Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-07-13
will have become new. Are you flex-
ible, pliable, and open to conviction?
SOME ASTOUNDING FIGURES.
(Communicatcd.) ,

A candidate for the Governorship
bases his claim to promotion on set
or array or column of figures which
represent an enormous sum of taxa
BILE property which he as Attorney
General has discovered and turned in
to the assessors as a new basis for
revenue, and another set or array
or column of figures, to-wit: $4,000
which represents no more or less ac-
curate number of his male fellow cit
liens between the ages of 81 years
up to the limit, who have appre-
ciated, (and presumably not suffered
by) his sleuthful search for intangi-
bles and who think he should be made
chief executive of the State. Having
selected the great number indicated
above he seems as determined to
stick to it as was the witness in
court who described the horse in the
case as sixteen feet high, and refus-
it once, he would stand by it, but he
admitted it must have been mighty
"high boss" If the gentleman has
written fifty thousand letters, and
read twenty-five thousand favorable
answers, and still lives, land all this
entirely subsidiary to his arduous
duties as Attorney General and In
vestigator of Concealed Intangibles),
he's n physical phenomenon, and per-
sonates the nth degree of human
endurance. Such man would laugh
to scorn the meagerness of the Gov
errors duties and salary and gobble
up the work of the executive office
before breakfast, thus leaving the
rest of the day to make combinations
IL fO, h.
Office holders, like poets, are born
subject of this sketch look forward
to a stuffed seat in the east end of
the capitol, the Deadwood City of
fame, where mems records cease to
trouble, and even Stone, formerly
Stein), is treated with the same
grave courtesy that is shown to Mar
tin.
And right here, since this letter
is only q whimsy, why not specu-
late about O progressive idea" that
may be taking root in mems minds,
which in the concrete would make all
State officials ineligible to any office
in the gift of the people for term
equal to the time they have served.
This would mitigate at least the in
tolerable nuisance of state officials
using the time, tho privilege and the
emoluments of one Office in an effort
to coral another, and one feature of
it was passed upon by the people of
Virginia in Il former spectacular pri-
mary.
A long step has been taken in our
State already, and the same reasons
urged for making the governor inel-
gible for n second term need no elab-
Grafton to people who have seen so
many campaigns conducted in the
various departments at Richmond,
where the States business is sup
posed to be conducted. And just
think, if so many millions of dollars
have been added to the tax lists by
an official burdened with correspon-
dence with the rank and file of the
voters of the State on matter alto
gether outside the duties of his office,
how many more millions might have
been discovered, and how many more
millions collected from West Virginia
for the holders of Virginia's hypoth-
coated bonds, if he had given "all'
the time he has been paid for to du-
ties of his office.
Yours whimsically, J.