The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-07-31
OFFiCEHOLDERS.

NAN''N 600 " l'ANNAfult DR. q ilht huhltlNi
90 the number of otliccholdcrs. During
the last wear 2i, 1si were added, costing
,ln, la6,UO and boz the last six years of
tne Republican administration the 10.
tai number of new offices created, aside
from many commissions, has been 800,
. BIO, entailing an additional expenditure
, of nearly ,7O.mOWO rs against only
lO21g new offices created under the
Cleveland and Mckinley administra-
. lion. which involved aud expenditure
of only .6.O0O.OOO We deuounce this
great aud growing increase To the
p number of onccholders as not only un-
necessary and wasteful, but also rs
clearly indicating deliberate purpose
on the part of the administration To
keep the Republican party in power,
|atpublic expense by thus increasing
the number of It's retalnerS aud Deepen
dents such procedure We declare To
be no less dangerous and corrupt than
/ the open purchase of votes at the polls.
From time 20 time we propose 10
give to our readers planks from the
/ Democratic platform that they may
read and iuwarily digest Rcpubl-
canism hopes To become selfperpet-
uatug hy having u army of officers
90 do ITS bidding The recent increase
i- alarming, and unless we "turn the
rascals out this time they may be
immo1ahlo for all time TO come. The
second time may bee converted into
pepctuiiv The present opportunity
lost may bee lost forever Democrats
f to thc rescue
Wewiil not agree that AN men are
lar-, bat we have no more hope Of
getting the truth. the whole truth and
nothing bat the truth ON the matter
of campaign contributions than that
the Republicans will ever revise the
tminm the interest Of the people.
since our contemporary has seen nt
90 refer to The Bee ~ "the afternoon
counterpart of the Dan,lle Register
we might with equal justice describe
90 ns the morning reproduction Of the
News Leader, without The editorial
ability of the News Leader. We have
recently been informed that the own.
en- of the lme,-Dispatch has acquired |
the News Leader. and we are fulther |
told t'ht newspaper monopoly exists /
BOO Richmond This has never been I
announced publicly, If it be true
Danvllle Register
This is news 10 us and We had 10 20
away from home 10 get il. Is there
mo- hope for the little fish? Are we to
have but one big paper in the country |
with Roosevelt as editor
"Once negro always Republi- |
cam is what the Richmond Evening /
journal has TO say ON the subject, and |
IL is The only sensible position To be |
had ON IT, We will not blame the ne /
gro for his choice. bat Virginia will /
expect the non-oilice holding white /
voters of the State 10 be rs true to De
mocracy AS the black man is To Re
publicanism. On this subject our
worthy contemporary adds.
For the time being the race question
is practically eliminated from Virginia
politics. bat the elimination is merely
temporary We are rapidly giving
the negro the book learning miscalled
education that will enable him to
qualify under the law as voter But /.
educated or uneducated, he will re-
main negro, and as such "a thorough
ly undesirable element i'm politics. i
Education viii not change his nature
or qualify INN TO take active part i'm
the government Of white men, nor will
white men permit him to do so. 1t
Is therefore, only matter of time
when IL Will be necessary To strength ]
en- the present suffrage laws and make
them more drastic and effective in the :
matter of eliminating the negro vote. 7
II Mr. Bryan's editor friends will
stop the all too free use Of butts and
'iis' he Will just as surely reach the ,
White House as time continues. v
A cartoon in the New Yo.k World =.
reminds as that four years Of Roose- a
welt cost the country 3,42s, OOO,OO0, and h
hen adds a perfectly corking time" a
Our brother of the Petersburg Index n
Appeal refers To new grammar "A
linotype grammar, solitary and alone,
grand, gloomy and fearless. And we Il
nave one too, and don't know what to il
lame il, bat that of the "Oilce devil" II
IL is said that the father Of Mr. !,
Kern was one of those "untelrGed" ~
Democrats who walked 10 miles after b
rundown over the mountains and a
Trough a snow storm To hear the re- u
ums from Cleveland first election. -,
Ne give our support to the "chip Of 81
he old block cl
Governor Swanson brings good news &C
rom the middle West. and that il is st
b be the battle ground i'm the present
rational fight is generally agreed al
he South and the middle West u
plendid combination. Let Wall II
ireei begin to tremble IN its boots
he hand writing is ON that Wall .
must 60 =.
We don't know anything about II ca
ne way or "tother," but if anybody IN
D Virginia received siO0O for secret W
2 working for the success Of the y"
epublican ticket i'm the State, il was -
kind of record breaker, and ia our u
linion The big bunch Of money was
ably invested
Mr. Roosevelt has done many wi