Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-02-14
For the Spectator.

Messrs. Editors DO you allow every man
who has halfa dozen of ideas, to write them out
and ask you to print them in some conspicuous
place in your paper, to enlighten the voters, and
tell them who they should vote for. and who
amt fit to be voted for? If SO [ enter the ring
by your permission, and if my articles are not
worth the room they occupy, just write one fol
me, and sign my name to it, and be sure anc
give all the candidates in turn general hauling
Srs, don't happen myself to be candidate
and | have no particular friend among the va
rious candidates to puff, nor any enemies among
them to dsparage. But have vote, and
have the right of choosing for whom | will vote
and intend to exercise that right. In reading
the three last numbers of the Spectator, | dis
cover that Mr.. d. Fultz is unfit for the response
BILE Office he aspres to. A writer signing him.
self ssFarmer" says so, and of course it must be
true. He says Mr.. Fultz has most qngoverna'
BILE temper, and is given to strong prejudice &c
&c. and it would never do to elect him. Your
last weeks issue has an article on the same sub.
iect signed R. III. He has gone inte math.
ematical calculation to show that Judge Thomp-
son is the only simon pure in this district fol-
Judge. Well don't know who this R. L. ]. is
neither do care whether he be Jew or Gentle
but don't like to see men unnecessarily pulled
SO full that they can't bend in their vests with
out making q rent or staving buttons, nor on the
other extreme men of high reputation both fol-
talents and character as citizens, thrust down
by the mighty force of those engines, who are
enlightenlng ths public, aud modelling public O.
pinion by giving their own, as the aages and
guardians of the dear people. What change has
come over the minds of some. Because Judge
Thompson has held the Office for half a life time
he is now tbs only man for the place. [ thought
that old fogy notion had been fepudiated in this
county not many elections ago. and that rota-
ton in office was now the ruling principle.
don't mean to say one word against Judge
Thompson, in any particular, but why is David
Fultz to be thus hunted down, and made the foot
ball of every scribbler's vengeance Has be
not full right to announce himself candidate
for the Judgeship, On his own hook if be SC
choosesa Do not our laws and constitution
guarantee that to every freemana But he was
not called out in pompous card, by the gentle
men Of the bar in Stanton and Lexington.
make no complaint Gf thst, for the lawyers are
pretty clever set of fellows good in their place.
and when want legal advice 60 to them, but
when it GENES to electing Judges &C., will fol
low the dictates Of my own judgment. ! did
not sign the call on Mr.. Fultz nor have ! spoken
to him for six or twelve months past, but when
see hiM THUS attempted to be written down,
cry out "Justice, or single-handed--po foul play
by doubling on him.. believing there are very
many voters like myself that will sustain him.
Mr.. Fultz was quite proper man few years
ago, when a candidate for the convention to a.
mend the State constitution. What has he done
since to lessen the confidence then reposed in
him Was he not elected by an overwhelming
yote2 ] did not vote for Mr.. Fultz ON that oc
casion, | claimed net to be . radical. Well
those periodical elections coming up every two
or three years getting up such an excitement a.
mong the boys and soaring nervous women il
one Of the glories of our present peoples con
stiiutioa. HCAEsEUN.