Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-06-06

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s-The Lynchburg Republican groans dismal
ly over the defeat of Thomas H. Daniel for
Commissioner of the Board of Public WORKS.
1t says:
From present indications, we have but little
doubt that Thomas J. Boyd, of Wythe, has been
elected Commissioner of the Board of Public
Works in the first section TO say that we are
mortified at this result would be a work of SUPER
erogatlun-to say that are surprised ut it
would be no less true. We knew that the I'm.
filnching Democracy of Eastern Virginia would
do their duty nobly, and we had unsolicited pri-
vate letters from several counties of the South
w est, warmly commenting our course, and Civ
log us assurance that the Democracy of that sec
tlon though not united would yet, majority of
them, be at their post on the day of election
Inc sweeping ma]orltes reported from the
Southwest we believe to be exaggerated /; vet
we must believe them very large-arge enough
we fear, to defeat our worthy nominee People
OF the East, why did you not also make section
al issue!
The nterrogatory with which this para graph
concludes. will strike the reader as being some
what extraol binary. considering the source from
wheuce it comes. The Republican strove despe>
rately from frst to last to make the election
strictly party issue, and yet it now gravely turns
around and asks the people of the East why they
did not make it a sectional one
The enquiry Of our Lynchburg contemporary
admits ola ready answer, aud that answer is to
be found in the action of the Democratic leaders
with reference to this subject. They demanded
that the Board Of Public Works should be De-
mocratic body-they called party conventions to
nominate candidates, and insisted that the people
| should vote with exclusive reference to the poll
tica opinions of such candidates. They wholly
discarded all sectional considerations and mtde
federal politics the sole issue ia the canvass
Having done all this, what right have they to
complain of the people of the East, Or rather of
the Wings of the East, (for TO the Wings alone
does the interrogatory of the Lynchburg journal
apply tor not making tho election a sectional
issue? Confident in their numbers. and in the
strength Of their organization, they insisted with
relentless determination on making party politics
the turning point of the election, but the result
having disappointed their expectations, they are
now the first to cry out that the people should
have voted with reference to other considera
lions.
If the Lynchburg Republican and its Democra-
tic brethren in the East, desire the Wings to
unite with them, 50 rs to elect an Eastern man to
the Board of Public Works, let them place the
matter distinctly upon that issue. But this they
did not do in tho late canvass. They proclaimed
that the Board of Public FORKS must be DEM
ocratic machine, and they nominated Mr.. Daniel
to make it SO. They said not word then about
the importance of eecting Mr.. Daniel because he
resided on this side ofthe mountains, but claimed
the votes OF the people for that gentleman, sole
~ on the ground that he was Democrat. Re-
lying on their boasted majority of 6ooO in the
district, they treated the Wings and independent
Democrats with defiance and contempt Under
these circumstances, the Wing party of the East
had no alternative but to accept the terms offer
cd by their adversaries, and they accordingly
voted against and defeated the man who was po-
itically most Objectionable to them.
We are not prepared to say whether it is
matter ofany high degree of importance that
Eastern Virginia should be represented in the
Board of Public Works, but if it be- true that our
Interests have been sacrificed in this election the
blame unquesionably rests on the politicians of
the Democratic party, who. in their eagerness 10
organize the Board political engine overlook>
ed all other considerations