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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-08-30

| The New York Times thinks the rate OF
elevation ana progress of the Negroes is
painfully Slow" The Petersburg Inder.
Appeal thinks it is not slow considering
the brief time the experiment has been in
progress. In one sense both are right. TIC
the impatient white man at the South who
wants q population of his color and his
ideas to aid him in the developing and
making great of this section, the progress of
the Negro as a race in filing the gap is
painfully Slow" SO slow that it is dis
heartening even to those who have the most
sympathy with him. The Negro, always
excepting the more intelligent Of them, is
as disappointing to us at the South as he is
to those at the North. He doesn It seem, in
many things, to move away from his old
ideas that dawned on him-if there was any
general dawn at all-when he became free.
But in other things, and looked at from an
other point of view, he has progressed as
much as any race that was ever set free
1t has been painfully slowh work to him.
doubtless, as it has been to the white men
of the country who are watching him, but
if the Negro had the same patience with
himself that the whites have with him, his
path would be much smoother and his pro-
gress perceptibly faster.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-08-30
THE FACTS ARE AGAINST HIM.

Candidate Malone expressed the opinion
in his address at the Norfolk convention,
that s'Such unlawful methods as have gov
erned the political conduct of the leadership
of the Democracy Of Virginia "repel i'm
migration into our lands and deter capital
from seeking profitable employment in the
development Of our varied industrial re-
sources" But the facts are against the
General. Since the Democracy has held the
State Government, since Malone was turn
ed down in 1888, more capital has been i'll
vested in Virginia, more industrial re-
sources have been developed, more new
towns have been started, more new fur
naces and machine shops have been erected,
than i'll the whole history of Virginia for
the past twenty-eight years. In a radius OF
sixty miles around StauntOn more new
towns, new enterprises, new factories, new
rolling mills have been put i'll operation in
the last three years, than in this local
lty in the previous thirty. AT the head
| of one of the new town enterprises is the
| Democratic Governor of Virginia and at
The head of another is an anti-Mahone eX-
|
member Of congress, and at the head of
none that we can think of is any supporter
of Gen. Malone. Incidents which indicate
that much more is to be expected in ''thede-
velopment Of our varied industrial resour-
ces'' from the success of those who are OPP
posed to Gen. Malone and his ideas, than
from him and those who hold with him.
Under the operations of the State Board
of Immigration established by the Demo-
cratic legislature, more farm buyers have
immigrated to Virginia from the West,
North, and Northwest, and located there,
than have come there in any ten years since
1865.
The Generals orators who are to follow
him, had better get better posted than he
seems to be on these subjects.
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are in issue all other questions sink into utter
insignifcance."
A MEETING OF ITO REPUBLICAN VOTERS TO
STAY AWAY FROM THE POLLS IN NOVEM-
Der.
The Republicans of the First Ward in Alex
andria who had 10 men at their meeting to
elect delegates to the Norfolk convention-but
found that Mahone's Precinct Chairman had
held meeting an hour earlier than advertised
and elected Malone delegates and adjourned
held an Indignation meeting there on Monday
night last 1t was presided over by Strother
Gillerson, colOred. The following resolution
was adopted with only two dissenting votes
Itcsolved Isl, That inasmuch. as we attempted
to be represented at the Norfolk convention and
through the gross fraud and trickery of General
Mahone's chairman and partisans, that we do
not consider ourselves bound in any way by the
action of that convention, and further, that we
will not support its nominees. All good Repub-
licans are requested to stay away from the polls
on election day and give no aid and comfort to
that common enemy of the Republican party,
General Malone.
RcsOtred I'd, That we cannot and will not con-
done the frauds by which we were and are cheat
ed out of our rights American citizens at every
recurring election of delegates, and that we ask
and demand that our present plan of organiza ton
be changed. We demand home rule in party af-
fairs and nothing less will satisfy us.
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THEY VIII, RE WELr()NED.

