Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-05-26

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were nearly three hundred voters present.
That meeting appointed a committee
to 60 out and bring in names for City
Central Executive Committee that COM
mittee was composed Of
G. G. Geoch, ". E. Staples, and R. ". Burke of
the 1st Ward, and Carter Berkeley, W. J. Nelson
and B. F. Terry Of the End Ward.
They reported as gentleman suitable to
constitute City Committee, the following
gentleman of character and intelligence
and who command the confidence of the
people of Stanton:
1sT WARD 2ND WARD.
W. L. Olivier, w. L. Balthis,
John 7. Long, W. H. H. Lynn.
Isaac Witz AM .Fauntleroy.
Marshall Hanger. W. H. Fowle.
Michael Cox, W. A. Hudson.
A. E. Miller. M. F, W bite.
The meeting then unanimously selected
the gentlemen named to constitute the City
Committee. The meeting then adopted the
following resolutions unanimously
WHEREAS, 1t is the sense of this asssmblage of
the Conservative Democratic voters of Staunton,
that the harmony and success Of their party in this
city can be more certainly secured by holding pr
mary election for the selection OF candidates to be
voted for at the approaching municipal election,
therefore
Resolred That primary election of the Conser-
vative Democratic party OF this city, be held at the
regular polling places on--day of May, 1882, and
that the city Central Executive Committee of the
party be. and are hereby empowered to provide and
arrange all the details for holding said
primary election.
The City Central Executive Committee
met on the Saturday following, elected
W. H. H. Lynn, President, and W. Fl.
Fowle, Secretary, and adopted a plan for
primary election. This plan they pub
after its adoption, the Spectator of May 9th,
fifteen days before the primary. 1t was
published again in this newspaper eleven
days before the election. One Of the provis-
ions of that plan thus laid before the Dem
ocratic party and adopted by the authorl-
ty vested IN this committee, was the fol-
lowing;
The City Committee shall provide printed ticket
to the number OF 100 containing the names in al
phabetical order, Of all persons Who shall haze an
7aounced themselves, or be en- announced by author
ity, as candidates for the positions named to the
Secretary Of the City Committee on or before
O'Clock of the night of Saturday, Goth day Of Ma
1892 and Shall have paid or caused to be paid, to
the Treasurer of the City Committee befose
said Goth day of May at 9 o'clock, P. M such
amount as m y be assessed against them for the
purpose of paying the expenses of this mary cleo
ton, and shall have pledged themselves as provided
in the following section.
No candidate shall be voted for who does not
pledge himself to abide by the result of the primary
election
This was plain enough and was betcl
the Democratic party in print, published in
a newspaper for fourteen days. All Any
Democrat had to do who wanted his DEM
ocratic friend put ell tie list was to pay
81 for him ard say by authority that he
would abide the issue of the primary That
was absolutely ALL that was required
So;ae Of the best men IN Stanton acre put
on the ticket and wcre chosen ut the priaaa, q.
Some men just az good acre also put OF;
but were defeated AZ the Primary solely
because th" number Of candidates was
larger than the places to be filled. There
isn't Democrat in Stanton who could
not have been placed on che ticket had he
OR his friends been so minded,
TO elise every avenus TO complaint, and
plan included tie f,llo Sirg provision,
which vas published viii the rest, ard
VAS for fourteen days before the intelii-
gent Ccnservatiy. Democrats of StauE-
:nn: -.
Immediately after the polls are closed and the
Votes certified By the judges and clerk, tile City
Committee snail meet It the rooms of the Commit
tee to canvass tie returns he appeals If any, and
make certificate Of final result OF the elecrioa The
re suit Of the election shail be announced by the
chairman of this committee: the person OF persons
receiving the highest number of votes for the office
or office; fOr wlici they are candidates shall be
declared the nom ee, OF the party for said Offices
In case OF q tie the ConseIydtiue Committee shat
decide the same by .of.
The sell ction BY lot betw cen tied candi-
la! es is the Only way known to Primary
to decide. That rule tad been made public
for Weeks.
s., far so good The Central Committee
submitted their work to the public inspec-
ton Of the Demo Gratis Of Staunton twv
weeks before it was to go into execution
NJ protest was made to the Comm ittee a,
we are Informed by any Democrat. An
objection" vas made public, however, by
.he Valley Vi'yinian Of May 18th, Re-
publican paper, having no interest in the
Democratic Primary, except to stir up dis
against it as far as it could
It excepted to the ST fee for each candi-
late and published the clause from the
Primary plan. So that ere,y paper in
own gave publicity to it. And yet men
On Tuesday claimed to have been ignorant
IF that provision. Whose fault was it?
The Committees?
Would it not be- the most manly way to
lay it was not the fault of the Committee
out of those gentlemen who neglected the
opportunity, wlde-open and long standing,
'ffered them, as to all Democrats, to como
Il and win.
The result is no defeat by unaid ed Dem.
'crats of the Primary plan of their own |
'arty; it is the simple result of the |
aging of the capitation tax of one hun
red and fifty black Republican voters of |
be I'd Ward on the night bsfore the cleo |
ion, in order that they might join the |
dissatisfied. and even with this vote |
hey only defeated two Derrocl ats and that |
y only three votes. In the 1st Ward
Vhere there was no negro capItation tax
aid up, the Primary ticket fairly SWEEP
he f ED.
Mrs. Frank Rohr. formerly of Ssauu-
on. has just died of smallpox at Will
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