The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-09-11
From Allegheny.
FORGE, VA, Sept. 6. !

J Ed1t0r TUgWMH. Oiu AlleSHdHy mas
walked up for the fray, and promises to do
her best for the cause of Virginia, by COM
| ing forward with q large majority for
Blaine and Logan and Yost, on Nov, 4.
TO the Republicans of Augusta, and all
the 10th District, she sends her greetings,
and with them the assurance that the
/ work being done here will encourage all to
| labor the harder to pile up the majority all
! tile more high against Cleveland and bogus
moral Maria liapinreform. and Free
trade.
On Monday evening, Sept. l, the Repub-
| licans OF Clifton Forge and vicinity met
! to organize a Blaine and Logan Club. A
good crowd was in attendance and an ell
| thusiastic club Of twenty eight members
was organized with the following corps Of
officers r. J. Sweetwood Pres; r. II.
! Meeks. list Vice-Pres., ID. G. Accord. 2nd
vice Pres; w. II. Bryant. Sec'y; j. E.
Black, Treas; John Nuckols, Seg't-at-
Arms Names have since been handed in
| sufficient to bring up the membership to
forty. and it will finally swell to fifty
strong.
Such was our club as organized, and such
! is our club to-day. and to show you the
api3,aats of the Democratic party and the
kind OF a compaign they are running, |
wish to state q few facts in connection
with it, The Allegheny Sentinel OF last
week contained a communication from
| Clifton Forge, stating that a Democratic
club had been organized here OF one hum
dred and forty members, and that the Re-
publicans had started one with nineteen
whites and twenty negroes enrolled. by
| the authority OF every member OF our club
have pronounced the latter portion OF
| that statement false in every particular
! and call upon the author OF it to produce
his proofs, and that too, over his own
name 1t is simply the product Of some
of the Scheming Democrats of this place,
who have been circulating similar false
hoods concerning our meeting since 1t Oc-
cured. and who III their attempts to act
rs physicians to the Democratic party
| have given it q medicine that will react
with ten-fod force. The plain facts in
the case are these every man who signed
our roll was a white man every man who
has since sent in his name has been q
white man; the list comprises some OF the
best citizens of Clifton Forge, and some
of the largest property-owners OF Allie
ghany county and every man is good,
| w-abiding citizen and voter of ALE
| ghany county There were some colored
men present, as indeed there were some
Bourbon Democrats, but not one OF them
even asked to sign the roll OF to become a
member OF the cluD.
Furthermore, | will state that the DEM
ocrats have no club here of a hundred and
| forty members AS | know the authors
of this article stated nothing but pure I'M
truths concerning the Democratic. 1t is
possible that they may have list Of one
hundred and forty names but every voter
OF this town knows, that even i'll the in
fancy Of the club, they placed upon its roll
the names Of at least dozen Republicans
without the knowledge of the latter, that
! many more were those of transient persons
here who had no vote i'll Allegheny county,
and that fully u third were placed there
against the wishes Of the parties so named.
This, as | said was in the infancy of the
club and even this, according to their own
statements, only raised the number to
eighty now. how they have since in
creased it to u hundred and forty can only
be left to the imagination. But more is
yet to be seen. 1t is known that at least
two of the members Of this Cleveland and
Hendricks club are negroes: and that they
have tried to buy over others OF the col
ofed voters Of this place. These then are
the kind OF men that manufacture false
statements concerning Republican club
| in order to originate a prejudice against it
and yet receive with open arms and hon
eyed words the very persons they slur at
us for possessing. If this REX, " as he
chooses to term himself, land as king OF
campaign liars | am certainly willing to
grant him that title, wishes to deny these
statements [ challenge him to publish the
names of the members of his club and
then we shall see who tells the truth.
FINALLY | make the statement. that from
the most reliable sources at hand, it is my
opinion, and the opinion OF score OF
others. that a majority of the aclite voters
| ri. a,a fOl.Ie I
and nearly two-thirds are opposed to Ran
dolph Tlcller.
This is all | have to say III regard to Mr.. |
| Rex, unless. indeed, he is likewise the au-
| thor Of some notices posted here not long
ago, calling the BOurbons together, in
which the name Of the party was spelled
| Democratic. I'm which case, [ would adj
wise him to learn to spell little in English
before he commences to sign a Latin name.
The truth is the Bourbons are scared
and, OF course, are demoraliZed. Harry
Tucker in q speech here this week said he
had heard the Democrats of Allegheny
county were lule-warm, and | think he
was about right. But if they are luke
warm already they will beskept i'll such
continued hot water from now until the
Path of next November that when the 9TH
dawns upon them they will be boiled away
to nothing and only little dirty scum will
remain, and that scum will probably con-
sist of Mr.. Rex and one on two more like
him.
Last Friday nightW had a Republican
mass-meeting here at which Blaine and
Logan and Y ost pole was raised. The
pole clears over seventy feet, being nearly
twenty feet higher than the Democratic
pole, and on this account is the pride of
all Republicans. The meeting was ad
| dressed by Jacob Y ost, and his mastery
effort strengthened the confirmed, brought
over the wavering and pleased everybody.
| Tucker record was shown up as clear as
MONDAY and nothing in it was found to
| be friendly to the laboring man or in favor
of the old Commonwealth of Virginia.
! Many Democrats are know to be opposed
to Tucker and the favorable impression
| created by Yost will undoubtedly cause
many of them to vote for him in preference
to their own man. The open insult to
| Low Moor and Longdale and to the pros
perity of Allegheny comfy will drive hun
dreds of Democrats away from Tucker in
to the \ ost camp. Depend upon it, Re-
publicans OF Augusta, and of the 10th Dis
trict, Allegheny county can be put down
for a Republican majority into the hun
dreds, and that Yost will lead his ticket.
VERITAs.
CLIFTON FoRGE, VA, Sept. 6, 1884.
| Editor Vrgiaidp We the undersigned,
in the name of the Blaine and Logan Re-
publican Club of Clifton Forge do hereby
endorse all that has been said in the above
article concerning the organization and
membership Of our club and demand that
the author of it retraet the falsehoods he
willfully states in the article referred to in
the Allegheny Sentinel.
r. j. SWEETWOOD, Pres.
Il. II. MEEKs, 1st vice-Pres.
| D. 9. Accord, I'd vice-Pres.
w. II. BRYANT, Sec'y.
| ]. E. BLACK, Treas.
JOHN NUCKoLs, Serg 't-at-Arms.