Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-10-27
WHERE THE WHITE 3EPUBLi-
CANS WILL BE FOUND IN
NUVEMBER.


The only semi-official statement Of the
strength of the Republican party among
the white people of Virginia that we can
call to mind, was that made by Col. Pop
ham, the former Secretary of the State
Central Commits of that organization.
He put it at from 10000 to 1900. From
that number must be deducted the several
hundred officials in order to get an est-
mate of those who are likely to be more
interested in the preservation of the Ma
tional Republican than in the success OF
the Coalition party in this State. Taking
then, the thousands of mere voters who are
anxious to see the National party held TO-
gether, we may assume that the Stalwart
course of President Arthur and the over
whelming reputation of that course by
the Republicans of Ohio, to be speedily
followed by similar overwhelming con-
demnation by the Republicans of New
York, Pennsylvania. Indiana and other
States, greatly puzzles them to know what
the Virginia election. The unmistakable
hand of Blaine in the Republican success
in Maine, and the equally unmistakable
hand Of his opponent the Stawart Presi-
dent Arthur in the Republican disaster
in Ohio, together with the uprising against
the Administration in almost every North
ern and Western Republican State, which
promises to leave Arthur without Il decent
following in the Forty Eighth Congress
must cause the gravest doubts in the minds
of Virginia Republicans, whether in fol-
lowing Arthur IS Lieutenant Malone, they
are really giving aid to their National par
ty. Clear it is that the wing of the party
with which Arthur and Malone have al
lied themselves is in the minority; that
the sceptre of power has passed away from
it and the end of its work is to be crowned
by Democratic Congress to welcome a
Democratic President in 1884. This is not
mere partiZan prediction. The Wash
ingtOn Republican, the organ of Gen. Ma
hone, and Arthur as well, recognises this
critical condition of affairs thus:
"We go into Presidential election with
Il hundred and forty-one electoral votes
cast and counted for the Democracy before
the polls! And then we have a free fight
for the remaining two hundred and sixty.
IT the Democrats can carry siGty-one of these
they hare the President. If the Republicans
| can carry tao hundred and tao of them they
have the President. This is the game OF
government, according to Bourbon rules.
It is now being played. Ohio has twenty
three electoral votes. The Bourbon foxes
have carried that State by bOttOmless
majority through the aid of Republican
geese, who fought for trivial and irrele-
want cause.
It is clear from the utterances of the
leading Republican press of the North and
West, that the Administration of Presi-
dent Arthur must be set aside. To it they
attribute the great i'll fortune which has
pursued the party, and its animating prin-
cip.e, Stalwartism, has beco me bugbear.
A national administration that brings de-
feat to It's party finds few followers among
those OF that party animated alone by prin-
ciple: it is doomed. The coalition in Virgin
ia has had no snaall part in bringing about
this defeat, and the Republican mind Of
the nation being sent on tour of inquiry
ny CdS UNIV uCAORV LIDO NV bOVIi oIOW W
find this out. The New York Times frames
the result Of its inquiries into Coalition
this way:
1.-The first desire of their leading men
seems to be for the spells Of office, and their
readiest means of attaining their ends is
through the abuses of patronage and pc
litical assessments which haze brought so
much reDrodch upon our achole public admin
astrdtion. Judging by their methods and
the spirit which they display in political
management, we have little reason to hope
for substantial gam by their displacement
nj he Bourbons. The mongrel and hybrid
coalitions now so common in the Southern
States are ANYTHING but liberal in spirit
or purpose, and Republicans viii! gain
nothing which will rebound to their credit
by going into them"
Virginia Republicans. we mean the in
telligent class. will doubtless be affected
in their decision by these opinions from
their Northern brethren and by the gene
raj repuda alton of Arthur's Aiministra
ton and the Coalition programme. They
cannot support with much heart pro-
gramme that is marked for slaughter by
their brethren of the great Republican
States.
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