Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-08-31
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TO THE DEMOCRATIC CONsERVAi I'VE Y0-
i TERS OF AUGUSTA:--Un The sth Sept.
you will cast your votes at Primary Election Tor
Two candidates to repl esen your county IN The next
House OF Delegates
be cobfi outed and settled by that Assembly need
not speak. Every intelligent voter, every mau WHO
what has been done and attempted TO be done and
Threatened to be d. ne in This state within the last
year OF Two knows ana iees tn9 no issues;
sheuld The patriotic citizen cast his ballot at this
primary? Shall personal feelings of Partially Tor
this nan, or pl ejudice against that man. sway him?
Ur, the contrary. and responding to the earnest
exhorIation of the Lynchburg i.tion, shall he
not say himself. | discard every feeling of per-
TO pick out from the list OF candidates the two
ablest. NEST lntellige t. most experienced. upright
men, who e past lives in the community give The
highest pledges of their future conduct and for
these will vote, even tho in doing 50 1 have to
pass by my near neghl,UrS whom like. but who
would not make as efficient and useful legislators as
tie men select
This communication, had it been written last
s9h Of a asgs oo
No intelligent observer for 4 series of years. OF
our legislative bodies, whether State or National,
can have failed to discover OF what immense ad-
vantage in the business of legislation is experience
in legislative halls Especially do all know who have
sion for The most intelligent, alert wide awake
man, to learn fully "the ropes, both in House and
in committee. 1t is safe to say the majority never
do learn
Augusta has been conservative in this respect in
her D. st history aud when she found good repreSen-
wei willing to go. And by this wise Sc she
has secured TO herself weight and Influence. in the
councils OF the State. She has had The honor OF
furnishing, for series of sessions, the abltst pres
ldlng officer the present Wi Ell has ever Seen occu
py ne speakers chair It may be doubted whether
over by more efficient pr! mpt and commanding
Speaker. But Mai. Hanger declines a re election.
For one. truly regret it. But no man who is not
rich or fairly well off no one who has to make
his own way in the world can geord to continue
county. He has done his part, and done it well,
aud will carry into retirement nd into his profe,
siona walks the grateful thanks Of an intelligent
But his withdrawal from the field renders it all
the more Important that we secure the services of
fence. 1t would be a most Idle waste of words f.r
Inc to tell the people of Augusta pho COL Skin
To whom do our people turn when there is lure
enough work" to be done-not holiday speechiiica-
tiohs but real debate when some big gun" of the
other side is brought to bear upon US? We all
know Who ht IS, and we al know after what man
ner he has Invariably acquitted himself. heard
an ex-judge of the Court of Appeals (nimsrf in an
te-bellum days a st able debater on the Wing
side) say he did not know public man i'll the State
whom he would not about as soon tackle" as JAS
H Skinner
Ii happened to me only yesterday while overhaul
ing the contents Of an Old drawer filled with var
iOus old documents. to pull out a faded, time-Worn
81 aunton ViDdicatsr," Of date April is 1859;
or inside page, has column headed The nomna
ton of Jas H. skinner tor the U. 5. Congress) at
home and alb ead'
The entire column is filed with editorial extract s
from papers OF both political. parties, Wing and
Democratic and all speaking of the nominee in the
very highest tern Of praise The papers IA: are
mond Index" Charlottesyille Advocate" the
Esprit of Jefferson and Lexington Gazette y
But it can hardly be worth while to multiply
words in co4nmendation of Col Skinner.
VIII he serve? The writer had a conversation
with him on the eve of his departure for Europe,
whittier he went partly for improve ment by travel,
but mainly for improvement to his he alth. In an
swer 10 that question. he said the work was con
genial to him he lad given much attention to | t :;
that he had had pleasure in serving the people of
Augusta in the past, and if it was their will to con
tinue him in 1t for another tenn he would do his
best for them. and he intended TO he at home in
time TO take part in the important State canvass
this fall
Having taken so much of your time and space, l
will only further trespass by adding that my ndi-
vidual choice ouI of the other names now before u.s.
is for Mr.. Hugh Lyle as gentleman who by
intelligence. culture and character. is every way
worthy to represent Augusta County in the Gen
era Assembly. Respectfully,
Its SENEX.