Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-23
Political Notes.

LII luck purSueS the RepuDlcan party
Ben Butler has corrected the report that he
has left it. His candidacy for the Governor
ship of Massachusetts greatly mortifes
that respectable State.
Postmaster General Keys western tour
is said to be preparing for Grant and Keys
ticket for 1880. This ticket would with
out doubt carry Chattanooga, Tenn.
Judge Critcher has been nominatd by
meetings in Westmoreland, King George
and Richmond counties, as an Indepen-
dent candidate against Gen. Beale.
The history of the Ninth Dis
trict convention, read between the lines,
is that the moderate Adjusters and Debt
payers turned out generally and Sc MT dele
gates, and had a large majority. The
Forcibles Will doubtless bolt Col. Rich
mond's nomination. The Wytheville dis
patch,'' a Forcible, says the late conven-
ton chad not the binding force of an ordi-
nary fully attended convention"
Maj. Jno. W. Daniel made an address on
national finances at Lynchburg, Friday
night. He advocated repeating the tax on
State banks; paying that part of the ma
tional debt in paper money. that was SO
contracted to be paid; the a%bolishing Of
national banks, and the substitution of
greenbacks for their notes. The speech is
spoken of as an admirable one. We shall
await it's publication in full to see his
position set forth.
Politics have gotten mixed up with the
bread and meat of Albemarle in an awkard
way. A great part of the endowment
fund of the Miller Institute, which in a
few years is to use the wheat and flour OF
that county for it's large corps of pupils, is
composed of Virginia State bonds. This
places MI. Massey in the position Of trying
to cripple an excellent home market. and
since the opening of the institute the at
tention of the farmers has been called to it.
The Petersburg "Post" (adjuster) thinks
the Richmond "Whig'' in Its statements
about the Sixth IRAN. Tucker's) district,
'sthe- worst informed or the most prejudic-
ed newspaper in the State"
The Democratic State Convention of
Tennessee on Friday nominated Judge
Marks, an ex-Confederate Colonel, for
Governor. 1t put the State debt out OF
State politics by a resolution providing
for submission to the people by the legisla-
ture of the question of their willingness to
be taxed to pay it and until that is settled
the legislature to go on economically ad-
ministering the government on the present
rate of taxation. The Tennessee Demo-
Gratis had no idea of breaking up their or
ganization on the eve of a Presidential vic
tory.
The Conservatives of Buckingham. the
county in which Mr.. Ficklin, the indepen-
dent opponent of Hon. J. r. Tucker lives,
have declined to send delegates to the
L~ynchburg convention.
A greenback meeting was held at Cul.
pepper, Va, on Monday, over which Hon.
James Barbour presided. and at which he
declared himself in favor of paying off the
whole national debt in ~greenbacks. Mr..
Hoxie a Republican, also made a green
back speech.
The Conservative Congressional Con-
vention at Hampton Wednesday, almost
unanimously re-nominated Hon. John
Goode. There were bonires in Norfolk
that night.
Hon.. VIM. Mines answered Senator
Paul's Observation-Disclosures speech al
StanardsviIle, Green co., last week very
effectively