Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-11-05
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FRIDAY MORNING. NOV. 5. 1880.
Local
The Election.

1t was subject of general remark or
Tuesday that, notwithstanding the ap
parent bitterness of feeling that had
marked the meetings of the two wings OF
the Democracy heretofore, their meeting
at the polls was without any i'll feeling
whatever. The day was the most quiet
for an election day that Staunton ever had
not tight, nor quarrel, nor drunken
man. Early in the morning, say by ten
O'Clock, very large portion of the strength
of each Of the three contending parties
was polied. The vote was very large-1,-
IA, but did not show much change in the
relative strength of the parties. The Re-
adjuster vote was only three more-53,
than it was in 1879. The Republican vote
was "a less than in the Tilden election and
| the Democratic vote was so more than at
that election.
SCENES AT THE ''vINDICAToR" OFFICE.
! AS it was known that the ''VindicatOr'
with its usual enterprise had sent out ex-
| press riders to every precinct in the coun-
| ty and would, if the men and horses held
| out, have all the returns in before mid
| night, a dense crowd assembled in the
street before the office, and the counting
room was full of huzzahing, talking, strug-
Cling men. Opposite the office five loco
motive refectors had been placed, throwing
glare equal to daylight, on the bulletin
nished by S. T. Thornburg Geo. Platt
and Ed Burke, the well known livery
men, and the routes were arranged as
follows:
Mr.. Geo. Platt undertook route MT
Meridian, Red Mills and New Hope, 30
miles, VIM. Ham, rider; route 2-Mt. Sid
| ney, Centre1ille and Verona, 20 miles,
VIM. Black, rider, and rout 3-Sherando
and Barterbrook, II miles, Nicholas
Wehn, rider.
Mr.. Thornburg undertook route f.
Greenville, Midway and Folly Mills, IS
miles, VIM. Rohr, rider; route 5-Middle-
brook and New Port, Is miles, Geo. Rohr,
rider, and route 6-Buffalo Gap and He
bron church, 10 miles, Steve Woods, rider.
Mr.. Burke undertook route 7-Deerfeld,
Lebanon and Churchvllle, Is miles, Tom
Hounihan, rider, and route 8-Sangers-
vile, Mt. Scion, Parnassus and Spring
Hill, % miles, J. FitZ, rider.
The night was dark and much of the
road bad. but not one of the riders failed
to come in on time and with the object of
his errand fully completed. The last one
was in by IL o'clock.
ARRIVAL OF THE EXPRESS RIDERS.
The interest in The result in the State
and Congressional districts was so great
as to seem to overshadow the interest in
the kilograms about the Presidential cleo
ton, and the arrival of the express riders
was much more anxiously looked for than
that of the telegraph messenger. Before
O'Clock the Democrats in and around the
office were wild with excitement over the
good news from the county. The returns
from Greenville, Waynesboro, New Hope
and Middlebrook, with their large MAORI
ties tor the Democracy. were enthusiastic
cally cheered for several minutes, and the
crowd demanded that they should be read
over again.
Our thanks are rendered the Judges of
election at the various precincts for their
prompt and unvarying courtesy to our ex-
press riders, in furnishing the returns to
them,
The bad news from New Y ork had no
effect in dampening the spirits Of the
multitude, who continued cheering long
alter all hope of Hancock had gone. The
| kilograms from Richmond were awaited
with much more interest than those from
New York.
|. Towards O'Clock in the morning the
crowd thinned out, and half an hour af-
ter none buJ the veterans in politics
were left in groups discussing the hand
some way in which both the Democratic
ReadJusters and Democratic Funders of
Augusta had stood by the nominees Of the
Democratic party. A little later on the
| refectors across the street were extinguish-
ed. the bulletin boards were taken in, the
last enthusiastic Democrat went home,
and the following cold figures were all
| that was left of the days excitement: