Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-10-14
Too Much Politics.

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Too Much Politics.
It may be, says the Richmond Enquirer, thai
we have too much politics; we will not deny
that it is so. But when we have an election, il
the true men take no part in it they must ex-
pect it to be controlled by those who are obnox.
ious to their wishes and inimical to their inter.
ests. The negroes are never Indifferent, wheth-
the contest is national, or simply for the small
est county Office if there is profit enough attach
ing to it to make it an object on the part of one
of their party. Aud if white men who know
what they are voting about, who really have the
best interests of the State in view, and who are
themselves deeply concerned in the results o.
elections, hold back their ballots and refuse to
participate, the effect, of course, is to turn over
everything like government to an inferior race,
and to accept whatever ignorance and prejudice
and incapacity may bring upon both races.
The white men Of Virginia canuot afford to
be inactive in the approaching election; they
dare not, for the sake of everything they hold
DEAR look with apathetic eye upon the effort of
the negro for mastery in the State; they have
too much at risk to be regardless of the result
They would be satisfied for the Conservative par
ty to 60 on 10 Virginia as it has been going, and
as it is, without the formality Of an election to
continue it in power. But there is to be an
election held, and the Radical party is strain
ing every nerve to secure the Offices to be filled
and the white men must exert their strength or
they will lose their asceudency 10 the Common
wealth.
The negroes and their associates and allies
are disputing every inch of ground. They have
their forces so organized that on the 4th of Nc
vember they will be promptly in the field with
every man at his post They know they can be
beaten but they are also aware that if the white
men stay away from the polls they will not be
beaten. It remains to be seen whether the in
ferior or the superior race will manifest most ia
terest in the election by the proportion of its
numbers it brings out to decide it. We will
not believe that the white man will stay at home
while the negro votes, and thereby not only ac-
quiesce in negro rule in Virginia, but absolute
ly bring it upon her people.
Ii Radicalism shall be crushed out in our
State, as it can be by an overwhelming defeat
in November, those who complain of too much
politics may, after that. feel much more secure
in giving less attention to elections than is de-
manded of them now; for then, with parties
divided, as they used to be 10 better days, not
with reference to race but upon questions of
public policy arising from differences among well
meaning men; with no danger of negro domi-
nation and with the demagogues who have de-
luded the negro disappointed and discounted,
the people may see that the State viii not be
ruined, whether one patriotic party or the 9TH
er may prevail. What we want now is such
defeat of the negro party as will relieve US here
after of all apprehension of having our State
government under the control of the black man
US, it is madOess for white men to be folding
their arms and doubling about going to the polls
because they are tired of elections and think we
have too much politics.
Let us drive the Radicals from the field in such
confusion on the Fourth of November that they
will give US no serious trouble afterwards, and
there may then be some excuse for white man
to stay away from the polls. But on that day
let no Conservative voter fail to do his duty, at
the peril Of the utter ruin of his State.
THE NEGRO IN THE NORTHERN SCHOOLS.
The negroes of Ohio especially are urging their
right to enter any and all public schools on the
same terms as whites At Xeuia one third of
the population is black, and the matter is be-
ing urged with great persistency. At GAINESVILLE
recently two black boys made application for
admission to the High School, and having pass
ed the usual examination, they placed the board
of education in the awkward dilemma of re-
pudiating their own rules or of forcing refined
white young ladies into the society and COM
panionship of rough, uncultivated. unmaDy
negroes" as one expressed it. The board,
however, lodged the issue by hiring new pre-
ceptor for the sole exclusive use of these two
darkies. This is equivalent to private tutor
at the public expense. and looks more like black
superiority than equality. 1t seems the negroes
are not content with superiority so they held
an indignation meeting and threatened dire po-
litical woes to the Republican party if it failed
to secure social equality for these two aspiring
young Africans Rich Whig.
A TRAGEDY INDEED.-One of the most
heart-rending stories of the year comes from Fon
du Lac. A young lady was passing through a
piece of ground adjoining farm house with
her lover when the girl was attacked by saw
age dog. Before her escort could protect her
the dog had seized her by the breast and torn
the breast from her .body. When the young
man saw the dog shaking portion of the body
of his intended he tainted away. The young
lady. however, did not faint. She was so NOR
titled that she seized a fence rail and she went
for that dog, aud she pounded him until he laid
still. When her lover recovered the young wo-
man was trying to hide one of the wire screens
that people put over plates to keep the flies off
1t seems that the dog didn't draw blood, ow-
ing to the fashions at Fond du Lac, which is
needless to describe. However, there is great
excitement at Fond du Lac, and the young man
has broken off his engagement aud has bought
that dog-what there is left of him-and he is
going to set him again.-Ld Crosse Democrat.
A Double Murder of peculiarly horrible
kind was discovered near Montrose Station, or
the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail
way, place not far from Scranton. Pa. The
bodies of an old lady of sixty-fve and hel
daughter aged thirty, were found lying across
the track, but we're not Injured by any train
A coroner's jury elected sufficient evidence t.
| cause the arrest of Daniel O'Mara, the son O
the old lady, and his hired man named Irving
It seems that 0 Mara inherited some propert
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