Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-11-30

Stanton. He has been fearless, bold,
ontspoken and interchangeable In his earnest
advocs cy Of REIMBURSEMENT. and has never
,eked for any position Or place at the
ands of our par y before. And If merit,
Competency. honesty. capacity. and a
thorough fitness for the position sought.
are to be the standard by which your selec-
! lion IS to be made, feel well satisfied that
Mr.. Davis will be your choice.
| Very respectfully.
J. b WEBB. M. D.,
Senator S.h District.
1 was unanimously elected to the post
over five other candidates. Ga the lst OF
July, 1882, 1 commenced the duties OF
| Steward. DR.. VIM. Vaughan, the first
Principal elect under the new aGmlnlstra-
| ion. arrived on the 55h. AT the very start
| he commenced in offering VI it'll the duties
of my Office. Myself and the matron mao
mapped out line of policy similar TO
that pursued by the old management that
preceded US. He inteIfered with both, and
| seemed to want to run the Institution as
| big hotel, wi b innumerable visitors and
| with bill of fare surprising any hotel III
this part of the country. The conflict OF
authority resulted in the matron Mrs.
Lawrence) losing her place. The .Prlncl-
pal, backed by four members of the b ,ard
of Visitors, then commenced war ON me
and all others who opposed his extrava-
gance. going so far as to have portion OF
the Board neS,s resolutions of intimida-
ton against the EN- ployees. He made
purchases to suit himself, b i'd body ser
want for his own use, AMI kept horse
there-all at the cost of the State,
something never done there before); en-
tertaiped many visitors, and had one yisi-
tor lodged there four months at one
time Gee Of his freaks was to call an
extra meeting meeting of the Board, at an
expense to the State of ABOUT $780, to vim
dcAte him. These B )ard meetings are
very expensive; at one OF their meetings
THREE GALLONS OF WHISKY
and large number of cigars were used.
Under the new administration. since l
have been there, tht sc Board meetings
have been attended by large number of
outsiders. friends and relatives of the
Board. Principal and officers. and party
free drinks, cigars, sumptuous meals, and
the like. The whisky question was serious
charge on the appropriation, but that was
not the only one. Early in the fall of 1882
proposed to the Executive Committee to
contract for the
COAL SUPPLY
| for the approaching winter, when one
| member of the com mitte3 engaged in that
business proposed to furnish it as low as it
could be bought for. Shortly after his un-
| dertaking the contract [ was handed by
gentleman from West Virginia. a written
| Did to furnish it at 1925 per ton, but when
! this Director presented his bill it was
| 81 70 per ton. The amount of coal bought
was 37S tons, making difference of
| $54S Is more than the State could have got
| the coal for, from a party outside of the
| Board of Visitors. 1 repeatedly Informed
| this Director that 1 had lower bid, but
no action was taken.
| On the 1st of January, 1888,
A NEW BOARD CAME IN,
AID on the 10th elected Mr.. c. s
Roller, Principal, in place of DR..
Vaughn. I have found things little diffe-
rent by Mr.. Rollers advent, though the
party leaders did not look at it in that
light. | had received letters from Attor
| npy- General Frank Blair and Hon. Jno. S.
| Wise. expressing the hope that DR..
| Vaughn would be removed, and one from
Gen. Malone. saying that when Dr. V.
| was elected he felt certain that he was IN
no sense fitted for the position. These
| letters were in answer to some from me
| describing DR.. VS. Encouragement. Mr.
Roller bad been in Office but short while
before be introduced two additional teach
ers. This knew was a useless extrava-
gance, because large majority of the
| leading institutions in the country
! already had more scholars to the teacher
than VIZ had. Resides this, his boarding
seven more teachers in the institution
| than we ever had boarded there before
convinced me that he was not COMB etent
administrative officer. It cost $3.50 to fit
| up other additional rooms for these teach
ers. By this increase of teachers, with
| their salaries and board, it cost the lnsti-
| tuition about
So, 900 MORE YEAR
| than it had cost under the old manage
ment which took 20 be extravaganza.
The new Principal, however, and my elf
got along in our duties without open clash
ing OR i'll cling as far as 1 coull see I'm. il
the election Of
| COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
La the choice of that office, as men,
Der of the Readjuster County Committee.
supported Mr.. E. L Curtis for the posi-.
ton. for which Mr. D s. Roller a brother
of the Principal, was also candidate
| The recommendation of the County Com
mittee in favor of Curtis was ridden down
| by the ring and Mr. Roller was appointed
| After that [ felt that there was some
change In the Principals department to .
| wards me. 1t broke ont In war however
after the election of Matron in June. l
was in favor of reinstating Mrs Lawrence
who had lost her place under the Vaughan
Board. and the Principal wished to retain
the lady who had been elected as her sue
cessor. 1t was d square fight between us
and beat him, and since that there has
been no peace. At the close of the last
session, finding that the financial condi-
tion of the Institution was straitened by
| extravaganza and bad management, the
Principal sought to shift the responsibility
on the Steward, Instead of placing it
! where it properly belonged. for the Stew
ard has been tied down by resolution after
resolution adopted by the Board so that lie