Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-07-27

In some sections of the district the col
ored women have gone to work to organ
ize campaign clubs to electioneer for him.
The Democratic electors at-large will
not enter regularly on their canvass until
September LIST, but between now and that
date, Hon, John T. Harris will speak at
Culpeper Aug Goth, and Col. r. F. Beirne
will make five speeches. including one a.
Woodstock, August 18th, and one at Har-
risonburg, August Goth.
Robert B. Berkeley of Prince Edward
one of the Malone electors, will, it is sta
ted. retire from the ticket, for the reason
that he holds the office of Commonwealth IS
Attorney.
The Arkansas Republican State Cen.
trail Committee has decided not to put a
State ticket in the field and has resolved to
support the 'Union Labor" ticket headed
by G. M. Norwood for Governor.
The Democrats and Greenbackers of
Michigan have agreed on a fusion, the
latter to have three places on the State
ticket and three electors. W. r. Burt,
(Dem.) of Saginaw, is the candidate for
Governor.
State elections will be held as follows:
Tennessee and Alabama, August; Arkan-
sas, Sd september; Vermont, September
4th; Maine, September 10th; Georgia, Oc-
tober. These are the only States holding
such elections before the Presidential.
Gen. Harrison s personal organ, the In
dianapolls Journal" is shocked to hear
that:
Democratic money is already coming into
the State. It is now being used for the free
circulation of the ''Sentinel" and other news
papers, and for getting up club organizations
wherever possible, and arranging for cam
paign demonstrations, The Sentinel" is be-
ing scattered free in all parts of the State,
and the Central Committee is plethoric with
funds to carry out whatever plans they may
make.
The Nelson Examiner" says that
Thomas s. Martin of Albemarle, is John
s. Barbour's choice for Chairman of the
Democratic party whenever he tBarbour)
shall retire.
The Labor Convention of Virginia is
called to meet at Lynchburg. Tuesday,
August 18th.
Hunt Reynolds, of Columbus, Ohio,
writes the ''Daily Times'' of that city
1.-THE subscriber is one who voted for Tip.
pecanoe and Tyler. too, in 1910. and will
vote, if life is spared, for Grover Cleve-
land and Thurman, too, in 1888; for pro.
lection against another Republican Ad-
ministration, who when in power taxed
the laboring classes of these United States
to almost the last cent of their earnings,
not for government revenue, but in the
interest of monopOlists.
Half of the members of the most enthu-
siastic Prohibition convention ever held in
Southern Illinois, which was in session at
Mount Vernon Tuesday, were new men
that had joined the party since 1884. The
nominee for Congress and the Secretary
were lifelong Republicans, who had been
driven off by the cheap whiskey pro-
gramme.
Gen. John M. Palmer, the Democratic
nominee for Governor of Illinois, is hope.
full of Democratic victory in that Re-
publican State. He says:
SIT is the tariff plank in their platform that
will cost the Republicans the heaviest vote IN
all the agricultural States. The farmers are
gradually throwing off the yoke. They are
refusing longer to believe that high tariff
is the best thing for them.
Rev. Theodore Cuyler, for thirty years q
pronounced Republican, says of that party
in the New York Evangelist" that if il
does not revise its high tax and free wits
key platform, it will be overwhelmed in g
political cyclone that will gather volume
| as the season rolls on.''
The Philadelphia ''Record'' (Ind.) re-
minds Senator Dawes that when a mem
Der of the House some years ago he intro
duced a bill proposing many important
! reforms of the tariff, which have beer
I again embodied in the pending Mills bill
| But the bill of Mr.. Dawes was defeated
fol want of time in the Senate. Mr.
| Dawes will now have another opportunity
to advocate the principles of reform fol
which he formerly so vigorously contend
| ed.''