The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-07-30
Political Notes.

| The New York Democratic leaders. such Of
them as are in the city, are not little rut
| out by the plank in the Indiana platform which
| proposes to pay OFT the national debt in green
backs, and after a brief consultation at the Mar
| haitian Club they have come to the conclusio..
that something, must be done to counterfeit til
bad Effect It niust have on the fall election
Governor Hendricks chance for the next Pres
| ldentlal nomination were considered second to
none previous to the adoption of the plank in
question; now his friends say he will have to
to take a back seat. Among the dissentents,
from the platform may be included Congress
men Cox and Fernando Wood. The former *
credited with saying that the resolution in uues-
ton will compel the Democracy to do thei :
work over again to convince the people that re-
pudiation is not in any sense part Of their doc.
trine, present or future. These expressions are
worth recording, as showing the drift of politi,
cal thought on Il vital question in this part q
the country.
Here is comforting statement for those san
guine organs of the Democracy which are striv-
ing to twist the platform of the Indiana breth-
rem into declaration in favor of hard money.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says 'sThe action Of
the Indiana Democracy borrows significance
from this fact 1t is completely in the line of
the belief Of the great bulk Of the, Democratic
party, then the Democracy Of nearly thirty
States will echo its platform almost as unvolul~
tarily as the hillside echoes the song in the
moonlight. 1t is six years and eleven months
ago to day that the Hon George H. Pendleto:,
made the first public annunciation Of finan-
cial doctrine almost identical with that which
the Indiana Democracy declared yesterday III
few months tWenty-six States will have taken
up the theory and fashioned it into creed, and
the transformations apostle and herald of the
doctrine which is now at homie in the mouth o.
all men can comp1acently rest in the assurance
that the seed was not soWn by the wayside OF
ON stony ground"
In discussing the action Of the Democrats Of
Indiana, the Cincinnati Commercial says: ''The
Democracy GO to the people of the State with
two STRONG points in their fayor-plenty of pa
per money and license. The people have lbeeu
taught to think that hard times are due to
scHroity OF money-shat is to say, tnat the vol.
in1e ct currency is insufficient for the trausas;-
ton d business. Senator Morton is more res-
ponsiBle than any other man in Indiana tor the
diffsuion of this fallacy. II his party is beaten
on their own ground it will be with the cllb
he has furnised their antagonists 1t will re-
quire all the skill and the tact in the manage
ment of which Senator Morton is the master.
to defeat the ticket put IN nomination on yes
terday.'' . $500,
Judge Mackey, of South Carolina, since his
interview with President Grant, has waXed very
bold, and has begun to attack his quondans
friend, Coy. Moses, from the bench. In prCl
nouncing Sentence the other day on a man Wins
had been convicted OF arson, the judge said that
the verdict had been rendered by an impartia;
jury, composed Of five white and seven coloret:
citizens, after the evidenc had clearly shows
that child abont seven years of age had been
consumed in the burning building. He sentenc-
ed him to hard laborin the penitentiary for life.
and, in concllison, said; Il do, therefore, IN
the name of violated law, protest against Exec
utive clemency being extended in this case b.
the Chief Magistrate f. J. Moses, Jr., who hi,
so prostituted tile papdQning power as Ia,
make the administration Oft the, criminal law
mere moekery Of justice, and has converted TIL,
great seal OF the State into the symbol of aIr
proved crime" ..4,:
what little importance dttachedto hissviews o.
the third term Question by denying the state
nent that he claimed to be on very intimatsi
terms with the President. He says he knows
nothing of General GRANTS views and purposes
from any conversation he has held with him
since they have never held any upon party or
CARNATIONS o programmes, past, present, O.
future.