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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-02-23

Congressional district VIII be nominated to
I the state Executive Committee by the district
committees for their rtspe ctjve districts; or in
/ default OF the prompt action Of such disti!c
1 committees the State Executive Committee
4 may appoint the chairmen and.fill vacancies In
1 that ofiioe, and the chairaen so appointed
/ shall be commissioned by tile chairman OF the
/ State Executive Committee and the said COM
/ mittee may appoint and likewise commission.
| other chairmen whenever and wherever the
interests of the party may, in its judgment, de-
| mand such action
2 The three members from each ward or
! voting precinct composing such committees
| shall be promptly nominated by the city or
! county chairman 10 the state Executive Com
| mittee, designating the sub-chairman OF the
/ three members for each sub-district giving
the post9fllce address OF each, and. accordingly.
! tn chairman of the state Executive Commit
| tee shall com mission the committeeman SO APP
| pointed. The county or city chairman shall
/ nominate TO the state Executive Committee
| the persons to fiji vacancies occurring in such
county or city committees, aud shall, when
ever and wherever the interests OF the party
| demand, recommend the appointment OF
other committeeman. He shall! designate four
Or more, as he may elect. of the sub-dlstrlct
chairmen to constitute an Executive Com
mittee, of which he shall be ex-officio CT air
man.
3. 1t shall be The duty of these committees to
look after the proper are and interests of the
organization in their respective DISTRESS
4. II shall be their duty to provide for all
nominating or other conye ntions of the party
within their res pective districts. and by con-
ference and agreement, for all nominating
conventions to select candidates for the Gem
eral Assembly in eases where the city and
county, or counties. form a legislative election
district in all cases forming such conventions
on the basis prescribed in section 3. Article ::
and it will be the prerOgative of the county or
city chairman a. call all such convent. ms to
order, and to designate temporary chairman
for the same.
s. 1t VIII be their duty, by every legitimate
means. to nurture the cause and to promote
the ei1icie' cy and coherent action of the or
ganizatiGn.
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EDITOR VALLEY VIRGlNIAN - You
deserve the thanks Of Republicans every.
where for your publication of that secret
circular.
Has it come to this, that the present
chairman, must show again his incapacity
to perceive the difference between polit-
ical party protesting to be organized for
the maintenance OF principles and brig
ade of soldiers that is held by its comman-
der's will alone, and to resist whom would
lead to a court martial? Your review of
that circular needs little addition.
It's insulting to the intelligence of true
and tried Republicans all over the State,
and it gives little hope of success while
such counsels dominate in the organization
of our party.
You are right in saying that no candi-
date could be elected who endorses the ad-
dress at Washington, and you might add,
such a circular.
Must it be forced upon the minds of
Republicans that the chairman of their
State Committee is the Bourbon of Bour-
bons? That he. too. will not learn and
will not forget
He, it appears by that letter, attributed
the distrust that was naturally felt in all
Republican circles, of the policy he was
pursuing in 1880 and 1881, as a distrust of
the party. Trying to convey water on
both shoulders at that time. and using his
crushing machine" upon old line Repub-
licans, who, endowed with authority all
had helped to secure for him, was it any
wonder that he failed to enlist the sym
pathy and support we so much needed
from outside the State?
Wanting it then, do we now need it less,
in view of the hardships of the times?
This is the point Republicans are called
upon to consider. Precisely the question
that comes up to the thinking mind.
Are Republicans. with no higher aim
than autocratic rule, so vain as to hope
that they can successfully appeal to the
intelligence of Virginia for support?
'PUBLICIs. -
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at the expense of the great objects for
which the party was organized. And it
doesnot lie in the power of the chairman
to reduce its forces to his following or
prostitute its authority to the accom-
plishment solely of personal ends. Nor
will the manhood of the Republicans of
Virginia, now that their attention has
been so forcefuIly directed to the purpose
Of the chairman, in this secret circular,
be satisfied to be considered as his
personal property, as clay in the pot
ter's hands, to be moulded and used as
his imperious will shall command. We have
not been in ignorance of the processes and
progress of this purpose. We have known
them for some time, but for the sake OF
harmony have forbolne to utter protest,
hoping that the people by an intuitive
sense of independence would assert their
rights and vindicate their authority
Their patience or ind Inference, has only
encouraged assumption, until now it is
manifested in the remarkable paper we
published last week. They can now seeiand
determine for themselves whether the Re-
publican party of Virginia is to be party
of principles. or whether 1t is to be the
instrument of one man to execute his will,
regardless of every other consideration.
