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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-10-12
A Gard from Hon. John GOode.

10 the People of Virginia
Upon nv return to my home this after
noon | saw for the first time the report of
the speech made by William Malone in
Isle Of Wight county on Wednesday, the
3D. ipsta Mt. as published in the Richmond
DISPATCH, Baltimore San, and Other papers.
The report says: "He went out OF his
way to insult Mr.. Goode. saying that he
had held his seat by fraudulent votes, and
was therefore cheat; also, that IL was
disgrace to mention his name 10 cohnec-
ton with the legal fraternity"
AS to his reference to my connection
with the legal fraternity, have not the
remOtest idea what he meant. AS TO the
other allegation, be knew when be made
1t that he uttered deliberate lie. He knew
that the State Board of CanvasserS bad
unanimously awarded to me the certificate
Of election, and that after the fullest III
vestigatiOn the House of Repl esentatlveS
bad d. cidt that l was legally and fairly
elected. W bu is This man that thus ira
duces me In my absence? Processing to
be Democrat. he madea corrupt bargain
with Republicans by which he betrayed
bis c0nstit uents and sold for price the
people who had hOnered him with rep
resentative trust.
Pretending tG be the champion of the
people, he has done more to debauch pub
lie morals and ruin the good name IF the
State han any other man who has ever
lived upon her soil. Protesting bis devo-
tion to the material interests of Virginia,
he has bankiupted one of her greatest rail-
roads, taking care, however, to fill his own
pockets with enormous sums of monty,
for which be has rendered no service what
ever B"astiug of his proves as major
general in the Confederate army, he gave
vote in the Senate BY which he attempt
ed to write tie word Traitor upon the
brow of every Confederate living, and the
grave IF every confederate dead. Claim
ing to be believer in the so-cafled Cude
OF Honor. lie hears upon bis forehead to-
day the brand oy''Iia and coward, plac.
there by General Jubal A. Early in the
presence of ten Thousand people at the city
of Richmond.
Such man is unworthy of any further
notice from me, and [ dismiss him as be-
meath contempt. JOHN Goo DE.
Norfolk, Va, October 1883.
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A FRAUDULENT FEAR.

The Coalition speakers express fear
that Democratic legislature would dis
~ the debt settlement. This is fraudu-
They know that if such legisla-
! We SO disposed, the veto of Cover
and bbssmerop is all powerful to stop them.
~ .e'A 8 NJ of office until the
49, vs.. !" u .ne members of the next legisla-
'ture expires. The fear is assumed ~, do
Ee'Ve the people. And s.,ae. ,nxb,dv no
Seyo that sine1.sss-r-a@ 'oe' "nJ o"oJ oo
IL ~0 ss { Democrat elected would
disturbing the debt settlement
and bringing on higher taxes. Is it likely
that John N. Opie, a farmer working at
The handle of the pillow, would want to
raise the taxes on his land. Does any one
believe that Edward Echols who is op.
posed to any distur bance Of the debt SET
Element would be induced to misrepresent
bis party and bis constituents by permit
ting others to do it. The people are not
50 dull as the Coalition speakers seem to
think.
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NO DEMOCRAT WILL DO ITl

Democrat vote for Fulcher and Ham
ilton! A Democrat? Oh, no ! The Negro
will; Coalltionist may, but not man
calling himself Democrat. Vote for men
whose party has cut off the bread and meat
of men who were in little Offices sim Div
because they were DenaocratSe Vote for
the members of party that turned work.
ingmen out of the public institutions and
put them on the streets for their b cad
just because they were Democrats! Vote
for two of the bitterest members of par
~ that makes Democracy crime, that has
called the Democratic party thieves and
liars; that wouldn't giva a Democratic
workingman or laborer place to earn his
living if an Influential Negro of their own
party wanted the place Vote for them?
These cand idates asking Democrats In
Augusta to vote for them To send them
to the legislature to turn out Democratic
judges and make districts for Republican
congressman. Never! Never!
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20 TO . MAJORITY.
THE "GRAND OLD PARTY CHAS-
TISED AND PURIFIED
AGAIN.
Especial to the VINDICAToR.1

