Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-04-07

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THE COMING CITY ELECTION.
For one we are very glad of the recent
Negro Convention held in this city. It
placed in stronger light the people from
whose influence ssand power the Conserva-
tive party was formed to first rescue, and
then preserve the.whites, than any amount
of editorial discoursing could have done.
1t showed in the foreground and the back
ground and, indeed, all over the canvass,
for there were not whites enough pres
ent to relieve the shadow-the true picture
Of the ''party,'' if it may be dignifed by
the name, against which the whites of
every county and city and the State itself
are, and must forever be, fighting at the
polls. 1t is a dense mass of ignorance ad-
mitted into participation in the govern
ment of white men, by the bayonet, and is
the same with its ignorance and prejudice
and jealous hatred of the whites that 1t
was the day it's members were enamel
pated. It is beginning to feel its power,
and is not guided so easily. In freak it
throws it's white leaders overheard. The
old excuse of the whites who joined them,
that it was to direct and guide them, is
exploded. They no longer guide them. They
are guided and ruled by themselves. This
mass of uneducated, semi-barbarous blacks
have to-day the power TO say who shall he
the next Republican candidate for the Pre-
sidency Of the United States, country
with over thirty-six millions of white men.
Whoever the black States, at the National
Convention concentrate on, will win the
nomination. But all this is fixed fact,
and need not be lamented over. 1t can
never be undone. But here in Virginia
we need no lamentation; we need only to
rejoice that, in politics we have them down
just as long as we are true to ourselves and
choose to keep them down. The National
Government, by the admixture in 1T, which
must flow from such constituency, has
been reduced to the lowest depth of cor
ruption; the State Government of South
Carolina, where they have been on top, has
been made hell. But here in Virginia
we are safe rs long as we are vigilant of
our party organization. The ship of State
can never admit the black waves fretting
against it's sides as long as we watch and
stop the smallest leak.
These small leaks, as some would have
them called, are The elections in the smaller
cities and towns. In them the Radicals
and their friends, when they are in the mi
nority, raise the cry of no politics, and vote
readily for Conservatives that suit them.
While their leading men, OF rather the
white men that pretend to be their leading
men, are crying no politics. the negroes
hold caucuses and decide upon who they
will support, and when the actual election
comes on, they elect whom they please and
defeat whom they please. They pick out
lukewarm or pretended Conservatives for
special support, and make a dead set
against active partizans. When Mr.. W.
II. GoRMAN, who had been most active
Conservative, but who since voted for a
Radical Mayor, and shortly after got a
Federal office, was up for election, the ne
groes made a point of defeating him, and
it was only by the strongest efforts that
the Conservatives could elect him. Their
organization is perfect one, and they can
count their strength to single vote. As
Mr.. FRANK WARE graphically expressed
it in the Cornfield Statesmen's Convention
Saturday, they ''tie men down to certain
things"
1t is this leak in Stauntcn that the white
Ia 10Th fho ,,ffb hal
Conservative party, to plug up at the
Spring election. The Ship of State in Vir-
ginia is comparatively free from Radical
bilge and our people intend to pump out the
little that has leaked in here, in May, and
with it those men who have barnacled
themselves Oh the Council. 1t will not IN,
done without d struggle. These barnacles
WON'T let go without being dragged off.
sThey spent good deal of time trampiI &
the street and assuring the people that the
ventilation of the Council given by this
journal was the result Of the anxiety of
one of its owners to step into it, and
that gun being now bursted, they are talk
ing for the ''old members ticket" hoping
to get in again on the popularity of other
men. A number Of the old members have
already expressed their unwlllingress to
serve again, but among such are none of the
Ring. The only ''old members who seem
anxious to run are the Ring themselves,
and we give the assurance that before the
election we will show from the record that
these men should not be voted for again,
even if the Conservative party had no
ticket in the field We engage to prove
that this Council has lost or voted away
the following sums of money out of the
city treasury: -
The sum of $4,000 paid for lots for the G.
& 0. r. R., and no provision made to get
any benefit for it.
The sum of 81 500 attempted to be voted
out of the city treasury to improve the pro-
perty on Main street.
The sum Of $4,000 paid the firm of W1Tz
& HOLT (Mr. WITT being member of the |
Council) to make good to them supposed
loss
This is only part of the legislation, and
we shall give complete history of the
whole from the record, and the votes of
the members who carried it. And in adj
dition to this, we shall give some account
of the election by it of Radical Mayor; a
City Treasurer, one Of its own members
who had been defeated before the people;
how Federal ofice-holder was nominated
at the Board, and came near being elected
City Sergeant; how one of the most i'm
portant offices to the health Of a city, the
President of the Board of Health, whose
presence is ever necessary, is Federal
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