The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-08-22
WITH THE EDITORS

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New York is about to have double
deck street cars on Broadway. Sky
scrapers Observation-Disclosures
There is some significance in
Teddy's telling the negroes he is
going TO have the tariff taken off of
MISUNDERSTANDING Leader.
Mr.. Slemp is too experienced a
mountaineer not to know when
landslide is impending, and he is
wise To stand from understandable
Register.
A Frenchman invented the en-
VelOpe in 1853. But the inventor of
the postcard dares not reveal his iden-
Notwithstanding News.
Eugene Chain has been notified
that the prohibitionists have again
determined to make him the goat
Fredericksburg Star.
Roosevelt says it will take fifty
years TO carry out his program. but
he is willing not to so to the White
House between the acts.-Ledger-
Dispatch.
If Danville citizens keep on disap-
pearing il Will take u sieve to locate
that city.-Advance.
Congress should hurry up and adj
journ. They are needing a lot of har-
vest hands in the West-Herald-CO
rier.
The kick OF the Bull Moose has laid
the Southern negro Iowa thing the
mule has never done.-Gordonsvill
Gazette.
Woodrow Wilson may not care to
talk battleships, but just the same he
will take a few shots at the old Re
publican hulk.-AleXandria News.
y logical observation-disclosures first
name is Thomas; Marshall's is
Thomas; Thomas means "a twin" and
twins are proverbially lucky.-Hamil-
ton (Na.) Enterprise.
The medical opinion that women
read faster than men because the
blood flows more freely in the pos
terror part of their brain may be a
technical expression of why they read
the end Of a book first TO see how
it comes out.-North Emporia indie
pendent.
Lots Of people are getting married
and settling down. We want our
delinquent subscribers, whether mar
ried or single. to make a noise like
settling Up.-Buena Vista Times.
\ report comes from Washington
that there is an organized movement
TO create the impression among ne
groeS that Governor Wilson is I'M
friendly to them. y preacher in an
address in that city on Saturday night
declared that negro publications are
printing pictures of Governor Wilson
as man who has horns and who is
assisted by fork-tail devils.
If this is all that his enemies can
frame up against him the Democratic
candidate may hold himself as very
fortunate. This, however, is probably
only the beginning of grotesque mis-
representations. Let those of us who
are interested sincerely in the adj
Vancement of the colOred race hope
that the crude caricatures credited to
negro publications Will be scOrnfully
rejected as constituting a means OF
influencing their judgment. Governor
Wilson is doubtless an average Dem
Ocrat when il comes to what we un-
derstand by the race problem, and
stands, with the South, willing to eX-
pend great sums for educational en-
! lightm ent and spiritual uplift, but un-
willing to allow the ignorant and de-
| based colored man a share in cleo
tons. we draw the line, not on color
but on virtue. Roosevelt does not
draw the line on color either, but or
! locality. The negro voter in some
/ Northern States is effective and is de-
pended upon by Republicans for vic
| tories. He is. therefore, looked upoT
with favor as a man and brother
while the negro in the South, no mat
| ter what his qualifications is refused
! participation in political affairs in sc
far as Roosevelt can effectively re-
fuse. In the Southern States there
are many thousands of colOred meT
/ fully qualified to vote; in the aggre-
gate, many thousands more than are
to be found in the Eastern and North.
| ern States. Nevertheless the dictator
of the new Progressive party puts the
| ban upon the one and conferS hi:
friendship upon the other. That j!
not the Democratic way. 1t is no
Wilson's way. 1t seems to us that the
horns and fork-tail do not belons
among Democratic stage properties
Charlottesville Progress.
THE girl in the case was a thinker