Especial TO the VINDICATOR.l
COLUMBUS, ONO, OCT. 1.-THE full
returns have come in from the election
which took place in this State OIL Tuesday
last. Judge Hoadly (Dem.) is elected
Governor over Foraker (Rep.) by over
1000 majority.
The legislature is Democratic by from
2O,to 25 majority, which secures Demo-
cratic U. s. Senator.
The constitutional amendment prnhih
iting the traffic in or manufacture of
intoxicating liquor in the State came close
to being adopted, but as far as is known
has failed.
COLUMBUS, O., OCT. II. 9 p M.-The
Democrats all over Ohio are holding jolli-
ication meetings over the victory tonight.
RICHMOND, VA, OcT. 11.--There is
great Democratic jubilation here over the
Ohio victory.
CINCINNATI, OcT. 11.-Though the
Democrats ran two legislative tickets in
H amilton county. all on one ticket were
elected except one man.
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Another STATE meRt by Elk.
Postmaster Huff.
TFrom the Richmond STATED

(FrOm Gne Rlclm0nQ Srate1
Mr.. John Huff, whose interesting expose
of some Of the villainies of Mahoneism In
Augusta county appeared in yesterdays
"State;' called at the Office to add some
overlooked in the conversation of yester-
day.
''In the first place." said Mr.. Huff. Il
would like to have it distinctly understood
that will not, and could not, publish any
thing to initiate against Lieutensnt.
Governor Lewis. He is fine gentleman
and has always been my warm personal
and political friend. 1T was at the first
meeting of the Readjuster County Com
mittee that the effort was made to put w.
3. kurtz in as postmaster. AS to the
false record of the meeting representing
that kuriZ had been recommended by it
for tae place of postmaster at Waynes-
bore, Neon never acknowledged that he
made it. The members of the committee
when appealed to denied that the COM
inittee had endorsed Kurtz. Noon was
the secretary, ard his record Was that the
meeting of the committee may have been
early in December. A friend of mine,
+, a gentleman whose veracity is beyond
dispute, told me that Noon told him that
| tie meeting had not endorsed Kurtz.
When Kurtz said to the sub. committee
| that neither l nor my son had
voted IN the Governors election, the
subcommittee sent over to the clerk
office of Waynesboro and found that
very few respectable white men in
Waynesboro who are Mahonei es, and
do not know that any Mahonete
signed the petition against my removal.
A number of the most prominent citizens
of Waynesboro' got up the protest, which
was Duuerously signed, and employed
Mayor Patterson to take it to Washing
ton. The occurrence which Senator Lewis
related to me was at the Lynchburg con-
vention of 1881. Senator Lewis was pre-
siding and found the several ballots with
the name of John A. Noon in the same
handwriting. When Noon acknowledged
that he himself bad written them Mr..
Lewis tore the tickets up before his face
and threw them on the floor. Mr.. Lewis
said to ma, Noon is regarded as first
rate worker, but he is conceded TO be a
great las,al.' 1t was when Senator Lewis
was in Richmond attending the meeting
of the Medical College Board that he saw
Craig, but not Malone, and spoke to i'm
10 my behalf, and Craig promised that he.
would see about the matter.
'Cralgs letter to Malone was that S5s
per cent. of the testimony taken at Way
nesboro' was in Kurtz's favor. As to the,
visit to Washington Mr. A. F. Mosby Dr..
r. s. Hamilton and Mayor Patterson ALI
! saw Malone in my behalf and carried the
| protest gotten up by Judge Quaries. MT.
w. M. Caldwell testified abont Kurtz,
when the committee was considering his,
application for the place of postmaster.
that his general reputation is d-n had. ~"
Mr.. Huff requests us 60 add these facts
to the interview of yesterday. He is very
anxious that his account of the nefarious,
transactions of the Malone Ring shall be-
absolutely correct in all its details.
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mixed SCHOOL AND BLACK
c<yLlnT ROARD2

