Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-04-28

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THE NEW ORTHODOX" TICK
E1-IT rs STILL.BORN
They have shown their hands too quick
and too awkwardly. 1t has been well un-
derstood that the effort to elect Radical
Mayor would be made to depend in great
measure on the use that could be made of
the names of those old councilmen who
voted him into Office, and that similar
state of affairs would exist with regard t.
the Independent candidate for CITY Treas
urer, but no one thought the conservative
party would have the ad,dntage of the on-
A.ststsvSect UnUugh to show
.helr hand so early. They boldly tell the gen.
tiemen tney put on the ticket that thew
nave the privilege of Withdrawing their
Names" which amounts to the announce
ment snat if you don't run with us you
DON'T get the negro vote. They have in
jected the names of two new members,
Messrs. M. E. MILLER and J. T. BYERs,
council in their maladministration on the
principle we suppose of using them as
disinfectant for the old body.
This then, with the exception of such of
these gentlemen who will decline to run on
that ticket ''regardless of the action of the
contemplated primary election is the
ticket which is to be run by the basement
voters of Staunton in opposition to the
Conservative party. It is no use to calling
by the wrong names. The Conservative
party by two thirds majority in meeting
of nearly two hundred Conservatives has
1esovled to have a party election. That is
a fact, fixed and past and cannot be re-
called. The party is now before the peo-
pie for its support. Its action has been
acquiesced in and acted ON by such men as
BENZ. CRAWFORD, A. N. BRECKENRIDGE,
TIMBERLAKE & BELL, W. III. WELLER,
j. M. LICKLITER, E. HAGEMAN, A A.
GRUBERT, ]. B. SCHERER, w. F. SUM-
MERsoN, JAMES H. SKINNER, EDWARD
EcHoLs, GEORGE E. PRICE, DAVIS A.
KAYsER, F. B. BERKELEY, J. W. New
TON, GEORGE P. BAKER, c. S. BAKER,
A. M. SIMPSON, P. B. SUBLErr, J. S. Gill
LIAM, c. A. RICHARDSON, B. FRANK
EAKLE, j. Fl. WAYT, HUGH l.. McILHA-
NY, JAMES H. WATERS, II. M. BELL, A.
W. MCCLURE, M. E. MILLER, H. L.
POWELL. G. T. COCHRAN and G.. M.
COCHRAN. Such men as these wish to
save this city from the election of Radi-
cal Mayor. And here is the organized op.
position to it; a Radical candidate for
Mayor, an Independent candidate for
Treasurer and eight Councilmen who by
their votes in Council put both of them in
office. This is the ticket that the negroes
are to vote on the 25th of May against any
ticket that may be nominated by the Cor
sentative party. Will the Conservatives
on this Aortfodox'' ticket permit their
names to be used to put these men in Off ce.
We shall not believe it and we predict that
before election the Withdrawals from it will
leave just the old 'ring' that everybody
has known all the time were going to make
an effort to retain themselves in ofice.*
The hiatus of the City Sergeantcy on the
ticket shows the cat in the meal tub. For
that office there are two Conservatives run
ming, and one Republican. Mr.. RISK. This
Office is left off so that the whites may be
divided between the two, and Mr.. RISK be
run in by the blacks. The whole drift of
the ticket is to turn the city over to a
Radical Mayor. an Independent Treasurer,
a Radical City Sergeant, a President uT
the Council who nominated Radical for
o;fv oA4 al
men who voted for Radical Mayor over II
Conservative one. And of all this the
Basement organ, the s'Valley Virginan.'
is the active advocate.
Does not every one see that Radicalism
is the salt with which this movement is
seasoned? It is no use denying the drift of
the whole thing. There are Conservatives
on the ticket who do not know where they
are drifting and what use is being made Of
them; but we very much fear there are
some who are utterly Indifferent to the
matter. Behind this ticket, with its sails
Tapping idly in the still air, is that active
little paid Government tug, the Basement
organ, pushing it to the Radical wharf.
People outside of Staunton see it. The
press of other cities See it. They know
that every Southern ship that has been
moored to that fatal wharf has rotted until
the grass is growing on its decks. They
cry out to us with warning voice. No
trade passes over that deadly wharf, no
troops of Southern schools girls embark or
disembark at it, The white man disappears
from it; and the idle negro suns himself on
it's deserted planks. and the revenue officer
and the tax gatherer are its business men.
Shall any of us aid this attempt Let
every Conservative answer at the Primary
Election.
sSince this article was written perfect
shower of Withdrawals has come, which
will be found in another column.
CAPT. ROBERT G., astride the jib boom
IN his mate John B, in the fOretOpSaiI,