Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-06-26
POLITICAL NOTES.

In little over two weeks the first batch |
of nominations for public servants,
will be submitted to the people of Virgin.
ia by the Republican State Convention, to |
assemble in Richmond on July 18th. It
is so perslstently asserted by the newspa-
per correspondents that Gen. Mahone's
favorite for the nomination for Governor,
is Hon. John s. Wise, that it is hard to
escape the conviction that the statement
Is, at least as regards the present, correct.
But the late Congressman-at-large is 80
cratic, and such a malign influence of un-
lucky utterances hangs over him, that it
is impossible to say at what moment he
may not commit some false step that will
make it impossible for the General to car
ry him. Mr.. Wise's competitor for the
honor is Attorney General Blair in whose
section, the Southwest. several counties
have already sent up their endorsement
for their favorite. Both Wise and Blair
are good stump speakers. and popular
with their party, but if Wise is really
Mahune's choice, and does nothing ire
parably imprudent between now and the
18th of July he may safely be set down as
the nominee. The attitude of the Lewis
family towards Gen. Malone which may
almost be described as open hostility,
makes it impossible that the Valley
will have name on the Republican tick
ct. We have seen several notices favor
ing D. s. Lewis of Rockingham, for At
torney General, but quite as many sug-
costing that he would not accept it..
The post Office rivalry in Danville has at
last been settled. By agreement. Demo-
cratic primary was held and Thomas r
McDearman was chosen. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that tie contest had become
quite bitter, when the polls were opened
the vote was very light not one-half the
Democratic vote being polled-a good
many staying away from the polls because
the feeling about who should be chosen
had become almost test of personal pre-
ference, which many preferred not to ex-
press. The President at once removed the
incumbent, A. M. Wheeler, and appoin-
ted the successful primary candidate.
Hon. John E. Massey. who has been
writing some excellent letters on the cou-
pom question and how to deal with 1t, was
to address the people of Washington
county at Abingdon. on the issues of the
coming canvass, last Monday.
The opinions that editors express some
times come back to them Unexpectedly.
Mr.. Charles Jonas, an editor of Racine,
Wis, was recently appointed by Presi-
dent Cleveland, consul to Prague. Last
Friday. he received commun ication
from the State Department informing him
that the Austrian government objected to
receive him because, as a journalist at
Racine. he had given expression to senti-
ments hostile, to Austria. If an editor in
western country town is not safe,
where would the great metropolitan jour-
nalists stand ?
The Washington correspondent of the
Richmond ''Whig" discussing the future
opposition, by the Senate, to confirming
President Cleveland's appointees, recalls
the fact that William E. Chandler,
President GarfeId's nominee for
Solicitor General. 1.-THE place now held
by Hon. John Goodel, was rejected; that
the nomination of Robert W. Hughes,
for District Judge of Virginia, was re-
ported against by the Senate committee
on account of his being duellist-a COM
mittee report that his friends had hard
work to reverse; that the nomination OF
Judge Lewis, (now of the Virginia Court
of Appeals), for U. S. District Attorney,
was not confirmed at all on. the same
ground, nor is it certain, if his election
by the legislature had not retired him
from the contest, that it would have been,
and that the nominations of Collector
Mills and Postmaster Gilmer of Rich
mond, and U. S. Marshal Ramsdell, were
hung up for months by opposition in
their own party in the Senate. The Sem
ate once rejected two of Grants nomina-
tions for the Chief Just1ceship of the
United States-frst, that of Caleb Cush-
ing; afterward that of Attorney-Ge
Williams of Oregon. 1t may be remarked
however, that some of the opposition in
OH vi GuCSo CdoCos w do WILL lilo uOP0 buhG
if the nominee were defeated, some friend
of those who accomplished it might reap
the benefit; but this motive would not
avail in rejecting Democrat as the only
result would be the nomination of another
Democrat.
In the distribution OF diplomatic posi-
tioDs their values as Obtained by each
State are as ollows:-New York, SAT PA;
Ohio. s29, 700; Maryland. 500, 500; Indiana.
s24. 500; Kentucky, $4,000, Vermont.
$17 500; Michigan. ST., 800; Virginia, s17.
600; South Carolina, $15 500; North Caro-
lima, $4,000; Texas, $14,50O; Louisiana,
$14, $50; Alabama, s16 600; Georgia, $12,-
600; Connecticut. $13 500; Wisconsin, S.
600; Missouri. 50 1000; New Jersey, 81 900;
Rhode Island, 81 500; Nevada. 81, 500; H.
linois, 81, 500; Pennsylvania, 81 500; New
Hampshire, So, 500: Arkansas, $4,000; Del
aware, $4,000; Tennessee, So, 500. and Cal
ifornia 81 500.
The Chairman of the Republican Coun-
ty Committee of Page county issued his
call for the meeting last Monday, of what
he termed a Republican, eadjuster
convention. 1t is a futile dodge. The
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