Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-11-30

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POLITICAL NOTES AND
| COMMENTS.
| The closeness of the popular vote, with
I the changes In over one-thlrd of the coun-
ties IN Virginia at the last election is one
of the married characteristics of the re-
turns. In as many as twenty-nlne coun-
ties and towns the majorities either
way are less than 100, while in three they
are less than 10. Some of these figures
are interesting:
In Alexandria county the Democratic
majority was 81. Appomattox gave 7 Goa.
Iirion majority, in 1882 it gave that party
1871. Bath gave the Democrats SO MAORI
| ty, last year only 16. Bland went Is Goa
lition, and Dickerson 81 Democratic, last
year 1873 Coalition. Gloucester gave 80
Coalition. Goochland gave 81 Democratic.
last year 1876 Coalition. Grayson went IS
Democratic. sha was Is Democratic last
year. Highland 81 Democratic, last year
113 Coalition. Isle of Wight only Dem.
ocratic. King and Queen 65 Democratic.
Spottsylvania 81 Coalition. King William
81 Coalition, last year she gave them 253
majority. Lancaster gave the Coalition
| only Is majority. while last year they had
1872. Lee went Coalition by 81, last year
1872. Madison is Democratic 26 votes and
was Coalition by 26Sin 1882. Montgomery
is Democratic "a, having increased her
Democratic vote 67S over last year. Nor
folk county went 81 Democratic, last year
she was 544 Coalition Northampton 50
Coalition. Princess Anne 26 Democratic
last year 1856 Coalition. Rockingham 43
Coalition. against GIL last year. Smyth
3 Coalition. against $50 last year. South
| amptOn 80 D3m )oratio. against sol Goa
lition last year. Stafford 81 Coalition, 81
last year. Westm oreland IS Coalition, last
year 400 Y ork 80 Coalition, against 21l
last year. Portsmouth 81 Democratic, a
Democratic loss. Winchester Is, Demo.
cratic gain Of r. Williamsburg 70 Goa
Iition, Democratic gain of 81. IN Goa
lition stronghold where DR.. Dick Wise q
brother of John S. is Superintendent of
the Eastern Lanatic Asylum and head of
that party.
Joe Green, colored man of Rockville,
Hanover county, was turned out OF
church for voting at the late election for
Gen. Williams G. Wlckham against
a Republican carpet-bagger. Patrick
Hartman, Golored man of Accomac,
VITO voted the Democratic ticket, was
mobbed by colored Coalitionists ON the
9Th, and again on the 10th instant.
The law officers had to protect him. These
are some of the confederates of the late
II free ballot and fair COUNT" party in Ylr-
ginia.
1t is rumored that Mr.. Bowen, elected
to Congress from the Ninth Virginia Dis
trict, as Democratic Readjuster. will 10
into the Democratic caucus Of the House
of Representatives. So far, however: it is
only a lImors
Some noted. and some notorious colored
politicians OF Virginia, including Peter
J. Carter, DIR. Thos. Bayne, j. H. Hill and
others have. issued call for
State Convention of colored men to
be held in the city OF Norfolk Oh
Dece mber 18th, for the purpose, as an
nounced in the 'call . of setting forth
Ill their proper light " the facts in regard
to what they term the Danville massa-
cre.'
Page Morris postmaster at Lynchburg,
and j. G. Watts. U. 5. Marshal, are coun.
eel for W. E. Sims, in his contest for
the State Senatorship from Piltsylvania.
The following deposition of a Republic
can negro, who was summoned by the con-
testees, Hurt, &C., and who testified there
Friday, tells the whole tale. General
Fowlkes (colored), being first sworn, de-
poses and says:
Question. Where were you on election
day, November 6, 1888, and where do you
vote ?
Answer. l was at New Design precinct,
Pittsy.vania county, Virginia; live in
one hundred yards of it, but didn't vote
on that day.
q. Why did you not vote ?
4. They said thers wasn't sny TICKETS
there for us. l asked Bill Brown, a col
ored man who was one of the leaders at
that precinct-I asked him how come
there want any tickets that day, and he
said one of the leading NELL think it
Was Mr. Raulston-told him not to issue
any tickets there that day; that there
wan' t to BIZ no TICKETS issued there nor at
Danyille. North Danville, nor at Ring
gold
O. For whom did you intend to vote.
had you voted on that day
A. 1 would have voted the Republican |
ticket-that is, the Coalition ticket.
@ Did the Democ ats endeavor to pre- |
velst the 0olor.d men from Yating. and |
what was their conduct towards the COL |
ored men
A. Nothing more than that they all in
vited the cOlored men tn come up and
vote fnr who they pleased. ard appeared
to be mighty mild, and everything passed
off yetv quiet, more SO than usual.
9 Were there any armed men there
that day.
A. None that 1 saw. except Mr.. Clark
son Lee who came up the road with his
gun going hunting. He left his GIN some
distance from the polls, up above Mr.. Full
IerS store, and came up and voted and
then went back and got his gun and went
Oh hunting.
Q. What have been your politics, and
What are you to-day?
&. ! hays hepn Republican all the
lime, and am still! one today.
G. We're you afraid to Vote that day ?
a. No, sir, was not.
And further this denonent cath not.
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GENERAL Knowles.
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