Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-10-16
POLITICAL FIELD IN VIRGINIA

POLITICAL FIELD IN VIRGINIA.
The reception of Ftz Lee all through
the Southwest has been characterized by
enthusiasm and large turn-onts of process
sons on horseback. His entry into the
little village Of Bland Courthouse was
made at the head of four hundred horse
men, and the line passed between double
lines of ladies who awaited its arrival.
After the speaking, the procession went to
Wytheviile, which town was illuminated,
and the streets ablaze with fireworks.
After the speaking at Appomattox c.
H. was over, Thursday, both parties hay
ing held meetings, one addressed by Frank
5 Blair and the other by A. A. Phlegar, a
dispute arose between Blair ard Phlegar,
the latter asserting that the former had
said Honor wont buy breakfast
and Blair denying it as lie. Phlegar
struck him in the face and after short
dsticuffing they were separated by their
friends.
The Republicans of Allegheny, Bath
and Highland have nominated A. A. Nc
Clintlc to take the candidacy for the
House of Delegates from which their
nominee, MIR. Ervine. had retired. The
second nomination is said to be not near
so strong with the people as the first.
While Mr.. Wise was at Charlottesville,
colored man who professed to have
known him when he was a student at
the University" was very attentive, car
rying his papers to the courthouse where
he went to speak, and so forth. He wound
up his attentions, at night, by stealing
Mr.. Wise's overcoat. The police recovered
it, having found it on the thief's back as
he Law drunk On cellar door.
Hon. John Amber Smith still insists
that his father-in- law, Hon. John F. Lew
is, will not vote for Mr.. Wise. 1t was in
dispute over this. that he and Mr.. Wise
had fist fight ia the cars near Alexan-
dria.
Hon. John E. Massey, we regret to
learn, is coufued to his home by sickness
His absence from the hustings, which it
IS hoped will be of brief duration, is loss
to the Democracy.
Gen. W. IL. F. Lee, son of Gen. R. E.
Lee, has taken the stump for the Demo-
cratic ticset.
The President has appointed Judge
Thomas Smith, of Warrenton, Va, U. 5.
District Attorney for the Territory of
New Mexico. The Judge is the present
Democratic candidate for the doater dele
gate to the legislature from the counties
of Loudoun and Fauquier.
1t is stated by those who claim to know,
that Gen. Malone has received a 500 600
addition to his campaign fund. by express
from the North. 1t is further stated that
several of the districts to which it has
been sent already show activity.
The peoples Advocate. paper pub
I;shed by colored men in W ashington city,
links that "There are several indications
that John S. Wise will be defeated in the
pending gubernat orial canvass, and that
Fitzhugh Lee will be elected the next
Governor of Virginia." One of these
indications, the Advocate" thinks. is the
apathy of the colored people who show no
interest In the success of Wise.
Some of the delegates to the Colored
Mems Convention at Lynchburg, prepared
and forwarded to the Cincinnati Eng uirer
a statement rebutting Senator Shermans
groundless assertions ab)ut the suppress
sion Of the colored vote in Virginia, and
have referred the people of Ohio to Fred.
Douglass and John M. Langston as vouch-
ers for their reliability and responsibility
as representatives of the colored people of
Virginia.
About 200 colored men attended the
Democratic meeting at Disputanta,
Prince George, Friday. The meeting,
which included about 900 white Demo-
Gratis, was addressed by one white and
two colored Democrats.
While Col. OFerrall was speaking at
Henry county last week, a colored Dem
ocratic club of fifty men marched in
They We'd with the whites in the euthusi-
asm of their applause.
The Colored Independent club of Alex
andria has declared for Lee and adopted
this resolution:
Resolved That the color line in political affairs
has caused much strife and contention between
he two races, and In the future we will vote to
promote the interests aud welfare alike of both
aces