Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-08-23
A GOOD START MADE.

A GOOD START MADE.
The Democratic party has a goodreputa
ton in Virginia for presenting excellent
State tickets and has deserved it, but we
do not recall any it has presented which
has done more to increase that reputation
than the one now flying at the masthead.
1t is rather exceptional ticket in this, that
any of the three men are equal to the duties
of any of the offices on the ticket. 2. w.
Mckinney could make a good Governor;
preside over the Senate with dignity and
parliamentary experience as Lit. Governor,
OF perform the duties of the Attorney Gen
erals office with high ability and infiexible
courage. And the same may be said OF }.
Hoge Tyler and R. Taylor Scott. Itwould
be hard to call up more thoroughly Dem
ocratic ticket-Jeffersonia if you call it so
than this one. There is not dark horse
in the trio whose record has yet to be in
quired into. They are known men whose
history has been in the light for some time.
And personally they are as good as they are
politically. His high personal characters
tics had much to do with the nomination
of Capt Mckinney in the face of such I'M
deniably distinguished and able competi-
ton as he had. These characteristics had
a magnetism about them, and possessed that
relay quality which reached into circles
that knew him not save through the good
report of those who did know him. Many
a delegate was cheering for Phil. Mckinney
Thursday that had never seen the man and
only knew of him by the deep impression he
had made on others.
But we are not about to discuss the men
on the ticket, wehave already given sketch
of them. What we want to do now is to-
speak of the means of electing them. The
leaders OF managers of the party should dis
miss at once any feeling of security bas ell
on the belief that the schism in the Repub
lican party is to benefit the Democrats in
any marked degree in November. tits one
of those situations i'll politics that is not to
be trusted for permanent results. The
Democrats should expect success alone
from their principles, their candidates and
themselves. There should be plenty of joint
discussion where our canvassers should take
the aggressive, as they can well afford to do
with the record the party has made in the
last four years. The voters should make
up their minds early that no sacrifice with
in their power is too great to retain Viz
ginia in the Democratic line And in do
ing this, they should remember that Malone
will have at his back Harrison, just as he
had Garfield, with all the Federal patron
age. When the campaign opens, as it soon
will, let every Democrat attend the speak
ings. The time is short and there will not
be many speeches to hear, so every meeting
should be full one. The County Committee
should set to work making up their lists
and making their other arrangements noW.
There is no need to wait till they hear from
the State Central Committee. They should
go to work just as if there was no Central
Committee at all. Virginia is a Democrat
ic State on a full vote, and it only remains
for the Democrats to keep her so in Novem-
ber-they can do it with ease if they will
TOBACCO IN PENNSYLVANIA "A
FARMING COMMUNITY IN DEBT
WITH HIGH-PRICED LAND.
The following extract from private let
ter to the editor of the INDICATOR, from
Judge Charles Grattan the Virginia State
Commissioner Of immigration, now on q
business trip in Pennsylvania, contains
some intelligence which will be new to our
readers, who have long associated the high
priced lands of Pennsylvania with wide
spread prosperity, and who have never
thought of that State as a tobacco raising
region. The writer is speaking of York
and Lancaster counties in that State which
he calls lone of the finest sections on the
earth":
The fertility of the soil, the size of the
barns and prices of land running from $50
to $500 per acre, are known to ALL but one or
two things struck me that thought might be
interesting to your readers: The farmers of
this section finding the old staples unproduc-
tive and making not three per cent. on their
lands, had to look around for some other
crop. They have fallen upon tobacco, and
the tobacco field OF lot is as frequent as the
corn field, and [ suppose there is as much
grown in the single county Of Lancaster as in
Albemarle Nelson and Amherst put together.
I am told it is the Connecticut leaf 1t is
topped to u or Is leaves, brings from / 200 to
$500 pounds to the acre, and sells for from 8
to 80 cents per pound, averaging about 10
cents. The farmers are now cutting and
housing, and | understand they cure without
firing. Besides the inevitable bank barn
most of the farmers have tobacco house. very
like the wooden rear addition to the Lutheran
school in Staunton, painted red. Frequently
as much as 5000 per acre is realized, and am
told this is all that keeps the farmers here
from the wall.
Our own condition as solvent people, may
be realized better when [ tell you that the
Sheriff here sells all the real estate sold for debt
under DEGREES of the court, and that in the
rich county of Lancaster, where from the
general appearance of things you would
think debt had never dared to set its foot,
there were one hundred and fifty farms sold
under decree OF the court for debt last year.
Now ours are sold by special commissioner,
and giving an average of one to each LAWYER,
Which l suppose is enough, there would be
only 30 in the large county of Augusta OF
one-ffth OF the number sold in Lancaster, and
yet our people say they are poorly Off There
IS no comparison as to the per centage on the
Tatue Of tie oattlay an farming ac5h as at home
and here. We haze the adcantage tco to one.
HE LIKED THE COLOR.
One Of the Staunton Democratic dele
gates who attended the State Convention of