Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-07-15

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POLITICAL NOTES AND COM
AfEN7S.
Rev. w. b. Derrick of New York, q for
mer Staunton colored pastor, has struck
a snag in the matter Of his membership of
the New York Republican State Commit
tee. The committee dropped him from his
place on it and elected the Rev. Jeremiah
II. b. Smith, a colored pastor of Harlem
in stead. Derritk's friends have issued y
circular calling on his supporters to
| AROUSE" and attend a meeting and pro-
test against the action of the committee
This colored membership of the State Com
mittee is u sort of annex to it. AS it has
always been found impossible to get the
white Republican delegates in State con-
| ventions to name colored man for men,
Der of the State Committee, the Republican
managers some years ago to placate the
colored vote, established an additional COM
| mitteeman to which place a negro has
| always been elected. Derrick captured it
+, several years ago and has held it until he
was turned down.
Sam l II. Newberry in the 9th district He
was adelegate to the Omaha convention. He
was o.ie of the ''Gig four" Ill the Virginia
Senate that ten years ago fought Malone.
A correspondent Of the Peters burg Index
Appeal speaking of the Zig Four" says:
"Peyton G. Hale of Grayson. is dead. B.
F. Williams Of Nottoway, removed back to
the North. Judge A. M. Lybrook of Pat
rick, is living at an advanced age. He
acted with the Democrats year or two
after his kick against Malone and then
went to the Republicans
Union Level Alliance has adopted Wig
orous protest against the recommendation
of the Legislative Council of the Virginia
State Alliance that Alliance men who do
not support the St. Louis platform should
be rendered ineligible to the offices of pres
| idents and lecturers in county and sub
Alliances. They characterize the action
as unconstitutional, and ''bold flourish
of the party whip, at sight of which other
political parties may well stare in aston
| iShment.'
The N. Y. World quotes the following
expressions as being used by Mr.. Richard
Croker to the Tammany Committee of
Twenty-Five: "Cleveland is going to carry
the country, and it won It do for us to lose
this State. We have got to win" II am
convinced that Mr.. Cleveland is stronger
with the people than Mr.. Hill would have
been.'' II am convinced that Cleveland
can carry the State by a larger majority
than any presidential candidate in a genera
tion."
DR.. Crum. colored, who was a delegate
| to the Minneapolis Convention and sup
ported Harrison, has been nominated by
| the President for Postmaster Of Charleston
S. C. 1t is openly charged that he was
promised the post office in advance OF, and
| in return for his support Of Harrison. The
| South Carolina Senators are opposing the
confirmation on business grounds, and some
Of the anti-Harrison Republican Senators
show disposition to aid the Democrats
in turning it down.
The Richmond correspondent of the
Petersburg Index Appeal says that VIM.
Wickham of Hanover county. brother of
Senator Henry T. Wickham, is spoken Of
as the Peoples party candidate for congress
in the Richmond district. 1t is said the
canvass of the P. P. IN Virginia will he
managed by MI. Julian Ruffin of Hano-
yer, Mr.. H. G. Pierson editor of the Vir-
ginia Sun, which has become the organ of
the party, and Mr.. J. J. Silvey, Secretary
of the Virginia Alliance.
The Fourth Of July celebration at Pulas-
XII City, Va, included the erection of a
Cleveland and Stevenson pole with flag.
Judge r. H. Brown and others addressed
the enthusiastic people. Col. J. r. Miller,
Prohibitionist, was called on by the Demo-
Gratis for a speech. He thanked them for the
personal compliment and paid high COM
pliment to Cleveland for his honesty and
ability, though he said he would not vote
| for him this time.
The Democratic congressional conven-
ton of the Richmond district will meet in
that city Sept. 9Th. Richmond elects SO
out of the 1913 delegates that compose it.
The convention of the Lynchburg district
will be held at that city August oath. 1t
is stated that T. G. Miller of Roanoke, and
J. Hampton Hoge of Montgomery, will be
candidates for Hon. Paul Edmunds shoes.
The nominating convention of the 9th
(Abingdon) district, which is to be held at
Bristol, is to be regular ''rousement' for
the Democrats. 1t is to be held on August
18th, the railroads will run excursions and
the bills announce that Darrell, O'Ferrall,
Goode, Marshall and WysOr of Virginia,
and ex-Gov. Bob Taylor of Tennessee, will
speak.
DR.. F. w. Lewis, who was an anti Cleve-
land delegate to the State convention at
Richmond, writes last week to the Rich
mond Times that he is 'sas strong as the
strongest Cleveland man in Virginia, - and
urges all Virginians to remember that
''every vote cast against Democracy,
whether for the Republican or Third par
ty,' is vote for the Force bill.'
Shortly after Harrison and Reid were
nominated Northern concern sent to a
Salem jeweller lot of Harrison badges.
He promptly returned them with the state
ment: II am too far South to sell these
things. Send me lot of Cleveland badges, y
When they arrived they found no trouble
in selling them.
Ex-GOv. VIM. Pitt Kellogg of Louisiana,
is quoted as saying: II am a Republican
dyed in the wool, but will tell you that
Grover Cleveland will be the next President
of the United States if he lives until ~