The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-10

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Sir,-I do not believe there is any |
man in Virginia who reads your edi-
torials with more real pleasure, profit |
and information than do, and expect
to continue to do; but for goodness
sake let up on the Colonel, If you will
allow me, say, % the Colonel!
There is nothing in him" Boost your
own man for the next President, any
good, true Democrat, and we VIII prom
Use you to rally around him. In COM
mon parlance, sell your own goods, for
the other fellow is ION his Job" al
ways. TRAVELLING MAN.
Richmond, November 5.
This is an interesting letter, con-
tanning as it does statement showing
the very good taste of the writer in
the choice of his editorial meat. a
rather heated expression of his dislike
of the person to whom he makes pro-
fame allusion. and very good counsel
as to the. course that should be followed
in our future political activities: for
all of which we thank him sincerely
.in the abundance OF counsel there is
wisdom
and commentary will be pardoned, we
trust, in view Of the extraordinary de-
mands that have been made upon the
patience and good intentions of those
who are supposed to keep the public
advised of passing but persistins
events Just as we would have been
expected to present from day to day
the facts about the progress of great
plague of smallpox or cholera or yell
low fever. have we been impelled TO
keep the public Informed of the great
est danger that has ever menaced the
safety of our institutions. We have
| always "let up on this individual
| that is to say, that the thoughts that
have breathed and the words that have
| burned within us have never been eX-
pressed, seeing that it would have been
altogether inconsistent with the usages
.Eof polite debate, and wicked, besides,
to have INDUCED in the formula adopt
4 ed by our correspondent: Damn Inc
4 Colonel We don't want him to be
with all our heart that he might be
saved. Moreover, we have never been
! deceived by the idea that there was
lsI"nothing in him; we have been moved
: only by the wish that enough NIGH
: be taken out of him to make him al
> the better and useful citizen, and i
would seem that our efforts in this re
gard have not been altogether withou
. success although, as travelling Man
. will agree, the scotched snake is no
: always dead.
: A word of explanation: We real!,
: did not want to do it; there are s.
!, many more interesting subjects--th
new settling basin, in which. with tn
: aid of alum and other things. possibly
/. the water Of the imperial James !
> made clear as crystal; the progress Q
= the great cause of Woman Suffrage
. the superiority of the Smithtield Ham
the suppression Of the automobiles
r who think they are having goo
$ time when they are running over OWE
- people, the proper EuIcaS ~ ittS'i
> evening, morning and midday funt
,f tons; the bona hdes of the Mecklef
y burg Declaration of independence, an
ii thousand other topics of large III
= man interest Every other newspapt
lie In the country, particularly in the grei
Of cities, and every magazine has devote
ty a great deal more space to this sup5e
er than we--columns upon columns, pas
~ upon pages, volumes upon volumes
N and when we have read them and re;
a what he had TO say all the way fro
he Mombasa TO oyster Bay, we have Wo
I'D dered at the little attention we ma
at given TO the most important figure
b. the worlds history since Moses start
out to lead the Children Of Israel Q
;, of the land of Egypt.
we shall not do 1t again. we do II
1y think 1t will be necessary Damn !
-. colonel?' Never, How could weg 5
y, what he has done for the countl
N But for him the United states wol
We have remained in the hands Of the i
M ipubicans for yet another decade
,ut least
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