Gen. Malone announced in the Norfolk
Academy of Music that .'the Democrats
should not dodge the tariff issue as they
wanted to do, but he would see that it is
brought up on every hustings in the State. y
OF course the Tariff issue is Federal one and
does not enter into State election except in
the remotest and by-chance way, but there
is nothing that will be more welcomed ON
the stump by the Virginia Democrats this
year than the issue of High Federal taxa
taxation. through the tariff, on the people.
A Democratic canvasser of average ability
to wallow his high-tax antagonist. In the
face of the promises of prosperity under
Harrison's High-Tax administration made
last November, how do these facts sound
sixty thousand coke operatives Oh il strike
in Pennsylvania against II reduction Of
wages by their highly protected employers
wooden and cotton mills iii New England
suspending; iron furnaces i'll Pennsylvania
shutting down and making assignments
the Commissioners of Agriculture Of Yer
llOHt, Illoutl Honle lilnlErt hinfuiHBi
turing State, announcing that a60. 600 acres
of land, once prolitably farmed by THEN
owners, have been abandoned, and urging
that they be now sold cheap to Negroes
to get them once more in cultiva-
ton? Let the Democratic canvasser take
these and hundreds of other facts, showing
how little the election of IL Republican
President has helped the manufacturing
and farming interest Of the country by
giving confidence in the continuance of the
High-Tariff tax, as was predicted in Nov
ember it would. Then let him point to the
hundreds of millions of surplus in the
Treasury at Washington-the hard earned
taxes of the people glittering in the midst
Of all this failure, disaster and privation,
with Corporal Tanner shovelling it into the
pockets Of pensioned millionaires like
Senator Henderson. The oratOrical hood
lums whose only stock in canvassing has
been the cries of Bourbon" and ''Fraud, >
would enter the Generals new field with
about the same equipment of information
and discretion that was carried by the ira
ditional bull into the china shop, and would
share the same fate.
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A SCHElME FOR ANARCHY IN
VIRGINIA.

Ex-Congressman Mayo, former Republi-
can congressman from the Fredericksburg
district and now u supporter of Malone,
Informed a correspondent of the Baltimore
american at Norfolk, that in the coming
election:
eff the Electoral Board decides against us,
and we have reason to believe, from the re-
ports made to us, that we have won the fight,
we will fight all the harder. We will estab
lish our own separate and distinct government
at Richmond. This may appear revolutionary,
but this is the plan we have determined on
after very careful consideration and after
several conferences held by the party
leaders,
And later, on Monday last at Washing
ton, he gave to the Washington Post this
addendum to the plan:
eve would not do anything except in a
quiet and peaceable way, but the Constitu.
ton does declare that in case of riot, insured
ton, &C., the United States GOoerhnaent aoaH IN
tertere acith the local authorities, and the ques-
ton is whether the action of establishing an
Independent government would come under
that head
So that is the plan determined on s'after
several conferences held by the [Republi-
can party leaders, in Virginia! A very
Mahone-like conception! To run ticket
in Democratic State, get it defeated,
claim fraud, set up a State government in
revolution to the State authorities, as in
Louisiana and South Carolina, and then APP
peal to the Federal authorities at Washing
ton to recognize" it 4! Mr.. Mayo and the
'sparty leaders, seem to have forgotten
Gen. Grant S message to the Packard gov
eminent in Louisiana in 1976-"Public
opinion will no longer justify the use of the
military authority" and with this famous
telegram ended forever all efforts of the
United States government to ''Set up' gov
ty leaders" will find that President Har-
rison is not DESTROYS of distinguishing his
administration by disturbing the whole
country with scene of riot and bloodshed
at Richmond, and if he was to attempt such
thing tie public opinion which ''would
no longer justify it in 1876, would in 1885
strike his name from the list of sane Presi.
dents of the Nation.
The Democrats of Virginia should reply
to this incendiary suggestion by such g
shower of ballots in November as will
quiet that arch disturber of the peace, VIM.
Malone, forever.
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THE SINGLE DIFFERENCE,

