Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-04-22
Politics and Politicians.

Republican, has been attacking Hon. Jos.
Jergensen, the Republican member
from the 4th Virginia district, and on Mon
day night, in his Office. refused the appli-
cation CT Mr.. Jorgensen for the publlca-
ton of a reply. Thereupon Mr.. J. de-
nounced him as william, liar, and coward,
and continued to do so. Gorham replied
''that is very cheap, and there it ended.
The Washington correspondent of the
Alexandria Gazette" sends that paper
the following:
1t is an understood fact that within the
last two or three weeks Mr.. Conkling has
given the straightOut Republicans of Vir-
ginia to understand that he is with them
and against the Mahonite wing OF their
party.
The letter of Col. Barbee appointing
Mr.. Murphy, member of the Malone
County Committee of Rockingham, hav-
ing said. "You have been appointed on
this committee on account of your lntelli-
gence, energy, influence and well-known
fidelity to the cause of REIMBURSEMENT -
he is naturally surprised to find himself
now spoken of by the friends of Malone
as ''only hostler" and remarks in card
of reply that II thought, as a lifelong
Democrat, had the right to state my rea-
sons for declining an appointment which
was unsolicited and unsought without
bringing down on my head personal abuse
from any source"
Ex-Gov. Tllden is now 6S years old and
will be Y at the next Presidential election.
According to the Rockingham ''Regis-
teri Hon. John Paul at the county con-
vention there said in his speech s'that Ma
hone had no friend in Virginia who was
surprised at the course he had pursued, as
he had done precisely as they had exDec-
ted" Parties looking out for Congress
man Paul's shoes wonld do we'll to paste
this in their hats.
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore sSun' hears it said that Gen.
Wickham and other leading Virginia Re-
publicans contemplate issuing an address
to the Republicans of the United States,
showing up the bargain made by the. Re-
publicans of the Senate, and exposing the
insincerity and untruthfulness of the al
legged reasons for the coalition, so far as
they affect the pretense of free ballot and
honest count" in Virginia.
James O'Brlen who falsely swore that
he knew III. L. Morey, the person to whom
the famous Morey letter of Presidential
election memory was addressed, plead
guilty to perjury in New York last Friday
and was sentenced to eight years in the
penltentiary. A righteous sentence.
B. 81. Lurty, Esq, a member of the
West Virginia Legislature, Gather Of U.
5. District Attorney, W. B. Lurty,) has
been appointed to $2,100 clerkship in the
U. S. Senate. The appointment was made
through the influence of Senator Camden.
So says the Washington correspondent of
the Richmond Dispatch
Senator Pugh, of Alabama, made a
singing point when he told the Republi-
can Senators that 1.-THE contest for price,
less ballot had commenced with the pur-
chase of a vote.''
Messrs. John R. Thurman, of Ivy De-
pot, and G. E. Vawter, Of the Miller
School, appointed delegates to the Malone
Convention at Richmond, have published
cards declining the appointment, neither
having any desire to 60 into politics.
Ex-Gov. Kemper, of Virginia, writes
to Senator Johnston that eff the Demo-
Gratis of the Senate triumph now, then the
Democrats of Virginia will triumph next
November. But any step backward now
means defeat next fall"
Senator Joe Brown, of Georgia, with
reference to the coming campaign in Vir-
ginia, says that ut may be necessary to
throw over the entire debt rather than
ruin be brought upon the State by put
ting her under the control of people, a
large number of whom would not be al
lowed to vote n Massachusetts,
At a stormy meeting of the Readjusters
of Richmond, last week, a resolution was
passed directing the delegates to support
Odpp. OOAh NJ w loO AOA ootO1uOl.
The Democrats of Frederick county,
have nominated Capt. Mutton for Circuit
Court Clerk, and James P. RELY for Coun'
ty Court Clerk
Eight Malone papers in Southwes-
tern Virginia, endorse Capt. Frank Blair
for the nomination for Attorney
at the June Convention.
Attorney General Field has written SEN
ator Beck a complimentary and encourage
ing letter, and another to Senator John
ston. In the latter he says: 81 congratu-
late the Democrats of the Senate upon the
noble stand they are making to resist the
corruption and decentralization of the poll
tics of our State"
The Loudon "Mirror'' in noticing
flaming heading in the Washing "Nation-
al Republican''-s'Lo for Mahone"-
over a set of resolutions adopted by a So
called Readjuster meeting held in Loudon,
says:
1--WE understand from the chairman that
the meeting numbered twenty, portion
of whom we learn from other sources were
of The straigh.est sect. We
would remind our Washington contempt
rary that there are about 450O voters in
Loudon, and that at least 4,4S0 of them
had no "voice" in the above meeting"
Hon. Jos. Jorgensen went to the White
House, Friday, to introduce J. M. Dow
man, G. II. Tlnsley, Robt. Boiling and
other prominent Republican, Of Peters
burg. After they got there the delegates,
to Mr.. Jorgensen's surprise, urged the
President to remove Collector Brady and
Postmaster Potts. They also protested
against any recognition of the Malone
faction by the President. The President
said that their protest would be consider
ed.
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