Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-10-14
POLITICAL NOTES.

line great VICTORY scored last week by the
Democrats of Georgia has had depressing
effect upon the peoples party leaders in this
State. These gentlemen, while they were
doubtless almost prepared to receive infor-
nation Of a reverse in that State, hardly
supposed that it would be such an over
whelming rout as it has turned out to be.
The Virginia Democrats are, of course, re-
jolced at the splendid victory their party
has won in Georgia. 1t will encourage
them to renewed efforts and offers great
stimulus to endeavors to make the MAORI
ty in Virginia as large as possible. Hon.
J. Taylor Ellyson, former chairman of tie
State committee, and now member of the
executive committee, has recently declared
that he will not be surprised if the Demo-
cratic majority in Y il yinia reaches fifty
thousand. Others less sanguine, probably,
named fifteen OF twenty thousand as high
water mark. Since the result in Florida
and Georgia these more conservative count
ers say they will not be astonished if the
democratic majority largely exceeds their
former estimates. The party is in excel
lent condition, and the effect of the great
victory so recently achieved by sister South
ern States promises to manifest itself in the
work of the closing weeks Of the campaign
In Fridays issue of the Portland, Ind,
Sun, the Democratic organ of the county,
David B. Baker, a well known Republican
and attorney at law, comes out in a two
column article scoring Harrison, the Force
bill and the present administration. Baker
was the hoy delegate' in the State Con
vention that started Harrison in public life.
1t was held February %, 1850. He also
made the first speech for Harrison for
President. MI. Baker when he asked for
position was Snubbed, and be declares in
his article that his pay for thirty years of
work for Harrison was to be snubbed in
the library Of the White House. He saws
that the Force bill is meas ure that con
tains all the obnoxious features of the
stamp act, and that if it does not mean
war it means tyranny and oppression. Bak-
Ell comes squarely out for Cleveland, and
predicts his triumphant election.
The Washington Star OF last Friday
publishes the following in regard to the Re-
publican plans in the South: GA Repub-
lican who is familiar with the
plans of the Republican party managers
told Star reporter to-day that the Demo
Gratis are mistaken in their guess at what
the Republican party is trying to do in the
South. They are, he said, trying to trade
with the independents for either congress
men or electoral votes. What they are
trying to do whenever it is practicable is
to combine with the Independents OIL State
legislatures in the South, with the under
standing that whenever the Independents
and Republicans together have majority
of State Legislature they shall amend the
election laws SO as to correct the present
conditions which enable the Democrats to
hold the South solid"
The Indiana Supreme Court last week
refused to advance the suits to test the re-
apportionment acts of 1855 and 1891 with
out further consideration. The court Or
dered that inasmuch as the case was one
of great Importance to the people of the
entire State the attorney-gener should APP
pear in their behalf. AS the attorney gen
eral is Green Smith, the democrat who kept
Col. r. S. Robertson out of the office of
Lieut-Governor In 1887, a new feature is
brought into the contest. The action in
postponing the hearing of the motion to adj
vance is taken by the politicians to mean
that the case will not be decided before the
election.
"One Of the claims made for the McKin-
ley bill is that it protects the domestic to-
bacco trade and benefits the farmers who
grow tobacco said Mr.. Isaac Rosenwald,
head of the old firm of E. Rosenwald 4
Brother of New Y ork, who do the largest
business in domestic tobacco of any house
in the United States. "But this claim like