The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-02

as responsible, in II measure, Tor tho
sepnrate creation of that State; but
the honors which come to him at this
time come not from Virginia. lie was
not virgininn, and he was not Gov
ernor of Virginia
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"PI.ANTATTON MANNERS" IN NEW
YORK.
Various comment has been made by
the newspapers and others on the Gay
nor incident at the Press banquet IN
New York last week. Nobody seems
to sympathiae with Hearst, but many
are inclined to criticize Gaynor for
abusing one of his host while accept
ing his hospitality. That is an old
fashioned idea of the proprieties FOR
these wool-hat times; but 1T must be
said, as we have tried to say 1t, that
however Mayor Gaynor may have
violated any of the standards of good
company by his speech, Mr.. Hearst's
man was far more at fault in attempt
ing to resent at the time the Mayors
breach of good manners.
Some propositions are so evident
that they do not require demonstration
and need not be discussed: but Alfred
Williams, of the Roanoke Times, ought
to be set straight on one interesting
point touching this affair. He says,
says he:
Suppose in some Southern city,
Roanoke let us say, public dinner
was being given with several hundred
strangers present, including number
of New York newspaper editors and
reporters Suppose Mayor Clutch n.
being scheduled for n speech, should
use the opportunity to ventilate a
quarrel he had with some local news
paper and denounce its editor as a
forger. suppose then the representa-
tive of that newspaper should climb
on the table and shake his fist, or
finger, in the Mayors revered coun-
tenance and insist on speaking against
tho protests of the company. Wouldn't
the New York editors and newspapers
have a whole lot to say of our plan
tation and backwoods manners and
way of doing things? Wouldn't they
write a lot of funny stories about 1t
and picture US as hayseeds and yokels
and talk of our eccentricities and Pc
culiar customs?'
Surely they would; but Brother Will
liams has evidently overlooked one
very important fact-the dinner was
given in New York, but 1t was not a
New York dinner, very large ma
iority of the persons present, and
those, in fact, who made most of the
row, being from the country dees-
tricks" so to say We have a very
from the town of Boston, the properest
| place IN the world, who was most
| active in his vociferation against the
Hearst man when he began to behave
so badly, and all over the dining room
the newspaper men who raised Cain"
were evidently from the provinces,
even to the single instance that APP
peared in bob tailed suit of plum
colored cashmere AS matter OF fact,
the one man among the bystanders
who appeared to think that the
demonstration was disgraceful was
the owner of the New York Times.
! Adolph Ochs, and 1t was his voice that
finally subdued the tumult. 1t is true
enough to have forgotten his Southern
manners: but he is Just the same, as
much a part of New York now as any
of the Knickerbockers and he was
the one man, saving Major Stahlmann,
of Nashville, and d. A. Tompkins, Of
Charlotte, out of the four hundred
countrymen present who sought to
quiet the disturbance. and we submit,
in the circumstances. that the New
York editors and reporters We're not
wholly, or in any large part, to blame
for the rucus The dinner was in no
sense a New York dinner, except that
it was given in that town New York
has sins enough of its own to answer
for without sadding upon it the Of
fences of the newspaper men of the
rest of the country.
Besides, both Brother Williams and
we have a very lively recollection Of
a far better man than Gaynor can cvel
hope to be. and that, too, when there
| was not a New York editor or re.
porter anywhere in sight. Moreover
men do not forget their habits simply
! on passing visit TO the Metropolis
Yet. again. it is impossible to imagine
that Mayor Cutchn would do what
Mayor Gaynor did, in the circum
stances, and the Roanoke editors anc
reporters know better, not than thu
New York newspaper folk. most o
whom really started in the country
but than the newspaper men wh'
gave the dinner in New York. BY wa.
of explanation, it should be sail
probably, mat great many person
leave their manners at home whel
they go to New York
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READING THE WEEKLlES:
The Buena Vista Times thinks Their
is much more good roads talk in til
papers than we have observed, an
asks whether we read our county ex
| changes as they coma in n find on