As to the 4th resolution, we publish
elsewhere the plan of organization. We do
this because It's terms and conditions are
not generally known and for the purpose OF
calling attention to what it is proposed
shall be re-affirmed and endorsed. 1t will
be observed that it never once mentions
the people TIE source of all authority is in
the Executive Committee. 1t is there au-
tocratic power is lodged, and this it is
asked to perpetuate.
AS to the administration under. it-that
is the very thing that is causing the wide
spread dissatisfaction. which exists. Its
| fruits ara defeat after defeat ; some OF
the ablest of the party in retirement; the
masses confused and disheartened; and
further disasters promised, if the same ar
bitrary and unwise' administration is to
continue.
These several propositions are personal
to the chairman himself. They are to
perpetuate and enlarged. his despotio
sway; they are to encourage him in disdaln
ing the popular will; and for these rea
sons the method recommended to endorse
them was suggested. The machine is todt
the work. The case is to be worked w
in the dark and sprung upon the district
conventions without warning or prepar-
alton, and rushed through without discus
sion.
The whole game is before the people
1t is with them to decide whether the.
believe it will be for the best Interests
of the party to become parties to the in
sidious plot. We have discharged wha
we believe to be our duty and now leav'
the matter with them. Let them CAREFUL.
consider their duty in the premises ant
march to it's performance, with afull sens
of the responsibility that rests. upon then
in the presence of great national contes
for the control of the government, as wei
as the qualification and growth of the he
publican party in Virginia.
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RonceYcrte is assuming city airs. 1t
pays It's coancimeu - for each meeting
for twelve during the year
The Washington critic suggests as the
Republican residential ticket. Associate
! Justice of he supreme Court Saml F.
Miller and gen. Joe r. IIawley
| Mr., W. w. Corcolaa. The Washington
millionaire and phiIanthropist is suffering
from senile bronchitis aud cannot recover.
His death may te expected at any hour.
The fates inay GeoIee dat Cleveland
shall be l'e Democratic nominee. If so,
the Republicans viii control the govern
ment for four years after the 4th of March
1889
Gen. Phil. Sheridan, whose name has
recently been associated with the Repub.
| lican Presidential nomination, says he is
not candidate, does not want the posi-
| ton. and would not accept it if elected.
The Baltimore Conference NJ. E.
Church. South, will meet in Martins.
burg w. Va. March IA. Bishop A. w.
Wilson will preside. Each district in the
Conference is entitled to four lay dele
gates.
The cases of the parties charged with
rescuing Senator Riddleberger from the
! Jail, i'll Woodstock last summer, when he
was imprisoned for contempt of Court,
were last week all dismissed Oh motion of
the Commonwealth Attorney.
President Cleveland will go down in
history as the veto President. In two
years and ten months he vetoed Ill bills,
] while in the 95 years of the previous his
tory of the government, all the Presidents
from Washington to Cleveland vetoed only
105.
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1 -
light body. about 1514 hands high with ball in
| the face and two white feet behind reaching
| up above his pastern- joint. Has mark on the
right hip as though cut with q knife. Is five
years old. in medium order, and holds up his
| head we'll when being ridden. His gait is dog
walking. and PAGES when forced 10 it, A re-
for the thief. Address, p. ~ DICE,
feb23 Burks Mill, Augusta CO., Va.
| COMMISSIONERS OFFICE.
" STAUNToN, Feb. 3d. 1888.
Hupman s exors, V, In chancery in
VS.. Circuit Court OF
Hupman'S Leg't, sc. V, J Augusta County
To the CLONE, Frontier and Foreign Mis-
sionary Society of the United brethren in
Christ" the Church Erection Society of the
United Brethren in Christ, Valentine Hup-
man. John Hupman David Hupman, William
Hupman, Henry ?. sillings and Nancy his
Thomas Wholey and Frances his wife. John
Gregory and Oatharine his wife, Lewis Hup-
man, David Hupman and Eliza beth his wife,
Susan Hupnaan, Henry +. Deffenbaugh. Annie
B. Dehenbfngh, Thomas Heyden and Eliza
beth his Wife, B. f. Hildebrand and Mary E.
his wife, Betsy Fac<ler Catherine Fur, Sam'l
Ott Samuel koudabush and Rebecca his wife,
Christian Harruf, James Harruff,- Joseph
Burns and Catharne his wife, Elijah j. Leech
and Louisa his wife. and Jacob Hupman, Mary
S. Hupman and George T.. Hupman, children
OF John Hupman, decd. Estaline Fauber, w.
