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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-10-25
UP OF THE CAMPAIGN.

ROUNDING UP OF THE CAMPAIGN.
AS far as argument is concerned the
present campaign has arrived at the stage
for rounding up. Since July this paper has
laid before it's readers about all the argu-
ment there has been to use on the Demo-
cratic side. Neither editorials nor speeches
are likely from this time out to make con-
verts. No change is expected to appear in
the field between now and the 5th OF NO.
vember, AS far as new presentations OF facts
can effect it. The issue has been very
fully and carefully made up, and may be
stated briefly. 1t IS
Whether Virginia is to manage her own
affairs by the votes of her free people, OF
whether she is to have men placed In her
high places at the direction of the Govern
ment at Washington, and through the cam
paign money, official brides and campaign
orators from outside of the Commonwealth.
Whether Virginia is to manage her own
affairs or to be the footstool of one man anG
governed at his caprice.
Whether Virginia is to manage her owr
dlldlIS UuIO ISu tll1 lHoou liltcllSclu July
of her citizens, OF whether that manage
ment is to be taken from that body and
welded by another body in which the
ignorance of the State constitutes a large
majority.
These are the issues, and there is none
other. There are hundreds of grave rea-
sons why the Malone faction should not
displace the Democracy in the State, but
they are all covered by the issues given. No
man can give practical reason for desir-
ing change. In the last four years the
State has been governed well. In every
respect that government can bear triumph
ant comparison with the years that the
Malone government ruled it. The State
is prosperous; the two races of people are
at peace with each other; immigration is
coming in; capital is pouring in; the schools
are more prosperous than ever in their his
tory; the laws are fairly administered and
with honestly and judiciously. No State
in the Union with the same sort of pOpu-
lation and the same environments can show
better record than Virginia can for the
past four years.
There is no need of a change. And above
all there is no need for a change that would
render this an unhappy and restless State,
with discontinued people. The feeling
begotten by the temporary ascendancy of
Gen. Malone eight years ago cannot yet
have passed out of mind. So chafed and
enraged had become the people of Virginia
in the two years reign of Mahoneism, that
the November evening that preceded the
election of 1883, was to the mass of the
white men of the State something like those
other evenings they spent twenty years be-
fore-like the chatting restlessness before a
battle. Men walked the streets the night
before unable to remain in quiet at their
homes.
1t had been campaign much like the one
just ending. Gen. Malone had directed it
in ,the orators had been Office holders,
and the Federal offices were thrown into
the balance against the Democracy. Just
like to-day, Malone had bargained with the
Administration. The people of Virginia
should not give less decisive answer in
1889 than they did in 1888.
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FOR NOVEMBER 9TH,

ESTIMATES FOR NOVEMBER 9TH,
In 1888, when Malone rule was broken
up in Virginia, there were two men who
foretold the result with accuracy. The first
was Col. Cab Maddux, commercial travel
lei who had been all over the State, and who
as early as September predicted crushing
defeat for General Mahone's candida
ties on the legislative tickets. When
in Washington city, last Saturday, Col.
MadduX who has just returned from a
racing trip to the fairs IN the Southwest,
had a talk with the correspondent of the
Alexandria Gazette. The correspondent
says:
He says that in all that section there are
about fifty white men, to whom Malone has
promised Office, who are hurrahing for him on
all occasions, but that outside of them, the
Generals forces are evidently Respondent and
dispirited. He says the Generals visit there
is acknowledged, even by his friends, to have
been failure; that he will be defeated by
forty thousand majority, and that in all the
State nobody, not even his loudest braggers,
can be found who will bet dollar on his
election.
The second prophet of 1888 was John S.
Barbour, who in his cautious way sent out
some three weeks before the election, the
assurance to the Democratic workers that
''the Democrats will carry the State and
both houses of the legislature by good
MI. Barbour was in Washington
on Friday last. The same correspondent
him and says Of the interview:
Mr.. Barbour says he would not be surprised
if the majority were twenty thousand. Hesays
his intelligence from Mr.. Sheppard, now in the
southwest part of the State, and Congressman
Buchanan, from that district, is highly favor
able, and that as respects Republican defee-
ton in the Valley, he hears from Winchester
Town to Roanoke that the half has not been
old,
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A BOGUS BRIBE.

