Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-06-05
THE NEW COURT HOUSE.

| buelF own ndnu5 lulO luo hoh"O'SS
prepared by the ringmasters who
promised payment of commissions
for their nefariOus traffic. They
lied, and they hired willing aud
plausible things and tools to aid
them in kissing seductive words
into the ears of every willing
listener; and they only found out
how egreg iOus was their mistake
when the returns camein on Friday.
Over the defeat of GochenOur, and
Hamrick they hallelujahed, and,
when Rinker was reported gone,
their voices of rejoicing commingled
in a way to have excited the envy
of the wOrkmen on the tower OF
Babel. They commiserated the
fate of the " Shak- Nasty.Sims and
q" Captain Jacks" OF the "Lava
Beds who made their own treason
odiOus by accepting promise of the
! potage of a nomination for the
house of delegates so long in adj
vance of the time when the OdOr-
GUS broth is to be placed within
smelling distance of the procurable
Esau holding an inappreciable
birthright. The vote stands five
to one against this fraud. If there
had been a four "fOr' to two
" against, the cry of the "Big
Four so soon heard among the
bosses would have been echOing
still.
But "three to three filenced
the masked batteries, and then two
more said, eve cannot do it," The
sixth will soon call a Lyncbburg
convention to pass resolutions of
acQuiescence, and all funderism
will say: awe never wanted new
court house, but we cannot stand
republican or readjuster opposition
to it," Then they will all turn
toward a Northern Vile-ass and
ask for a comforting pOst.Ofice.
In the meantime we cannot fol-
get that one thing told US by
funderism is true. There is a fund
of $4,000 in the county treasury
left there to build a court house.
Funderism has said this was
enough. Over two hundred dol
lars have been paid out for plans.
We do not know what the several
committees cost the county. Pos
sibly very little. We do know
that no bid has been received that
came nearer than $4,000 to the sum
in the treasury. But this aside.
How did the $4,000 get into the
county treasury! When the read
iusters reduced taxation from 90
to 40 cents for state purposes,
county taxes were increased 10
cents. Then it was funderism sent
a man about to show that read
iustment had not reduced taxes.
This was the beginning and the
end of the sO-called courthouse
fund. 1t was a deception in its
inception. The latest plan has
been to get a board to begin on
this $4,000 and then ask: shall
we leave this building unfinished ?
To answer this was to receive in re.
ply that Judge Turner would issue
manddmus to compel the con-
struction OF fire proof clerks offices.
To this we respond: Judge Turner
may mandam them bat not as.
This old courthouse front has
stood 1O7 years, and there is not
so substantial building in this
county today. 1t is almost with
out "plaster cracks" 1t is equal
in area to any in the cities or
towns of the state. 1t is fire proof |
except its wooden shelves which |
can be replaced by fire proof ones
for 81, 500. 1t is a land mark that
testifles the truth of our county |
history. The removal of the wood
en- floor that extends from the front
door to the court hall will take
from the building all the conbusti-
BILE matter that is in it, except only
that which few years of commit
tee suggestion has placed in the
clerks offices. That wo have
plenty of room is best attested by
the fact that One.fOurth of the front
has not been used for years for
county or court purposes.
To the people Of Shenandoah we
think we may say that funder and
ring deception has not awaited this
time.
Now let the Supervisors expend
the boosted and ill.gOtten surplus
in making better roads from the
turnpike east and west, and to
aiding the public schools during
the forthcoming year. The more
SCHOOLS we have the less the re.
lnired capacity for courthOuSes
md iailS.
Mr.. Cleveland is a very huge
receptacle of Virginia falsehOod of {
which Vile.ass aud Manning are [
he mediums. He will be a little
to hear in the near future