Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-10-24
POLITICAL NOTES.

POLITICAL NOTES.
The disrupted condition of the personal
and party relations Of the leaders of the late
Republican party in Virginia, has just re-
ceived a striking illustration. Gen. Malone
has just jumped Hon. Geo. E. Bowden,
member of Congress from the n orfolk dis
trict, in the midst of his doubtful canvass
with suit on promissory note for $780,
| The note was for 60 days and GATED May
18th, 1890. The General got judgment
against his debtor.
Hon. VIM. M. McAllister of Bath coun-
| ty, addressed large Democratic meeting
at Eastville, Northampton, last week.
The Fauquier and Loudom Democrats
have nominated Henry Fairfax of Loudom
for the State Senate to succeed the late
Henry Heaton.
Harry Tucker was to speak yesterday at
the new town Of Glasgow.
Hon. John E. Massey spoke at Big Stone
Gap Friday.
The fact thai George I. Mills of Pulas-
XII, the Republican candidate for Congress
against Buchanan in the Abingdon district.
refused six months ago to allow the asses
sor of his county to assess him for capita
ton tax, on the ground that he was not
resident Of Virginia but of Pennsylvania,
is being rubbed into him by the Democratic
papers of that district with much vigor.
The Republican Committee in the Pc
tersburg district has declined to call Con-
gressional nominating convention, thus
leaving 1T possible for the white Republi-
cans to refuse to vote for the negro Lang
ston without violating any party obligation.
Ex-Gov. VIM. E. Cameron writes to the
Democratic County Chairman Of Culpeper
county: ''Your cause and candidate have
my best wishes.''
[. NJ. Underwood of Dayton, Rocking
ham, is out as a Prohibition candidate
against O'Ferrall, but as the Prohibition
lists have not gone into any canvass his
vote will be very small.
John s. Wise said to George Alfred
Townsend in New Y ork last week: ''Vir-
ginia will give from 1000 to 10000 Demo-
cratic majority this year, yet I firmly be-
lieve that there is Republican majority in
the State. The Force bill has destroyed
some Of it. The Langston affair has de-
stroyed more. am q Republican, as you
know, but it looks to ME like good time
to go a fishing. am just going to lay low
until the Republican party does better
things.''
Frank Hume, the Independent Democrat
running against W. H. T. Lee in the Alex
andria district, is no speaker but a still hun
ter. At Louisa G. H.. while Gen. Lee was
speaking in the Court House, Hume was
talking around among the crowd outside.
Twelve Republican papers in the district
of Cannon, the dirty mouthed member of
congress from Illinois, have formally re-
auested him to withdraw from the canvass
He declines, however, having perfect con-
fidence in the strong stomach of the Re-
publican party.
In joint discussion in Caroline county
between Commissioner of Agriculture
Thomas Whitehead, and Republican candi-
date Bayly Browne, last week, Mr.. White
head exploded bomb on him by informing
the farmers present that Browne was the
paid attorney of the New Y ork, Philadel-
phia 6 Norfolk Ry. Co., and no member of
the Farmers Alliance who WAS true to its
principles could vote for him.
DR.. VIM. Everett, tariff-reformer, a
graduate of Harvard, and a son Of the IA
nous Edward Everett, is the competitor
for congress of Henry Cabot Lodge the
putatiye father of the Force Bill, also q
graduate of Harvard. 1t sounds strangely
down here in Virginia, but neither of them
resides in the district in which he has
been nominated. The district has a Re
publican majority, but Lodges election is
not regarded as absolutely certain, The
| tariff-refOrmers nominated DR.. Everett SO
as to make it a contest Of scholars in this
educational campaign.
d. T. Bats, negro, speaking in Peters
burg in behalf of Langston, scored Malone
and then stated that the admission Of Lang
ston to Congress was an act Of God. 81
seen it myself was thar. When the vote
was about being taken, a Democrat got up
and found he couldn't say a word. God
had locked his Jaws and he couldn't open
his mouth"
A club of colored Republicans has been
organized in the LIST Ward of Petersburg
which will oppose Langston and support
Epes.