| The Hon. Julius Caesar Burrows of Kali
mazoo, Mich, who by some strange fatui-
ty seemed to imagine himself the U. S.
Government, made a remarkable PROPOSE
ton of bribery In his Skating Rink speech
here. "If'' said he, Virginia elects Gen.
Malone next November We will take it as
an evidence that she wants the Blair bill APP
shall think she don't want ito Will she get
it? Why didn't she get it once before when
there was Republican President, a Re-
| publican Senate and a Republican House
and when Senator Blair first introduced it?
There was nothing to stop it except in the
language of MI. Blair. its author, that ''it
was an untried measure, - and his party hes
| itated to take hold Of it. 1t is still Gun
| tried, will his party still hesitate next De-
cember, when there will be in Washingtona
Republican Presidents Republican Senate,a
Republican House and a Blair bill that has
nothing easier i'll legislation than for the Re
publican House to pass the Senate bill and
let it go to President Harrison. Is MI.
Burrows SO silly as to mean that because
VIM. Malone is defeated the whole United
States Will come to stop, and every N ORTIZ
ern and every Southern State be de-
prived of the educational benefits of the
Blair bill? Or did he count on the igno-
rance Of his audience sufficiently to think
that they would believe that a bill could lie
passed giving it to other States and with
holding it from Virginia? The people of
Virginia need not cut their votes against
Malone by the cloth of the Blair bill.
Every member of Congress from this State
will vote for the Blair bill, and if it is not
passed, the Republican party will have the
full responsibility of it's defeat. The attempt
of MI. Burrows to hold up the Blair bill as
a bride for Malone voters won't succeed
with the intelligent voters of Virginia.
We only wish we were as sure that the
Blair bill will be passed, as we are that
Virginia will get her share of it though
Malone be beaten clean out of sight.
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CLEANED FROM THE MAILS.

