The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-29

crnmcnt will begin TO feel tho unfit
tho auickenins of higher ideals and
new vital energy. On the other hand.
Riehmo anG WIZ, wr9n &, men to them; and
ever voted for IL change Of admin
isitation.
The demand of tho hour is for Ave
Iieah' capaoic energetic, business
IKE men. Dlentitully endowed with
sanity, common sense and high Ideals
IN private and public life-men who
nave good records in the businesses
WHICH nave previously engaged them
men VINO can be trusted to administer
annually S5,V0o,v00 OF your money and
mine.
Driven by Machine.
What then. IS the status of the
cratic CITY Committee Oh the one
mana and pubic apathy on the otheri
! wonder II the trainers of the new
administrative plan vealizcd that tina
last word was TO be spoken by the
cry Democratic Committee? I cannot
mink so. Yet ii has come about. Tho
body has met and 10y an overwhelming
vote declared itself on the side of the
machine politicians by voting down
the convention Iian of nominating can
didates for the Administrative Board
in favor of the direct primary Every
one knows what That means. 1t means
that the slate Will 80 through UNI
less the better class OF citizens who
nave no axes TO grind wake up and
prinS out Il ticket OF their own. The
time has come for that. The Chamber
OF Commcrce is largely tand rightly,
l belicvc) responsible for securing the
passage of this new form of govern
mcnt, and It IS the feeling OF a great
many good citizens that it Is no time
Tor them to play the game OF hands
OF" but that they should take tho
lead in bringing before the people ana
helping 10 elect five mon who Will bo
OF the success OF the new form OF
government.
men witn the requisite ability to let
themselves be nominated: because. III
the first place. they would have to Is,
moro or less OF an uncertainty. ana
In the second place, they do not want
to risk the humiliation of a defeat by
the situation is critical and calls for
sacrifice. Is it too much to hope that
there are five men in Richmond who
flee for The sake of the city they
love? know IL Is asking much; but
other cities have found auch men. one
OF the Commissioners OF Birmingham,
Ala, / ann informed, gave up a lucra-
tive position which was bringing him
an Income OF over $4,000. in order to
OF only $1,000. 1 do not doubt there
arc men OF that heroic stamp In Rich
nond.
Need Heroes in Itichmond.
We have been talking u great deal
OF late OF the hcroism OF the Titanic
victims whu refused to leave the ship
In order ut the women aud children
might be saved But there Is another
kind vi heroisIn--thc heroisrl OF daily
litc--thc heroism OF the lighter purse
the heroism OF the sacrificed amb'-
tion-the heroism which for the si,ke
of others welfare takes up and bears
the burden that no one else Will hit,
Who will nil the breach?
FINALLY nv friends. the future of
this city, IN moral and reiiE; Gus
sense, depends TO a very large extent
on tho Kind OF administration you give
H. You cannot separate moral ana
religious from civic problems. 1t You
would keep kichmonu moral YOU must
Keep her government pure.
\ few years ago at a great theatre
fire in Parts, we read that the men
fought like wild beasts, trampl'nE
down the women and children III their
wild frenzy TO save their own coward
ly skins. low different when the
'iltanic sunk. Then the men OF Eng
land and america stood aside and let
the women and children NIL the boats.
while the ship band played at the very
moment of the inai plunge: Nearer.
difference? The difference was that
France is n nation OF waning religion
and decudent morals, while England
and America are nations where God
il still houored and HIS laws obcyed.
God help us through the kind OF CIV:
conditions we hand down TO future
generations, 10 Keep Richmond in the
forefront of those cities whose God Is
the Lord