The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-01
THE co1oNEI. III THE SiNru.

Times. Dispatch. more in sorrow than
with much gusto bitter editorial
article from the New York Even
ing Post against Roosevelt" 1t would
be more correct If the esteemed Times
be noted here that The Times-Dis-
patch did not print all of the Evening
Posts article but only part OF 1t.
Our Roanoke friend and fellow sup
porter of Henry Stuart for Congress
in the Ninth District, explains that
"the Colonel and the Post are old
enemies" and that away hack yonder
when the Colonel was Governor of
New York he was sitting before his
tent one afternoon, being on hike
with a National Guard cavalry troop
and prepared 10 give his daily audi
ence to the reporters We would
gamble few smoleons that he gave
a daily audience to the reporters; but
this is only by the way. The Times
continues its story of how the Colonel
and the Post came to be estranged
thus;
! From the group advanced soulful
and solemn young journalistic genius
I with newspaper in his hand. who be-
| gan timidly:
Governor, 1 see the New York
| Evening Post
ITO Ill with the New York Even
ling Post!' exploded the Colonel. Then
| he snapped:
| But you needn't print that
!! Nobody did print ii because all the
| reporters wanted to keep along with
| the hike; but the sincerity of the
4 colonels feeling toward the Post as
| all doubt. He Is a man not much
given to profanity, and when he slips
into 1t the depth OF his meaning IS
unauestionablc
! Just so. That is about what one
would have expected brave old Ben
| Tillman to have said--'to hell with the
New York Evening Post for that is
4 what old Ben used 10 say about the
| Greenville News in the parlous times
editor OF the Roanoke paper bore a
| conspicuous part for docencN in Gov
eminent. 1t is practically what jim,
| Corbett told John sullivan when he
tried to get into the Jetfries camp be-
fore the fight at Reno 1t is what any
\ other man with the same sort of man
/ ners could have said and would have
| said possibly, in the circumstances.
! 1t is, in fact, what we have said at
times about the Post into ourselves
and always with the knowledge that
we needn't print that
Immediately following the correc-
tive blow administered to The Times
Dispatch for printing the article. or a
part of the article. of the Evening
Post our Roanoke contemporary makes
| this statements:
Has anybody reading Colonel Roosc-
| velts speeches noted anywhere any
advice to anybody to vote for 'epub-
| ican nominees or candidates for con-
gress? We observe he&said that when
\ q crook developed in his own party he
! was rather more interested in huntr
| ing that crook out OF public life than
! II lie belonged TO some other party.
/ Also ne mas mad. ,tnlnSS TO SttS sitpOlit
oyerthrowing bosses and about the
| real principles of democracy; but never
yet has he lined himself up with the
Republican organization anywhere.
| The thing is becoming so pointed that
ireally 1t will be noticed presently.
The Roanoke paper has probably
noted that the Colonel has accepted
an invitation to maNe speech at
i Bristol In the interest of Bascon
4 Slemp, the Republican candidate fol-
/ Congress in the Ninth District. This
fact Is so apointedi that really we. have
8lmoticed 1t all along. We are not GO
! ing to say ito hell with anybody
because that Is not polite form OF
speech; but 1t Is probably worth while
thinking about that the more tbs
greatness and courage and impecea'
llbility of the Colonel is exalted BY the
leading newspaper OF those that arr
/ supporting Henry Stuart, the moro
likely that the Colonel's speech FOL
4 Slemp will hurt stuart, SnDe?
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DETTER ROADS IN ORANGE.
/ one OF tho most important goo'
roads meetings OF the year will b
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