An American car load of twenty thousand
pounds will contain the following 20 barrels
of salt, 70 of lime, 80 Of flour, 10 of whisky,
200 sacks of flour, 6 cords of wood u to 20
head of cattle, 80 to 60 head of hogs, so to 100
head of sheep, $40 bushels of wheat, 400
bushels of corn $50 bushels of oats 400 bushels
of barley, 800 bushels of laXseed, $50 bushels
OF apples, 430 of white potatoes, 1000 bushels
of bran, 5000 feet of solid boards, $50 to 100
boxes of eggs, and 200 kegs of nails.
The seceders who left the General Confer
ence of the United Brethren in the United
States, at York, Pa, in May last, are giving
much trouble in Ohio, Illinois, Canada and
Pennsylvania by asserting claim to the church
property. In some cases the contesting parties
have come to blows. A suit which has been
begun at Chambersburg, Pa, will, it is
thought, be decisive of the controversy in the
United States.
Miss Clara Huntington daughter of G. P
Huntington, the railroad millionaire king,
will be married at the Catholic Chapel in
Brompton, Eng, next Monday, to Prince
HatZfeldt, financially dilapidated German
prince. Mr.. Huntington according to the
marriage contract, pays up all the groom's
debts which run up into millions, and as the
Prince has never been out Of debt since he was
grown, the feeling will be novel.
Albert Bamber, an eX-convict, pursued two
men into Wilson's Hotel at Mt. Jackson on
Saturday night. Robert Wilson, the proprie-
tor, attempted to close the door and Bamber
broke his nose and cut his face with the butt
of pistol. Two officers arrested Bamber and
assisted by several citizens carried him to
Woodstock On the way he resisted and one
of the citizens cut him up badly with pocket
knife.
Prof Kneiss instructor in German in a
Cincinnati public school, every morning put
some words Oh the black board for his pupils
to practice writing. Friday morning he wrote
in German in bold flowing hand 81 will die,
| might die, l shall die That day he, Judge
Dickson and six others were killed on the
Mount Auburn incline railroad by the break
ing away of a car.
Henry Collum of White county, Ca, who
died last week, left Sl0 900 to be used for blind
and one-armed Confederate sol.
diers in Hall and White counties, but no sol
der is to receive any benefit from the fund
unless he has voted the Democratic ticket ever
since the party was reorganized after the war
Blanche Nelson, a fast and gaudily dressed
Chicago girl was fined s5 there for catching
men at the corner of Halstead and Madison
streets and kissing them. The younger vic
inns made little cutlery, but when she attempt
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to power, than i'll the whole four years of
Malone supremacy. A better education
for the children of the State? The schools,
teachers, and scholars to-day far exceed in
number those during the Malone admins
tration, and the money given them is nearly
quarter of a million more. More political
freedom for the colored people The color
ed people have and exercise precisely the
same rights to-day that they did in 1851
1885, not one more nor one less. A more
peaceful government No State in the
Union has enjoyed more orderly govern
ment, more peaceful population-those
vital requisites to prosperity has
Virginia during Governor Lees admins
tration. More progress? Virginia has
never seen the day in her history that there
was more progress within her borders
more enterprises organized, more new mali
ufacturing towns being built, a greater
mileage of railroad being constructed, a
more rapid growth Of her cities, a more
general improvement in her counties, a
more general revival of life throughout her
borders than there has been under Demo-
cratic rule in the past four years, and than
in still going on to-day.
1t is for none of those things that this
change is asked for by Gen. Malone.
1t is simply that the poWer over the State
may be given him. 1t is just that and moth
ing more. And now what would follow
if he got it A? An ignorant mass Of colored
men jubilant over a triumph due to them
selves land filled withhopes of impossibilities
never to be realized an exasperated body of
white men restless under the knowledge
that though more directly interested in the
prosperity, the enterprise, and the progress
of the State they are barred from voice
in the legislation which may quicken OF
kill them; an ingenious marrying Of the
people by taking from them their local self
government and lodging it at Richmond; a
ruler hated by the people and repaying that
hatred with interest-in short, State in
which SmOuldering animOSitieS ale ever
ready to blaze up into violence, a State
which presents no fair aspect to capitalist
OIL immigrant. A State whose comfort,
peace and progress have been sacrificed solely
to crafty the personal ambition of one man.
This is no everdrawn picture. 1t is one
that has been drawn, framed, and posted
by the hands of Virginians of I'LL politics
Republicans and Democrats. 1t is one of
which our people have had sufficient warn
ming On all sides. The voices of the ablest
Republicans who have mingled in public
affairs for the last thirty years have warned
them. The voices of Democrats who have
been prominent in the State government
fol- years have warned them. They have had
warnings from without the State and from
withdrawing that cannot be overlooked
with reflection. Will they disregard them?
Will any voter of the State, no matter of
what political faith, say by his vote next
November that the experiment Of the peo-
pie governing themselves has failed in Viz
ginia, and that the time has come to deliver
over the administration of power to one
who, in every public position he has occu-
pied, has proved himself a tyrant ?
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Though Gen. J. b. Foraker is busy can

Though Gen. J. b. Foraker is busy can
wasting Ohio, he should snatch time to con-
slider the conduct of the white men at
Murray City, i'll that State. One night,
last week, they burned the house Of George
Washington, colored, to the ground for-to
them-the sufficient reason that he was a
negro and they didn't want negroes to ac-
quire property i'll Murray City. If the Gov
ernor does not look into this outrage, 1t
would be becoming in Hon. John Mercer
Langston of Virginia, to return to his home
and ponder whom he can support in these
strange times-Gen. Malone who won't let
the negro run for an office after he gets the
nomination and gets him beat if he does
run, Oh Gov. Foraker who let's negro's
property be burned simply because he is a
black man. Mississippi and Arkansas Dem
ocrats don't seem to lie so different from
Virginia and Ohio Republicans after all !
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WORK TO BE DONE.

WORK TO BE DONE.
Very much-much more than is usual
depends on the vote of Augusta county, to
give the Democratic ticket success at this
election. We publish elsewhere very graft
flying estimates of what that success will be,
but we warn the Democrats of the State that
these estimates will not be realized unless
they arouse themselves to activity. Over
confidence has done much harm already to
our party in the earlier days Of this cam
paign, and if this damage is not repaired
during the time yet left us, and if there is
not more general activity among our peo-
pie. the result of November 5th will be a
tremendous surprise.
We earnestly trust that the Precinct
Chairmen of Augusta will be found at the
front from now till shutdown of the 9Th.
Every hour S work is needed.
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Gen. Malone does not seem to take any

