Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-18
OLD VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN.

We obtain the following exceedingly
interesting facts from unimpeachable
authority, direct from Virginia itself
The state, politically considered, is
divided into two parts-the black, OF
Republican, and the Democratic, which
| includes the white counties. Eight years
ago these latter were almost wholly Dem
ocratic.
| The congressional districts were SO ar
ranged as to mass the black voters in the
Second and Fourth districts, which gave
black majority on registration of 10, 00O
or more. Two or three other black
counties were included in certain white
districts to avoid third black or Repub-
lican district.
This year the Republicans made their
great fight in the white counties. In
five districts they nominated ex-Confed-
crate officers for congress; In two other
districts the sons of Confederates.s soldiers.
Of the 81 white counties in the great
valley and in the Piedmont region 20
show Republican gains; 20 are absolutely
carried. The gains in these counties
wiped out Cleveland's majority of 1884
5000 in the 100 counties of the whole
state. There is no loss in the electoral
ticket in any district in the state until
we come to tie Fourth, Fifth and Sixth
districts. If the black counties of those
districts had maintained the record of
1884, Harrison would have had major
ity of more than 5000 in Virginia.
Three thousand votes were lost in the
Petersburg district because of the Lang
ston district. Charlotte county, formerly
Republican by 1900, is returned 1000
Democratic. In order to defeat Yost,
Republican candidate for { congress,
chang es were made in the returns from
Halifax. Buckingham, Appomattox and
Cumberland counties. which also re-
duced Harrison's majority.
But, according to the actual figures
given out by Democratic precinct judges
on the night of the election, the Har-
rison electors have majority Of 800 in
the state. Thirty thousand Confederate
soldiers voted the Republican ticket,
probably constituting three-fourths of
the entire white Republican vote.
General James A. Walker, successor
of Stonewall Jackson in the command of
the famous Stonewall brigade, came out
for Harrison. The Republican nominee
for congress in the eighth district was
General John E. Roller, staff officer of
General Lee. J. B. Blackwell, wounded
and taken a prisoner as a member of
Pickett's command in the famous
Gettysburg charge, was the Republican
candidate in the Danville district. He
was for a time private secretary of
Letcher, the Confederate war governor.
Colonel P. A. Mccall, in the Sixth dis
trict, Bailey Brown, in the First district,
and Henry Bowen, in the Ninth district,
were Confederate soldiers. Two other
Republican candidates for congress, Yost
and Waddell, were sons of confederate
soldiers.
In Norfolk county, by the public dec
laration of precinct officers on the night
of election, Harrison received 1880 ma
jority. But the county board Of can
vassers adjourned without signing the
returns.
The Republican managers have no
doubt whatever that the state gave 5000
to 5000 majority for Harrison. Legal
proceedings, to compel the correction of
altered returns and the signing of the
returns withheld, will be prosecuted en-
The Democratic leaders are
They have lost Old Vir-
ginia. The tremendous significance of
this fact is comprehended by their jour-
mails. 1t means an end to the solid south.