Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-11-01
sssHARP PRACTICE FOILED.

The s'sharp practice" which the Val
1ey Nirginian attempted last week infts
effort to excite the prejudiees of the vo-
tiers of the county against the nominees
of the Democratic party for the Legis-
lature, was promptly exposed and in
dignantly rebuked by two of the dele
gates from the county, a. will appear
from the following communications
which were published in the indicator
the day after the article Of the Viryimian
was published -
EDrroRs vIND1CAToR 81 see that the T5r-
zion the two-third rule was trick" gotten up
by the etaunton ring" As the author OF that
resolution pronounce the entire statement
Of the Vir0issian knew it was false when no
made 1t. suggested 1t (the two-third rule) to
several county MEMBER and they endorsed y
Of it until introduced 1t. JAS. F. TATE.
MrssRs. EDrroRs;-The astute "wire in and
wire out" editor Of the Valley Virginian, in an
editorial Of this morning headed SHARP Prac-
on Tie part 81 the people Of Augusta county
against those OF the city Of StauntOn.
In this attempt his utterances and insinua
lions are wholly unfounded in fact and the
motives attributed exist only in his fanciful
and, at present, politically unsettled brain.
1t is well known to every man WHO'S inform
cratic Conservative County Convention was
about Is full, fair, intelligent. and representa-
tive . body of the kind Is has ever met IN Inc
gates selected from all parts OF the county and
rom the body of her best citizens, and eight
Sc
held in the city Yet the
Convention was composed OF . set OF unso-
ohisticated od-hoppers and ntncompOOps,
who assembled merely to fall an easy prey to
the manipulations Of certain imagipary town
politicians and wire-pullers-"A little Court
Sncb assertions are all bosh and an insult to
the intelligence of the people Of Augusta coun-
ty. Pending the canvass for candidates, the
Xrtter of this frequently converted with citi-
zens Of st .unton. OF al caaiings. on ne SUD
ceedings Of the Convention, and has never yet
hard the least desire expressed, nor seen any
attempt made on the part OF any cltsea r Of tne
unfair or improper influence TO secure ghe nom.
ination of any one. The resolutions adopted
Guiding the two.third's rule and that for max
ing the nominations one at time. were onered
by county delegates without any conference or
with town delegates, who consti-
/ tuted four. fifths OF the Convention.
Now, it is pretended that the Con vention. AZ
ter being bound and fette'ed by certain rules
town POLITICIANS, and wsaried by protracted
baIlotings, was forced, at last, to adopt candi.
| the Court-house Never wasa balder absurdity
suggested; for no one knows better than the
author Of 1t, that had Colonel Skinner and Ma
ior Hanger announced at the start their viii
tiinepess. both would have been nominated on
the first ballot, If not indeed. by accla nation
| take 1t that the true. blue nservatives q
| stun as this, nor trapped by willy Mahoneitet
| and radical Republicans into permitting the
election of Messrs. Turk. Harnesoereef, ano
the collar and obey the dictates Of the little
boss, even to voting for Lewis, or some otnel
| A RUsnC.