Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-10-01
TOMORROW.

There hasn't been such a lively time in
politics in Augusta County and its s'me-
tropolis'' since the war as is prevailing
now and is likely to run through the Coun-
ty Convention tomorrow. There has no
Convention assembled in which was repre-
scented greater variety of the shades of
opinion inside Of party in a greater de-
gree than that which will come together
tomorrow at noon. FROM heresy to Or
thodoxy, every shade Of color will be dis
tinctly marketable in tffesgood old times
of the vigorous Democracy, when Con-
yention of fifty men represented fifty diff
ferent opinions, and after the adjournment
no man could be found who held but
one, and that the one embodied in the
final resolutions. Tomorrow will be gath
cred in the bosom of the County Court
room, men that want to pay every dollar
of the State, men that don't want to pay
dollar of it; men in favor of re-nomina-
ting every member of the old Delegation
and men who want to furlough the whole
party; men who want a law to let all the
dogs in the County loose on the sheep, and
men who want law passed enabling the
sheep to eat the dogs; men who previous
to the Governors election thought the
conservative party had served the pur-
poses for which it was formed" and who
now think that it is Heaven ordained in
stitution for time without end men who
want their man nominated if everybody
else goes to the deuce and men who want
this man defeated let who will be cleo
ted old ticket men, new ticket men-in
short all sorts of men. 1t will present
some features entirely new in politics, so
new that one of the delegations from
County District contains a gentleman
whose last vote was for Radical candi-
date-being the most sudden case of po-
litical repentance, conversion and promo
ton that is on record. Another District
sends Delegates elected by a Convention
participated in by negroes, who were
vouched for as supporters of the ticket
that might be nominated by the County
Convention showing that the great politi-
cal revival has reached all classes without
respect to color or previous condition of
o6INlbuuC. LII iotduuUOu Utl6Te was such a
happy state feeling that the friends of dr.
ferent aspirantS sought out mourners
among even prominent Republicans, urg-
ing them to come up anyhow, irrespective
Of a marked change of heart, and the mis-
sionaries were particularly busy among
that nondescript class of political sinners
known as s'Bickle men, whose claim +,
salvation may be put down as that plead
by the Mississippi beatmen that he
wasn't so d. bad after all' The mis-
sionaries. we are proud to say were partic-
ularly successful among this class of
suffragans, and the Ward meet
ings contained many of them with hearts
filled with repentance and eyes keenly
alive to the main chance. To those who
have been talking of the advantages of a
''free fight" for candidates, in opposition
to that party necessity a Convention, the
Convention of tomorrow will be stand
ing rebuke. 1t will embody eve Y shade of
opinion and from the character of the
men whose names we read as selected to
compose it, we think we can safely pre-
dict that the men it dominates will he
those of whom no party need be ashamed