Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-11-12
HOW VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS
LOST SIX CONGRESSMAN.

congressman on the "a OF November. we
copy extracts from their opinions:
[Richmond Wing, 4th:l
This is very surprising result, for
which we will not at present attempt to
account, though various causes might be
assigned. To say that it was general
apathy on the of the Democrats amounts
to nothing. The question is, What caused
the general apathy There will be ample
time IN the future to discuss that matter.
Norfolk News, 3rd.l
The ''News" feels very much inclined
to discard in the future any positive stand
in national politics until the Northern
Democratic administration recognizes
more substantially than it has yet done
that Virginia helped as much as any
Northern State to place them where they
are, and that she can return them to the
obscurity from which she helped to elevate
them.
uYnchburg Advance 3d.
The Democrats of Lynchburg never had
single rally during the whole campaign,
until Monday night, when the die bod al
ready been cast. Gabriel's last horn could
| not have walked the dead then. No won
der we have been beaten out Of our boots
| to the tune of sos.
| Portsmouth Enterprise, 4th)
OIL FOR ONE HOUR OF BARBOUR.
| We suspect that this Cry has gone up
from more than one democratic heart in
Virginia within tie last twenty four
hours, as the disheartening returns came
in only too swiftly from the various sec.
lions of the State, showing how sadly we
needed the man to whose great executive
and administrative ability was so much
due the success of the democratic party
in the two previous campaigns
What Virginia democrats needed in
this contest, just ended SO disas.
| trously to them, was leader-an
efficient hard working chairman of the
central executive committee. such man
as was Hon. John s. Barbour, who has
been absent in Europe. We trust that he
may be prevailed upon to take the helm
again and bring the State out Of her diff.
culties.
We presume that the failure of the dem.
ocratic party to give Mr.. Barbour the re-
ward his services deserved by electing him
to the United States Senate, was one of
the potent causes that contributed to the
republican victory on Tuesday.
alexandra Gazette srd.l
| &c no ala
while generally disheartening to all good
Democrats, is not all surprising. The
effective portion of the Democratic party
is composed of good and true Democrats,
and that sort of Democrats have no admi-
ration for mugwump measures, and no
use for the man who enforces them. The
| Democratic nominees who were defeated
for congress were not defeated on account
of their own unpopularity, or on account
! of the greater popularity of their Republi-
can opponents, but because Democrats
thought that by supporting them they
would be supporting the administration,
and that they we're unwilling to do. The
vote yesterday served notice upon the Ma
| tional Democratic party that if Mr.. Cleve-
land be renominat9d, the party may as
we'll hang its harp on the weeping willow
| tree.
Norfolk Ledger, 3rd.l
There is one thing that will have to be
recognized in our State. whether palata-
| BILE or not, and that is that Virginia now
! belongs in the list of doubtful states. Va
rious causes have contributed to this re-
suit, but the fact remains that after the
| most strenuous exertions on the part of
the Democratic party the majority is too
small for comfort, and when there is any
considerable amount of apathy, such as
was the case yesterday, that majority
reaches the vanishing point.
| [Richmond Times page MeCarty's paper) 4th
| The loss in Virginia will turn out to be
gain. It will give US that tonic that our
confidence in false principles finds in de-
feat, and the next time the people will
find more vigorous and straightforward
platform and better mea to represent the
peoples cause.
| tCulpeper Exponent, 5th.l
| For this various causes are assigned
the absence of Mr.. Barbour and the inef.
| fcient organization of the party caused by
it, is one. The resentment of the people q
the defeat of Mr.. Barbour by Mai. De-
| for the Senate is another. And the dis.
satisfaction of the party with Clevelend's
ad ministration is another. We think th,