Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-10-18
FIGHTING AT THE BALLOT BOX.

Last Monday, Candidate Malone said al
the Skating Rink, that ''The time has come
to go to the ballot box and fight there, if
fight we must, for our rights" The ut
terance of such words to an audience of
whom a large majority were Ignorant
blacks, cannot be excused. But it was not
thoughtless indiscretion. AS in 1888, Gen.
Malone must have some excuse to offer
the administration at Washington for de
feat. A few ignorant negroes wrought up
by these words to fighting at the ballot box
on the 18th of November, and the inevita-
Die result which would follow, would be
heralded by him to the Administration and
the world as evidence that the Democrats
of Virginia killed their opponents when
they could neither cheat nor outyote them.
1t is laying the train for the repeti
ton of the old bloody circular of Malone
in 1888 explaining his defeat in that year
by the Danville trouble-a trouble that as
surely came out of the incendiary speeches
of that campaign. as that explosion follows
a match.
1t was great pity that on Monday night
the Democrats didn't have a speaker at the
Skating Rink for a joint discussion with
orator Burrows of Michigan. Hesaid his
party had steadily voted for taking the tax
off tobacco and that Virginians by voting for
Democratic Congressman deliberately voted
the 50, 100000 annual tobacco tax to be
placed on themselves. On the Sd Of March
of last year, 1883, in the House of Repre-
sentatives las shown in the Congressional
Record of the 4th), Mr.. Henderson Demo
craft, of North Carolina, offered a resolu-
ton relieving the tobacco grower of the tax
on leaf tobacco. When the resolution was
submitted to the house 251 votes were cast,
as follows
For the Resolution-
DenlocTalS.. lol
Republicans Observation-Disclosures. 8
Against the Resolutions
Democrats. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Republicans. ........107
Two-thirds of the whole vote THAT is,
1861 being necessary, the resolution was
lost. So that tax was voted on the people
of Virginia by Mr.. Burrows party, while
the Virginia congressman tried to vote
it off.
1t would not be at all surprising if next
month Gov. Foraker was defeated for re-
election in Ohio. So desperate has become
the Republican situation there, that they
attempted to mend it by charging that
James E. Campbell, the Democratic candi-
date for Governor, had, While in congress
prepared and offered bill to enforce the
use of a certain patent ballot-box, in which
he was interested to the extent of three
twent1eths of the stock, at all the pre-
cincts in the United States where national
elections were held. The Commercial Ga
zette, Murat Halstead's paper, made the
charge and published a fac-simile Of the
agreement and the signatures to it, among
which was Campbell's. The matter was
investigated and it was proved that the
whole thing was untrue, that Campbell
held no interest in the company, and that
his signature was forged. The Gazette
publishes retraction and apology as dc
(under threat of suit by Mr.. Campbell) The
other prominent Republican papers. The
exposure has reacted with tremendous
effect in favor of Campbell, and it is now
considered extremely doubtful if the Re
publicans can carry the State.