be-
come as to declare openly, when an occa-
sion suited, that all honest people were
Democrats, and none but Democrats We're
fitted 10 administer the affairs of State.
Persons were seen here or there who knew
each others politics by such infalible
signs as the cut of ones coat. the tones
of ones voice, the expression of ones
eye. These unlettered wiseacres 1t should
be said. rarely mistook a hawk for a
handsS,w, Tuckahoe for n Cohee. a