Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-12-05
National Politics.

Ex-Governor Vance, of North Carolina,
said to q newspaper correspondent tne
other day: s'The South love Grant! Love
the devil. For him We have only the olt-
terest hatred. He was military despot;
without spark Of principle; without
knowledge of civil government or honesty
In his ignorance thereof; as utterly unnt
to preside over the United States az any
man they could have selected. Inc South
will remember him with curses as long ~
memory stands. We would support Conk-
| ling rather than Grant"
1.-The result Tin New York. is ~ no
means satisfactory one for hepuDilca1e
TO contemplate IN view OF what u snou10
have been. 1t leaves New YORK nncer-
tau for 1880. The partial success q this
year Ii due solely to divisions in the Demo-
cratic party. 1t will not be safe TO trust
to such y chance next year. "-HdTtJoro
Courant ReD.)
Zen. w. W. Belknap. ex-Secretary OF
War, who has long been under cioud,
comes out i'll favor Of Grant and the third
term.-''Secor'' Robson, whose admins
/! tt alton OF The Navy Department. under
Grant. wa. scarcely less reputable than
mat of el1nap in the War Department,
Ii. also de Jared for Grant. This endorse
ment, the N. Y. Times" says. lis the
tarcest bio ~ tile third term has received.
| Well nigh, General Grant. in view OF such
support, ekclaim, "Save me from my
| friends!"
Being 40 sed in regard to his presidcn-
tial favori' =, Mr.. John Kelly is quoted ~
Responding ..TTammany Hall is very much
| divided as the best man. Speaking foi
myself alone, it seems to me it will be
either q Union general, like Hancock, OF
IN eminent civilian, like Bayard. 1t will
be n0body's tool"
Mr.. S. s. Cox submitted to an inter
view in Boston last Friday. He thinks
that the Tammany bolt has ILLUMINATED
Mr.. Tilden from politics for the next
year," that the Democrats can carry New
| York in 1880. and that Gen. Hancock II
the man whom the Democrats should no
inmate for President.
President Hayes said day or two age
that if an election could be held right
away in Indiana the Republicans would
carry the State by large majority.
"Mr. Hayes says the Springfield IRE.
publican, ;" ''has never yet had awarded to
him the honor which historically and just
" belongs to him since his election, Ms ths
real statesman of the Republican party.
General Garfield is said to have can
vassed the Ohio Legislature and found
that he lacks seven votes of the number
necessary to nominate him In caucus to-
United States Senator.
A negro named Merit has been elected
Circuit Court Clerk Of Bolivar county
Miss, over two white competitors, man.
whites voting for him on account Of hi
superior qualifications.
The German newspapers of st. Louis
the America" the ''Anzeiger," and thu
..Volksstimme, = which were formerly op
posed to the Democracy and to each ether
now 70 hand in hand against Grant. Ant
as in st. Louis so is the opinion OF tn
Germans and of the German prea
throughout the country.
/ The New Orleans "Picayune," in a
editorial, characterizes as wild deluslOl
the statement of the New York Herald
that ''in many parts OF the South promi
nsnt and influential Democratic Journals
have Of late expressed their preference to
Gen. Grant over any other Republican
and over most Democrats" The "Pica
yune says the South is solid for Bayard.