Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-01-31
POLITICAL NOTES.

The House "Committee on the Election
of President and Vice President" of which
Fl. st. Geo. Tucker is member, heard, OF
Saturday, a delegation of Negroes from
Virginia, who came to complain OF frauds ii
the election last fall. The Negroes were A
W. Harris, Ross Hamilton, Wilson, Evans
and Corrigan, and the white steerers were
| Z. S. Commissioner of the Revenue J. D.
Brady and Congressman Bowden. The de-
legation chiefly complained Of the Demo
Gratis having purged the registration lists on
the eve Of the election. The Washington
correspondent Of the Alexandria Gazette
says:
Harris read long statement, to the effect
that SO out OF every hundred election Judges in
were perpetrated last fall by the purging of
the registration books. Representative Tucker,
member of the committee, denied the first
statement on personal knowledge of the cleo
ton machinery in his own district. and in the
others by the law of the State, which provides
that one at least of the three judges who pre-
side at the polls shall belong to the minority
Hamilton said the remedy was federal super
vision. Mr.. Tucker said the Houk election
bill was an exact copy of the Virginia law eX-
in Washington instead of Richmond. Wilson
said negroes were treated as we'll in Virginia
as in Massachusetts,, and that it was not the
treatment they received from reputable people
that they complained of, but that they received
from bummerS and Sluggers.
A Washington letter says that the candi-
dates for the position of Supervisor of the
Census for the Alexandria district, are Geo.
G. Round of Prince William, and A. P.
Funkhouser and Stuart Lindsey Of Har-
risonburg.
President Harrison has nominated Hon
George M. Bowers, of Martinsburg, as
supervisor of the census fol- the First West
Virginia district.
The Alexandria Gazette's correspondent
from Washington says: GA Republican
from the Valley Of Virginia here to-day,
says that Judge Paul and Mr.. Funkhouser
Of Harrisonburg are here for the purpose of
attempting to have the nomination of Mr..
Sullivan as postmaster at their town rejec-
ted.''
A resolution in the U. S. Senate to re-
store to the pay rolls Of the Senate the name
Of Dr. Strayer of Shenandoah, lone of the
late Senator Riddleberger S appointees) was
reported upon adversely.
The friends of Tarif-reform are active
all over the country. The Indiana Tariff
Reform League held it's first convention at
Indianapolis Tuesday last. 1t was decided
to establish an editorial bureau for educa-
tional work. Ten men in each township
are to be induced to talk tariff reform to
their neighbors and to organize branch
leagues, and $500 will be collected from
each county for pushing the work. 1t was
claimed that the organization has been ex-
tended to seventy counties, and that Indi-
ana is the best organized State in the
Union. AS the first step in the campaign,
it was decided to hold tariff reform State
convention in Indianapolis on March 4.
Mr.. Amos ]. Cummings, the well-known
newspaper man, who is now filling his sec
ond term in Congress, writes to the New
Y ork Sun one of his observant letters, in
which he gives a mass of interesting sketch
es of the young members of the House.
Among these young statesmen of whom he
gives brief and rapid accounts are Hon.
Edmund G. Venable, Hon, Posey G. Les
ter and Hon. II. st. George Tucker. They
are all in the fresh and vigorous period Of
the thirties.
The Washington correspondent OF the
Alexandria Gazette writes on Tuesday
that:
''The first speech made by Virginia men,
Der of the House SO far this session was that
OF MI. Lester yesterday afternoon. Nh Lester
is Baptist preacher, and his voice filled every
quarter OF the House and he got general atte1i-
ton. The bill to establish national peniten-
tiares was under consideration. lie provoked
laugh by saying: Had | told my people
pleasant homes for them in United States
prisons, they would have said, sWe will furn-
ish place for you to stay at home.