Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-05-30
THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

The municipal elections last Thursday
in the cities of Virginia, showed the DEM
ocratic tide to be still rising. But one
election in particular was study in itself
that at Danville. The Republicans
seem to have been yearning for "riot"
which might BIZ telegraphed over the coun-
try. Failing to get up one, the Republic
can Mayor, the same whose statements
were quoted last fall by the Republican
press as those of Democratic Mayor,
took advantage of the beating of one ne
gro (who by the bye was one of the chief
actors in bringing on the November riot)
to call for troops thus:
"DANvILLE, May 19.-Gov. VIM. E.
Cameron: Four white men attacked Geo.
Adams (colored) O-day, and beat him so
he will probably die. This [ believe to be
the beginning of trouble here which may
cause much bloodshed unless troops, at
least regiment, be sent here at once to
preserve the peace. Please answer by tel
egraph.
J. H. JOHNSON, Mayor"
The folly of sending TAT least regi-
ment" to town because four days before
an election man had been beaten, was
too much for Gov. Cameron and was
greeted with ridicule by the press at large.
The Governor took cool view of the
frantic telegram, sent no troops, aud
went to Danville himself on election
day. There he saw as quiet an election
as was held in the State. The Democrats
were as active as bees and there were only
eight registered whites who were not
brought to the polls. 1t seems that they
also got seventy colored votes for their
ticket, and elected their ticket by ma
| jority of four hundred and two.
In Norfolk. the Democrats elected
twenty-four out OF the thirty councilmen,
and reduced the Republican majority Of
| Mayor Lamb from 300 to JTty-tsoo. Uncle
Richard Lewellen is in geaial frame of
mind over the victory, and fair, as he al
ways is, gives the ''younR Democracy
their due share of the credit.
In Winchester. the Democrats redeem
ed the town and elected Democratic
| Mayor and Council, 10y an average major
| ity of Is.
Richmond. Lynchburg, Portsmou
and Alexandria. as usual, went Demo-
cratic. and Petersburg, Republican.
The joke of the season seems to have
been perpetrated on the Richmond Whiq,
in the following telegram:
STAUNToN, May %.
The Democrats carry this city by only
40 majority, Republican gain of ISL.
Good enough for this time! s.
AS matter of fact there was not Re-
publican oalitionist or Readj Hsrer in the
race. The Revenue Department was out
in full force as usual, and some of its
officers worked from morning till night,
but fortunately without success. The Whiq
has been deceived there were no political
lines drawn that we could see, and the
only struggle worth the name was to beat
one or two regular Democratic primary
nominees for the council in each ward,
with other Democrats. The straight Dem
cratic ticket was elected in both wards,
and on the general ticket.
The squad drill" of the Virginia towns
that voted last Tuesday, showed that the
party is ready to enter the field next No
vember with Danville and Norfolk added
to the list of Democratic cities.
The Staunton peopIe-and therein, I
suppose, reflects the general sentiment
South-almost universally accept the re-
oE II o;r
None of US could find one who would say
he would like to see the old ante-war and
slavery days again. At the same time, l
incline, both from quiet observation and
general hearsay. to the opinion that we
did not see all the Stanton people. AS a
matter of fact,it seemed to one in the air,
that way down deep. there was still an
old-time F. F. V. arIstocracy that did not
materially assist at the 18th reception. It
was whispered. indeed, that many of the
hest people" neither offered nor did
throw open their houses. They made no
outbreak of any kind against the demon
stration-which certainly upon the face of
it was magnifcent-but they quietly held
be done an injustice. Still So all this
was said in an undertone.-Letter from
Stauato7a in LockpOrt. N. Y. Journal.
The above is from letter written by
the genial Republican editor of the Jour-
nal, Willard A. Cobb, Esq. who was among
the visitors who accompanied the 28th N.
N. to Staunton. The conclusion he draws
as to the acceptance of the result" is
absolutely correct; as to the rest, one
word. AS a matter of fact it was the
very best people in Staunton, Democrats
and Republicans. whose homes received
our guests. 1t would be hard to find
among our people any ''F. F. V. aristocra-
cy," class which, if it ever existed in
sufficient numbers to Justify calling it q
class. existed rather outside of the State
than in it. We are very plain, practical
people hereabouts and have neither leis-
ure nor disposition to revive the foolish
idlosyncracies which pr evailed in the east
ern and more largely slave-holding section
of our State generation ago. We assure
our visitors that the demonstration was
in heart as we'll as ''on it's face" gener-
al and genuine one by all, and we hope
that some future day he may get down
here when there isn't crowd, and then
he can better judge of the feeling among
all the people, by personal acQuaint-
ance.
In the Southern Presbyterian General
Assembly at Vicksburg last Saturday
night the report submitted by the Com
mittee on Cooperation with the Northern