Gen. Malone does not seem to take any
trouble to verify his information before
using it. At Staunton, in the Skating
Rink, he said that mckinney, who has
been running for Office all his life, never got
one till he ran for the council in Farmville
on the same ticket with a Niger" In his
speech at Harrisonburg, the day after Gen.
Mahones delivery here, Capt. Mckinney
replied to this charge. The Rockingham
Register says:
He then described the condition of affairs at
Farmville Immediately after the war, when
the negroes largely predominated the whites
in number: and an attempt was made to re-
move the countyseat There had been meet
ing OF blacks and whites to nominate town
ticket, and was member of the convention,
but not one of its candidates. 1 am candid
enough to say that did all could to secure
the success of that ticket, and it was elected
Later part of that council resigned, and Col
Berkeley and another white man and myself
were selected to fill the vacancy. There were
two negroes in that town council; one of
them is now dead, and the other is a respected
citizen of Farmvlle and Republican, but to
his credit let it be said, he refuses to vote for
Billy Malone. Applause During the;negro
rule at Farmville, the public funds were
squandered, not to say stolen outright You
will understand the situation when tell you
that they kept no books, and left no record
whatever of their public acts. Could refuse
to take a seat in that town council because [
would find there black man OF two? There
would be no more ground for such refusal
than for your delegates in Rockingham to re-
fuse to sit under the same roof in the legisla-
ture of Virginia with the black senator from
my county whom they will meet there and the
black members from Amelia, Mecklenburg,
&c. This charge of Gen. Malone against me
is but case of the drowning man catching at
straws. [Laughter.l II there ever was a man
almost past praying for that man is William
Malone. TApplause.l
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TISSUE BALLOTS.

County Chairman w. FL. II. Lynn of the
Democratic County Committee of Angus
ia, on Wednesday received from the State
Central Democratic Committee samples Of
tissue ballot which has been printed for
the use of the Malone faction. This sam
pie is for use IN this election in Chester
field and Powhatan counties, and has on
it the names of the Malone candidate for
the legislature III those counties. They are
said to be printed in Petersburg. Demo-
cratic election officers everywhere should
be on the watch; these tissue ballots are
about half the size of the regular, and on
paper about the thickness of blotting paper.
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THE VIRGINIA DEBT BEFORE THE
q. S, SUPREME COURT.

In the o. S. Supreme Court on Monday
the Virginia coupon cases were up, and At
torney General Ayers and Hon. John Ran
dolph TUCKER for the State, and W, L. Roy
all and j. Chamberlain for the bondholders
were present to argue them. Chief JUS
tice Fuller, however, announced that they
would be postponed until the vacancy
on the bench occasioned by the death of
Associate Justice Mathews should be filled.
1t is said that the court as it stands is about
evenly divided on the question. and on the
new Justice will depend the decision of the
court-for OF against Virginia.
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Gen. James r. Chalmers. the Republican

Gen. James r. Chalmers. the Republican
candidate for Governor of Mississippi,
who first became famous for the slaughter
of the negro troops at Fort Pillow, has
withdrawn from the race as has Judge
Frazee, the Republican candidate for At
torney General The use of two OF three
court houses being refused him. and the en-
treaties of his Republican friends not to at
tempt to make the canvass, he gives as the
reasons for his withdrawal. When he was
nominated On Sept. Goth, Gen. Chalmers
said that eff in the coming contest any
fighting must be done, the white Republi
cans would do it and the Negroes could
stand by" The white Republicans seem
to have gotten tired early.
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In March. 1851. in the U. S. Senate, while
defending the course Of YIN. Malone,
John Sherman said; Anything is jqstif-
able in law or morals to beat the Democratic
party How would the General like his
friends axiom applied to himself in Vir-
ginia in 1889,
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REAL ESTATE SALES.

