Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-03-13
FRIDAY, MARCH 10. 1925.
A Flash From Lunenbura

face to indicate relationship De-
tween the editor of the Victoria.
Lunenburg County, Dispatch and /.
the late Artemus Ward or Bill
Nye, but recent effervesencet
FROM his facile pen warrants the
conclusion that either through
heredity or diligent application
lie has acquired sense of humor
for which Art or Bill would
have crossed the flames of hades
OH a Stacked wire, or a rotten
fence rail.
1t is so seldom that a news
paper can use clipping in lieu
of a comic strip that the febrile
Nominations from the Lunen-
burg laugh foundry are present.
ed, without deletion, to the
HERALD readers. Those who
know Senator Harry F. Byrd
will be so impressed with this
faithful pen portrait of Vir-
ginia's favorite son that they
will wonder whether the Viz
torian humorist had hiccoughs
or Mysteries when it was written;
but in either event it should be
preserved as one of the few
brilliant masterpieces of wit in
a one sided gubernatorial CAM
paign.
However the Lunenburg mirth
maker has hidden some real facts
in his playful language and it
would be we'll for the taxpayers
of Virginia to stop splitting out
machine made honey" long
enough to consider these facts.
What Virginia needs" quoth
the Dispatch, is plain. business
man with the pulse of the COM
mon people, head full of
sympathetic horse sense an UNI
Outstanding of the common
problems and needs of the entire
state and not precemitted to a |
program favoring certain little
"colonels' and their section of
the State"
ITO the Virginian knowing
Senator Byrd, his record, his
achievements, his fight against
intra state sectionialism and his
high purposes if elected Govern
or, it is a matter of amazement |
that the guiding star of the
Gazette would not be a staunch |
supporter of Harry Byrd. and one
of the thousands of ardent advo-
Gates of his candidacy. Certainly
no man in the State comes as
near meeting the requirements of
his ideal candidate. and had our
friend from Victoria cultivated |,
consistency to the same extent |.
that he has fertilized his fun lie
would now be like almost all of Ii
his colaborers in the journalistic
vineyard, for Byrd.
Digging a little deeper into ,
the actuating motives for the '
Victorian opposition to the 1t
candidacy of the Valley man, Ii
there are several asinine illusions e
which are so ridiculous that they 10
SAVIOR of 'rotteness. Just read a
this. In
Byrd has ever been a machine a
politician and is sugar coated. n
. MISUNDERSTANDING. +. +. In
v. dandy" Mind you, he is all 81
of this and yet still out of Zoo. n
Now don't you Just love that
idea of sugar coated feathers all la
scrambled up with IAN F. F. v. Il
dandy. 1t is just too sweet and Ii
fussy for words. Sounds like lcl
silver plated ginger snaps or IL
diamond studded gold fish We p
will agree though that the Iol
ostrich idea might have been d
to "ye editor" because ii
he Valley candidate is a Byrd, IoI
Ind the saccharine suggestion r
came because of the It'll
sweet" time the bond propon- Il
'nts have had in getting favor Sc
bile action by the Virginia 81
Electorate. IN
IF. F. "" may mean several Co
hings. If because Senator Byrd co
5 fortunate enough to have a So
lineage of which any Virginian eh
vould be proud. If because | We
through his veins there courses
lood which comes from an an no
estrY which contributed to the lde
air fame of the old Dominion cal
nd gaze prestige to State, Sc,
Ne editor seeks to convey the NC
! I fiat the Senator Il Of fheIide