Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-07-24
THE MARCH OF TIME.

Some talk is INDUCED in about pill
yrimages to the Hot Springs, to wor-
ship at the shrine erected there. In
1896 VIM. Mckinley set up a shrine at
Canton, Ohio, and the grass was well
worn in his front yard by worshippers.
A Confederate" column was taken
from Rockingham to Canton, we are
told, by the Rev. Funkhouser, to bend
the pregnant knee The spuriousness
of that Confederate soldier business
was disclosed at the time, but that it
was hoax made no difference with
the press. Now in this year of 1908
another campaign of visiting delega-
tions is to be waged, and in a little
while the mecca will be shifted from
Hot Springs to the home of "Brother
Charlie" Taft in Cincinnati. We may
expect special trains to pass soon
Bands will toot largely on the arrival
of visiting delegations. The moving
picture shows will soon give the march
of Taft clubs in front of Brother Char
lies house. The Honorable William
L. will be shown in full size as he steps
forward to grasp the hand of some Col.
Marshall Richard, President of the
Republican club of Virginia, composed
entirely of democrats, himself new
convert. Lily Whites will rush in to
assure Mr.. Taft that the ''Solid South"
will now go for him. Georgia will
greet him with the same warm hand
shake she gave Bill Sherman when she
rushed to his aid and fed his army, in
stead of starving it, as any other South
ern State would have done. All the
little jack leg corporations in the South
will choose representatives to go there
to show their devotion to Taft and Re-
publican principles. Jacob Wheelbar-
ger will display his lacerated hand
caught in the cogwheels of factory
built, run and made possible, only by
protection. Gustav Poliski will inform
MI. Taft that he represents two million
of his countrymen in the United States
who are now naturalized, and he feels
certain can be made to understand that
they will be sent back to Siberia unless
they vote for 'that CRATE man, vich
Miester Rosenfelt hav Civ tn de pee
bles." The Reverend Remus Silver
spoon will march at the head of his en-
tire congregation followed by little
Nancy Black bearing bouquet to
Mr.. Taft, plucked from the vines over
hanging the large and imposing CHURCH
of the Rev. Remus at Darkville, grown
and brought especially for the occasion,
which bouquet will be handed over so
soon as the Reverend has informed Mr..
Taft that Darkville and Brownsville
are different places, that the colored
vote at Darkville will certainly support
him, provided he will promise to pen
sion all INDECENT members of the race,
which Mr.. Taft or his campaign mana
gers will of course promise to do. Then
little Nancy will spell for Mr.. Taft,
and the difficult words 'Foraker," and
"Bosscox," and "Williamjennings-
BRYAN" will be correctly rendered.
There will also be delegations from
Stanton, provided somebody puts up
the necessary dough. Our Taft admir-
ers will be there under such circum-
stances. 1t is to be noticed, however,
that the sumptuous 'free trains," such
as ran to Canton in the Mckinley CAM
paigns, will not speed to Cincinnati.
That pleasure will be denied this year
and thus we fear that even our courtly
and courteous U. S. officials who have
done so much to carry out Roosevelt
ideas, may not visit Cincinnati and
march by Brother Charles house as
often as desired. 1t is planned, we
hear, to have all the U. S. Marshals
meet at one time in Cincinnati and
pass in grand review, and what grand
sight it will be. Then all the first
class Postmasters are to assemble and
show what a first-class bunch they are.
Then will come the deputy marshals,
and the deputy postmasters, and the
small salaried Officials, and the shout
ers and the heelers The ''outs" and
sins" are not, however, to be there at
the same time lest there be trouble.
But during the campaign the plate
glass in Brother Charles house will
reflect many faces. The negroes will
be ever present. They are to be sand
wiehed into every parade-lily white
or no lily white-it is the design to i'm
press on them and on the country that
Mr.. Taft is more their friend than
Abraham Lincoln. The important
fact will be forced into the negro that
Mr.. Lincoln is dead, but that Mr.. Taft
is alive
What happy and inspiring summer
we would have if only the railroads
could carry them all free, and the cor
porations could contribute of the stock
holders money to pay the dancers and
the piper. But unfortunately things
have changed, and with them will
come change in the administration.
Those who control the government can
name candidate. but it takes the peo-
pie to elect him. Office-holders march
and shout with marching delegations,
the people do the voting Time has
been marching also.