Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-08-03
THE PRIMARIES SATURDAY.

L hlOA1 MOhN1NOs AOO. os 1910
THE PRIMARIES SATURDAY
It is very hard to be exact about the re-
suit of the Primary meetings on Saturday |
in the county, but we may state with
absolute certainty that the advocates of
Gen. MALONE and compulsory adjustment
but another name for the rankest repudi-
ation) were routed horse foot and dragons.
Of the other class of adjusters it is very
difficult to distinguish them from the rest
Of us, except that they make ADJUSTMENT
a cry to go before the people on, adding the
delusive promise that if the people of Vir-
GINA show bold front and say they will
be dashed if they will do this, and the will
be dashed if they will do that, the credi-
tors. who are supposed to be class Of peo
pie very ignorant of their legal rights, will
quail and hand over their coupons now re-
ceivable at the Treasury for taxes, for
bond receivable nowhere for anything.
The majority of the "adjusters' we have
talked with were gentlemen who were sup
porters of the HOLIDAY platform and
very far from favoring reputation in any
shape. They deny any Identification with
MALONE or his cause and regard it as
grievance that they should have been
placed in that attitude.
1t is not to be concealed that the meeting
of Monday week greatly demoralized the ad-
justers as s'party,'' it one may dignity
their number with that appellation. They
had supposed that where there was SO
much cackling there must be an egg. They
had come to believe that their leaders were
in possession of some mysterious secret,
esoteric prescription which they were to
make public all of sudden at some ap-
pointed, or rather unappointed hour. and
which was to prove panacea for all the
ills of the State. That inscrutable ''never
you mind,'' when approached for their
plan of relief, with the accompanying
wink, had been received by their followers
as the earnest of hidden remedies; the
conscious smile of the physician which
is translated by the anxious family into
the assurance that he has in his head an
accurate diagnosis of the case and in his
pocket an all sufficient remedy. But when
in his speech at the Court House Monday,
Mr.. BROWN ALLEN, who is justly regar-
ded by the adjusters as by many odds the
smartest of their leaders, made the conclu-
sion that if they could not get rid OF the
Funding Bill then he was willing to lay
the tax and pay up, it was wet blanket
on their hopes. They hadn't wanted to
hear of an increase of tax in any event,
and commenced thinking over it. Neither
Mr.. ALLEN nor any of their leaders can
explain to them how any repeal OF the
Funding Bill can release the State from
contract which the laws of this State and
the United States will enforce. Was this
the sort of talk before which recalcitrant
creditors were to bow the knee and hum
bly, sue for compromise! After all these
hopes do they hand us chalk eggs!
After next week all Conservatives who
do not favor absolute reputation will join
hands we suppose on the Conservative
nominee for Governor. We take it the
State Convention will not countenance any
man who favors compulsory adjustment,
and after that question is decided, we pre-
dict the friends of compulsory adjustment
will only be found among the enemies of
the Conservative party of Virginia.
About organising! Our friend, DR.. R. S.
Hamilton, reversed the rule Saturday. 1t
is generally when man Is leaving politics
that he attacks the newspapers. not just
as he enters, and the Doctor is debMdnt.
Novices in politics, like new editors. al
ways 60 in with the idea that they must
''attack' something, and the Doctor sail
ed into the Organs" Now, if the Doctor
meant the two Conservative papers in
Staunton were Holiday organs, then Hol-
liday has been very scant of organs, for
neither of them did anything that we know
of to express his views but to reprint them
from oGher papers, and to express the be-
lief, which was confirmed by an immense
majority, that he was the choice of the
people of Augusta for Governor. But We
would like to say to the Doctor and to
anybody who feels interest enough in the
matter to read it, that the INDICATOR is
in no sense an organ Of any man OF party
and would no more support man whose
principles it was satisfied would be dan
gerous to the welfare of the people. be-
cause he was nominated by the Conserv;.-
tive party, than if he had been nominated
by the Radical party. 1t is essentially al
independent newspaper, which earns its
own living, and whose success is measured
by that of the people amidst whom it is
published, and is due to no patronage save
that of it's subscribers and advertisers.
No journal published on this plan, can af-
ford to cater to injurious movements.
whether of politicians or parties. 1t may
often run counter to manufactured, and
sometimes to honest public opinion, but that
is what every independent journal must
do at times unless indeed the time should
come that every man shall think alike.
The vote that followed the Doctors re-
marks, must have convinced him that the
newspapers knew best about how to mail
age it.
We would direct the attention of law
students to the advertisement of the Law
department. of Washington & Lee Univer
sity. Few, if any. law schools in the land
can offer superior advantages to the stu
dent, or present faculty more prominent
for their legal ability and reputation, while
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