Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-08-28

to Richmond, and was TO arrive Ill No"
York yesterday.
TIE POLITICAL FIELD IN
VIRGINIA.
DR.. Harry Black has been nominated
for the House of Delegates by the Demo-
Gratis of Montgomery country; II. IL.
Downing has been endorsed by the DEM
ocrats of Warren for f1oater from Warren
and Clarke; Hon. Taylor Berry is caD-
didate for denomination to the Senate from
Amherst and Nelson; Paul G. Edmunds for
the Senate, and R. r. Noblin and W. I.
Jordan for the House, have been nomina-
| ted by the Democrats of Halifax. Judge
Brown, who has been nominated for the
House from Nelson. is nephew of the
late Judge Lucas P. Thompson of Staun-
ton.
Gen. Lees appointments are changed SO
as to be at Brownsburg Friday Sept. 18th,
4P. M, and Fairfield same day at P.
M, instead of the dates first announced.
| Capt. Page McCarty will commence the
issue of his "Campalgn" in Richmond
again, about the 1sJ of September.
Hon. John Il. Harris has accepted the
position of Democratic canvasser at large.
In Botetourt the Democrats have adop-
ted the hand-around primary for the selec-
ton of candidates for the House. A num-
Der of Democrats are selected, sworn mot
by either word, expression or demeanor,
to use any influence to further the cause
of any candidate" and then sent out to
all the Democratic voters, each man car
rying ballot box. They start out on the
1Osh of September and return to Fincas-
tie on the 18th, at II M. All the ballots
are then counted and the highest declared
candidates. Each person desiring to be
a candidate has to contribute in advance
$40 to pay the expenses of the primary.
The box carriers get 81 per day.
To an old cavalry comrade from Clarke
county the other day, Gen. Williams G.
Wickham replied: Il shall give our old
division commander my vote; and IL it
will be of any service to him will also lift
my voice for him upon the hustings'
A mass convention of Local Option vo
tiers of Loudoun county, has adopted the
following resolution:
Resogved, ssThat unless the candidates nom
mated by the respective parties give this
pledge to advocate and work for the enact
ment of local option law tothe Temperance
i element of the county, that this convention
pledge themselves not to support such candi-
dates and will call upon q local option Demo
, | L., !. iJo{o for4 l,a 1apYcl 5{17r
Our friend, Major James G. Hill, of ths
Scottsville Courier" came within foul
votes of receiving the nomination of the
Democrats of Albemarle for the mex
House of Delegates.
At Fairfax G. H. last week, Hon. Johr
E. Massey gave utterance to the follow
lug epigram:
''Mr Wise is person of great bravery ant
much prudence. He is very brave in tn
presence of prudent men, and very pruden
in the presence of brave men,"
r. W Page Morris. the ex.postmaste
of Lynchburg, is to speak at Covington
. Allegheny, Sept 9Th. the same day tina
Fitz Lee speaks there.
"Col" S Brown Allen, of Washington
, who is stumping for Gen. Mahone's tick
, | ct in Virginia, is a clerk in the Office Of
the Secretary OF the U. S. Senate.
Q 1t is stated that Hon. R. A. Coghill, will
be candidate to represent Amherst il
the next House of Delegates.
Hon. Thomas Whitehead has left tn
| Lynchburg Advance and has started
political paper called "Whitehead's Dem
! ocrat.'' Maj. Robt. 81. Glass takes hi
l place on the Advance. .'7-
ing TIE Platform of the Democratic part
at the Richmond convention, were Johl
5 W. Daniel. Edmund Pendleton, r. Tay
) lor Scott, Gen. w. B. Taliaferro, Marshal
4 Mccormick, Connolly F. Trigg, Judg
Waller r. Staples John B. Moon, Judg
Aiken and Col. Archer Anderson. TIL
first named gentleman was the author o
, the larger part.
Two especially strong nominations hav'
been made for the House by the Demo
Gratis of Washington county, being Hon
Abram Fulkerson and John P. Buchanan
The nominations were made by acclama
ton. a..
Mr. Samuel J. Graham, Of Rockbridge
publishes card saying that under no cir
cumstances can he be candidate for the
nomination for the Senate. The Demo
cratic convention to make the selection
meets at Millboro to-day. 'H
Maj. A. D. Grimsey, (Dem.,l has beeu
nominated for the House in Culpeper
county, and Joseph F. Slower, (Dem.,) in
Page county.
Lynchburg is the place and Sept. Both,
is the time selected by their. committee
for the meeting of the convention O!
colored men opposed to Mahoneism.