Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-10-19
AMONG THE PROPHETS,

Perhaps there is no more dangerous
field of journalism to enter upon than the
inviting one of prophecy. nor is there any
from which the journalist is so often driv-
en- out with the jeers of the populace The
editor of this j,urnal undertook to fore
cast Ohio and predicting a Democratic
defeat failed disastrously. Our cotempo-
rary the Valleg Virginian entered the same
field aud having enlarged its scope o. Wis
ion made still more disastrous failure.
1t said:
Ohio will lead off in October with an overwhelm
ing Republican victory. his will give an impetus
to Pennsy lvania and Massachusetts, where the Re-
pubicans will redeem these States New York will,
feel the effects of the political wave, and will range
in the Republican column. Everywhere the Demo
cratic party is demoraliZed and the Republicans
united With success this fall almost assured, we
can safely count on a great triumph in 1884. Let
those who have ewes to see and to hear see and
hear None but the blinded Bourbons will lie dis
appointed.
We confess to being one Of the blinded
Bourbons" who were most agreeaby dis.
appointed. But our cots mporary was not
lone The correspondent of the N. Y.
Tribune who had been in Ohio for IA long
time sent this telegram on the eve CT the
election;
.sC1NcINNATI, October I'll have been all over the
State OF Ohio. Mr.. Foraker's majority will reach
$50 0.-J H. Woo iward.'
Our Richmond contemporary tie Whiq
is now trying bis hand. 1t says on Satur-
day:
| We were fearfully alarmed at the Funder reports
OF Gen. MahOne's state of mind. and we rushed
over to see him. We found that the cheerfuest and
most confident man in Virginia is VIM. M ahone
AND HE KNOWS NOW. If he msuer did before. fer
never before were Readuster organi cation so CON-
plete and its reports reliable as they are to-day
We shall have both Houses of the General Assem-
bly, by good maioriIies.
Now, let US look at the frame of mind
of 1.-The cheerfulest and most confident
man in Virginia." as evinced in his speech
in the Academy of music at Petersburg on
Friday night:
We're the taxpayers of this Commonwealth will
ing to reinstate, the 9th of November these
Funder tramps and dead beatss He did not be.
leye it, for the news came different to him. from all
the limits OF the Commonwealth. But whatever the
result might be- on the day after the election, he
would put his old musket in fighting order for a
contest, until every vestige of the Funder party
wiped out At Bland Courthouse that party nailed
the black flag to the mast So far as he was con-
cerned it might stay there. he had no quarter to
ask OF them and neither politically nor socially
would he hold intercourse with them. He felt that
to the Readjuster cause he owed the balance of his
life. If defeat were possible the 9th OF Novem-
Der, it had no horrors for him and he would fight
right on.
This is cheerful" frame of mind for a
gentleman who knows now, If he never
did before,' ism It it? 1t is rather the frame
| mind in which we suspect the General
was ten days after writing this pronuncia-
mentO:
| COMMITTEE Rooms READJUsTBR ORGANIZATION. I
RICHMOND, VA, Oct. 70, 1881. :
| Let us assure you, as 1 do confidently that youl
| berger, and pledged to Hancock, will carry the
State by plurality of that it will beat either
| the Funder or GIpsack ticket by this vote-NoI
| LESS. Rely on this. VIM MALONE.
This ticket, which it was confidently"
predicted could carry Virginia, only got
Thirty One Thousand votes in the whole
State. Prophecy is dang erous, and he who
takes a low seat at its table and is exalted
is much happier than he who takes high
| place and is afterwards ordered to sit below
| the salt.