The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-17

Although Theodore Roosevelt snort
ed at the assertion and then turned
around and dictated d thousand word
statement~-fairIy bristIing as the
newspaper correspondents say--re-
proving old man Sickles for lntimat-
ing that another War Between the
States would follow the election II
woodrow Wilson. war is brewing,
II is newspaper war. AdlectiNes
a man loves TO roll under his tongue
before hurting at an enemy, verbs q
writer dashes off with flourish and
underscores before leaving are mas
sizes.
And as predicted by General Sickles
1t has come about over the birthplace
OF Woodrow Wilson, Democratic nom
inee for president
Here's the story printed In the
Farmville Herald that brought II
about:
'Staunton is mistaken in thinking
that the Democratic leader was born
la that city He first saw tho .i6ht
of this world al High Hill. phs county
home OF the late DR.. w. :. Morton.
In the county OF Cumberland The
parents did live IN stauEton at the
date of the childs BIRTH. bat Mrs
Wilson was listing in the home OF
Or. Morton when the disting uisaet
visitor arrived
no record OF deaths anu plTtsis
were kept In those days. SO t'4nt-
hcrland will not be able TO furnish
record evidence. but the fact remains
true. The only mistake, however. he
Governor made was In not being born
IN F'armVille."
And here IS where tho stanton
News unlimbered every piece Of arti'-
Iery 1t has ard Numbered back
p" F,nvious Just plain enyious. that's
q NtsktNai In ii
county. an isolated spot which IL sit
uated somewhere about the central
part of the State. with the assist
aoce of a hitherto esteemed contem-
porary. the Faru,yile Herald, has en-
tered into a dark, deep plot TO rob
Stanton Of its glory With that ban
ner still floating trtumphantly - the
vephyrs that find their way up and
down the main plazaza, with ~ littpus
NJ post cards bearing pictures ~ the
very house ia which the DISTINGUISHED
sou first heheld the light Of day al
ready printed and distributed brad
cast over the land, with the neErs-
papers ard magazines ali over tile
country giving Staunion credit for the
honor, with sven the Democratic ores
idential nominee himself acqu escent
IN SiauntoR's claims. euv!ous cum
heriaud county. which is Oh the map
but that's all. through the columns
of the piratiCai Herald, has come
forward with the absurd, rot To FAY
prepostsrous. contention that wood
row Wilson was not born in starn
ton AT all-that the real place of his
nativity was this Cumberland ccun
Great indignation.
Indignation filled the breast Of
many a stanton man Yesterday when
tile plot WAS first discovered, Buried
away, under an unconspicuous bead
line, on an inside page tho clipping
from the fafmNille publication ca
capped the eyes OF all save the more
raipstakng readers.
Rev. A u. r. Hancher the Lu;t-
cram ppstor. was one Of the arst 10
read it: quickly he spread the Huns.
then il was but an instant till orac-
ticsliy every man, woman and chile
IN this fair city Woodrow Wilson
enc and only birthplace eas IN ArI,'s.
When Rev. A NJ Fraser, +. d..
vax interviewed Al the Presbv'ert 81
n2nse last nigh. concerning the cum
htrland claim. he stated that he vs.
quite positive that the nominee had
been born ia the e0us. I'm which tie
pastor at that instant stood talking
DR. Fraser never before has heard any
dcuht expressed as To Governor WI
sons place OF nativity. like eVerH one
Else, II seemed That IL appeared naro
fo' him TO believe that any question
had been raised now,
Nonsense. She Says.
AT DR.. Fishers suggestion sew
ga ether. persons, older residents who
we're living &fr stanton when Dr, VIII
son was pastor OF the local church,
were also interviewed One lady be-
came indignant when told that Staun
tons claim was disputed, and testi
fed that she herself recalled perfect
" the time Of Woodrow Wilson'S birth
and that she herself had held thu IN
FAINT Woodrow I'm her arms The Fam
willie thing" was utter nonsense. she
declared