G. Given and Martha his wife, Robert Hupman,
Peter Harvey Hupman, James Hupman, John
Snyder and Eliza his wife, Nichoias Snead and
Mary j. his Wife, john Hupmar, Thomas Hup-
man. Jacob Hupman. James Shreeves and
Virginia his wife, David Huprnan, Sarah Hup-
man, Henry Cosier and Frances his wife, Sam
/ uel Taylor and Caharine his wife. Sam
uel Rupman Joseph Hupman, Charles Deffen-
bangh, the children of John Hupman, decd,
whose names and residences are unknown. and
the children of Jacob Harruff, decd, whose
names and residences are likewise unknown,
parties to the above entitled cause, you are
hereby notified that in pursuance of O decree
therein rendered on the 9th of December, 1887,
shall. at my office in stanton. on
Friday the 30th dag Of March, 1883,
proceed to take state and settle further ac-
count of the transactions of George 7. Smith
and Henry FL. Hanger, eX' ors of Valentine Hup-
man. decd. and ascertain and report whether
the requests to 1.-THE Church Erection Society
of the United Brethren in Christi and to the
Home, Frontier and Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the United Brethren in Christi made
by the will of decedent are valid and legal or
not; as likewise to ascertain and report the
time atwhich the legacies given in the codicil
to the said Will become or Will become payable
and the amounts thereof respectively, together
with any other matters specially stated which
Commissioners may deem pertinent or any
party in interest may require.
j. W. GREEN SMITH,
feb23-1t Commissi toner's.
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MIR Blaine ought to have been the
strongest man in the party, but it was
proven four years ago that he was not, .
says the Kapawha State Tribune. How does
our contemporary make that out 1t is the
first time we have ever seen it questioned
that Mr.. Blaine in 1884 was the strongest
man, by all odds, who could have been
nominated. He polled more votes than
any Republican candidate ever before re.
ceived. He received larger vote in the
pivotal State of New York than was ever
cast before for Republican, and would
have carried the State and been elected,
but for scratch. He is the strongest
Republican now in the country. He is the
only one who could be counted on to carry
the Pacific States. essential to Republican
success. He could poll a larger vote in
New York, New jersey and Connecticut,
where there is large vote that no other
Republican can certainly get, than any
other Republican, and if he could not be
elected, then no Republican could be. And
whoever may be the nominee other than
Mr.. Blaine he Will have TO command the
strength that Mr.. Blaine could to be sue
cessful. Who is the man ? 1t is not any
one who depends upon Mr.. Blaine's enc
mics, and packed delegations from the
Southern States, to secure his nomination.
Mark that.
The President, Mrs. Cleveland and a Sc
lect party, left Washington on Wednes-
day, to visit the semi-tropical Exposition
now going on at Jacksonville, Fla.
The bill exempting undertakers from
Jury service has become law.
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HSim TappertIt.''


MIR. EDIToR:-" Barnaby Rudge' was
one OF the earliest and is one of the best
of Dickens novels; and if there is one OF
your subscribers who has not yet read it,
let me beg of him so to do at once, or il
there be some who have already enjoyed
that pleasure, let them repeat it. The
result will more than repay the trouble Of
procuring the book.
1t is now many years since last
mourned over poor ''Barnaby7' and mis-
maybe, fell in love with 'sDolly Warden, y
pitied Lord George Gordon. laughed at
the old Boniface, and admired the sturdy
London locksmi5h; but the characters
painted by the master-hand, are as distinct
and familiar now as those of persons who
have really crossed my early life.
And from the canvass at this lapse of
time most clearly stands forth one figure
as if in flesh and bloou-the lordly captain
of the 'preEtices; the most high and
mighty tinker: the lankhaired, spindle
shanked. cavernous-j awed conspirator: the
king Of Liliiput, the duke of dwarfs; the
uneasy, ambitious, seditious. dyspeptic
and insignificant Sim Tappertit.
