Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-10-04
Pnliticaf Mites.

Otbi IS1ou NeSA vesoos L 1lC ChuulOdVCS, LII OuO
respect, stand on an equal footing, us no
nomination was made in that District.
The only. objection we can see to the can
didacy of Gen. Echols is, that he comes
out late. after many of tha voters have
committed themselves, and is not there
fore liRely to poll the full strength of the
debt-payl.s party If his District; from
which may result a misapprehension OF its
real strength. But VIZ wish him success.
-Lyachburg Virgisiun.
We can only say that we are extremely
sorry that Gen. Echols has suffered him
self to be duped int, this act of political
suicide. We have never doubted his in
tegrity and ability, and have always enter
tanned feelings of the highest regard tor
him, and had he been brought forward 1T
the proper time and the proper manner we
might have supported him. But any one
with thimble full of common sense, can
See through the whole plot. Judge Harris
personal enemies are at the bottom Of It,
They know full that there is no earthly
chance for Gen. Echols, but thew think they
will draw off as much of Harris strength
as possible, and thus defeat him in favor OF
Paul or anybody else.- Waynesbor0 1ri-.
bu1ae.
General Echols will get large vote from
the debt-paying part OF the people, while
he will lose many vote because of his
hard-money principles. Judge Harris has
not declared for an unlimited issue of ire
deemable greenbacks. and here he has the
advantage of Gen. EchOls, and will got the
support of many intelligent people who are
opposed to flat money, which, together
I with his former prestige and his personal
popularity. will keep him ahead of the field.
| Charlottesville Letter to the Richmond DIS
patch.
The sCommonw wealth. being opposed to
forcible REIMBURSEMENT and irredeemable
currency, has had no candidate up t Q this
time. Now, however, we u1hesitatingly
and without reserve. announce onr inten-
ton to support Gen. Echols for Congress.
Harrisonbarq Commonwealth. .r
What effect the candidacy of Gen.
Echols will have upon the election pros
pects of the other two gentlemen we are
not fully prepared to say, but presume
Paul will carry the 'sForcible Readjusting".
element, Echols the Funding element and
Harris will come in for odds and ends
which, in all probability, will be ST. fficient-
ly large to send him back to the Capital
city as the Representatives of the Seventh
Congressional District We shall wait and
see what we shall see.-Bridgetoater Rock
imghana) Enterprise.
The Congressional canvass is becoming
more interesting since Gen. Echols entered
the field l have seen quite number of
persons to-day, and with the exception of
two, they are for Gen. Echols. Many who
were for Harris as between Harris and
Paul are now strongly in favor of Echols.-
Highland Letter, Oct End.
Gen. Echols has announced himself as a
candidate for Congress in this District.
A Geographic dispatch received here states
that Gen. E. will get the support Of the
newspaper press OF Staunton and Char
rejoicing over the announcement of Gen.
Echols' candidacy, claiming that his
(Paul's) election is now assured.-Harri-
sonburg Letter in Bridqewater Enterprise.
Messrs. John T. Harris and John Paul,
having entered into trial of speed as to
who can soonest reach the farthest point
Of financial folly, many of the citizens of
the Seventh district have wisely called into
the field Gen. John Echols as a candidate
for Congress. 1t is well done. Gen. Ech-
OILS will make the canvass like an honest
man who has convictions, and who will
not abandon them at the bidding Of pop
ular whim. We look to see him accom-
plish much of good by discussing the f.
nancial question before the people and
laying the truth before them. 1t needs
but to have the facts plainly described to
show to men of sense the folly that Mr..
Paul apparently believes and that Mr.. Har-
ris temporarily processes to advocate
Richmond State.
And now Gen. John Echols, of Staun-
ton, has announced himself a candidate
in the Seventh district on a ''platfOrm OPP,
posed to readjustment and irredeemable
greenbacks." We have known the Gen
eral as friend for long years and he will
permit us to express the opinion that he
has committed great error in this new
position. He will only defeat himself, in
jure Judge Harris, and help the election of
Mr.. Paul. who is the Independent candi-
date of the Hinton Disorganizing Ring in
this State.-Petersbur Post.
If any Southern Democrats are being de-
ceived by the pretence that parties are to
be divided on the currency question, and
that the old issue of depressing the South
ern section of this country is dead, let them
read the 'bloody shirt" extract from Sena-
tor Conklin's speech, made at tie New
York State Republican Convention last
Friday. Senator Conklin is leading can
didate for the Presidency, and his speech
was hailed with cheers: i.".
"Look at the school laws in Southern
States, look at counties in which republic
cans, white and black, are in great major.
tiles, and in which voting places have been
reduced in number till those nearest each
other are sometimes twenty-five miles
apart, making it impossible for the poor to
reach the ballOt-bOx. Look at the demo-
cratic counties, where the voting places
have been increased to thirty, with an area
not greater than republican counties in
which, by the same act of legislation, the
polling places have been reduced to pine.
In the coumtyin which Charleston, S. G.,
is, there is a republican majority of 5000,
yet at an election not Icing ago for mem
bers of the Legislature, no republican can
didates were nominated, no republican
votes were cast. The fact tells its own
story.
''Look at Mississippi, with great and
confessed republican majority, ruled by
democrats, the republican Organizations
compelled to disband, and the last repub-
lican newspaper given up. Assassination
strikes down blameless men and helpless
women, families perish by violence, no one
is punished, and the officials who connive
at murder are reelected and rewarded for
being accomplices in shedding innocent
blood. The tragic death OF one maiden
reused pagan Rome to vengeance, but
Americans are very patient when the
blood of the Chisholms and others, sicken
humanity, and justice lays no hand on
such frightful butchery. The officials of
the United States are shot down, and i'm
prisoned for performing their duty, and
the whole power of the nation is openly
defed.
TN the Gulf States majorities are pow
erless and PROSTATE, their committees ex-
tinct, and they trampled under foot by the
men they faced in battle. AS in slave
days, the colored people are counted to
swell the number of Southern Representa-
tives in Congress, but for any other pur-
pose they hardly appear now in the politl-
cal account. Turn from this picture to