Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-10-20
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FRIDAY MORNING. OCT. 20, 1876.
Local.
THE CAMPAIGN.

LINE OF BATTLE-TWO MEETINGS A
WEEK HEREAFTER-BRILLI AUDI
ENCE AT THE CHRISTENING OF GRANGE
HALL-JOHN w. DANIEL ON THE PLAT
FORM-THE STARS AND STRIPES AT
SPRING HILL-MEETINGs NEXT WEEK
IN HIGHLAND AND BATH-ACTIVITY
AT wAYNEsBoRo',
SC, &C., sc.
The October victories have given the
campaign in Stanton and Augusta a
fresh start, and the remaining seventeen
days before the vote may be expected to be
lively ones. We give below record of
events:
THE CITY CLUBS.
On Monday night the LIST Ward Tilden
and Hendricks club assembled at the az
mory of the West Augusta Guard, Presi-
dent Robt. W. Burke, presiding. After
some remarks by Gen Jno. Echols, urging
activity in the canvass, the following COM
mittee was appointed to look after regis
tration: DR.. J. M. Hanger, Chairman; R.
T. Larew, Thos. J. Crowder, Michael Coz
and Ed. Staples. The chair appointed the
following committee to look after the
speaking: L. NJ. Bumgardner, Jno. Echols
and Jas. I. Byers. Tuesday nights were
chosen for the regular weekly meeting of
the club.
The I'd Ward Club, President VIM. J..
Bumgardner, presiding, met at Firemens'
Hall. The following committee on regis
tration was appointed: W. II. III. Lynn,
Chairman; Geo. Bunch, J. l.. Undertake,
Jas. G. Marquis, W. B. Pitzer and B. T..
Terry. A new Finance Committee was
appointed, consisting of Messrs. w. A.
Burke, Chairman; Jno. NJ. Carroll, Jno.
M. Hardy, VIM. a. Hudson, Geo. W
May and B. T. Terry The club fixed on
Thursday nights for the weekly meetings.
CHRISTENING OF GRANGE HALL-JoHN
W. DANIEL ON THE PLATFORM
THE LADIES TO THE FRONT.
On Tuesday night John W. Daniel, of
Lynchburg, arrived from speaking down
the Valley, and repaired to Grange Hall,
where he was appointed to speak. Mr.. P.
w. Mckinney, who had been announced
for Tuesday morning, was turned
from this point by telegram from the State
Committee, and Maj. Daniel spoke in his
stead at night. The hall was brilliantly
lighted, and five hundred seats had been
prepared, but proved insufficient, as as
many more people occupied standing place
in the immense room. The first tiers of
onounioS Inv tho Iadioo n
were out III full force. The Institution
band. under Prof. Turner, was engaged,
and provided some fine music. The orator
Of the evening is young man, scarcely
thirty five, with a face of classic beauty,
and his delivery is most captivating. He
is a cripple and moves on crutches, having
received a wound in the thigh while serv-
ing as Adjutant General for Gen. Jubal
Early. He was introduced to the audience
by Gen. John Echols.
Maj. Daniel said he was proud and happy
to stand before an audience of an old Viz
ginia town which had already brought
forth fruits meet for Reform (applause);
which in the early spring time had won a
majority in her councils for the Conserva-
tive cause (applause). The hall in which
he was to address it was d new one, and he
would hereby dedicate it to the cause of
Tilden, Hendricks and Reform (great ap-
plause). 1t. was his firm belief that the
election of Tilden would be the greatest
political event that had occurred in this
country since the hand of Jefferson gave
to it the Declaration Of independence.
The Democratic party, which sought to eff
feet this, and of which he stood here as
the champion, was the greatest political
organization known. Its father was the
old Democratic party OF Calhoun, and its
mother was the old Wing party of Daniel
Webster and Henry Clay, and it inherited
the fierce energy of the one with the con-
sentative wisdom of the other. An old
Wing, who had once said that the Demo-
cratic party was full Of jobbers and po-
litjcal hucksters, but who was now a De-
mocrat, was reproached by an old Wing,
who had turned Radical, with inconsis-
tency, and tainted with what he said of
the Democrats in '49. 81 was right. . said
UilC OlU ICllOW, 1IOOh NAOIC uIlOJ AZ. dOCA
at Morton and Logan and Ben Butler and
Ulysses Grant! They were old Democrats.
l don't take back word of it."
The Democratic party is political Rock
Of Ages A political writer had there
were two elements in politics,
FAITH AND FORCE,
the Democratic party has rested on the
first and the Republican party ON the last.
Sometimes he heard it whispered on the
of the streets that if the Democrat |
ic party was beaten in this campaign it
would be the last Of it, and he wished to
stamp that delusion under foot. The ''last |
sime!" No! a thousand times no zap
olause.) In '64 Mcclellan ran against |
Lincoln and wal defeated and it was said
;he Democratic party was dead. In '6S it
nominated Seymour who Went down be-
ore Grant and we were told it had been |
buried fathoms deep. In ~ with the Lib
'ral Republicans it put forward Greeley |
who was defeated and we were told that |
he last nail had been driven in it's coffin.
Was it Mark the sequel! Two years af-
erwards, the great tidal wave of Demo-
ratio victory swept the country and put
majority in the House Of Representatives,
md to day in rs it comes forth as a bride
room from his chamber stretching forth
IS strong arm to the highest place in the
government of the country, (applause.)
The speaker then addressed himself to
he history of the Republican pa rty. An
may be said that an honest political
organization is the noblest work Of man.
food government simmered down amounts
II the end to honest government. In the
republican platform we find not even
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