Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-11-09
,TW.EI15Y d 2 AGES
T m |. NOVEMBER >. 1859.
SELFISH AMBITIoN.o

"SELFIsH AMBITION.'
" An organ Of the official organization
of the{D Democratic party which 0et us
say gave itself away to Mr.. Martin
without authority and in the grossest
y violation ofits duty to the party, sneer-
ingly speaks Of independents" as am
bilious men, who have thus sought
some selfish end by antagonizing the
4 party Tt also says that they are more
& dangerous to Democracy than declared
4 Republicans-intim that independ-
& ents are Republicans in disguise.
There is not the slightest justfca-
ton or excuse for this TRADE OF abuse.
X It is the; spirit of independence among
free men that preserves liberty ana
4 makes party government tolerable by
s restraining the abuses intoiwhich party
managers and organizations are sure
! to practice when they think they have
y got the rank and file into n state of dis
4 cIpline and subordnation that will in
a sure their silent submission to every
Il eilormlty done in the name Of their
Ii party If not their hearty acpuiescence
b and support. And q worse evil this
iAyear for the Democratic party Of Vir-
glnia than the rreacherous usurpation
4 Of It's. official servants Is the support
and approval this usurpation has re-
q ceiyed from o portion Of the press and
1 prominent men who understand the
true condition OF things. and yet fear
A to- join in exposing and opposing It.
The unfailhful stewards. thus en-
couraged by the Mammon of upright
e eousness, will probably go from bad
3 togworse, until thu Enrt.F itseIf VIII be
sacrificed to their ircI dinate greed of
4 power. place and pelf, as in 1879 In yir-
ginia and in 1895 In Maryland, and
in other Southern Democratic States at
various times.
In this very election, in spite of every
effort to suppress them, no less than
#ffty-three (53) independent Democratic
independents took the field, when only
I one-hundred and twenty Q2O) places
were to be Sfilled That under all the
Z circumstances, was an amazing nuns
a Der, and 1t should make the usurpers
s pause and consider their ways. Many
OF these were defeated; but their APP
4 partition on the scene, the votes they re-
L L, c t, and THE VOTES THE
IN .ARFIN CANDIDATES DID NoTI
y RECEIVE, are portents that 1t be-
moves the unfaithful officials to scan
wen and not mislnterpret their, signi.
Il ncance and Importance Besides. II Is |
Il Nyeell-known that thousands of Demo.
n rats VINO voted the so-called regular
$40 icke Us. did so under protest and Mt
i5te rly & disanproving the methods bv
Z, svhi'cih Sthese tickets were manufactured
ITO order by the party bosses, or party
& rings.
Nor Is selfish ambition" to be for
I gotten as a potent factor. 1t was 70
THAT. above all things. the Ma,,i,
( machine appealed In all its onsro ,,on,
1 from beginning to end ohicers. can.
/. didates and asplrants, with their
friends and supporters, were elthar In
y undated by the threat of defeat Nv
II the machip on persuaded by ths
Il promise OF the. support ana aid of tho
IN m rfa hai hin EYerybpd y knows this, and
Il none better. han those very men who
I g charge Selfish ambI ton" on independ-
II ents,s who, from Gov, Tyler, down to
y che Wea keats cand late forsthe House Of
"a : Delegatss fully nn Il erstood the dan
ger, dificultie an 4 q al use they dared
tt e king their ton of protest
4 agasnst: org gam yea Igsr on
4 shrink from,
Il re sbgseehs ashs amb III 81 did