Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-04-25
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FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL Is. 1884.
Local
DEMOCRATS ORGANIZING
FOR THE CITY
ELECTION.

ORGANIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC
CITY COMMITTEE-THE ADDRESS TO
THE voTERs-THE PLAN OF THE PR
MARY ADOPTED.
&C., &C., &C.
The new Democratic City Executive
= committee elected on Thursday night last
1by the unanimous vote of one of the largest
primary meetings the party ever held
in Staunton, met on Monday evening and
chose Maj. T. c. Elder, Chairman, and
Jos. B. Woodward, Esq, Secretary
admirable selections The committee then
fixed on Saturday, May 10Th, (six days be-
fore the election1, as the day for holding
the Primary for the selection of nominees
for the city Offices, issued the following
address to the voters, and adopted the
plan of the primary which we give below:
PRIMARY ELECTION.
To the Democratic Party of the City of
Stanton
In accordance with the recently espresso d
will OF the party, the City Committee have
fixed day for Primary Election, and
prepared plan for the same, herewith
submitted.
1t has been the object of the Committee
to provide for full and perfectly fair
expression of the voice Of the party in the
choice of candidates for municipal Offices.
Whilst the plan presented may not be
faululess, it is believed to be as free from
objection as any efficient plan that could
well be devised.
The individual voter should remem Der
that necessary as political parties are to
she well being of republic. their exls-
tence would be impossible if each man
insisted on acting in political matters &C
cording to his own judgment without
regard to the opinions of those whose
views on great questions of public po-
icy, in the main, coincide with his own.
Indeed the very existence of hum an
society involves the surrender of the will
of the individual in respect to matters not
of vital Importance, for the good of the
whole.
1t must be remembered too that politi-
cal parties exist for governmental purposes
and cannot be made to subserve all the
good ends of life.
True wisdom in political as in business
life consists in doing the best that is prac-
ticable under the circumstances by which
we may be surrounded.
No party can accomplish any great pur-
pose, or even long maintain its existence,
unless it's members be actuated by the
spirit of harmony and Cancellation, and be
willing to make sacrifices for the good of
the party.
The Democratic party being in the ma
jority in our city, is charged with the
responsibility, which it cannot escape, of
furnishing to all the people within the
city limits, an honest, economical and
efficient municipal government. and to do
this the party organization must be pre-
served.
Perhaps there is no better plan for pre-
serving party organization and securing
the nomination of proper persons for
Office, than that of Primary Election.
All can attend 6 Primary Election. 1t
is as free to one as to another. All candi-
dates have fair and equal chance; and
il every Democrat will cast his vote. the
nominees will be the choice of a majority
of the party. and this it would seem ought
to be satisfactory to every one. Let no
Democrat stay away from the Primary
and all will be well.
THE COMMITTEE.
ACTION OF THE COMMITTEE.
at a meeting of the Democratic Com
mittee of the CITY of Staunton, held on
Monday. April 81, 1884, action was taken
1Ul OAOStAOAs l. O 4CA-
lowing is the
s RESOLVED, That IN accordance with the
will of the Democratic party of the City
lof Stanton, declared in mass meeting on
1884. Primary Election will be held on
Friday. the 18th day of May, 1884, for the
nomination of candidates for such Offices
as are to filed at the regular election
which will occur in the city on Thursday,
22d day of May, 1884, viz: Mayor, Com
monwealth's Attorney, City Sergeant,
Commissioner of the Revenue, Constable,
and for each ward of the city, six mem
hers Of the City Council and three Magis-
tr2tes.
MANNER OF CONDUCTING THE
ELECTION.
Polls shall be opened in each ward Of
the city at the usual voting place, and 1t
shall be the duty of each Ward Superin-
tendent to see that the Judges and Clerk
are in place at the hour appointed for the
opening of the polls, to provide all neces-
sary poll books and such other materials
and things as may be requisite.
The polls shall be opened at sunrise and
closed at O'Clock 2. NJ. On the day des
ignated for the Primary Election, Friday,
May lbCn, 1854.
The City Committee shall appoint two
judges and one clerk for each Ward, who
shall be paid So. so each by the Treasurer.
upon the certificates of the Secretary of
the City Committee that all registration
and poll books and other papers entrusted
to them have been returned to him.
The City Committee shall provide prin-
ted tickets to the number of 1000, con-
tanning the names in alphabetical order
of all persons who shall have been an
nounced as candidates for the respective
offices to be filled in the mode hereinafter
designated.
The voting shall be by ballot. and the
judges and clerks shall be governed by the
rules which obtain in regular elections so
far as the same may be applicable.
No ticket shall be used except the one
distributed by order of the City Commit.
tee. The tickets shall not be delivered to
the Ward Superintendent until noon OF
the day next preceding the day of the
Primary Election, who may thereupen
distribute them to such registered candi-
dates as call for them.
The voter shall strike out the names of
all candidates on his ticket for Mayor.
Commonwealth Attorney, City Ser
geant, Commissioner of the Revenue and
Constable respectively, saving the name
of that one of the candidates for each of
these offices for whom he desires to vote;
and no ticket containing the names of
two or more candidates for any one of the
offices last mentioned shall We counted in
respect to such Office.
Any voter desiring to vote for Council
men shall erase the names OF all the can
didates but six; he shall however vote for
sac COuncilnlell, and any ballot containing
greater or less number than six I'M
erased names shall not be counted at all
In the nomination of Councilmen.
The same rale is to be observed by the
voter in preparing his ticket for Magis-
trates, except that the number is to be
three instead of SIX.
CANDIDATES,
All persons desiring to be candidates at
the Primary Election must leave or cause