Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-04-19
a letter declining to give it, and saying

a letter declining to give it, and saying
Personally would cheerfully endorse you
for the appointment you seek, but how can
do so cOnscientiously in view of your attitude
Of rebellion against the Republican organiza-
ton of this State? When see you and others
of my personal friends giving so much aid and
comfort to the Democracy, your ill-timed con-
tumacy makes me shudder for the new success
should be the last to throw off your allegiance
to your old leader and chaperone-Mahone.
The Washington correspondent of the
Alexandria Gazette reports Hon. Jacob
Yost as saying that at his interview with
the President he derived the impression
''that the President would take no part in
party fight in his State. and would recog
nize neither faction. MI. Y ost says he be-
lieves that his recommendations for office
in his district will be adopted by the admin
istration, and has neither seen nor heard
anything that tends to shake that belief"
While at Goldsboro, N. c., April 18th,
returning from Florida to New York,
eX-President Clevelands car was boarded
by the editor of the GoldsborO Headlight
who had two hours talk with him. Mr..
South would he solid for him in 1892, said
that under no circumstances would he &C.
cept the nomination, no matter how it
came to him.
An eastern Farmer" writing to the
Richmond Dispatch about a Democratic
nominee for Governor, says: "The able
cola Roman, " the Knight Of the plow, -
the gallant and true legislator, the man who
can bring voters to the polls from the high
ways and hedges, and be elected sure, is
Senator Absalom Koiner, of Augusta
The post office at Woodstock is likely to
be test of the regard in which the Admin
istration holds ex-senator Riddleberger.
Gen. J. E. Roller has recommended w. w.
Logan for it, while MI. Riddleberger has
recommended Mr.. Lickliter, the incumbent
who has held the place for eighteen years.
A delegation of Virginia Negros visited
the President a few days since and urged
John Mitchell, Jr., editor of the Richmond
Planet, a colored Republican organ, for the
post of Recorder of Deeds for the District
of Columbia.
J. B. Burke, chief of one of the divisions
Of the Patent Office, having refused to re-
sign, was removed last Friday. He is a
Democratic Union Veteran, and prominent
in the Grand Army of the Republic.
Judge Allen G. Thurman was in Wash
ington last week On law business. He
called on the President. During hiss stay in
Washington he was surrounded by polite
ians of both parties.
Ex-Auditor Brown Allen who is applying
for the place of Post-office Inspector for the
Virginia district, has the signatures and
backing of about twenty Republican Sena-
tors.
The President has appointed Henry S.
White Of Marshal county, w. Va, to be
U. S. Marshal, and George S. Sturgis of
Monongahala county, w. Va, to be U. S.
District Attorney.
S. Brown Allen of Augusta, and Wyatt
NJ. Elliott of Appomattox, are both men
toned for Republican nominee for Cover
nor, by writer's in the Harrisonburg State
Republican.
MI. E. 7. Broyles, Chairman Of the Re-
publican County Committee of Page coun-
ty, was robbed in Washington last week
of his overcoat, containing all his recon-
mendations for Land Agency.
Hon. John P. Usher, who was Secretary
of the Interior under President Lincoln,
died in Philadelphia, Saturday, after a sur
gical operation.
John W. Fisher, Republican deputy in
the Collector Of Customs office at Rich
mond has been appointed Collector Of Gus
toms there.
1t is stated that U. S. District Attorney
J. Catlett Gibson, after leaving his present
Office, will be a candidate for the LegiSla-
ture from Culpeper next fall.
1t is said by an old Clerk in the P. 0. De-
partment at Washington, that ''the rush
of office seekers is really Gripping the
administration of the Department.
Job HawXhurst, who was a member of
the Underwood Convention, has been put
back as postmaster at Fairfax G. H.,
which place he lost under Cleveland.
1t is stated that Gen. Mahone's favorite
for the Richmond Collectorship of Internal
Revenue, is State Senator Mckee.
In a total vote of 43, 454 in Cincinnati
the Democrats only missed capturing the
Mayoralty by SIG,