Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-11-08
ALL KNoukING The EXPOSITION.

1t is now stated that President
Roosevelt is angered because the Board
of Directors of the Jamestown EXPOSE
ton refused to return Mr.. j. M. Barr
to bis position of Director General
after his resignation, in order to please
Secretary Cortelyou. We had heard
that Cortslyou wanted to dictate the
action of the Beard, but that the Board
would not be dictated 10. and chose
one of it's mem bers, Mr.. Alva q. Mar
tin. We do not suppose at this late
day it makes very much difference who
is pleased and who is not pleased at the
action Of the jamestown authorities
Every body who could has knocked
1t. The railroads butchered it Is far as
they could. Old Joe Cannon tried his
best to Kill it, and now comes COrtel-
you, and We hear the President. 30
FAR as we are concerned we state boldly
and without the fear of successful
contradiction. that had the Jamestown
Exposition been North of Mason and
Dixon g line and had it been writing un
truthful instead of truthful history, it
would have received the cordial and we
think the fulsome support of all the
forces which have been allied against
it. Had it been an effort to tell that
this country owed its first civilized set
Element of English speaking people to
the Puritans who landed on the coast
of Massachusetts, instead of tue Cav
alters who settled at jamestown, the
very opposing forces would have fall
en- over themselves to help put the lie
10 lmperishable granite. But the
jamestown Exposition was on South
ern soil, on Virginia soil. and there lay
have been hostile to it as they seem 70
be TO every Virginia enterprise. Their
efforts are to carry people away from
Virginia instead of bring them in,
and to build up every other section but
the one through which they pass. Tie
Speaker Of the House fought James
town with desperation. The President
lent seeming aid, but those behind him
have had no heart In it. and that rem
egade Virgnian, Bob Evans, was as
bitter as worm wood. Then COrtelyOu
undertook to take the gate receipts or
dictate who should run the business
end of it. When this government gives
Wall Street Hundreds of millions of
dollars to use to prevent their property
from going to the demnitlOn bow
vows, and from which the Captains of
Industry can make millions in a few
days, it causes no tears with us to see
the niggardly one million lent the
jamestown Exposition in danger, in
deed we would shed no tears if Uncle
Sam lost every penny of it. 1t is the
first million he has ever given or even
lent any Southern enterprise whilst
Philadelphia. Chicago. Buffalo, st.
Louis. and probably other such expo
sitions, have gotten far LII ore in each
instance. We do not want the gov
eminent nor any one else to lose any
money at Jamestown, out We know
there will be some lost there and We
know of no one more able than Uncle
Sam, and we know that he gathers
more from the South, in proportion.
than any part of the United States,
and spends less down here. We are
sorry, however, that Mr.. CortelyOu
should be offended, aud as reflection
of that cffense that the President
should be. Cortryou is 80 dear to
Southern people they ougot to get down
on their knees before him, they do so
love renegade politicians in these
parts.