The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-05
WAYSIDE CHATS WITH
OLD VIRGINIA EDITORS

Inc Norlolk NlrBinian-PilOt expect, Is
not intensely Srieved that the experiences of the
State militia at Gordonsville were not especially
agreeable Tho recent experiences of tho Vir
ginia National Guard at Gordonsville,-' 1t says,
intensely disagreeable as they were. will not
nave been undergone altogether to good pur-
pose IL they should avail convince the State
Military Board that in arranging for summer
encampments hereafter, it's duty to consult the
health and the comfort OF the citizen soldiery
Is entitled to take precedence over any incli-
nation it's members may feel, individually or
collectively. to crafty the selfshness pre-
Judices OF interests and localities hostile to the
Norfolk section" But those experiences
SO intensely dsagreeable. and would they have
been less at Norfolk? We know nothing
about the Virginia Beach site, but have
II vague recollection Of an encampment down
that way time ago that was not partic-
ularly pleasing to the soldiers
Speaking of Spe Pee, the Blackfoot Indian
who has just been released. after years of con-
hnement for crime of which he processes in
nocence. the Charlottesville Progress remarks
that there ought to be something done to pay
back In some measure the value of this old
Indians wasted years" But what be done?
His friends gone, his family scattered and many
members dead. nothing but death release
him from his SORROWS and pay him back In full
measure.
But with all our progress there is blot
upon our educational Observation-Disclosures" says
the Southside Sentinel In November Richmond
is going TO do her part coward wiping out il
lteracy. Petersburg, Lynchburg, Harrisonburg
and Allegheny County have already begun to
do theirs. The Sentinel might start a campaign
for compulsory education in its county.
What, bad prophets are our croakers of evil"
says the Wise Virginian. Prophecies made for
political purposes and having birth I'm hope
rather than in reason usually poor prophe-
cies.
oft
lin Chronicle is Democrat Republican news
paper. or an independent Its criticism of
President Wilson indicates that il is OF
the latter. 1t is the nature OF the criticism
which impels TO this belief rather than the
fact of the criticism itself good Democrat
can criticize Democratic President in friend
ly way and strongly as wished. but to ac-
cuse the recognized leader of the party of brib-
Ing Congressman with patronage could hardly
he called friendly Yet the Chronicle does this
LAS long the President has the dispensing
Of patronage, with the bride off, II says. Just
long will he continue dstate the leg
islature OF the country what duties they shall
perform and what leave undone In the mean
time the free institutions for which fore
fathers died arc fast disappearing and the die
tates of single individual usurping the rule
Of the people" The of IT Is that It is
not true. The Chronicle is mistaken In saying
that the President is using patronage club
Democratic Senators who oppose the President
tell him this and at least one OF them has
borne public witness to the fact.
Everything is about II has always been
under Democratic free trade tariffs" says the
Virginia Republican. The Republican will put
history under obligations to 1T If 1t will uncover
of. And by the way. what is free trade"
tariff? The mutually contradctory