Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-11-30

me Ii Oer6 OF IL, TO CONVICT tue puySlc
JAMS so promptly without hearing the
evidence. Only three of these twelve
jurymen read any of that evidence and
they read it in disjointed way. One
took piece of it home and read it,
another, another piece. and the third
another piece. so that only three read
any at all. and each of them only
portion of it. If it was necessary to
re ad any, it was nece ssary to lead all,
else one person who had read all would
have been better prepared to tell the
others what was in it than three who
read disj )inted parts. But on that
sort of investigation they rendered
their verdict, and possibly like PLATE
washed their bands, and said ''let not
the blood of these just men be on u.s."
Indeed who knows but that they have
released Barrabbas and crucified those
whom the mob wanted.
Now the public will ask the reason
for all this. because the public is bound /
to see there was reason. The public will /
be bound to say, where is the niger /
IN this wood pile p There are lious
reasons assigned, but the one most
plausible seems to be about as follows
and we tell it as in substance 1t has
been told to us. 1t is known that at
| the last sessiOn of the Legislature an
effort was made to declare the position
| of Commissioner of Hospitals vacant
and elevate DIR. VIM. F. Drewry, now
superintendent of the negro hospital at
Petersburg, to the position, increase
his salary and give him peculiar and
unheard of powers. The plot failed.
But we are told that it is still very
live plot. Today we learn DR.. Drewry
is not at bis hospital; but at the States
expense he is acting as INFERNO, that
IL doing any work assigned him. In
a northern hospital for month. and
his hospital is running as best 1t can.
No permit or consent of the General
Board has been asked, and nothing
like this has ever been heard of before
in the history of hospitals In this
State. But then he only has to deal
with "niggers" and they don't count
as before the war. especially crazy
ones. Short leaves have been grant
ed superintendents but nothing more.
and they have often been considered
unwise and altogether unnecessary.
1t will be said this is to the State g
interest. Maybe so, but if the hos
pital of which he is superintendent
can spare him for month at time. 1t
might make it a year, al d If a year
. then longer. 1t is suspected that the
l State g interest is not the only thing
sought, but some people will think that
the reputation, the prestige, the all
1 commanding knowledge and future
{ greatness of DIR Drewry will enter
I somewhere into this on months alb
0 sence, with the salary going on all the
time.
The politics being played so those
. best informed seem 20 think, will re
suit in DR.. Drewry's being appointed
g to Comr. Lanes place. His quivel
will be full when his apprenticeship al
inferno is over, what he will not know
9 then of alienism and bookkeeping
= will be of little conse q ueDce.
G So soon as the Legislature meets ,
bill for increased authority in IL
j Commissioner carrying a salary Of
: S., 900 will promptly be brought for
q ward, and the taxpayers will swea
q fixers and trixters will wink the othe
J eye aud be happy. Ia the mean tim
II ali the hospitals will be filled with su
e perinteDdents Of his choosing, or il
% sympathy with such movement, VIII
!, will cheerfully come forward and test
70 fy to the great wisdom of the mOvemen
ID and to the super human powers al
u knowledge as an alienist of the ne'
10 Commissioner This is called 10 to-
ritual of the "tribe''-"The elevatlo
,r of the Host" We make no prophe sy
10 We have been told to look out for tn
t. coup d'etat for the plan is incubatini
It This is not our conception. But sine
"a We have looked over the field and SUI
Or veyed the lay of the ground, it is vel
n plausible. No sooner we're the ply
a. sicians dismissed at Williamsburg las
at week than slate fully prepared WE
as presented, and it was strongly scente
% with some of the aroma pervading tt
to negro hospital at Petersburg.
N Mr.. J. W. Wampler died on Sunda
ia at his home about two miles from NJ
" Sidney. aged about IS years. He
n. survived by six children.
&c HOW's ThiS2