TRUsTEE,s SALE OF VALUABLE PROPER
| TY SITUATED IN THE TOWN OF GREEN
trust executed to me by H. G. Palmer and wife,
will offer for SALE in front of Famer's Store, in
Greenville, on
Saturday, the 9th day of November, 1889,
at II o'clock, A. NJ,
the following property, to wit: That dwell ~
ing and store-house situated on Main ST., AlI!!f
in the Town of Greenvie, and occupied at !allsL
present by HI. c. Palmer, Agent, of Sarah S.
Palmer
Also, two certain lots in New Greenville, known
as Nos = and %, in the subdivision of the land
conveyed by VIM. +. Smiths EX'or. to H. e. Pal
mer and others.
Also, the undivided interest of 1-5 of H. c. Pal
mer, in the tract of land conveyed by VIM. F.
Smlth.s EX,or, to III. e. Palmer, by deed dated
Upon the following terms, to wit-Cash in hand
to pay costs Of snit and sale, and the remainder
on credit of six, eighteen and thirty months
the purchaser giving bond with approved per-
sona security, and the title retained as ultimate
security. JAMES BUMGARDNER, ] r.,
octlS 1T Trustee.
COMMISSIONER SALE OF VERY DEsIR-
" ABLE REAL ESTATE IN THE CITY
OF STAUNTON.-By virtue of decree of the
Circuit Court of Augusta County, rendered in
the cause of Hounihan, &c. vs. Cochran. Trustee,
&C.. will proceed in front OF the Courthouse, in
the City of Staunton, on
Saturday, the 9th day of Norcmber 1889,
to sell at public auction that most desirable A.
property, situated on the northeast corner H15IIT
of New and Beverly Streets, lately occupied 4s9A4
by W. L. Olivier, as Bookstore, upon the fol-
lowing terms, to wit SO much in hand will
pay the cost of suit and sale, and the remainder
upon credit of six, eighteen and thirty months
from the day ofsale with interest from the day
of sale, the purchaser giving bond with approved
personal security, and the title retained as ulti-
mate security.
This is a very desirable site for mercantile BUSH
ness JAMES BUMGARDNER, j r.,
Commissioner.
hereby certify that the bond required of Jas.
Bumgardner, Jr., Commissioner, under decree in
the cause of Hounihan, &C. VS.. Cochran, Trustee,
&C. has been duly executed Given under my
hand this 10th day of October, 1889
octlS 1t j. N. RYAN, Clerk.
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The Virginia Democratic State Central
Committee makes the official announce
ment that san the leading railroads in the
State will make one fare to the voters who
will return home to vote at the coming cleo
tiOn,'
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VALUABLE SUBURBAN FARM FOR SALE.
-"Edgewood,' the beautiful and fertile
farm belonging to the estate of the late Joseph p
Asst, located on the northeastern limits of -
the corporation and containing 1l0% acres MlIII
of land, is offered for sale. 1t will be sold Twill
reserving q acres and the handsome brick resi-
dence and Improvements, or including improve
ments.
The farm is beautifully located is in high state
of cultivation, well Watered with springs and
streams, and adjoining the corporate limits 1t
will not be long before it will have to be appro-
prated to building lots to accommodate the
growth of the city.
1t offers opportunity for any one who
desires to make safe investment, either for q
suburban home, or for future advancement in
values
Parties wishing to examine the property, can
plat of it and obtain all necessary informal
ton by applying to the undersigned, who resides
on the premises.
auo2 MRS. JULIET Asst.
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ROGER B. ATKINSON,
ATTORNEY-AT-
27 South Augusta Street,


TIRGINIA.-In the Clerks Office Circuit Court
of Augusta County, Oct. 18th, 1889.
j. a. Hamrick Il Co., Plaintiffs,
VS.
j. w. Stone, Henry F. Stone and Martha j.
Stone, Defendants.
IN CHANCERY.
The object of this suit is to set aside as fra udu-
lent and void to creditors, certain Deed of
Conveyance executed by Henry f. Stone and
Martha j. Stone: to j. w. Stone, of date A pril
18th, 1884, and duly recorded in ID. B. 10Y, p 42, in
the County Clerks Office of Augusta County,
which said Deed of Conveyance. conveys to j. w.
Stone. three tracts of land. One, containing ~
acres another, containing IL acres, rood. and II
poles; and the third, containing u acres and 20
poles And to subject said three tracts of land to
the lien of Judgment for $6693, with interest
from Nov. 9th, 1884, till paid, and $0i5 COSTS re-
covered by j. A. Hamrick & Co. VS.. II. f. Stone.
happening by affidavit filed, that j. w. Stone
is nonresident of this State, it is ordered that
he do appear here within fifteen days after due
publication of this notice, and do what is neces-
sary to protect hiA interests in this suit.
Testei- j. N. RYAN Clerk.
GEO. S. LIGHTNER and C. E. KEMPER. p. O..
OctlS 1t.