Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-10-07

holding an Office of profit OIL trust under
any of the acts Of Congress is eligible to a
State Office. The discovery, 1t is further
said, has caused some commotion in Yer
mont because MI. Fuller, the Governor
elect, and MI. Shannahan, who was elected
Lieutenant Governor on the same ticket
with him, are directors or officials in ma
tional banks, and that both the Democrat
ic candidates for these positions are SINH
larly disqualified. If all this be true the
votes cast for the Republican and the Dem
ocratic candidates may be regarded as
| blank votes, and so seat Mr.. Allen the Pro-
hibition candidate for the governorship,
although that gentleman received less than
| fifteen hundred votes.
Chairman Harrity Of the National Dem
ocratic Committee, is quite pleased with
the review OF the political affairs OF the
past week and the outlook for the future.
The most encouraging reports continue to
come in from all the active centres. The
campaign in New Y ork State has taken on
new vigor and The forces at work indicate
the largest practical returns.
Col. Joel Erhardt, former collector of
the port of New York under President
Harrison, has come out strongly in favor
of civil service reform. 1t will be remem-
bered that he was compelled to resign the
collectorship because the Office was mani
pulated i'll the interest of practical poll
tics' and without consulting his wishes.
One of the local Republican organs quotes
him as saying: sit has got to come. 1t is
one of the things that the people will de-
mand, and after we have secured it they
will look back upon the present spoils sys-
TEN with amazement and surprise that it
has been tolerated so long,"
Last week, chairman Patteson of the
Democratic city committee of Richmond,
wrote to Senator Hill asking him to speak
there on the occasion of the big Democratic
demonstration in October, and on Saturday
last received the following reply:
i ALBARY, N. Y. Sept. %, 1892,
S. S. P Patteson, Chairman, etc.:
Dear Sir.-I am in receipt Of your letter of
October the twenty-fourth and its contents
are noted. have agreed to speak at Lynch
burg, Va, on,,October 9th next It is impossi-
BILE for me to make any other engagement to
speak in Virginia. Pressing personal and
other political engagements absolutely pre-
Very respectfully yours,
DAVID B. HILL.
, Senator Sherman made his first speech of
the campaign at Huron county. Ohio,
last Friday night, it was devoted largely to
/ the defence of the silver issue in the Repub-
, lican platform and to defence more par
ticularly of his own financial measures.
The Republicans of the Second Congress
sional district met at Norfolk on Friday
last and split Two conventions were held
and George E. Bowden, eX-Congressman,
received the nomination from the anti Ma
hone men, and A. G. Peachy denomination
by the Mahoneites. Bowden is a politi-
cal ''boss, but be opposed Malone in the
State Convention in Roanoke and incurred
: his enmitY, just as any man who will not
respond at his beck and call is sure to do.
Northern Republican organs, in thei1
cariactures, are continually representing a
big, fat English manufacturer as hiding be-
hind the fimsy gauze curtain OF democrat
ic Tariff Reform" The fat Englishman
is, however, useless as scarecrOw now.
He is too far away to scare American work
men. They can see bloated monopollsts OF
their own country who are fat on the rob
ber ssprotection' system of the Republi-
can party.
Congressman Hemphill, Of South Carroll
ma, was in Washington last week, and the
correspondent of the Alexandria Gazette
quotes HIM as saying: 1.-THE Farmers AL
lance in my State are having everything
their own way, but will vote for Cleveland
and carry the State for him by the usual
majority He doesn't think there are one
thousand third party men in the State, and
there need not be, as the Alliance is in I'M
disputed control. Mi. Hemphill says he is
confident the solid South will not be bro
ken, and that he hears worse news from
Virginia than from any other Southern
State.
MI. David Beattie, one of the most in
fluential Republicans in Chesterfield coun-
} ty. has joined the Fourth Ward Democratic
J, Club. DR.. r. A. Patterson, of Henrico,
!, president of the R. A. Patterson Tobacco
: Company, who has been voting the Repub-
, lican ticket in national elections, will this
fall give his support to Cleveland and Ste
vensOn.
The National Convention of Dem ocratic
clubs held in New York city last Wednes