Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-07-31
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For the present. it is sufficient to say
that the editor of the Spectator, will
have placed in his hands, before his
next issue, all necessary information
as to who owns the stock of the News,
and controls its policy. In the mean
time may we ask, why did not the
Spectator in searching for railroad cor
pOratiOnS, forget to mention the Great
Southern Railway as one of the posi-
BILE owners of stock and controllers of
the News?
Why this discrimination against the
Great Southern Railway corporation ?
News.
To this the SPECTATOR in part re-
piled:
To have asked such question would
have been to write ourselves a fool.
The Southern don't run through this
territory. 1t possibly finds its hands
full bulldozing its employees, creating
gold sentiment and subOrning the press
along its lines, and then too we doubt
whether it ever heard of the News.
Why does the News take week to an
swer a question that can be answered
by yes, or no?
September 80, 1896 the SPECTATOR
said:
| The News prints the names of Pal
mer and Buckner as it's candidates, but
we cannot tell from anything we find
there, whether these candidates are the
nominees of any party, or whether the
| News found them somewhere and put
them at it's mast head as the candidates
of the News regardless of party.
October %, 1896 the SPECTATOR said
The News in its issue of yesterday
morning gives an estimate of the free
silver crowds of Monday, The editor
of the News chose an unfortunate To-
cality for counting democrats. He
stood in the republican headquarters,
and was assisted by that able calcula-
tor, Mr.. Noon, and the people do say
seemed so much afraid he would be
seen in such company that he was
| afraid to put his head out far enough
to view more than half the procession.
The other part he took Mr.. Noon s
| word for.
After the election was over, in COM
menting on the influences which
brought about the results, the SPEC
TATOR ON Nov. 4, in part said
But there was one feature of this cam
paign which did send thrill of sad
ness through the democrats of Virgin
| ia, and which has left deep and last
ing trace. We allude to that element
only in Virginia which assumed our
name, but were spies from the camp OF
the enemy. We had never thought the
men who perpetrated that fraud capa-
| BILE of deception, nor did we think true
| Virginians capable of groveling in such
political filth. 1t is those men of whom
we complain, who turned upon their
people and friends, and like Malone
whilst declaring themselves ''better
democrats than Ben Hill,n have made
negro domination in this State again
possible, and attempted the assasaina-
| ton of the democratic party. Had this
been done as honesty would have die
tated, by an open fight made by enter
| ing in at the straight gate Of the repub-
lican household, we would have made
no complaint how deep SO ever our re-
| greet, but he who entereth not in at the
straight gate, but climbeth up some
other way, the same is thief and q
| robber
We are now informed that our friend
the editor of the Dispatch and News
had nothing to do with the News in
1896, and all the editorials we thought
he penned were the scin tillations of oul
friend r. H. Martin. We will apollo
gise for everything we have said ugly
about them, but to the day of our death
will wonder how we were ever so mis-
taken.