There is but one difference against the
Democrats, between this and former cam
paigns with Malone.
His canvassers will be less efficient.
There will be no VIM. E. Cameron. no
Harry Riddleberger, no John S. Wise this
time.
But he will have more money than ever
from the Northern Republicans. Very
good; the Democratic people of Virginia
propose to cover that money dollar for dol
lar. They know what they are fighting for
and are willing to pay for it. If Malone
sends to the neighboring States for all the
Negro railroad hands working there to
come here in November; the Democrats
will also see there is not white Democrat
abroad who shall not come home on that
day at no cost to himself. No Democrat,
white OF colored, shall lose his vote in Vir-
ginia for want of means to get to his pre-
cinct and poll it. And he needn't lose any
thing while he is doing it either. In every
way that Malone spends dollar, no matter
how, the Democrats will see it and 90 one
better.
AS the money feature is to be promi-
nent one in this campaign, the Democrats
must raise it and raise it literally. They
are fighting for their State government and
it is worth any price, no matter how high.
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SOMETHING TO REMEMBER.

The nomination of Gen, Malone for
Governor, more than anything else that
could have happened, will bring many Of
fensive recollections to the minds of the
people of Virginia. Nothing is more likely
to stir up and embitter Democrat than to
go back to the scenes that accompanied the
first and only time that Gen. Malone got
possession of the government OF Virginia.
Before that, he had made his bargain with
President Garfield, gone over to the Re
publican side of the Senate, and in return
received control of the Federal patronage
of Virginia, but that did not excite the
Virginia Democrats a great deal. They
had been a long time out Of participation
in the National government of the country
and the distribution of the Federal patron
age by inimical hands was an accustomed
sight 1t was when Malone got possession
of the State government that unprecedent-
ed scenes began to be enacted. Some OF
them were burned into the memory of the
Virginia Democrats.
One was political boss taking privat,
office in the capitol of Virginia and there
opening the business Of giving out State
offices, naming candidates, directing who
should and who should not be elected to
the judiciary, and whose word was a more
complete veto on bill than that of the
Governor.
Another was the sight of members sit
ting in a legislative body who had been
pledged before their election to submit their
votes to the dictation of others.
Another was prominent State officers
fighting on the streets over alleged corrup-
ton in the awarding of contracts where it
was charged that one award was influenced
by pecuniary aid from the successful bidder
to the Republican party.
Another was the appointment by the
Governor of Virginia of his Negro servant
as a member of the School Board of the
city of Richmond.
Another was the nomination of men to
Judgeships whose record was so bad that
they had to be given up.
Another was the making of the Public
School system, the Judiciary and the Elec
toral boards, partizan machines.
Another was the attempt to establish and
support I; newspaper organ by establishing
the Office of Commissioner of Sales.
Another was an attempt to provide fol
campaign fund through tax on ferti
lizers.
These memories come up on hearing
Mahone's name as the candidate of .his
party, and more especially the picture O.
the 'Boss" himself sitting in his Office il
the State capitol and assuming both guber
material and legislative functions.
Virginia does not want that sight again
Neither Democrats, nor Republicans will
proper manhood, ever wish to see that sigh
at the State capitol again. 1t is an ugly bio
on the map of Republic to see one Of it,
States governed by an autocrat, and it is
worthy of note that in this decade, in whicl
every other boss-ridden State of the Uniol
has thrown down its wooden god, Malone
adherents in Virginia should come FORWARD
with theirs and try to set it up.
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The Vandermark Bros, wooden cloth
manufacturers of Brookton, N. Y, will
receive less sympathy than is generally &C
corded to business failures. They coerced
their workmen last fall to vote for Harri-
son and High Tariff tax. When distin-
guished Democratic speaker was advoca-
ting the lowering of the tariff tax, one of
the Vandermark Bros. was in the audience
and pronounced him id liar for preach
ing such doctrine, and pushing his way to
the platform after the meeting adjourned,
said, s'Unless Harrison is elected our firm
cannot run. A Democratic administra-
ton will ruin u.s." In November last their
mill was in a prosperous condition, to-day
under Harrison's administration and the
high tariff tax, it goes into bankruptcy and
its workmen 60 out of employment. This
is good text for one of Gen. Malone S
high-taX orators with whom he proposes to
force the tariff as State issue.
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THE FIGHT IN VIRGINIA.,