D
It will be remem bered that the Coalition
legislature of 'S1-2 vas i'll full tide OF pass
Jog the most obnoxious and outrageous
bills when the detection OF the big Four
10 the Senate brought them TO deao
stop. Had it not been for them the legis-
lation would have been of description
that can hardly be described for its oppres-
sion of the whites of the State.
On the 9th of February. 1882 the Negro
delegate from Mecklenburg introduced
bill to amend section Is of chapter 259 OF
the act establishing free schools, $50 as TO
allow school trustees to be elected by the
qualified voters of each school district
The bill was referred to the committee Oh
Schools and Colleges. Mecklenburg has
majority of black votes nearly reaching
one thousand. The bill not being reported
soon enough to suit the member, ne
on the Goth of March following
re-introd ced the same bill and it was
again referred. See House Journal pages
10 and 295. The Big Four had opened
the war in the Senate and it was useless
for the Coalition House to adopt any hos
tile political legislation with any hope OF
it's becoming law. 1t was about this
date that Mr.. Lady of Rnckbridge. Coali-
ZIONIST, introduced his bill which (might
be called supplementary bill to the week.
lenburg proposition) to vacate tue Offices
of all tie school trustees in the State.
Both of these bills are still pending
legislat ion in the mihGs OF the Coalition
if not on the calender Of legislation. Had
gtEey become laws, in twentysix counties
ahe Nero population would have been
ssnahed to elect school boards composed
iexc.usivAly Of Negroes, and 5oL thers
would have been no separate board to
supervise tbs white schools. The Negroes
would have been trustees for all. In large
percentage of the white counties 10 this
State the Negroes are in majority iu
particular school districts and the samt
state of affairs would Exist as to those
districts.
Now when these two bills are revived
in the next legislature, should the people
of Virginia be unfortunate enough to have
Coalition majority in that body. what is
| to become of the education of the whit,
| children in the black counties? The De-
mocracy have offered the colored people
| the absolute control of their own schools,
but they reject it. Their idea is when you
get to The bottom of it-school boards and
schools aoathout any distinction of race
Everything goes to confirm it, and The
knowledge Of the existence Of this purpose.
which, if carried out is the ruin of the
public school system of Virginia, should
move every friend of the system to pre-.
vent the return of Coalitionlst to the
legislature.
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Oh, make up your minds and come home to us now
For you never can "go it alone"-
And the bottoms dropped out Of Ohio, you know
Which is rough on your Billy MahoneI
There is news from the West that King Arthur's
played out,
In the halls of the White House is woe;
Riddleberger is sick-Johnny Wise in the dumps;
The Republican party must go!
So you'd better make haste and come home.
There is swearing and cursing and CRASHING of
teeth
In tbs Revenue Office uptown;
For the stock of Dem ,cracy's gone above par,
And the Radical stock has foppei down.
"V. Vs. on the fence-By Craig Cd the run,
Our Governors pain IN his toe;
General Blair, Colonel Allen, and private John
Noon,
OF the Radical party. must go!
So be lively, and hurry up home.
The 'fiesh pots of Egypt you onged 50 to taste.
Have slfpp d from the top of the shelf;
And Arthur is for you' no longer poor chap.
For he cannot take care of himself
Eiehty.Four's just ahead and oh! don't you forget
That the Radical cake is all dough.
There's fly in that dumping, will make you So
sick
The Republican party must go
Then hurry, and come along home.
The debt questions settled the schools safe and
sound
These are matters that vex us more;
There's ship with Democracy nailed to her
mast,
That will bring you in safe to the shore.
So get aboard quick and come home to us now,
Ere that raft you are on goes below
1t will meier stand the tidal wave sweeping the land
THE Republ an party must GO ~
So pick up your traps and come home.
A. G. G.
Stanton "a, Oct. 11th, 1888.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-10-12

THE NEW Two CENT STAMP.-The new
stamps are brownish red in color and
the design is profile bust of Washington
on shield. as 10 the old three-cent stamp.
but the new design is neater and more dis
tinct. than the old. In the three-cent
stamp the lips of Washington were COM
pressed and the expression austere. In the
new stamp the expression is more placid.
The old stamps are still good. A letter re-
curing but two cents will go all right with
an old-style two or three-cent stamp, while
one requiring four cents Will pass with an
old three gummed on alongside one-cent
stamp; a six-cent postage will be covered
by i've and one. and so ON but there
is no law for redeeming the old issue of
stamps.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-10-12
THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE
PEOPLE.

