Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-01-04
POLITICAL NOTES.

POLIIICAL NOIES.
Gen. Mahone's chances for Postm aster-
General do not seem to have been improv-
ed by the conference at Washington Of
Southern Republicans. The opposition to
recommending him was so strong that his
friends did not make the move contem-
plated, and the conference only asked
Gen. Harrison to appoint a representative
Southern Republican," to his cabinet. 1t
is said the General returned to Petersburg
disguised. All the Virginia Republican
congressman, elected or defeated, were
present except Hon. Jacob Y ost. To make
the case harder, Hon. Jno. S. Wise was or
the floor of the House of Representatives
getting off jokes at the expense of Gen.
Mahone's aspirations, and making the Re-
publican members laugh heartily. Chair
man Houston. of the anti-Mahone Repub-
lican Executive Committee, was also in
Washington. but what part he took
against Malone. if any, is not stated.
Hon. John M. Langston, colored, of the
4th Va. district has, through his colored
attorneys, M. N. Lewis and Scott Wood,
served notice of contest on Hon. E. =.
Venable. 1t covers sixty-six pages of legal
cap paper. 1t was prepared. it is said, by
Hon. James D. Brady. Hon. Henry Bower
(Rsp Of the 9th Va. district, has served
notice of contest on Hen. J ohm A. Bucha-
nan (Dem.) 1t contains sixty pages and
the bulk of it is an attack on the election
laws and machinery of the State.
Mr.. John Wanamaker, it is now said,
will certainly have place in the cabinet.
The price was 100000.
81 am now fulI-fedged New Yorker. y
said ex-Congressman John s. Wise, late of
Virginia, to New Y ork ''Star' reporter.
81 have just settled in my new house on
West Fifty-eighth street, land think will
be very happy there"
The Washington "Star" says that Hon.
G. T. O'Ferrall's friends intend to make a
hard fight to give him the nomination for
the Governorship.
A conference Of prominent Virginia
Democrats. including Hon. John. S. Bar
bour, Lt.-Gov Massey, Robert W. Burke
of the State Executive Committee, Ed
ward Echols of the State Central Commit
tee, Senator Heaton of Loudoun, John L..
Hurst of Pittsylvania, John Hay of Mad:-
SOD, Jas. Y. Brooke Of Warrenton and
others. was held in Washington a few
days ago, chiefly on the subject of an extra
session of the legislature. No conclusion
was arrived at, and the subject was infor-
mally referred to the next meeting of the
Democratic State Central Committee,
which takes place in Richmond January
10th.
Ex-President Hayes visited Gen. Harri-
son by appointment few days ago and
had long conference with him, alone.
"a Harrison man of $780," through the
columns Of the Harrisonburg esprit, -
urges Hon. Jacob Yost for the Republican
nomination for the Governorship. He
thinks the Republicans would have
swept Virginia from bow to stern if the
Mahoneites had given 7 ost. Langston and
Bowen, hearty support"
The name of E. g. Venable, congress
man-elect from the Petersburg district, is
being urged as successor to Hon. John S.
Barbour, when thai gentleman shall retire
from the Craftsmanship of the Democratic
State Central Committee.
The Broadway (Rockingham) "Enter-
prise" dominates Capt. w. s. Lurty, for
his old office of U. S. District Attorney
for this district.
Representative Brown of Indiana, an
intimate personal as we'll as political
friend of the President-elect, thinks there
will not only be a called session of the 5lst
Congress, but that it will be continuous
session from the time of its meeting until
March 4th, 1891.
In the last debate in the House of Repre-
sentatives. before the holidays, on Civil
Service Reform, every Republican member
who took part in the debate defended the
principle Of ciyil-seryice reform, and
stated in broad terms the intention of the
Republican party to stand up to it more
fully and more conscientiously than the
Cleveland administration had donel That
will be an awkward record when President
Harrison commences to apply the axe to
the Democratic ofliceholders.