Reading the Virginia newspapers, it has
the appearance as if all Virginia was rising
to assert that there shall be freedom within
the political parties. The Democrats are
stirred up as they have not been before, by
the appearance Of Malone, with all his arl.
tocratic record behind him, at the head of d
faction of the Republican party, leading an
effort to capture the State once more and
put it's people through the humiliation they
underwent in 1882.
The wing of the Republican party which
has determined to assert Individual nan
hood as an inalienable right of member
of a political party, IS as much aroused
as the Democrats are.
The Administration at Washington is
standing silent, frightened at the hubbub
created in its own party by its following
Garfeld's example and going into trade
the trade this time simply being to keep a
political boss securely on his throne, and to
crush out any freedom in its own party
which this boss does not permit.
The Republican party organs i'll the N orth
who seem to have been under the delusion
that Malone WAS the Republican party of
Virginia, are puzzled over the situation.
They can't blame Malone, for fear of Har-
rison who has endorsed him, so they take it
out in denouncing those who won't submit
to his capricious and tyrannical will.
Altogether, the situation is one that the
National Republican pgrty. the National
Republican Committee who arranged the
trap by which Malone was to enslave the
revolted freemen Of his party, and the Ma
tional Administration which endorses the
whole proceeding, Malone included, should
he heartily ashamed OF.
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WHAT THE RANK AND FILE OF
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY IN
AUGUSTA HAZE TO HOPE FOR

What ground has VIM. Malone to ask
the rank and file of the Republican party of
Augusta-the people who do the voting
for their support. Has he ever recognized
them. He has been in power-in absolute
power, what did he do for them when he
had it? Why he portioned all the places to
personal favorites, as all political bosses do,
and left the voters of the party to scuffie
for themselves. Under his personal admin
istration of the assets of Virginia in
1882, when they came into his hand, he
gave the places in Augusta county as fol-
lows-to One Prominent Family, six Of
fees; to another Prominent Family, nine
offices, and to the common people, n othing.
1t is to reward his favorites again, that
Gen. Malone is again calling ON the Re-
publican people of Staunton and Augusta
to support him for Governor of Virginia.
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The right to participate fairly in the selec-
ton of the representative agent, goes to the
very bottom of Republican form of govern
ment, and any invasion of it imperils the lib
erty of the people.-Gea. Mahone's address at
the Norfolk Convention
We should like to know how the anti
Malone men who participated in the Re
publican convention in the county court
house of Augusta, last Fall, feel
when they read such talk as this
from Gen. Malone. We should like
to know how Langston, the regularly
nominated representative agent" of the
Republican party in the 4th district feels
when he reads this and remembers that it
was Gen. Malone whose Invasion" de-
feated him. And we have some curiosity
to know how the anti-Mahone men in the
4th ward of Portsmouth who were held in
check by the muZzle of the Mahonite Chair
man Broughton's revolver, take such high
toned political morality rs the General III
culcates in the above. The General in his
role as II moralist is an engaging sight-for
a comic opera.
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If Malone ShOuId he elecfad in Virr

