Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-07-20
POLITICAL NOTES.

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POLITICAL NOTES.
The candidate nominated by the Vir-
ginia Democrats Of the Danville district,
last week. for congress, is Rev. Posie G..
Leslie, of Floyd county. He is minister
of the Primitive Baptist church and a
farmer, thirty-fye years of age, upwards
of six feet high and is a fine orator. He has
preached in every part of the country, from
Canada to Texas. He was nominated on
the 18th ballot. ''Fans, hats and bandanas
were thrown in confusion about the Hall,
and the people shouted themselves hoarse."
The Accomac Enterprise" favors State
Senator Blackstone for Democratic noml-
nee from that congressional district.
Scott county, in the 9th district, has
sent delegates to the Democratic congress
sional convention instructed for Col. J. B.
Richmond.
The Shenandoah county convention sent
delegates to the congressional convention
| instructed for O'Ferrall by vote of q to
7. Five dissatisfied delegates afterwards
met and named delegates instructed for
Alexander. A mass meeting of the Dem
ocrats of Rockingham, Monday, also sent
; O'Ferrall delegates.
At a colored Harrison and Morton rati-
fcation meeting at Farmville, the adher-
ants of Hooper and Langsten the two
Republican aspirants for congress came to
blows. The police were called in.
The President has appointed Jas. FL.
Rodetfer postmaster at W oodstock in place
place of Daniel Llckliter, (Rep), whose
term has expired.
Mrs. Helen M. Cougar, of Ind, of the
W. e. T. u, who canvassed the North
west for Blaine and Logan, has been
driven off by the free whiskey plank, and
is to canvass Indiana for Fisk and Brooks
from now till the election. She is an
effective speaker.
Rev. Thos. K. Beecher. brother of
Henry Ward Beecher, has come out for
Fisk and Brooks.
General Fisk, the Prohibition candidate
for President, says: 1.-THE Republicans
want untaxed whiskey as an excuse for
keeping up the tax on clothes and food"
A. G.. otreeter, Of Illinois, the .'Union
of acceptance, says II believe that there
should be revision of the tariff laws, and
that protection should be given where
needed and the tax reduced wherever it
can be safely DONE" He expresses his
opposition to the Republican offer of free
whiskey and tobacco rather than a reGuc-
ton of the tariff.
Mrs. Belva Lockwood. the nominee of
the Equal Rights" party for President,
thinks Cleveland will be reelected because
''the Democratic party is united and there
are no dissentions. and because Cleveland
has plenty Of backbone, opinions of his
own, and faculty to carry out his views. :"
Rev. Sam Small predicts that ''in No
vember the Democrats are going to re-
elect their man. But in four years more
we will have an issue-prohibition or
whiskey, heaven or hell.
The three most prominent and influen-
tial religious newspapers in the country
The CHRISTIAN Union. of New York. and
the Advance and the Standard of Chicago,
all edited by men Of Republican antece-
dents, bolt the Republican platform on
account of its extravaganza and It's free
whiskey policy.
The Indianapolis Democracy Inaugural
ted their campaign Saturday night by an
immense meeting, and torchlight process
sion in which 5000 men marched. They
we're addressed by ex-G Gov. English, ex-
Senator Mcdonald and Gov. Gray
Among the inscriptions on the transpar-
ances were: cleveland and Thurman
the Peoples Candidates." "Blue Blood
and Boodle-Harrison and Morton :"
"Grandpa Harrison's Pants Won't Fit
Benny" 1.-THE Germans are Solid Against
HARRISON" Harrison and Free Whis-
key;" morton and Boodle;" 1.-THE Chi.
nese must Go-Thurman; The Chinese
Must Consolidation" Harrison Pro-
posed Bullets for Workingmen in Ut
Workingmen Will Prepare Ballots for
Harrison in 49,"
The Philadelphia LEDGER" of Friday
last. in reviewing Mr.. Clevelands vetoes
of private pension bills, takes occasion to
say that "there have been few Presidents
of the United States who have so conspic-
uously displayed so high degree of moral
courage in the discharge of the duties of
their high office" as he has In this partic-
ular matter.
The New Jersey 'Unionist" sent inquir-
les to representative labor leaders in that
State as to their views on various matters
of politics. Of thirty-two answers re-
ceived, only two were ''for protection as it
isl while thirty were ''for tariff revision
of some sort.'
Frederick Douglass thinks the Republl-
can ticket personally and geographically
strong, and expresses confidence in it's
election.
Says the Philadelphia Record; 1.-TWO