Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-08-28
For the SPECTATOR.
A FEW FACTS.

ton In It's desire for the public good,
even at its own expense, we give the
proposition of that association made
and delivered to the Virginia Live
Stock Association April 9th, 1895, after
legal opinion of prominent member
of the bar of Staunton had decided
that no union of the two associations,
SO entirely dissimilar in their organiza-
ton. would be legal. and that the plan
as suggested by the Virginia Live
Stock Association could not be carried
out. In order that the public may be
enabled to more thoroughly under
stand the situation, we give below the
illegal proposition in full which reads
as follows -
THAT the Directors of the Baldwin
District Fair Association and the Di-
rectOrs of the Virginia Live Stock and
Fair Association shall each submit a
list of their Directors to the Board of
the other Association. Each Associa-
ton shall from such list select five
names, which ten shall constitute the
Board of Directors Of the Baldwin Dis
trict Fair Association and Virginia
Live Stock and Fair Association to
hold and conduct a joint Fair, at
which Fair the Corporators shall by a
recorded vote without the use of
proxies) elect a new Board in whole,
who shall draw for time of service, q,
2, 3, 4, u years terms)."
The reasons of it's illegality aresap-
parent to any layman. We do not at
tempt to give them in full, but it is
evident that in order to adopt this
plan the charter and entire bylaws of
the Baldwin District Fair Association
would have to be changed, power
not given to the Board of Directors
The plan was, on the grounds of its
illegality, and those alone, rejected,
and a reasonable one submitted on the
part of the B. D. F. A. to the
Va. L. s. & F. A, to which no re-
ply was made until it was renewed on
the 18th inst, which proposition and
the answer received we give below in
full =
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS ADOPT
ED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
THE BALDWIN DISTRICT FAIR AsSo-
CITATION APRIL 9TH, 1895.
In the full assurance that the Bald
win District Fair ASSOCIATION with it's
ample grounds and buildings, already
provided by the public spirited contri-
buttons. in money and effort of the
people of this District, and its organi-
cation matured by the experience of
twenty eight years, affords the best OPP
portunity for the exhibition of the
varied resources of this District, we
cordially extend to any association
within the limits of the District covered
by our charter, the invitation to CO.
operate with us in carrying out the
objects of this society; but learning
that another Association, recently
organized for the purpose of conduct
ing like enterprise, is DESTROYS of
holding a Fair in this county, and
learning further, that some of its con-
tributors, whether justly or not, are
opposed to exhibiting at the Baldwin
District Fair, and for the further
reason, that this Association has but
one object as set forth in its charter
1.-THE exhibition of the natural and in
dustrial products, and as q means of
developing the resources and promo
ting enterprise, industry, economy and
thrift among the people-therefore. in
order that the people of this section
may have an opportunity to make the
best and fullest contribution of the
resources of this and adjacent counties,
in fair and friendly contest for
supremacy, and under the direction of
such authorities as may be free from
sny prejudice past or present; we the
Baldwin District Fair Association, pro-
pose to the Virginia Live Stock and
Fair Association the following =
1st. The Baldwin District Fair As
ISOLATION viii not hold Fair for the
year 1895, provided the City Council
shall consent, and provided the Vir-
ginia Live Stock and Fair Association
by like resolution shall decline to hold
an exhibition in 1895.
2nd. The Baldwin District Fair As
ISOLATION by and with the consent of
the Council of the city of Staunton,
(who are joint owners of the property
will agree to the use of their buildings
and improvements for the purpose of a
Fair, to be conducted by five gentle
men who may be named by each of the
Associations referred to, and which
persons shall be respectively accept
able to the other Association PRO
vided further The gentlemen who
shall be SO named, shall have the prop
erty insured against fire for the pro-
lection of the said Baldwin District
Fair Associations buildings during
the time of their use and occupancy by
the said parties, and that any injury
shall be properly repaired at the close
of the fair-insurance and repairs to be
paid out of the receipts of their ex-
hibition.
3rd. The Baldwin District Fair Asso
citation pledges it's sympathy and inter
est in the purposes of the parties
named, similar obligation of course
to rest upon the members of the Vir
ginia Live Stock and Fair Association,
but neither Association to be in any
way responsible for the acts of the
gentlemen named.
4th. The Baldwin District Fair As
ISOLATION feels in making this propo
sition that it is doing the best in its
power to afford an opportunity for a
successful exhibition of the stock and
varied resources of the District, and
that the lapse of it's annual meeting,
and the tender of its property for the
purpose named, must be accepted as an
earliest Vi It's ueSlTe LOT d uuIteu euCTt,
and demonstration that it is actuated
by no narrow or selfish considerations,
but that the greatest good for the
greatest number is sought by this ac-
ton, to the end that successful Fair
may be held upon its grounds in 1895.
This proposed arrangement shall be
prejudice to the privileges Of |
admission enjoyed by the corporators
Of the Baldwin District Fair Associa- |
ton, or the stockholders Of the Vir |
ginia Live Stock and Fair Association. |
On the 18th, Aug, 1895, the following
letter was sent to the Virginia Live
Stock and Fair Association
STAUNTON, VA, Aug. 10, 1895.
My Dear Sir
l am instructed by my Board to COM
municate the following
That inasmuch as the letter of this
bearing date of April 9th,
1893, conveying proposition from the
Baldwin District Fair Association to
5he Va. Fair and Live Stock Associa-
ion has not been replied to, and
'urther, as an evidence of the continued