If Malone should be elected in Virgin
ia, you will have the same scenes Of 1882.
Workingmen discharged from their work
benches at the public institutions, and
walking the streets without work-simply
for the sake Of their political opinions. It
is not forgotten yet by our people. They
are reminded of it again by the prominence
in the Malone faction to-day, of the very
men who did the work then,
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Virginia has never elected a Republican
Governor. Wells was beaten by twenty thou
sand, Hughes by thirty thousand. and John
S. Wise by seventeen thousand. Even when
the Readjuster nominee, Cameron, who
afterwards embraced Republicanism, was
elected by a union OF Democratic Readjus-
ters and Republicans, he only got in by
eleven thousand.
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THE s'HATRED'' TO GEN. MALONE

THE "HATRED7 TO GEN. MALONE.
A Republican friend, and a supporter of
Gen. Malone, remarked last week after
seeing the way Mahone's nomination was
received here, that he could not understand
the ''hatred'' which his opponents seemed
is Mahone's own weapon. tits by asteady,
persistent, ever pursuing hatred of those
in his own party who disagree with him
that he has earned their hatred in return.
1t has been by his ingenious hatred of his
former Democratic comrades, his effort not
only to defeat but to humiliate them, not
only to conquer but to crush and harrass
them, that he has earned the hatred of the
mass of the white people of Virginia. Ma
hone is no statesman, he is simply Il polite
ian. When he captured this State in 1881
he burned his triumph into the memories
OF his defeated opponents by every device
that could humiliate. With blind hatred
that was inexplicable, instead of essaying to
build up party for the future and strength
en- the slender majority by which he had
won, he set to work in a way which so stung
the people he had defeated, that they rose
the next year and swept him and his out of
power. That is why the opponents Of Ma
hone, in the Democratic as well as in his
own party fight him as they would no 9th
Ell opponent. That is why a Democrat
feels it ameasure of self defence to work and
vote against Malone whenever and wher.
ever he shows his head.
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portent to the hopes. successes and ambi-
lions of William Malone.
The above are the simple facts, Of record,
in the history Of Gen. Malone as a cam
paigner in Virginia. No Democrat need
feel any fear OF the General as leader, if he,
the Democrat intends to turn out on cleo
ton day and vote for his State ticket. lie
need not bother about Malone If he himself
aciW only do has duty.
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THE OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN.
Mr.. Barbour and the State Executive
Committee met at Lynchburg Tuesday, and
arranged the opening Of the campaign with
headquarters at Alexandria, and Ham
Shepperd and w. w. Scott as Secretaries.
Capt. Mckinney opens at Char
lottesville next Monday, Sept. I'd, speaks at
Covington, Allegheny, Sept. Sd, and Oh
Sept. 23d, speaks at Staunton. Maj. J.
Hoge Tyler opens at Prince William Sept
I'd. Maj. r. Taylor Scott opens in Pulas.
XII Sept. I'd, Col. Charles I. O'Ferrall opens
at Caroline Sept. 9th, and Richard F
Beirne opens at Rocky Mount, Franklin
Sept. I'd, and speaks at Covington, Allegha
nv October It'll
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WHAT THEY SAY IN ROANOKE.

Roanoke Times, Aug. ..
Judge Thomas B. Claiborne, we'll known all
over the State as an active and prominent
Republican, said he believed that Malone
would be beaten. He intended to vote for
Mckinney himself As to the rest of the ticket,
Slemp was not much Intellectually, but Lurty
was smart fellow
Col G.. w. Hansbrough, a prominent Re-
publican of Roanoke county, was met on the
street Yesterday He has no love for Malone,
and says he knows of ten or twelve prominent
Republicans in and around Salem who will
not support him.
A telegram from Roanoke, dated Aug. Goth,
say: Colonel Il. W. Hansbrough Sheriff
Charles NJ. Weber, Sergeant j. r. Frier De
putty Sheriff ii. A. Weber, Acting Common
wealths Attorney Jacob S. Baer, Deputy
Treasurer John N Whtesell and Dr. W. r.
Younger of Salem, this county, all earnest
workers heretofore, are in open rebellion
against the ticket.