Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-05-22

trout, r. L. Bell, Daniel CrlmmenS, =. M.
Goode, John McQuaide, J. G. ScheGer, w.
f. Summerson and W. 2. Tams,
Do the people want the financial policy
of these councilmen repeated? If they do
not, they must defeat them.
The Vindicator is disposed to strain at
gnat and swallow camel. 1t says the pres
ent council is a selt-nominated body for re-
election, when the fact is that it was not NOM
mated at all. The people had called them to
the management of the affairs of the city, and
repeated the call every two years for the past
ten wears. The council simply assumed that
if they had given satisfaction to the power
that entrusted them with authority, they were
willing to continue in their service. If they
were not satisfied they were at liberty to say
so at the polls. in the regular legal way
tSta41toia Times (Rep.)
This is the hand Of the Republican organ,
but the voice of the "Staunton Perpetual
City Government Company" OF which we
gave the prospectus in our last. LII IS just
as we have said; the old councllmen THINK
the town belongs to them and are actually
under the impression that they have been
running it for ten years, and that 1.-THE peo-
nile had called them to the management of
the affairs of the city and repeated the call
every two years for the last ten years. F"
The gentlemen who were called by the peo-
pie to the council ten years ago WERE
1st Ward. ed Ward.
G. Bargamin. F. B. Berkeley
J. D. Crowle, W. T. Iams,"
J., T. Long, J. A. Cochran
NJ. B. Oberdorfer, A. j. Butts,
w, F. Summerson, w. E. Craig,
JAS. W. Teabo. E. Mcmahon.
Those marked with an \ were nominees
of the Democratic primary. Ut the pres
ent self nominated council only Messrs.
Summerson and Tams have been there ten
wears. Others of them have been there vari,
Gus shorter terms except Messrs.C T. Ham
| mond, Adolph Loeb and G.. W. Fretwell
who have never been members at all, and
are not likely to be. It is amusing to
see the later issue in the council running
| ON their record" A number of them
have had nothing whatever to do with
any of the improvements made in the city
in the last ten years, and were not in the
council when they were made.
The paragraph of the Times only goes to
prove that the VINDICATOR's prospectus
Of the ''Staunton Perpetual City Govern
ment Company is correct. 1t is such
| complete 'sring'' that the member who
hash It been in the council four years thinks
he has been there ten, and three men who
haven't been there at all, but are only try
ing to get there, labor under the same
delusion.
We are inclined to be more liberal with
the old council than the Times is. 1t con-
tends that 1t was not self nominated for it
was not nominated at all. On the contrary
the VINDICAToR holds that it was nomi
mated, the members nominating each other.
This view will be strengthened by refer
ence to the Manifesto of the Mutual AID.
miration Society signed by six of the mem
! bers announcing that they (withou5 naming
any provocation) would run for the coun.
ell on a 'non-partizan" and s'strictly
BUSINESS platform.
The number of Democrats who will moi
participate in the Democratic primary here
next Thursday is growing. l am told thai
most of the bankers will not vote because
| they do not expect to support the Democratic
H-ati in tl1n hot ,a nofin
ton declares for free silver. know of law
yers, merchants and manufacturers who will
not vote.-Rec1tnaoad letter IN Petersburg In
de3-Appeak.
1t would seem that there had been enough
midsummer madness in the Democratic
party since 1898 without having this foil.
superadded. What sort of thing do thes
gentlemen imagine political party. to be
that it can be dumped whenever the vote
finds himself in minority2 Why they are
no better than some of the silver men who
are threatening to bolt at Chicago if they
are in the minority II must be very
short sighted Democrat who does not SCI
/ more than silver at issue. A low tariff anG
home rule are equally as important and The
Democratic party defends them both
There is certainly no such feeling in this
section of Virginia as is mentioned by this
correspondent, and we expect politica
census of Richmond would not show thai
it is very wide spread there. A far sighted
and true Democrat will vote for the nomi
nee of the Chicago convention even though
| he be on the freest Of free silver platforms
The Democratic partyis taking its turn
this year as the under dog in the fight, JUS
| the sort Of year to breed boilers, indepen
dents and assistant Republicans. But th
Democracy always fights its way to the to-
in due season.