Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-06-26
virginia Politics.

Notwithstanding the hot weather the
canning Congressional elections are STIR
ring. up the political bile in Virginia.
Mr.. George C. Wedderburn, late manager
Of the Richmond Enquirer" is out in a
letter to the Washington "Chroniele."
with reference to Mosby's candidacy for
Congress, in which he says:
Colonel Mosby's friends charge that he
has intlisputable evidence of the co-0pera-
tion of Gov. Kemper in his scheme TO
bring the Virginia Conservatives over 10
the support Of Grants administration, ana
that Kemper had pledged himself Tor
Grant, not only for the third, but the sew
enth term! and had promised that !!fty
Thousand Confederate braves would HOW
him (Kemper) to Grants support; that
Mosby, in good faith, and with written
evidence to support it, looked upon hviii-
per as All effective cnadJut"r III ''eiiali o.
Grants administration that Gov. Am
per submitted his first message to Col III !
Mosby. and two days thereafter, in Janl'-
AIRY last. got & lionel M,sby to visit W So
ingion to ask Grant tn invite lllm kelli-
perl to pay him Grant II visit for the pur,
pose of etfectng a political alliance: ana
further, that Governor kenper sent Il
prominent citizen OF "a. l'iief county l
Grant last December on IL s>eri a embassy
to let Grant know that he W. about I"
wheel into line, and inform him as TO Ght
contents of his message.
The written evidence" app 'ars to nave
been letter from Governor Kemper to
Major John Scott, a friend of Mosby. Of
this letter the Richm md correspondent OF
the Petersburg News says:
There has been much talk about Gov.
Kemper's letter to Mr.. John L. Scott, OF
of Mosby's Confederacy." Why does not
Mr. Scott give this letter publicity ?
Simply because it will do Mosby harm. Il
know that Kemper believes MoSby is dan
gerous to our party !; | know that he is OPP
posed to Grant for Il third term, and | am
satisfied that whatever he has written to
Scott or any one else. he is willing to see
published. Kemper has told all who con-
versed with him. that were he now in Mos
by's ,district--that is, at homeAhe would
take the stump against Mosby. Let Scott
publish his letter. Then the public will
see.
The Warrenton sIndex" says Major
Scott burnt the letter, and refuses to d.
vulge any Of it's contents, and that its
contents were never communicated to
Mosby or to any one else. The Richmond
''Dispatch", of Monday, has the following
paragraph: ..
Cover or Kemper left the city Saturday
morning for Madison county, and will be
absent for Il week or more. 1t is under
stood that he has written a letter to Pres
ident Grant expressing his views about the
arrest of the Petersburg judges, and the
course in relation thereto of some Federal
officials.
! The Richmond papers of Wednesday
publish the following
GoRDONSvILLE, June %, 1874.
Mr.. M. G.. Kemper, Richmond :--Yo ul
| telegram received | will effectually dis
pose of the little Wedderburn fiasco when
return to Richmond, and in due time
JAS. l.. KEMPER.
In the Rockbridge district, Mr.. Thos.
d. Houston, of Botetourt, announces him.
self candidate for the Conservative NOM
nation for Congress. In the Fredericks.
burg district Hon. E. NJ. Braxton writes
to the editor of the Fredericksburg " Her
ald.' as follows:
AS am unwilling that my name should
in the slightest degree embarrass the Con.
gressional District convention, or any
member OF it, in selecting "a Conservative
nominee for the Forty-fourth Congress,
will thank you to state in your next issue
that l am not a candidate for the nomina
ton, and will oadially support the nomi.
nee of the Conservative party.