The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-11-15
Last week, Mr.. l.. T. Beckener, drover

Last week, Mr.. l.. T. Beckener, drover
f Sweet Springs, W. Va, stepped off of
he stone railroad bridge just west of
own, breaking rib and severely injuring |
himself in other ways.
Ex.Gov. Randolph, of New Jersey, died |
suddenly of heart disease at Morristown,
in that State, on the 18th. He was well
known to number Of the citizens of
Staunton, where he spent the summer
several years ago.
The main walls of. the Mormon Temple
in Salt Lake were completed last Friday.
They are of solid granite, eighty-five feet
high and ten feet thick. and were begun
twenty-eight years ago. The cost thus far
has been "a, 100000.
Gov Hoadly, of Ohio, telegraphed, on
learning the result in this State, God
bless old Virginia." which interpreted
means want Virginia. vote in the Dem
ocratic National Convention for the Pres
idential nomination.
One enthusiastic Bourbon was heard to
declare on hearing of the massacre at
Danville, Its the first gun Of Sumpter."
Well put, and the result will be similar
Virginia was captured, but the Nation
will be saved from Bourbon domination.
We have in the United States 4l2 whis-
key distilleries, with a capacity of $4,000
gallons per day. The adjustment of the
tax on whiskey would set them in full OPP
Grafton. with the result, in 800 working
days. of 6s,70o,O 600 gallons of whiskey per
year.
Last year when Ben Butler was elected
Governor OF Massachusetts the Democrats
claimed it as Democratic victory, and
placed Massachusetts, in the Democratic
column for 1884. ThisI year, when he is
defeated, they affect to be very well salts
fed with the result. This is philosophical,
to say the least. ).
Democratic Reformers after trial do
not pan out well. Pattison, of Pennsyl-
vania, and Cleayeland, of New York,
elected to the Executive Offices of those
two States, by Republican votes. to re-
buke the pretensions of Bosses in their own
party, have clearly demonstrated that no
good can come out Of Nazareth. The ex-
pertinent has been instructive, however,
and impresses upon the American people
the fact that it will not do to trust the
Democratic party with the control of the
National Government. The verdict of the
9th presaged that of 1884. Keep the
rascals out
The telegraph informs us that the peo-
pie OF. Southampton county were very much
frightened last week by apprehensions of
a"negro rising" A catalogue of circum-
stantial evidences accompanied the state.
ment. They must have been resurrected
from some musty old newspaper files of
fifty years ago, When the Nat Turner in
surrection was reported. There was moth
ing of recent occurrence to Justify the
rumor. and we doubt very much whe ther
the negroes of Southampton county have
yet heard of it. All this kind Of stuff is
placed before the public to blunt the effect
of the Danxille massacre.
President Arthur is of the opinion that
the Republican party is not likely to s'gO. p"
The recent elections plainly show that the
old spirit of the party is still alive. and
that enough Northern States will give
their electoral votes for its Presidential
nominees to elect them. 1t will be the
solid Republican North against solid
Democratic South again-a condition of
things all should regret. But the Demo-
Gratis of the South have made choice of a
solid South, and no other remedy is left
but a solid Republican North.
Our Bourbon friends generally manage to
put their foot into it about the right time.
The methods they adopted to capture Vir-
ginia and to make good show for solid
Democratic South in 1884, will much more
certainly assure solid Republican North.
A majority of the people of Virginia, if
left free to express their sentiments
at the polls, would as certainly declare
for the Liberal cause as the day of
election would come. Threats. brides,
and intimidation forced thousands to vote
with the BOurbons who otherwise would
have voted with the Liberals. and caused
thousands of others to remain away from
the polls. We admit many faults on the
part Of the Liberal management, and
these helped to invite disaster. But for
the way the Bourbons conducted their
canvass, their false appeals to low preju
dices, the innumerable falsehoods they
circulated and the money they corruptly
used, the Liberals would have succeeded
beyond doubt. The people of the North
are not ignorant of the means employed,
and all the protestations of the Bourbon
press of the State will not deceive them.
The Bourbons of Virginia have assured
the election of Republican President in
1884.
Several persons in Duchess county,
New York, have been arrested charged
with using money corruptly on the day Of
election. The charge is that one man was
offered So to vote certain way and an
other a smaller sum. Upon these charges
being preferred warrants for arrests were
issued. If this rule were adopted in Vir-
ginia we would have enough cases to keep
the courts going for twelve months. The
BOurb0ns bribed with boots. shoes, hats,
clothes, whiskey, money and everything
else that could buy vote. One man, we
learn. was promised ten dollars to vote
theil. ticket. He did so but the money
was not paid. Others would be approached
with an offer to bet $3.50 and sometimes
So that he would vote the Coalition ticket.
The poor fellows would say that they had
no money to bet The response would
come, well, l will leave the money in
IS hand, and if you don't vote that
ticket it's yours Others were hired to
go away from their voting places. One
registrar in an adjoining county, was in-s
duced to be away on the last day of regis
tration when over 100 colored men were
to be registered. The result was all of
them lost their votes. What "a rich field
for New York justice would this be, if the
methods Of Duchess county were en-
forced.
A statement is made in the Philadelphia
Times that the cotton manufacturers of
that CITY have roduood THAR vroJ,,o+so,,