Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-10-23
YOUR VOTE NOVEMBER Sd:


On next Tuesday week every Virginian |
will be called on to vote for a representa-
tive in Congress. In this district the con-
test is about as exciting as race where |
slow nags are entered against crack tro t.
trotter whose record shows 228 easy. Jno
T. Harris is sort Of Orange Blossom that
doesn't give his competitors even so much
as a show. That gallant champion of de-
feat, Col O'Ferral, who, safe in the sup
port of some precincts in Rockingham,
sallies forth regularly to get endorsed, with
an eccentric perseverance worthy OF Don
Quixote, deserves better fate; but we
don't know anything that can be done to
help him. He will come out regularly and
get himself endorsed, and his spear broken,
and his helmet knocked down over his
eyes, only to retire wondering how it was
all done, when his information from the
Rockingham precincts was 50 entirely to
the contrary. Our old friend, Senator
Lewis, who, in his last moments, has been
rendered an ante mortem compliment by a
party of his political friends gathered at a
wake held in Harrisonburg, is in worse
case than Col. O'Ferrall. He had expected
to have spent his last moments in peace,
and not to have been made a hopeless
spectacle in Radical walk round for the
convenience of some shreWd politicians
who are using the retiring Senator as
withe to bind the ''party, as they call it,
together. Fortunately, the aft tlr will be
short-the Senator will soon be at re t.
The next candidate, or rather the Con-
gresham as good as elected, is Hon. Jno.
T. Harris; and what we want for him
as the candidate of the Conservative party
in this district is the largest vote yet cast.
1t is important that we should have a big
vote in this district, not so much to give
Mr.. Harris large vote, but to join III the
tremendous rebuke that Radicalism is re-
ceiving from the people of the country.
Indiana Is, 600; Ohio $1,000; West Virginia
sent every Congressman Democrat; Ar
kansas carried by thu Democrats by an
overwhelming majority Georgia swept Sc
clean that there was hardly a Republican
candidate left to tell the tale. These are
the invitations given every Virginia voter
to come out and make short work of Nat
ional Radicalism, as we did last year OF
State Radicalism. 1t is all important that
the people of Virginia should add their
voice TO the protest that is going up from
unexpected quarters against the govern
ment of this great country by the Radical
party Every man who votes Tuesday
week for the Conservative candidate adds
to the grand protest that is being made.
The West and North have sickened of the
National Administration. At the West
they have seen through the receptions
practiced blythe Radicals to keep the South
in their power, and can nc longer be
blinded. Even the ''Sutler's Convention"
at Chattanooga gotten up to affect the fall
elections is lau 5hed at both North and
West as too thin. They are getting the
right measure of the o-called +" Republican'
humbug of the South, abroad, and oul
people in Virginia must clinch the matter
Tuesday week.
1t is the duty of every Conservative vo
ter next Tuesday week to vote for the Con
sentative nominee. 1t is a duty he owes
TO his country, to his State. and especially
to his countrymen of the South, in behalf
of whom political uprising is taking
place, to which the tumbltg over of KEEL
logg at New Orleans is as nothing. We
don't often make political appeals to tht
readers of this journal, for politics are no
to our fancy and bore us at most times
but this occasion is far above mere politica
questions; it is whether or not any man il
Virginia shall refuse to join in that gran(
movement in behalf of a better govern
ment. The larger the vote cast in Vir
ginia the grander her protest. Do not lie
Virginia lag behind. Ohio and Indiana art
in the lead, but let us be abreast Of New
York and Pennsylvania in November
Just think what comfort it would be il
we can once more have a friendly nationa
administrations national government 0
which we should feel we were a part.