Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-04-29
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"THOROUGH ORGANIZATIONS

A month ago when the Democratic State
Committee met at Richmond, it was sent
out from that city that while the most sx-
IRENE anti Cleveland man On that Commit
tee conceded that the mass of the voters of
Virginia were for Cleveland, yet this pref
erence it was hoped could be overcome by
thorough organization. 1t was an en-
tirely new proposition to the free Demo
Gratis of Virginia and excited much curios-
ity as to how it would be put in operation,
so much, that the progress of the selection
of delegates to the State convention has
been watched. In Henrico, the first county
to select, it was ''overcome" by the regular
New York process, a snap judgment, a
rush of the machine, and the sitting of the
people. a pretty plain piece of work all
around as described in the Richmond
Times. The same thing was done in Lam
caster, though how nobody has yet stated.
A correspondent of the Richmond Dis
patch, an anti-Cleveland paper, writing
from Lancaster e. H. says that at the mass
meeting Of Democrats held there April 18th
the sense of the meeting was taken which
proved it was in favor of Cleveland, but
Notwithstanding this a delegation was
chosen which is understood to be favorable
to Hill
AN EASILY DISCHARGED OBLIGA-
TION.
1t will be very little gain to form clubs
and crowd halls at public speaking, if our
Cleveland comrades do not also 60 to the
primary meetings in their wards On Tues
day, May 10th. This is not an ordinary
occasion in politics, and is worthy of an I'M
usual appeal. Ali Of us who want Cleveland
nominated know why we want him. We
want him for the permanent betterment of
the Democratic party which makes certain
it's permanent success. Every Democrat
who believes this should be at his ward
meeting Tuesday, May 10th, If we don t
want Hill let us go to the ward meeting
and sag we don't want him by voting for
the ticket with Cleveland delegates. But
if you remain at home you do all that you
can negatively to help Hill. For that is
what it means after all-with all their eva
sions and lodges it will simply stand on
that Tuesday night, Hill OF Cleveland. That
is the legitimate result of what is going on
in Virginia now. 1t is the methods of the
one man OIL the other that is the stake in
this old Commonwealth. A large majority
of the Democrats of Staunton prefer Cleve-
land and his methods to Hill and his, let
them go to their ward meetings and say so.
1t is an obligation easily discharged.
THE ROCKWELL CASE.
We take 1t that where four Virginia
Democratic members of the House of Rep
resentatives- 'Ferrall, chairman, Jones,
Edmunds and Buchanan voted to unseat
Rockwell, Democrat, of New Y DIRK, as not
entitled to his seat, and four other Virgin
ia Democratic members-Messrs. Wise,
Epes, Meredith and Tucker voted for him
to keep his seat, and where each quartette
contains some very good lawyers-there
must have been room for an honest differ
ence of opinion about the rights of the con-
testants for the seat. With this nicely
balanced division we are, without having
read the full evidence-simply> the extracts
from it quoted in the debate in the Con-
gressional Record-on the side of MI.
O'Ferralls report. which should have been
adopted. AS to Col. O'Ferrall himself, his
long record as Democrat and his impla-
cable hostility to the Republican party and
it's methods, imperatively negative the be-
lief that he would under any circumstan-
ces decide that what he thought a legally
elected Democrat, was not the legal oc-
cupant of his seat. Of his Democracy it
may be truly said, as he remarked in his
speech Friday, that he has no ''need to go
about the country with badge on the lapel
of his coat inscribed Il am a Democrat y