Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-03-01

Considerable interest is evinced in the
Presidential nominations of the Labor Re.
form National Convention, which assembled
at Columbus, Ohio, on the 22nd. This
party is not directly affiliated with either of
the more prominent parties of the day
They have organizations in seventeen States
and have nominated two very able men.
For President, Judge David H. Davis, of
the U. S. Supreme Bench, Western man
and former partner Of President Lincoln,
an old line Wing until 1854 and from that
timo Republican, and is said to be in &C.
cord with the Missouri Reform movement
For Vice President, Governor Joel Parker,
the present Governor Of New Jersey, to
which position he was elected last Fall by
six thousand majority, and lifelong Dem
ocrat
There is no question that these gentlemen
are able and popular men, and that the La.
Dor Reformers have put forward very
strong ticket. Who is to be the successful
nominee, however, is yet in the dim future.
The Prohibitionists have also put their can
didates in the field in the persons Of JAS
Black, Of Pennsylvania, for President, and
Jno. Russell, Of Michigan, for Vice Presi-
dent. The anti.Grant Republicans hold a
meeting in Cincinnati on the LIST of May for
consultation. The Grant or Radical Re.
publicans hold their Convention in Phila.
delphia on the 9th of June, and the Demo-
cratic National Convention is to be held af-
ter that date. There may be five sets Of
Candidates in the field and there may be on.
Iy three, so that conjecture as to the result
at present is out Of the question.
The New York Herald, which is strongly
for Grant, says there sis joint stock ope-
ration for the defeat of Grant" 1t says:
.sThe labor reformers have taken the
field, and for fusion with the Democrats =;
the Democrats are holding back for fusion
with the anti-Grant Republicans, and the
ultra temperance and woman's rights men
have organized as guerilla party to pick
up all the loose materials from the other
parties in the contest. not forgetting little
trading and swapping Of horses on the
way"
The special Washington Correspondent
of the New York Tribune, speaks as follows
on this subject:
ssMr. Trumbull has pronounced himself
squarely as in favor Of the Missouri Liberal
Republican movement, and his able defence
of the resolutions passed by the Missouri
Convention will, doubtless, cause long de-
bate on the merits of that movement and its
effect on the future of the Republican party.
The Administration party is. tonight, more
demoralized than it has ever before been,
though under ordinary circumstances they
would pay little or no attention to anything
that the so-calIed Labor Reformers might do
The wisdom which it is generally admitted
by politicians they have displayed in their
choice Of candidates, the possibility that the
Convention ct Cincinnati will indorse the
same ticket, and the announcement by some
leading Democrats that they believe the
great mass of their friends could be united
in the support Of Davis and Parker, have
frightened the shrewder Of the friends o
General Grant, and some Of them are ad
hitting, privately, tonight that if the Dem
ocrats ard all of the anti Grant Republic an
unite on Davis and Parker, the nomine
of the Philadelphia Convention will hav'
no easy task before him, even though hi
nave the whole of the immense patronage o.
she Federal Government to back him."