At last the white people of the Coalition
party have an opportunity to bring the
ring which has been supervising their
voice and distributing the results of their
victories to set of favorites, to halt.
The ring managers of the party are already
securing the county to secure your votes.
1t is election t1me-the only period at
which they ever think of you. The occa-
sion Of their canvass is the fact that the
ring has two candidates up for the legisla-
ture. One of them is Mr.. John E. Hamil-
ton, who belongs to a family connection in
this county that has enjoyed an unprece-
denied monopoly of the positions of profit
and trust within the gift of the Coalition
managers. He himself has been the reci-
pient of the appointment of County Treas
urer, the exceedingly lucrative appoint
ment of Special Collector of Railroad
taxes, and the appointment of School
Trustee. These, you will observe, were
appointments; when he went before the
people of the county he was badly defeated
The people of Augusta county have al
ready severely rebuked the methods of the
Coalition party through him at the ballot
box. They can only repeat it at the polls
next month and make it yet more empha-
tic.
The other is Capt. E. A. Fulcher. He
has been appointed a Director of the W.
l.. Asylum, elected Supervisor for Bever-
ly Manor, and is now candidate for the
House. His election In Beverly Manor
was attained by the minute majority of
t:oenty-three votes. Had the Democratic
nominee for the position given two hours
work to his own election. Capt. Fulcher
would have been defeated in his own town.
ship. Capt. Fulcher, as richly deserves to
be defeated by the people of his party as he
deserves the gratitude of the ring and
favorites. Notwithstanding the astonish-
ing manner in which the people of his
party have been ignored by the managers,
and Notwithstanding the fact that while
the ring has gotten everything and the
People nothing, except here and there the
place of registrar or some other nom
compromising position. Capt. F. has never
made public protest against the wrong;
n ever lifted hand to help them, and has
now comfortably settled down as the rum
ning-mate of one Of the favorltes in the Ie-
gislative race.
Now, these candidates are appealing to
the people. If one might get into the le-
gislature. by appointment, then there
would be no trouble. Rnt in this case the
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-10-12

The secret of Riddebarger's silence in
the campaign is out at last. He has been
overshadowed in his own county. A teie-
gram to the Wing says. there was Joy
in Giles" ON Saturday. over the speech Of
Robt. J. Walker. of Shenandoah, who
''by his eloquence made the mountains of
Giles reverberate." in discussing sin q
gifted manner" the issues of the campaign.
Mr.. Walker is doing 'noble work in the
Southwest" 1t is evidently "a cold day"
for Harry Riddleberger when some other
Shenandoah man can make the 'moun-
tains reverberate.''
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Their hostility to him Mahonel arises from the
ia ct that he arrested Bourbon proflgacy. rescued
tn government from their ruinOus confrtl. and to
do this had to eject the whole lmpndent insolent
and reski crew rr$m p ace anu power They
cannot assai his works. for they are all in the inter
est Of the people, Their ock in trade is fsehood,
SANDER, villifcation, and not argument VaEey
Virginian OF yesterday.
The hostility of not only the Democracy,
but the whole people of Virginia to W m.
Malone, arises from a very different cause
to that ascribed to it by our cotempora-
ry. 1t arises from desire of all men to
be free It arises from cause thus &C
curately described by our contemporary, the
Valley Virginian, in it's issue of July 9th,
1881:
"If Republican is better Readjuster than he is
a Republican, he is Liberal II he is better Re.
adiuster than he is Democrat, lie is Liberal II a
Readjuster is better Mahoneite than he is Read
just-r he is Liberal and if all of them confess al
legiance first last, and all the time to the Boss they
are simon D ure Observation-Disclosures the ak is in
voked. the englnery Of persecution and denuhcia-
tiun is let loose and this new born liberalism is
universal havoc. II colored man bow to the boss
and does his bidding he is Liberal but il he an
nounces that he is Rep .bisan, and that his first
political duty to til Ut party then he Is Bourbon
and must be prescribed and prosecuted"
This is neither ''fal5e 100 |, Islander nor
villification," but sound argument" 1t Is
even more fully true nov than 1t was
when it was written. Since then the heads
| Of the best Republicans in the party white
and colored have fallen to make room for
personal worries of Malone, who ''con-
| fess allegiance first, last and all the time
to the Boss" No true Republican nor
Democrat who has any conception of the
vital principles of his party is willing that
a rule SO degrading to the manhood Of the
| people should continue an hour. The
people will not stand it !; they refuse tc
confess allegiance to Boss" who sup
presses their voice in elections from Con.
gress down to County Clerk, and backs his
county rings up in despoiling tn EN-, both
of their voice and participation in theiI
own government.
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Gov. Cameron who carried ''Arrica into
the war" finds that there are not enough
Africans to make the trip this time, and
will appear at Harrisonburg, Oct 10Th, to
try and persuade some Funders reasona-
bly, op IN to Conviction to take the place
of the lacking Africans. Too late Will
liam! You've come into the field too late
The mortar is set.
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The Nah one Cause, Dropping to Pieces
From the Culpeper Exponent.l

