New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-10
OLD DOMINION Politics.
SENATORIAL HOPES OF BARBOUR AND
DANIEL.

vENTION OF "COLORED DEMoCRATs.'
fFRoM An OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF TRE TRIBUSEl
PETERSBURG, Va, Oct. 3.-Warmcr and
warmer grows the for political supremacy in
Virginia. and each day brings nearer the time for the
supreme test between the two parties issues OF state
policy are almost wholly lost sight of by the army OF
speakers and orators both sides who are traversng
the State from Iarper's Ferry TO the Dismal swamp
Northern audiences that arc accustomed to hear
issues discussed calmly and nationally would be
aStOnished TO listen to the stump speakers III "a
heated canvass in this Commonwealth. The Bourbon
intolerance OF any opposition to their views and their
yindictve personal denunciatiOn OF Republicans
is met by tho defiant utterances and answer
Ing personalities Of tho Republicans. The
bloody afray in the street OF Abingdon
where Judge Ward. Democrat, was shot down by Dr.
White, an Independent Democrat, because Of savage
attack by Ward In his newspaper The Southeast LIAM
incr upon White. IS outgrowth OF this rancorous
method of canvassiIg. Bloody murders from similar
cause are likely to follow at any time. Some OF the
moro conservative Democratic papers deprecato the
malcvolent abuse OF their opponents INDUCED In by
their party press The Indcr4ppc0 DcmD OF this city
in an editorial takes occasion to call halt IN this mode
of warfare in the following words
The unfortunate affair at HedOn furnishes most
eloquent protest against the resort 10 bittor PERSONAL
ties either in tho columns of newspaper or On the
orators tribune in the conduct OF political campaign
No party's. individuals cause Is promoted by slch
warfare Iuexcusable such language is when used IN
the heat Of oral discussion, It becomes utterly indie
fcnsbo whet ii finds utteanco through the editor pen
and, when persisted in cannot fall to arouse vhn,cuve
feelings which lead to just such deplordble 0c-
currenecs as that Of which Judge Ward 10 now the
victim Editors and public spchktfs sbohG re'nemuri
that others have rights well a. they ana that thonGh
nau may decline to submit 20 tho decree OF cohvch
ton and thus constitute himself bad party man be
does not by such OF seton place himself beyond
the pale OF pectabe society ana least OF all become
a SUI irct for inlscIiminatc YGcdtiou by the pIesA
The fact is the Democrats here have had the conclusion
forced upon that is not argument. and they
perceive that their ndiscrlmnatc vication OF senator
Malone far from driving his supporters from him.
has rather tended to cement their devotion TO him.
Bourbons are to-day loudest in advocating the meas
ures Of REIMBURSEMENT for which they denounced
Malone aad RildebcrseI and their FOL
lowing In 1879 While this scli-Stul-
tfcatiOn has in great senccd their abuse IN
one direction they still launch forth anathcmas against
"Mahons's methods" and in the same breath show
their want OF principle and consistency by adopting
those very methods. Circulars sent ont by tho Repub
can Executive Committee of which General Malone J.
chairman have been copied word for word by the Bour
bon committee. The Republican committee sent clrcu
friends Of the party III every county asking that
therecpiens send to tho committee roomsiuformation of
the political feeling OF the people IN their districts, A.
to be supposed of these circulars fell Into
Democratic hands. The innocent and perfectly proper
documents created great hustcr among the BonrbonS
What d5ep scheme was Malone engaged IA The ciTcG-
lars copied by the Bourbon Committee. rTt",m
Hlcrdii. and distributed broadcast 10 their iucni-
SO with similar documents; tine ihes or catpiignlug
ell the IbiCdus Instantly taken ana
adopted by the Democrats.
