Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-09-26
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 10. 1890.
THE REAL SECRET OF THE REPOB-
TT0AN FIGHT FOR IA N(fSTON.

LICAN FIGHT FOR LANGSTON.
If in the days of such men as Sumner,
Chase, Lincoln, Conkling, and other intel
lects equally luminous, the mass OF the lie
publican party had been told that In few
wears it's success in the United States
would depend absolutely upon the most
ignorant class of the population OF
those States, the statement would have
been flouted. And yet whatever prophet
said it would have found his prophecy
made true. In this year OF 1890 he could
point to the recorded vote of three States
of the forty-eight now in the American
Union to show that the negro, and the
negro alone, absolutely controlled the bal
ance of power in them and threw it to the
Republican party. 1t is this state OF affairs
that caused the struggle in the House OF
Representatives, by that party, to turn the
Democrat Venable of Virginia out OF his
seat and put the negro Langston IN 1t
Langston was shrewd enough to understand
the value of this balance of power. lie
made no effort to bring the Southern negro
element in hopelessly Democratic States, tt
bear on the Republicans in Congress; he stir
red up his own color at the North. He show
ed them that they could make the Republl-
can representatives in the House seat him
if they would properly threaten them, and
they did. Organized political bodies OF
negro Republicans in the States where they
held the balance of power, met and adopted
resolutions of a threatening tone, and they
were heard by the House Republicans in a
jiffy. AS matter of fact, Langston was
not elected in the Fourth Virginia District,
nor did he come near it. He ran as boil
ter and against his party nominee who stald
in the field: the Republican vote was
divided, and Democrat to whom his party
rallied with the full vote of its strength was
elected 1t has been so clear that Langston
was not elected, that fair-minded Republi-
cans in the House have been very reluctant
to let his case come up; they have postponed
it; they have lodged it, well knowing that
when it did get before the House the party
lash would compel them, as it finally
did, to vote to turn man
Out UudU GuG CUuuGIy DtlICfCu OuSuo w
stay in. For it is true that Notwithstanding
the overwhelming proponderance of facts
against Venable's being turned out, the
seating of Langston had been made party
question. 1t had to be done, and in this little
table of figures is to be found the reason
for it:
Harrison's COzored men
majority. 0uer 81.
Indiana ....... 2,34S 1O,73e
New York. 1873 2O,05e
Ohio ................19,5 500 q, 7O{
The States of Indiana, New York, and
Ohio cast "A electoral votes for Harrison
whose majority in the Electoral College wa
only 65. The Negro vote in the States O
Indiana, New Y ork, and Ohio made Ben
jamin Harrison President of the Unite'
States. Of the white votes in those tire
States, Cleveland had a large majority
Not only does the negro give the Repub
lican party the Presidency, but be gives i
the House of Representatives. The follow
ing is the number of negro men of votin!
age in the States named, in the census re
turns of 1880: