The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-01-03


on the tariff question. With this pros
pect we think it quite likely the Democ-
racy will throw free trade aside and try
some other issue. Certainly on the tariff
issue they will be doomed.
Mr. r. X. Wilson, prominent and use
flu! citizen of Rockbridgp, died at his resi-
dence. near Collierstown, on the 22d of
December. The immediate cause of his
death was heart disease.
Secretary Bayard will retire to farm
in Delaware after the 4th of March next.
He is now estimated to be worth $500. 900,
enough to maintain him in dignified ease.
a few years ago he was reputed to be
poor man, and it was put down to his
credit that he had been in public life so
many years without getting more than a
moderate living out of it.
Gen. Felix Angus, of the Baltimore
American. is prominently spoken of in
connection with the Cabinet of Presi
dent Harrison. We do not know Gen.
Angus personally, but judging him by the
excellent paper he publishes, we would
say he is entirely capable of managing
we'll any department of the government.
The press ought to be recognized in the
Cabinet, as it is the power that elects
presidents. and congressman also. for that
matter. as general rule.
The rewards for the arrest of persons
guilty of violating the registration laws, in
New York. in the recent election. were
made last Saturday. There were ten
awards. aggregating SIS $50 - the first
of the award, of 50 600 having been made in
October. when a man named George
Gordon. a tramp from Rhode Island, was
arrested and sent to the penitentiary for
two years fer registering illegally There
is left in tie bank of the $4,000 originally
deposited for this purpose, $4,000.
There is to be an election in Virginia
next November, for Governor, 1t. Gov
erpor. Attorney General, 100 members
of the House OF Delegates, and 10 Sena-
tors. The way for the Republicans to
make clean sweep in all of these places,
| il for the Democrats to call an extra ses.
sion of the Legislature at cost of S5e 900
| to the people. These fifty thousand dol
lars will be good for gain of $4,000 votes
| for The Republican candidates. Tie | CO.
pie will tolerate no more such folly and
extravaganza of that kind.
Villas will return to the badger State
carrying with him the contempt of all
decent mankind. A cabinet officer VITO
would suggest that the way to get Repub-
licans out of office was to prefer charges
against them whether right or wrong, is
capable of ommitting any crime. He Is
an assassin of character where he is too
cowardly to assassinate the body. lie
would smile and lille and be william still,
though elevated TO the highest honor of the
government. Not in the history of this
country has there ever heen man placed
in cabinet position who was willing to
prostitute the power given to such base
ends. He is man of bad motives and
bad heart. ard will some day be met with
retributiye justice.
There is great deal of speculation
about Gen Harrison s Cabinet. In time,
Gen. Harrison himself will announce who
his constitutional advisers will be. and
, unit then it is wise not to be disturbed
| about the matter. That Mr.. Blaine will
| be invited to the State Department, we
think more than probable. His claims are
paramount to those of any other Repub-
lican in the land. and they will, no doubt,
be recognized We believe it is the wish
of four-ffths of the Republicans CT the
country that they should be. We further
believe that it ia to the interest of the
government, as we'll as to Gen. Harrison s
administration. that Mr.. Blaine should be
asked to take charge of the State Depart
ment. 1t is from higher considerations
| than party that it should be so.
On Saturday of last week Henry D..
Schoonmaker, aged % years. shot and
fatally wounded his wife Edith, aged %
years. and then shot himself dead at their
residence in New York. When found.
they were In bed in their night dresses,
her right arm under his neck and the left
thrown across his body. His left hand was
firmly a bulldog revolver, With his finger
on the trigger. He was dead and cold:
she still survived. with three bullet holes
in her body, with no hope of recovery.
There is no explanation Of the tragedy.
They were very fond of each other. and
his salary as salesman had just been
raised. They had a little child J. months
old, which was absent at a relatives. 1t
has all the appearances OF mutually
agreed upon murder and suicide.
Every little or big disturbance that oc-
ours in any portion of the country, ard
especially in the South. with which col
ored man is connected, is magniGed by the
| Democratic press into conflict betwee4
the races. They are trying to bling about
just what they affect to fear. 1t is for
political effect. The elestion in Virginia
next fall will be an important one. and it
is to control the result of that. an atten pit
is to be made to raise the race issue above
al others. IT is wicked. ince ndiary pro-
gramme, and vii, by its very nature, defeat
the object designed. Fhe people arg tired Of
all this fnss and Juror about the negro
vote. They know that If left alone he
will quietly cast bis vote, and provoke no
contentious, and they can see. no good In
this constant agitation Of the race cendi-
tions, to profit few desperate politicians.
who, now that they have been kicked out
of Federal positions, are determined to
hold on to the State patronage, if possible
If the negro would vote with them it
would be all right. bat when he chooses to
vote for as good, if not better man, it Is 4
terrible thing. and threatens our ciyiliza-
tion.