Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-08-19
POLITICAL NOTES.

POLIIICAL NOIES.
The National Democratic party has not
in twenty years hai~such a powerful CEN
trail organization as it has this Presidential
campaign. Its chairman is w. f. Harri-
ty Of Philadelphia; on its Executive Com
mittee is eX-Secret ny w. g. Whitney, and
Don M. Dickinson, ami in charge of the
local committee for New Y ork is 1t. Gov
Sheehan. Even the Republican papers of
Philadelphia cannot refrain from saying
good word for MI. Harrity, the new Chair
man. 1t is evident that they have great
deal of respect for his ability and tact
INF. Harrity'S election means that the
Democratic campaign will be prosecuted
with shrewdness and skill, F" says the Bal-
letan. sit will be well for the Republicans
to realize at the outset the fact that the
new Democratic campaign manager is
neither fool nor an incompetent. y $50 far
as the ability of the man is concerned, the
Democrats could not have done better,''
says the Inquirer. The Press thinks that
Mr.. Harrity twill make no blunders. and
he will give persistent attention to the de-
tails of the campaign" The Ledger, with
it's usual honesty, says: 1.-THE party could
scarcely find a better chairman. MI. Har-
rity is very shrewed political manager,
aggressive, full of tact, clean in his meth
DDS, and physically strong enough to bear
the great strain put upon the Chairman of
National Committee during a Presiden-
tial campaign. The party is to be congrat-
ulated on having such an efficient chair
man,"
Prof. r. Ii. Rawlings OF Charlottesville,
the elitor Of the Virginia People," al
third party organ which he discontinued,
believing that votes for the third party in
Virginia will be votes for Harrison and
the Force Bill, writes to the Charlottesville
Advance rather amusing account of how
Gen. Field got in the track of the nominal
ton for the Vice Presidency. He says:
''.The Peoples Party has never held meet
ing in Albemarle county. The call for a
meeting was published in my paper three
times, but neithat Major Field nor any other
Democrat heede the call; in the afternoon,
however, two Republicans met in the Office of
the Virginia People and named r. IL
Rawlings as delegate to the Richmond Con-
vention and the said Rawlings in the next
issue OF his paper appointed Major Field to
said convention of which he was made chair |
man and sent as delegate to Omaha and
there made the nominee for the Vice Presi-
dent
He aids that mot one of the three who
we're instrumental in sending Maj. James
G.. Field to Richmond, will vote the Peo-
pies ticket, two of them voting for Cleve-
Iapd oDd ono for Horricnn Ho couc tJ,o
many prominent white Republicans of AL
bemarle will, on account Of the Force Bill,
vote for Cleveland, and instead of giving
her usual Democratic majority of 1000
this fall, she will roll up 800.
Mr.. J. J. Silvey, Secretary and Treasur-
Ell Of the State Alliance, who is also an ac-
tive Third party man, is evidently not in
line with the Alliance people. and is as far
off from them as the other Third party
men are, Being asked by a newspaper re-
porter who were the delegates elected to the /
State Farmers Alliance to meet this week
he replied that he ssdid not have a right to |
disclose the names" This is weak imi-
tation Of Know n othingism Oh Mr.. Silvey's |
part which is also surperfluous; the names
of the delegates elected-certainly in this
section OF ginia--having all been furnish
ed to the local newspapers by the county |
Alliances themselves, and published. No
Virginia Alliance that we know of has been
afraid OIL ashamed to ''disclose' the names |
of it's delegates, and the action Of MI. Sill
vey was sheer affectation Of a secrecy that |
did not exist. He evidently undertakes |
the independent caliber Of the Virginia
farmer.
There are few if any political canvassers
in Virginia more dangerous to the oppo-
nents they meet on the stump than Hon.
John e. Massey. Last Monday at Louisa
Z. H., he met Beverley Turner, the Third
party nominee for congress in the 9Th dis
Irict, and used him up He puncturei Mr. /
Turner'S subtreasury idea with this
clincher: VERY few of those before me
nave land OF non-perishabe property which
they could pledge to the Government for
money bearing2 per cent. interest. The
poor man, who needs most money, could gel
nothing from the Government. and the
rich man would borrow from the Govern
ment at 2 per cent. and lend to the poor aJ
6per cent OF more. :"
A Democratic meeting at Campbell G. |
H., Monday, was addressed by Senator
Daniel, and Jno. w. Lee of Amherst. |
While that was going on in the court room,
a meeting of the Third party WAS held out
under the trees addressed by Messrs. Blox-
ton of Appomattox, Gaines of Charlotte,
and DE-. Evans Of Campbell. After they
closed, there were calls for Jno. r. Hutter,
who spoke and warned the third party peo-
pie that vote for Weaver was half a vote
for Harrison. The cheers that greeted this
showed that half of the third party meeting
were Democratic spectators.
Court day at Woodstock was day of |
unbroken serenity. About clock MI.
Robert Beverley of Fauquier, mounted
dry goods box on the pavement and made
third party speech to such as would stop
to listen. He dwelt on the wrongs of the
laboring men to all audience some of which,
says the County Record, had seen the pa
per which Mr.. Beverley circulated among
the farmers of Fauquier pledging them
selves to resist the increase of wages to
farm hands. MI. r. w. Harris of Shenan-
loah, also spoke to the few who gathered.
Judge Keith of Fauquier, says he does
not think the Democrats of the State are
in danger for lack Of interest. They are.
he says as much interested in the coming
election as they ever have been in any pre-
vlous one, and that at Il meeting in his
town during the recent hot weather, a large
crowd Of them listened attentively for
three hours to two Democratic speakers.
Gen. Adlai Stevenson will canvass Indi-
ana from Sept. 1 to 4; then go to Illinois
for ten DAYS and then 90 to North Carolina