Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1876-06-20
THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION.

THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION.
One week from to-day the Democratic Ma
tional Convention will assemble in St. Louis,
and in a short time thereafter the issues of
the great national contest for 1876 will have
been made up. Our views on the selection
of a Democratic leader for the campaign are
so aptly expressed by the Hagerstown hail
that We give editorial prominence to a short
extract from that paper:
"Twice-almost three times-uow, have
tho Democracy, in succession, taken their
candidate from the great State of New York,
and three times have our banners been trailed
in the dust and now we turn naturally to-
wards tho great central cluster of Western
States. New York is essentially a Demo-
cratic State, and can be relied on in any con-
tingency to cast its vote for the Democratic
nomiuee-for New York has already been
again and again honored with the candidate /;
but not so with the West. To secure the
election of a Democratic President We must
cary one of the great Western States-this
is the turning point of success-and without
a Western candidate, We apprehend that VIC
may not be able to do this. IIoncs it is that
We regard the nomination of a Western cam
didate as vital to cur success in the great con.
test; and hence it is we urge this considcra>
ton upon the Delegates to the National Con-
~vertion, again, AS We have done heretofore"
CLARKE 1rEMs.-we itemize from the
Courier as follows:
The grass in the county is a great improve
ment over that Of last year.
There is a fine prospect for partridses tie
coming fall, in Clarke county.
Tho increase in the supply of milk deliv-
cred at the cheese factory continues.
StocS-buyers are still engaged in buying
up lambs and sending them to the cities.
Samuel Frits and Joel Parker killed a large
bear, a few days ago, about three miles from
White Post.
The Memorial Services at the Old Chapel,
Saturday week, did not reach the degree Of
interest SO conspicuous on similar occasions ir
the past.
W%IICuEsrER AND VIc1NIrY.-From the
Winchester papers We condcnse the following:
Rev. DR.. Rodgers sailed from Baltimore
last Monday morning for Europe.
The new lodge>room of Madison Lodge of
Odd Fellows will be dedicated on Monday
evening, June Goth.
Mr.. j.. William Mason, Of Winchester.
went into his cellar on Wednesday. and & short
time afterwards was discovered lying on his
face dead, from apeplcxy.
An association for the purpose of raising
funds for the erection of a monument to the
unknown dead in Stonewall Cemetery. has
been organized, under the title of THE Mon
umen'al Association of Stonewall Cemetery,
ES- Those Journals which speak of the
'red~hOt differences" among the Jefferson
delegation to the Convention, ought to ex-
anime her votes. Such an examination will
demonstrate that she voted solidly for White,
Cunningham, Green, and almost solidly for
Mason. Her eighteen votes were always
judiciously placed, and her influence felt to
be a power in the Convention. Hereafter the
Eastern Panhandle looms up as a factor in
Stats political problems Mat must be counted.
E- Speaker Kerr has been triumphaptly
vIndlcs:cd from the charge of having accent
cd pay from Lawrence Harvey for the ap-
Polntlnert of one Green to a lieuteparcv in
the army, the committee having found moth
lng IN the whole progress Of the Investigation
to impair or detract from the we'll established
reputation OF Mr.. Kerr for uaqrcstioncd per.
sonHl integrity and unsullied purity. The
unanimous vote of the House of Representa-
tives sustained the report of the committee.
Ea- After the Democratic State Conven-
ton had adopted the platform given on our
first page, the following resolution was also
ordered unanimously to be added:
ResoIced, That we pledge the Democratic
and Conservative party to the preservation of
our public school system free FROM s~ectarian
influence and control, and promise to its pro-
motion and improvement, the earnest and &C
tive efforts of our party.
E In the U. S. Senate, on the 18th.
Mr.. Davis introduced a bill for the relief of
A c. Hammond, George Sybert and VIM.
McCreary, s%ureties on the bonds of Dennis
Murphy, late pnymaster at Harper's Ferry.
Rg- In the Supreme Court of Appeals, on
the 18th, a supersedeas was allowed in tho
ease of Robert Lucas, Jr., VS.. John j. Locke,
from Jefferson.