Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-07-19
THE DEVIL AND wATTERsoN.

ledI III ulSSOiVlnR. IL Is an lntOlerable
situation in which they find themsel-
yes. They are face to face with the
alternative of skulking in the shadows
that hover desolate and haunted out
side the radiant camp-circles of mill
tant Democracy, or of returning, with
true scriptural humility, to their
vomit of re-convention misrepresen-
tation and abuse, licking the ground
clean, and falling in line behind the
standard of Bryant isted leader.
Brisbane and Watterson might
better hold down their rising gorges
had Governor Wilson been able to
capture the nomination without the
aid of Bryan. But the double dose of
EPSON salts anG appa morphia poured
into these already seasick voyagers
on careening ship of metaphor,
adrlft in a sulphurous sea of words,
has left them prone-convulsed and
collapsed, their rhetorical intestines
dangling from the taffrail, while they
hold to the straps of their boots and
hSo'S os ShhPbhiCoS.
Bryan the reef upon which the
dream-ship that housed the ballowed
yearnings and ambitions of William
Randolph Hearst was wrecked and
consigned to the submerged realm of
chartless derelicts. Too much, this.
for Brisbane, VINO draws an alleged
yearly salary of an hundred thousand
dollars from the Golfers of Hearst for
writing that gentleman's speeches
and lash ng them that battle his
whims and designs. But inpsired
opinions which reflect the personal
hatred of thwarted moral nondescripts
such as Hearst do not in the least
harm the intended victim, but serve
only as mirrows which reveal the
revolving deformities and cankered
sores that throng and tester in the
howell of unpseakable degeneracy
wherein they were conceived.
But it verges on insult to decency
to discuss the Hearst editorials with
reference to Bryan; therefore, we
pass from the devil to Col. Watterson.
OF another school and another class
is the venerable editor of the Courier
Journal. He inherited the sceptered
pen of Geo. d. Prentice, taught
Henry w. Grady his first lessons In
journalism, and for more than two
score years has held unchallenged
sway, save for Grady's brief reign,
as the most brilliant and influential
single editorial force between the
oceans. 1t would be foolish to gainsay
the emnence of his position, and I'M
kind, and perhaps unjust. to impugn
the honesty of his motives.
How, then, shall we account for
the lengthy and caustic editorial pro.
nouncement which is reproduced or
this page? Stripped of its flutterinp
and confusing gauze-winged butter.
flies of verbiage, its singing hornets
of words, nothing is left but the
spectral lines of skeleton mush.
roomed in the anger inoculated man.
ure of an overheated imagination.
Surely it is the mounting of an EN-.
FILTERED old man, dying at the top
who has lived to see the ideals ant
idols of Bourbonism-the tides tina
furrowed his intellectual grooves ant
the stars by which his young MANHOOD
was steered-disappear in the blindinf
brightness of new political dispen
sation, the spiritual significance of
which he cannot understand. Age
bent, disappointed and rebelious, hi
wanders among the ruins of a faIler
Baal hurting curses at the purple an,
gold cohorts that battling fol
the Lord"
In the early stages of the Baltimore
convention the old colonel had en-
trancing dreams of the delectable
mountains, but those dreamful thrill.
of anticipation have passed to return
no more this side the river. From
cool retreats where the game is played
according to Hoyle and where fragrant
mint spread couch for Bacchus
he may yet, as of old, view the peaks
OF Hellcon, but not the heights OF
Hermon.
Let no one presume that our pur.
pose in printing the "Treachery Un-
speakable" editorial rises from a de.
sire to parade the senility of decay.
ing giant or give undue publicity to
the spleen of whimpering old man
whose sun is going down behind ser
rate and lightning-riven clouds. The
spectacle invites tears rather than
words of censure. We reproduce it for
the sole reason that it comes from
the most respectable anti-Bryan
source in metropolitan journalism and
is the product of a pen into which
was forged the magic of Orpheus and
the craft of Pericles. 1t is the last
call-it is the best indictment that
can be made against the Nebraskan ::
and we submit that any man with the
information and reasoning powers of
sucking pig must confess that il ia