Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-03-24
EDITORIAL JorrINcs

Already the Missouri mule is bein
talked about, but it Is to be hope,
that it will not become necessary t
refer to embalmed beef.-Norfoll
Landmark.
VIM. J. Bryan says that the new
papers of this country are too sensa
tional. If any one of them is NOR
sensational than Mr.. Bryan has beer
in his career, we have failed to see it,
| Newport News Times Herald.
The sober second thought is not al
ways the best. E. g.: BaiIey's resig
nation and cancellation.-Norf Wiz
ginian-Pilot.
Few states. if any, will land tire,
such important chairmanships in tn,
house rs will fall to Virginia. Hay
gets military affairs, Jones insular af
fairs, and Flood foreign affairs. Ths
State will once more be in a com
handing position in the national con.
gress, which cannot fail to be pleasing
to every NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Free Lance.
If Bailey made his bluff in order to
get an estimate of the press OF the
value of his services to his state and
country, he got it. If a single news
paper has expressed regret at his pro-
posed voluntary retirement, we have
failed to discover it. About the most
charitable comment has come from
the Commoner, that organ of the Bry-
anistlc creed for which the Senator
from Texas expresses such contempt.
Roanoke World.
The prosecuting attorney has re-
quested that the retrial of Mrs. Schenk
of Wheeling, w. Va, be postponed.
Probably thought the country too
much interested in other things to de-
vote much attention to it.-Norfolk
Landmark.
Reno, New, wants to have six
months residence as time limit for
divorces in that state. Long enough
and punishment sufficient for any
one who PUSHES blindly into matri-
mOny.-Richmond Journal.
Certainly the people of the State
will have cause for surprise, should
Tazewell, one of the wealthiest and
most progressive of Virginia counties,
fail to endorse the 1925, 900 good roads
bond issue which her people are row
The sufragette has neve become SO
independent, however, that she will be
lnafrafd OF a mouse or be able to stay
way from the Monday bargain sale.
Atlanta Journal.
New York has only one Senator, but |
s feeling much better, thank you, be-
ause neither Dspew nor Sheehan is
he other one.-New York Post.
Owing to a scarcity of feudists and
obacco growers, Kentucky marks
men are now having an open season
Or railroad Observation-Disclosures News.
1t begins to look a little as if '13
you'd be an unlucky year for Senator
'ailey's term to expire in.-Bluefeld
w. Va.) Telegraph.
From the inquisitive tendency of
he incoming Congress an observer
light suppose that the members all
allied from Missouri. = Baltimore
,vening Sun.
Boston's enthusiastic opposition to a
'atue of Ben Butler is gratifying evil
ence OF Boston's increasing devotion
, "h1gh ideals". News
eader.
That Secretary Dickinson should
bandon his trip to Panama is a /
retty sure sign that the movements s
the army are more in the nature of
demonstration than maneuver for &
Virginian-P Pilot. l
In the light of after events many =
sople begin to think the United h
,ates would have done well to have
t 'em fight it out between them d
Ives in Mexico.--Richmond Journal. v
''The riches: cheap lands in the
nised States are in the South" OBJ
rves a contemporary. And the
eapest rich lands in the South are in o.
/ Virginia. - Richmond News 4
,ader. nj
1t would be a calamitous outcome u
the Mexican sensation if the spring
Ties for women should include the -
nbrero and the embroidered trou- =.
8 sklrt.-Baltimore News. -,
Norfolk has added 1900 acres to her
ritory and $4,000 to her population.
lnexed territory, with a population
ten inhabitants to the acre ought to "
least to provide good bird-shooting :.
rhin the corporate imits.-Peters- =,
re- Index-Appeal. n
The "friends" who thought that q
1es and Glass were going to resign =
.ir seats in Congress must be very !"
ing in the political business. :,
K Ledger Dispatch. =