Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-06-27
POLITICAL NOTES AND COM
MENTS.


Republicans. Col. John A. Joyce, sterl-
ing Republican has been interviewed and
thinks that ''the Republican party has
nominated the strongest man in its or
ganization," and lone brave, brilliant
and audacious.' The Colonel thinks the
Independents who are opposing Blaine,
only lot of man-milllners and are about
the same weight as the fly on the cart
wheel The Colonel for the last six years
has had great freedom of observation of
politics, somewhat more than he had for
the three years previous to that, having
spent that much time in the Missouri
penitentiary. The following is the Colo
nel's Record and which is to be found in
the N, Y. Tribune Of Nov. Is, 1875:
ST. LOUIS, November IA, 1875.-Judge
Krekel, of the United States District
Court, Missouri, sentenced Col. John A.
joyce. ex-Revenue Agent, to three years
and six months in the penitentiary and to
pay fine of $4,000.
In the editorial columns of the Tribune
of the same date. we find an article on
''Ring Breakers, " which opens as follows:
| The sentence of member of the Whis-
key Ring in Missouri to three and a half
| years. imprisonment is a forcible remind
er of the gratifying success that has at
tended Secretary Bristow's war upon this
| powerful clique of thieves, This success
| has been great, just as the ring was great.
Gen. BENZ. F. Butler, who enjoys the
distinction of having two nominations
for the Presidency-that of the Gre en-
hackers and the Anti-Mon opolists- ad-
dressed an open air meeting at Parkers-
| burg, W. Va, on the 18th inst. at which
the Greenbackers turned out largely. He
urged them to concentrate their strength
and not waste it by combinations with
other parties.
Col. Fl. g. Parsons, of Rockbridge, Mr..
Virginia, publishes a letter predicting his
election. If the Colonel had added that
he, himself, is likely to be in the field as a
Blaine candidate for Congress in the COM
| ing campaign in the 10th district, he
| would only have repeated what many
| newspaper correspondent is are publishing
Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt, the young
New York Independent leader, telegraphs
the N. Y. Evening Post. denying the al
legged interview at which he was reported
to have said at Chicago that he would
support Blaine, and saying that he never
said it, cor anything like it,"
The Delaware Breakaoater Light, which
before the nomin alton at Chicago had Ar
thur and Lincoln flying at the head of it's
columns, refuses to support Blaine, and de,
clares for Thomas F. Bayard.
A meeting was held in Cincinnati last
| week to organize a movement for ex-
Senator Thurman at Chicago. Senator
Pendleton 3 friends were largely repre-
sented at it. 1t is not a movement to
elect Thurman delegates, but to influence
delegates as far as possible after they are
| elected.
The Democratic Congressional nomina-
| ting convention for the 9th (Lynchburg)
district, will meet at Roanoke city Thurs
day, Aug. 18th, at IL M, and that of the
9th district will meet at Marion, Smythe
county, on Thursday, July 31st. The rep
resentation at both is one delegate for
every hundred votes or fractional part of
one hundred, over fifty, cast for the Dem
ocratic legislative ticket last November.
The committee of the Republican Ma
tional Convention to inform Mr.. Blaine
of his nomination, visited Augusta, Me-,
last Saturday and performed their duty.
Senator John A. Logan was present. The
committee read quite a lengthy address
and Mr.. Blaine's reply was cautiously
brief.
Congressman Finnerty, of Chicago, de-
MES that his Irish-American newspaper
published in Chicago, will support Blaine
and Logan. On the contrary, he consld
ers the nominations unfit and will oppose
them vigorously. He is an Independent
Democrat.
VIM. billiard, Esq.,. the Mahoneite Su
perintendent of the county of Surry, pub
fishes card in the last Claremont Herald
in which he says II do not feel under
any obligation whatever to support the
Republican nominee, James e. Blaine. [
favored Arthur because he was friendly
to the Readjuster party, and not because
he is Republican. +" The mission of the
Readjuster party having ceased, says Mr..
D., II having always been Democrat,
shall support the Democratic candidate
for the Presidency, whoever he may be,
except Ben. Butler
Hon. W. A. Smith, late Republican
member of Congress from N orth Carolina,
has declared for the Democrats. He says
Blaine is too much for him to carry, that
he has voted his last Republican ticket,
and will take the stump for the Demo-
Gratis.
The California State Democratic Con-
vention after electing delegates, adopted
the following resolution
RESOLVED, That, Notwithstanding the de-
clination of Mr.. Tilden, it is the sense of
this Convention that he should be nomi-
| mated, not SO much as a reward for his
| services as to rebuke the fraud of 1875.
1t is said that Blaine and Conkling will
| soon have personal meeting at which the
past will be reconciled.
| A correspondent gives the following
three pretty strong reasons for liking
Samuel J. Randall:
1. He beat the Force bill when Grant
was President.
2. He stopped the way to anarchy when
the Fraud of 1867 had completed its
work and 1.-THE lately depleted) Grant was
| in the cellar of the Capitol with his men
to seize the Government and breed revo-
tuition.
! 3. He beat the Morrison bill, which
was sending the active opposition to I'M
| limited plumber in this country, to the
devil.
| 1t is said with much confidence that the
Ohio delegation will be solid for Cleve-
land, and that the Payne element there
! are enthusiastic for him.