Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-08-27

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The announcement of Mr.. Faulkners ap-
pointment 70 Cairo was premature IL seems
that the place had been promised to gentle,
man i'm New York who has heretofore rendered
the Government valuable service IN Egypt
Wssi IIrgiai0 Democrat.
The FOREGOING looks like an attempt to DIS
credit the statement that the Consulship to
Cairo had been rendered Mr. Faulkner. We
have nom authority next 20 as reliable as that
which might come from the state Department
or Mr.. Faulkner himself, that the position was
profered Mr. F and that he declined IL.
Whenever the grand old party OF It's hybrid
le.atoes feel particularly unsafe in campaign
tlev manage % secure some editorial words Of
comfort. spoken from afar. on which pabulum
the rank and file are expected TO brace up
Thu, we have the ST. Louis Globe predicting
Malone victory i'm Virginia and basing its re-
mark on ,Le discipline af the Readiusters and
Democratic apathy We hope the aforesaid
discipline viii be sufficiently preserved along
about November Amid the confusion Of an
utter rout it viii be rather needed.
Jno. ;. Wise hopes to win negro votes by tel
ling them ,hat John Brown was more respec-
table character than any rutiied shirt Bour-
bod Democrat in Virginia, but he cheerfuily
avoids telling them that John Browns first
victim vas an industrious, inoiensive colored
man. Johnnie would not hsrrow theirminds
bv such CHASTITY mention.
Brigham Young will have been dead eight
wears ON saturday, but there is no indication
that the lovely system heset up in Utah is dy-
ing. Ii vet Gyes-a vigorous menace 10 public
morals. Uncle sam may possibly be crushing
out this evil but he is doing IL with snail-like
ieliberation.
The fellow possessed of just that kind Of in-
-enuty that viii enable him to find ont the
exact number of speckled trout that Grover
will catch during his vacation, Is the very one
90 approximate the number of new democratic
postmasters that viii lick stamps 'twiNt now
and frost.
The average traveller is now telling us that
the brakemen on trains entering the Queen
City Of the West open ,he ear doors and shout
Chicago twenty minutes for divorce This
may NOT De- yeracious assertion but it certain
I ly haas ana dir ofprobab.iity.
As Tm FErr PEE,s foretokcued some time
SINCE Gov Hoadley has gone n % the fight
AGAINST Foraker in Ohio and PROMISE To- give
him o., big a drubbing a, De did I'm previous
campaign.
Itispruy generally understood that Mahone
win cradle Wise of ior the legislature The
latter. ly which hc may secure o. reelection to
+ the senate. is more important to the spiral
/ William than che Goyenorhip.
lei, expected tle August crop ofuew demo
cuu. postmaster, win he ahout 25oo-one io'
+ every sis minutes oftenhour of each working
I doy. ist Asst p. VI. General Stevenson 3,
ia'-g
Rmdleber-er said in Chicago a few days
ago in speaking of the negroes of Virginia
'Buv The preacher and you get the Church
CONGREGATION and sch0ol-hou,e, and 70 Is not
difficult 90 strike q bargain
Mr.. Riddleber-er has been "a leading Ma
honeite. lie has been I'm the confidence of
the Boss Tie places the name OF John =.
Wise 40 the head of his paper He adyer-
ti,e. to the world that the negro preachers,
congregations and all can be bought. lie
. expresses in an insulting way a contemptu
on, opinion of the negro.
Thi, Is a sudden change of front How
does the negro like this Riddleberger who
/ boosted in the Virgins Senate of being the
friend of the c0lored race? viii the col
ored man stiil want further evidence of the
difference between the MahOneite's protes-
sions and acts The three So-cailed friends
/ of the negro who have posed in Congress in
/ the past twelve months are Malone, Wise
and Riddleberger. Mahone's sen shot a
negro waiter In Washington, and Malone
/ himself endorsed his action and attempted
90 aid him. Wise declared that negroes
who visited him would be received in his
/ kitchen. and Riddleberger declares that the
I negroes can be bought like herrings.
These are the friends of the negro
Lwci5wg Irginiaa.
And the TIrg'a'ag might have added
John Brown, who protested so much love
for the liberty of the negro, unproyokedly
murdered an industrious, inotiensiye color
F cd man at Harper's Ferry.
Senator Colquit has furnished the first
instance i'm the history of Georgia where
7 father and son represented the State in the
/ Senate of the United States. Such occur
rences are very rare. There are only three
on record. They are those of Senators Bay
ard. Don Cameron. and Colquit. The Bay
/ ards have represented Delaware in tn Sen
ate without interruption for three genera
tions. Don Cameron took his fathers seat
There was thirty years between Walter T.
+ Colouitt and his son in the Senate Wheel