The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-27
Dice Of the People
The Virginia Debt

70 the Editor or The Times-Dispatch:
SIT note that the Virginia debt
IS again under newspaper discussion
IN the old State. and thinking that il
! ihieht interest some of your readers to
from Virginian who has long circuS
Iateu among our erring brothers l ask
little space.
First. | am impressed with tho idea
| atmosphere in West Virginia Even
| In talking to certain Democrats. who
own property in West Virginia. Il is
aiseovered that they would put OFT a
The lower House of the West vir-
Slsih LEGISLATURE was largely Demo
cratic at the last session, and the
Governor told it that II it desired to
consider the debt that he would in
ssrt the matter in the call for a spe.
cia1 session.
ins s2 dPem n9S ; Mos e, i, 70 be
by the special session.
Many children have been indoctrin-
VtSa tfnTough a text book written for
I Ins mat West Virginia does not owe
a West Virginia Congressman. a
,DSeih9erat. early introduced a bin In
10 the United States government nav
ing the debt
Undoubtedly the bin was fun Of
ertne' out nothing was afterwards
a West Virginia politician is usually
,bt,aid 70 aliude TO such an unpopular
plns as the State debt
This rather shows a descent in hon
OF from the time of the Confederacv.
when the Auditor of Virginia and Col
f 9nGi stafford II Parker my grand
let them send boat TO England
loaded With cotton with which to nav
interest on the virginia debt.
IL must be remembered that tho
raging; but true honesty is ever mind
tnl Of its obligations.
ION trast the wealth OF West vir-
Ginia in 1862 or 1868 to pay anything
but then. the curse OF Republican.
J Ws.. N, ITS worse form, is blighting
Nest virginia, and whether it is worse
ii9r n States financial health TO be
pied ny oihce-holdcrs, and by a vci-
Gus administration of its revenue or
sSainpled under foot by the hoofs OF
question
The Virginia debt discussion has
been attended by comedy and TRAGEDY
come OF the comedy was enacted in
inc tragedy was OF later Occurrences
y lew days before the late extra scs-
S M OF the West Virginia Legislature
was held, two commissioners startad
from Richmond to see the Governor ~
west Virginia. to request him 10 IN
sert the matter of the Virginia debt in
The engineer and hreman 10 the
train were. / think. -Virginians. and
both of them miserably lost their lives
while trying to pull" the commits
sioners 10 the Governor of West Vir-
The. train was wrecked. and one. ~
not both. of the commissioners were
Yet, after this occurrence one of
the members of the West Virginia
legislature stated in Charleston,
est Virginia. paper that Virginia
should make the first move by having
us Legislature appoint a committee and
tnen u would be time for West Vir-
Eihla TO aci. This was killing" After
the two commissioners called upon
the West Virginia Governor, a re-
PORTER Is said TO have talked with one
or poth OF them. and afterwards the
GOVERNOR denied to tie same reporter
'' a, ne mad seen the two gentlemen.
There Is said to he no such word a
conscience in the French lexicon
There was a word. or is a word. in
English, which seems to be left out
OF the vocabulary of many OF our
republican politicians and il is vera
eity-truth. The Governor of Wet
Virginia is said to have said some.
thing to the Governor Of virginia of.
Ter the interview was held with the
commissioners. but strange to write. il
is SAID TO have been spoken in q whis
per: 1t Was a secret
We may be allowed to write that
II did not surprise us that the Gov
eanor or West Virginia communicated
secretly, but that the Governor of VIr-
Einia should have entertained ii, IL
he did so, shows that the ring should
be broken in Virginia.
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