[From the Cupeper Exponent
A CARD.
To the Chairman of the Readjuster- Coali-
ton Executive Committee of Culpep-
or county:
My Dear SRI see by the newspaper
that have been appointed one of the Ex-
ecutive Committed IF your party for Salem
magisterial district.
My friend ]. s Eggborn hes lately de-
clined to be candidate to represents this
county in the Legislature, and now feel
free to act. You will please erase my name
from the list of your Executive Commit
teemen, as / cannot consent to act in
such capacity.
JAS. r. STRINGFELLoW.
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A FINE DESCRIPTION OF THE
WAY The OFFICES HAVE
BEEN APPROPRIATED
Blythe BOSSES.

Nothing we could Write could so truly
describe the way the Coalition Ring Of the
Best People in the party have appropriated
the offices in Augusta than the following
from our neighbor the VALLEY Virqsniaaa
written when the Coalitionists were clutch
ing the spoils after their capture Of the
State:
1.-THE inordlnate and insane greed for Office-wheth
er with honor or emolument or either exhib tied
by the ReadjustcrS was absolutely disgu sting The
delirium of success seemed to turn their heads IN
side out and with an mpudence and insulting AFRO
gance the like OF which even In a miniature degree
we have never before seen, they grabbed with insa
table NAV for every crumb in the present or pros
pective both State and National, appropriating to
themselves everything they could command-totaly
insensibe to the common decencies and proprieties
of political association and vii hout consideration
for their past and future identity"
Could anything be more lifelike? For
getting the white Readjuster voters ct
their party, forgetful of the white Re.
pubicans, Forgetting the people of all poli-
tics, aid counting on the submissiveness
of those vl,v had made it possible for them
to ob..iu official positions, they with
''inoso,nate and insane greed for office y
went to work and divided them out among
"a few selected favorites representing bh3
most Favored Families and left the people
out in the cold. 1t will bs cold day for
the county bosses November 9Th, mark
our words
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Capt. Fulcher is a jolly, good fellow. Is
he Well. you ask those Democratic
poor men who were turned out from their
work benches at the ". L. Asylum just
because they were Democrats. They Can
give you me information as to the effect
of his good fellowship. He is Director
at the Asylum and there isn't more BIT
ter and unreIenting partisan in the Coali-
tion ranks.
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DEMOCRATS COMING OUT OF
THE GROUND.

The spirit of the Virginia Democracy
can be well estimated from the Democratic
primary held in Botetourt county to nomi-
nate candidate for the legislature. The
primary vote was 1.485-exceeding the
total vote cast for Hon. j. Randolph
Tucker in 1882 by four hundred and si1ty-
sic uotes. 1t looks like the Democrats were
coming out of their holes this time, don't
IT, ?
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See the Little Deaf and Dunn Boy Run.
He is Frightened. Is he running towards
the Institution ? Oh, No; he is Running
the Other Way. Why does he rim the
other wayp Because there is War at the
Institution. Do the scholars Learn much9
Oh, q Great Deal-Ahout War.
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A down-heartsd Coalitionist on hearing
that Rildleberger will soon re. enter the
campaign, made this sincere but democrat
'zing comment. ell. he's too late, the
campaigns gone too far for even burnt
brandy to save it now"