Tic anxiety felt by tho Democrats over the result Is
by the sharp rivalry that exists between the
twOa-pran for the seat held by senator Malone whose
successor is 70 bo elected 10y the coming LEGISLATURE
Congressman John ". Daniel and John > G1iDour the
two bosses " o! tho Democratic organization IN the
State. each hone 10 secntc tho exalted honor. "hch
sp lie wrecEod it thought for all time the chances
Of Daniel for the United states senate. The LATER hat
place In tho gift OF the democracy lie Is laue Con-
federae soldier aud goes about the state ~ every
NAH tf.rfer u
that draws tears from wolnen ana has gained Tor Lm
,of he gashns iiir 81 , ,s er ~
Da dcr1onstrated wbs he was dcfratrl los Governor
Cameron that the BOurbpu- compelled To bury him
for White aud call o. strong man 10 save them from
humiliation. They found the one they wanted Ia
John : Barbour. who by sklful manipulation, whore
manipulation was needed ana Diner nae """,k
tied he corpse Of B"u!h"ni'n 10 IN"
elections OF 15si and ISL Then Win mo inomrnt.Iy
success OF BIS party The long hatrd pIlehtel Fho't"
Daniel appeared on tie political horizon ak "eRlns
onicc a; tho hands OF Democracy. The Democratic
Legislature by outrageous gerrymhudrThs S'rNrt onl
congressional district 50 overwhelmingly Democratic
i've THIS it was hoped wouII sattir him But he
has again In his bonnet the senatorial
deserve the Gnsratciu Bourbons desire ye It to
han aad isave Harbour oHt In The cold Moro ihan 6ali
gnia 10 The House Of Delegates have been chosen and
iwo.thirds them Daniel The iron has entered
deeply il to ;hc sou Of Barbour, and the effect Of his ds
appointment aud anxiety has had It's efeGt upon ihr
however that the Scnaor,hp VIII go to either Tho
election il a fair one
The Bouibons felt viii certainly resort to fraud
aud violence IN their determination 10 elect Demo
Legislature. by buying :wo or three ycnal legis
laOrs counting out NO or thioc Others ana lhr hI OF
General Wickham. who though always calling himself
Republican acted against that party, they obtained con
troI Of nm, IrrsIatnre last winter ana passed
which placed the election machinery entirely III thclI
bands, and this power to cheat VIII lie uncrupunnIy
eel bv them IN Tho GINNING trial In the last election,
tho most palpable fraud was prtctiHeL irrcinct -
thrown out ~ the black counties because the Dem
ocratic judges Of election had lost their rotnrn hhe's
Ia lachmond CitJ long Inc 0I whe ,rmGcriic Folers
obsruc,cd the TO the polls AID when the sun went
down hundreds OF colorsd voters had been robbed OF
their suffrage 10y this device These and similar frauds
the by which they expect To carry the state
this fall But what can be done by the Republicans In
OF the odds against them 90 secure an honest
ballot will be done. Vigilance committees OF tried aud
courageous men viii watch e'cry polling
precautOu will he used to give the negro his Sht to
vote without nOlestatOn
ence the COlOrcd vote by holding socicd ludcpcnd
ent COlored Convention" at IynchhnrE haa excited
only ridicule among R"nublcans Even the leading
Democratic papers at Richmond throw cph wafer on
he scheme aud Intimate thai tho leading col0ird chi
political strikers who are mp for sac on
tho eve OF every election ,o5L....oi Ao tns
deegaies who represented nobody but themselves. MT
Fortunes political weight much greater In tins So
called convention than 1t - in Newl "rk Clii Wbefe nc
| cOored vote for some little time. llc made long
speech about the duty Of the coOrcd people to 60 over
TO their true friends. the Denocrats" j. H. syphlN OF
eGandra, well known In this state "a leader ol INA"
pendent coored voters-in ms ininc-and cihcrs coh
seed their people to burst their ties OF bondage and
after cut-and dried performance the - nycntion
! adjourned, not however before they had had
lively and inharmOn Gus scene, as al The DELEGATES dd
not agree with Messrs. SyphaN aud Fortune The cH-
! penso OF holding the "eOnyentOn" was mot by the
Bourbon committee. AZ far ~ your correspondent
extend the coorcd vote Of Virginia Is sin
a. 1t awAys hs. peen-.odly Republican; ihe deyo,
them Is stcadfast as or adherence to thor religion
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GENERAL HUSTEDS USE or THE OAVEL