The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-02-09
Reply to Max.

EDITORS VIRGINIAN:- ask the privilege Of brief
ly replying to an article which appeared in your
paper Of last week over the signature Of MAX"
suppose Mr.. "Max KS reason Tor having his article
published in your columns that 1t would go
unchallenged and leave better impression with
the public. But he shall mslead no one whom
your journal reaches-for feel that cannot allow
the statements he makes to go uncontradicted. To
do so would be apt to mislead the Board at the
Asylum, when it shall come to take control. was
an employee at the Asylum for several years and
am acquainted with its official management as well
acquired, do deny most emphaticaliy the asser-
lions contained In Max's article
The claim Of non partizanshtp on the part of the
Board has already been successfully met. Thus IL
Maxs statement No. / disposed of. In the second
place, Max says 1t was necessary to employ six
male attendants during the months Of september,
October and November 1884, and that out of the six
there was but one democrat, the remaining five be-
Ing readjusters and republicans. know the gen.
tlemen referred to, and was present when they
were employed. claim also to know much
about their politics Max, and from that knowl-
edge am prepared to say that Max's statements are
not correct unless 1t be that the new employees
have undergone political change since the cleo
ton. More than a half dozen will doubtless claim
to be read1usters the LIST of March next. But it
Will be too late then. The battle has been
They will have to take up the lamentation, ''The
harvest Is past and the summer is ended for them.
Sd, Max claims that some of the oldest and most
trusted employees at the Asylum are republicans
and readjusters. ask him where were these men
the day Of election, that they did not the
Cameron ticket. According to my estimate, there
were but two employees out Of forty odd who advo-
Gated the readjuster cause on the ground. These
two absent from the county on the day of cleo
ton. They were doubtless unwilling to either
sacrifice their principles, lose their places. EN-
plOyees of the Asylum informed me that they were
threatened with removal II they voted the Cameron
ticket. Indeed the whole corps of employees, down
to the colored driver seem to have been induced to
support the Funders.
In view Of the facts, we think it time change
was made. Those now in control at the Asylum
seem to have forgotten that 1t is charitable insti
tuition kept up by the money Of the State, and not
intended as political machine.
Of his party is competent to supply the vacancies
that should be created. He will doubtless find, in
the near future that the Readjuster party has an
abundance of material for all practical purposes,
and that material not of an inferior quality. The
new appo1ntees will be the equals, at least, OF the
present incumbents, for 1t is we'll known that the
second assistant physician is superannuated, and
should have been retired long ago. When change
ls nado there will be many things brought to light
which are now hidden. The desperate fight now
being made is to prevent the exposures which
new management would unearth. READJUsTER.