The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-13
Just TO PROVE HES HERE.


We congratulate the FarmyilIe Herald on ITS
sisnal success in smoking out the possum. In
its issue which reached us yesterday, under the
title, where Is He Ar. it said
We miss cur brilliant brother, Williams.
from the columns IF the Roanoke Times and
fail to find Tive sane fluent, foraeful and fac
lie writer contributing 10 the columns of the
Richmond Evening Journal. Can ii be that
he has packed his buds and hed away to
wet country upon which no shadow
OF prohibition will ever fall? Or is It that
The free air OF the mountains gave freedom
20 his pen Virginia cannot afford to lose
him. and our hope is that wet" or dry
he viii continue 10 h. OF us and with Us
Vow evidently this little billet doal penetrated
also into the sanctum Of the estmable EveHia9
Journal. and there il seems 10 have provoked
storm Despite the fact thar for 10 these sew,
eral weeks Brother Williams has labored man
fully and toiled diligently to prove his presence,
and has practiced all his wies 70 draw back the
various dese1ters of last summers crop, here
comes along Brother Hart and unteclingly
marks that Brother Williams isn't. so to speak.
making ripple in the calm and peaceful waters,
Not even with two newspapers TO spread him
self over and through has Brother Williams been
able to convince the good friend in little Farm
vile that he IS on the job The punch is gone,
there is an npediment in the hitherto inter
minable and interchangeable editorial flow. Not
with all his wiles has the Colonel been able 10
put Il across.
We feel sure. therefore. that il was merely
to assure his Farmv.e friend that he is still in
the land Of the living able to sit up and take no
uce. that the editor of the great and good"
Roanoke Times and Of the variously adiectlved
Richmond Etcnin9 Journal yesterday afternoon
wrote little return missiye to Brother Hart
and sent il winging on its way past US TO Farm.
Vile.
Even Brother Hart cannot fail to understand
that his friend is on the job pumping out the
old stuff from the same old pump and with the
same old squeak Oil the pump. Brother vii
liams it's getting rusty You know We really
couldn't tell whether that Yesterday after
noon was intended to be new or was taken from
any one Of some several dozen issues Of the
Roanoke Times for the last few months, any
old date since about, say. September 23-the cold
gray dawn Of the morning after when We were
all getting over it--you know, and no questions
asked II we had a Hle OF the Tunes handy We
me issues yesterdays was taken from, and we
advise Brother Williams that editor in these
Gays should refrain from plagiarism even Of
himself Some bad little newspaper might quote
lie parallel columns on you like they do on Billy
Sunday and that would be indeed great dis
sster,
Rest easy. Brother Hart, Brother Williams IS
ssli with us We suspect that he has framed a
diabolioa plot with Brother Copeland. Of the
Newport News ress-TimesHerad to pitch our
lowly selves of the band wagon, but never mind
about as weH be there when the roll is called.
Further Brother Hart, would inform thee
that dear Brother Williams didn't run away to
wet spot out of Virginia, but nevertheless he
has held him to the wetest spot in old Virginia
TO bide wee.