Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-02-24

wealth.
Whatever may be said or thought of the
utterances of Senators Newberry and Ly-
brook, which we publish in another col
umn-whether they be received with NAL
edictlons by their opponents or exaggera-
ted praise by their friends, there can be no
doubt that they express the unspoken con-
vic.ions Of a very large portion of General
Mahone's followers. 1t is a fact that "a
closer corporation never forged letters for
free people" than has the present con-
troll of what is known as the Readjuster
party. And this is the party whose stump
orators made tour of the State deEoune-
ing the Democracy as the creature of ring
rule, machine run by the dark methods
of the caucus, set of Bourbons governed
by few ''mossbacks'' Why, there new
er has been in Virginia since the days of
African slavery, any organization of any
kind which has been whipped and bullied
into such able t mental servitude as has
been the present coalition party by its
master and his lieutenants. Free speech
on the floor Of the legislature is denied
them unless they are illing to pay the
price of being stigmatiZed as ''perjurers'
and in asserting their independence in the
caucus they are met with the charge that
they colsort with "felon.'' It does H.
deed seem that to serve Boss. the rep,e
sentatives of the people must give up al!
claim to manhood. If the emeute in the
Readjuster caucus has served no other
pnrpose, it has at least given evidence Of
the fact that there is respectable num-
Der of gentlemen in the party who are dis
posed to do their own thinking, and when
men are in political slavery, that is the
first step to throwing off the shackles.-
The closest corporation that ever forged
the letters for a free people will find still
| more mishaps in getting acclimated On the
free soil of Virginia.
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The House of Representatives has finally
agreed upon the number of 325 members
on the new apportionment. This is an in
crease of 80 members. Of this Virginia
gets one, her representation being 10 in
| stead Of 9 and the gain of members is dis
| tlibuted through the other States as fol-
| lows: Arkansas, l; California. 2; Georgia,
L; Illinois, i; Iowa. 2; Kansas, 4; Ken
| lucky, 1; Massachusetts,, /; Michigan. 2;
Minnesota, 2; Mississippi, l; Missouri, 1;
| Nebraska. 2; New York, 1; North Caro-
| lima. ]; Ohio, 1, Pennsylvania, L; South
Carolina. 2; Texas, 5; West Virginia, 1;
| Wisconsin, l. Maine. New Hampshire
| and Vermont lose one each.
| Those Democrats who were incensed at
| Indiana being carried for the Republi-
cans in October, 1886, by ex-U. s. Senator
| Stephen W Dorsey by the use of money,
and who we're additionally indignant when
| U. S. Grant, Chester A. Arthur, Wln. M.
| Evarts and other eminent Republicans
| rendered Dorsey public dinner in New
| York for the same, may now find c0nSo-
| lation in the fact that Dorsey was on Mon
! day last indicted n Washington for con-
spiracy to defraud the government in the
| star route cases. Ex-Assistant Postmas-
| ter General Thos. j. Brady, was also in
| dicted for the same crime.
| The cereal estimates of the National
Department of Agriculture for the crop
of 1881, show an unexpected and general
reduction in the yield. There is falling
| Off of thirty one per cent from the crop OF
| 1880. The aggregate value of the crop OF
| 'S1 was however much greater than that
of the crop of 80, the aggregated excess of
value being SlO4, 100000. The wheat crop
! of 80 sold at an average of 95 cents a
1 bushel while that of 81 averaged $1.l9 per
bushei.