Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-05-29
POLITICAL NOTES.


Col. Robt. Beverly, OF Fauquier, under
taking to talk politics to a Dispatch re-
porter in Richmond last week, said: 1.-The
tariff question is no longer in politics, y
and that with the billion-dollar congress
before us we are compelled to admit that a
revenue is needed" If revenue is needed
1t would strike an ordinary observer that a
prohibitory tariff like the Mckinley one,
that stops imports and revenue, is ve1y de-
cidedly sin politics.
EX-Congressman Dezendorf of Norfolk,
| (Rep.) is out for Blaine. He says that had
it not been for Blaine's reciprocity amend
ment to the Mckinley bill the whole Re
publican party would have gone up in
smoke. He also says that politics has been
eliminated not only from Virginia but
from all the other Southern States, and
that the division at the polls in the South
now is between the white and the black
| races.
Maj. Mann Page, President of the
Farmers Alliance of Virginia, says it has
no more to do with the new "People's
L dltN lOIll1Ctl l6tOU ACCh ttU OlHCllllldl1,
than it has with the Democratic party or
the Republican party. The members of
the Virginia Alliance belong to both par
ties and vote with them according to their
preference.
The caucus of the Democratic members
of the Florida legislature having adjourn ed
sine die after long and fruitless balloting
for U. S. Senator, the election was held by
the legislature Tuesday and Call Dem
was reelected Senator. The anti-Call men
tried to prevent an election by leaving the
house, but their tactics failed.
The New Market VALLEY says: "There
is a gentleman in this place, Mr.. VIM.
Glen, who has6tixe sons bearing the fol-
lowing name John w. Daniel, Grover
Cleveland, Barbour Williamson, Thomas
Mckinney and Charles O'Ferral. That S
Democracy fol- you-and enough in those
names to fill the presidential CHAIR
The friends of Secretary Blaine are very
indignant at the treatment he is receiving
from the Judge, of which paper President
Harrison's son is part owner, which paper
Saturday represented MI. Blaine as a negro
thief, trying to steal a chicken from a coop,
the paddock on which had inscribed upon il
the name of Benjamin Harrison.
In his speech in Cincinnati at the forma-
eion Of the peoples Party" MI. T. V.
Powderly the head of the knights OF Labor
| organization, made this remark: ''And to
| the South let lis say. when. Won recognize
the niger as a man, we of the East will
join with you heart and hand for reform. y
Says the Boston Herald Ind.): "Presl-
| dent Cleveland S observation that public
office is public trust is now supplemented
| by his remark that public extravaganza is
Il public danger. They both hit the bulls
eye.'
Grant Post, Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, has invited ex-Congressmam Wise of
Virginia, to deliver the Decoration Day
address at General Grants tomb, and
asked Confederate Camp of Veterans to
take part.
Gen. Wade Hampton, who was the orator
of the day at the celebration of the ons
hundreth anniversary Of the meeting of thu
South Carolina Legislature at Columbus
announced that his political career wa,
ended.
Senator Carlisle expresses the opinion
that the Democratic party will make
great mistake if it permits the SILVER cues
ton OF any other issue to domiAate TART
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