Neck legged little Sim How long since
| have thought of his midnight meetings,
his secret orders, his tyarnny over the
errand- boys, and link. bearers, and boot
| blacks, and chimney-sweeps, who formed
his political elan. Pussy little Tappertit,
how long since | have seen you steal from
old Warden S house under cover of night
to the place Of meeting, and heard your
piping voice hurl accommodation and
birthstone at the hardy malcontent 1.-THE
boy who kept the goose hot in a tailor IS
shop that dared oppose your sovereign
will!
A long, long time. And yet, Mr.. Editor,
when | read your paper last week, and saw
how The Republican party was to be read
out. and pondered over certain things and
people in Virginia, do you know I could
barely persuade myself that Sim Tap
PERTH was really dead?
By all means read the book. and ask
yourself the question. Boz
February Goth, 1855.
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Plan Of Organization
FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUB-
LICAN PARTY OF VIRGINIA.
ARTICLE /

ARTICLE L.
SECTION l. There shall be State Executive
Committee composed of a chairman and two
other members of the organization, resident
at near the city of Richmond. TO be APP
pointed by the President of the convention,
subject to the ratification of the body.
g There shall be a State Committee. COM
posed of three members of The organization
from each Congressional district. to be elected
by the delegates to the Convention from the
respective districts. and their names given TO
the President of the Convention. to be form
ally announced by him, when he shall an
nouLce the names of the State Executive Com
mittee
g. There shall be committee for each Con-
gressional District to be composed of the three
members of the state Committee for the dis
trict, whose duty it shall be to look after the
interests and affairs of the organization in
their respective districts, and it shall be the
prerogative of one of these to call to order all
Congressional Conventions and to designate a
temporary chairman for the same.
A. There shall be committee for each city
and county of the State. to be composed of a
chairman and three members for each voting
precinct of the county or city
5. The representation for all nominating or
other conventions of the organization shall be
upon the basis of the vote cast by the party in
the preceding election for Governor, provided
that no county or city shall be allowed less
than one delegate.
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NV ADVERTISEMENTS.
FOR RENT.

TON MEM
The undersigned has for rent large store
room, with ware house attached and lumbe,
room above-situated at Weyer's Cave Station
on the Shenandoah Valley RaiIroad-in q GOOD
ne1ghborhood, and a No. l stand Tor a mer-
chant who will carry good line of goods and
trade for produce. For further particulars
call on or address, A. q. FULTON.
1eb23 Lola p. O., Rockingham CO., Va.
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ARTICLE II.



SECTION l. The duty of this Committee shall
be to carry out the acts of the State Conven-
tion and to put in operation such plans as the
State Committee may provide; to effect and
promote the same.
Q 1t shall decide all questions at issue in any
election district, and all variances in the party
as to conventions. candidates and nominees
or otherwise, which may arise-calcuIated tC
affect the cause and the efficiency of the organ.
izatlon or the success Of the party
3. 1t shall have power to convene the State
Committee whenever 1t may deem necessary.
4. 1t shall have power and authority to desig-
nate and appoint canvassers for the State f0l
Congressional districts and counties, when
ever it may deem it expedient or desirable
to do
S, 1t shall appoint its own secretary, who
shall be ex -officio secretary of the State Com
mittee and of all State Conventions and who
shall provide a roll of the delegates and alter
mates as the same are certified to him, and the
number of votes entitled to be cast by each
separate delegation, according to the schedule
on which such convention shall have been
called and the same shall govern in any vote
which may be taken preceding the permanent
organization of the convention, and until
changed by the action of the Convention Oh
credentials. 1t shall also appoint its OWr
treasurer.
& Its chairman shall be ex officio chairman
of the State committee, and it shall be his pre-.
roeatiVe-and in his absence that of some
other member of the State Executive Com
mittee- to call to order AL State conventions
and to designate to preside over the same 9
temporary president,
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Recently the papers have been filled with
the so-caled exhibitions that Senator
Riddleberger has.been making in the Sem
ate. The gravamen of his offence is that
he has demanded the abolition of that
hoary farce, the executive session. order
that the acts and doings Of the Senators
may be known by the people whose ser
wants they are supposed to be. Especially
has he insisted that the eXtradition treaty
with England, which provided for the
return Of political offenders, and would
thus have surrendered every Irish patriot
who sought refuge here, should be consid-
cred in open session. In season and out
of season he fought for this, and has the
satisfaction of knowing that his efforts
virtually killed the treaty by having its
consideration postponed until December
next. For days afterwards his desk was
covered with rare and beautiful flowers
sent by the Irish societies of various Cities
But his work has not ended here. His
scathing condemnation of the secret ses-
sion has had the effect of directing public
attention to the reasonableness of de-
mand for it's abolition. and to the fact that
it would be a custom far more honored in
the breach than in the observance. AS a
result, Senator Teller has vigorously
joined in the denuncation of the secret
session, and it will not be long before
other careful watchers of the public pulse
discover that popular sentiment. backed
by right is stronger than the venerable
traditions of the American House of
Lords.
Ex-senator Lewis is so much improved
that he has been out riding. The surgical
operation to which be recently submitted
nrouicpc n restore him To health apain
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ARTICLE III.
STATE COMMITTEE

SECTION [. 1t shall be the duty oil this COM
mittee to concert such ~ easures as may seem
to it proper to promote the policy. and effect
the purposes of the party.
q 1t shall fix the time and place of all State
and Congressional conventions of the party
and prescribe the number OF delegates and
alternates for each county and city of the
state and the mode of electing the same to
such conventions.
g. 1t shall fill any vacancy which may occur
in the State Executive Committee.
A. The three members representing each
Congressional district shah be entitled to
three votes in the committee, to be cast by the
members or member present.
s. Vacancies in the committee shall be filled
on the nomination of the remaining members
of the particular Congressional district in
which the same shall occur; such nominations
to be made to the State Executive Committee,
provided, that in the case of the nomination of
more than one person, the Executive Com
mittee shall elect as between the persons so
nominated, or. in default of any such nomina-
ton, or nominations, may fill the vacancy or
vacancies
g. The committee shall meet at such times
and places as it may please, and at such other
times and places as the State Executive Com
mttee may call 1t to meet The presence of
four districts shall constitute a quorum.
ARTICLE "
CITY AND COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES.
SECTION /. The chairmen for the Comm ittees
of the cities and counties composing each
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STAUNToN, VA. Feb 10th. 1888.
My mutual consent the partnership hereto
fore existing between GEO. P. BAKER, c. S.
BAKER and III. b. BROWN, under the firm
name of BAKER BROS, is this day dissolved.
Geo. P. Baker retiring from the firm. All per-
sons indebted to us will please call and settle
with BAKER & BROWN. 1t is important that
accounts and past due notes be settled i'm
medately.
In short time they will be placed in other
hands for collection BAKER BROS.
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civil service rules to a 81 600 position III
the naval construction department.
Among the visitors from the Valley tc
the Capital last week, were Mr.. b. f
Hughes and wife, Mrs. Lucy Woods and
daughter, Maj. i. L. Bagby and wife
Messrs. j. ]. Kilgalen. Dennis Brown, J
b. Taylor, I. d. Woodward, T. II. Hum
phreys, Capt. 0. r. Funston. and Prof. J
G. Dunsmore, of stanton; Mr.. Lee, OF
Burk's Mill, and Messrs. Anderson. Nc.
Kee, Gibbs, and Shields, of Rockbridge.
Among the measures Of local interest to
the VIRGINIAN readers, introduced by
the member from the 10th District during
the past week, were petitions for in
creased compensation to 4th class post
masters from citizens of Koiner's Store,
Augusta county; and of Mill Gap, High
land county; bill for repeal of the tax on
stills; petition of w. G. T. U. for prohib
tory legislation; bills for the relief of VIM.
M. Mayhem, of Allegheny county; the
heirs of Il. j. Youell, of Augusta; p. w.
Wood, of Nelson; Sarah W. Brown, of
Allegheny; resolution of the Board OF
Trade of Philadelphia, for an act calling
an International Maritime conference.
and of the Lumberman s Exchange, Of
Pennsylvania, protesting against the re-
moval Of the duty on lumber
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STAUNToN, VA, Feb. 10th, 1888
The undersigned have this day formed a CO.
partnership to carry on the Grocery, Hardw
and Produce business, under the firm name of
BAKER d BROWN, at the old stand of Baker
bros' G, S. BAKER.