Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-06-29

publican representative in Congress from
the Norfolk district, died in that city on
Friday. He was a straight out Republic
can in politics and very superior man in
social and political life.
Charles A. Herman of Montgomery
county is spoken Of as a competitor with
j. Hampton Hoge for the Republican nom-
ination in the 9th district.
Mr.. e. u. Root of Harristmburg, late CT
Broadway in Rockingham county. has an
nounced himself a candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for Congress in the Rock
ingham District.
Mr.. fuckers friends east Of the Blue
Ridge are making adetermined fight. Mad
ison district in Cumberland, has held it's
meeting and was carried by them by Al to AZ,
though it is claimed six of Flood s friends
arrived after the vote was taken, who, if
they had gotten there earlier, would have
changed the result. +. Fuqua, c. ].
Reich and Geo. Adams ale the Tucker men
elected.
State Senator Thos. N. Williams of
cratic nomination 10 the Petersburg dis
trict. 1t is said Scott Woods. negro. of
Petersburg, formerly OF Staunton. will be
candidate for the Republican vote.
MI. Chas. G. Clarke who was business man
ager of the Richmond Wing under Malone 8
ownership, is about to start Republican
weekly paper in Richmond with, it is
rumOred, VIM. G. Elan for editor.
An illustration of the feeling against the
Senate among members of the House of
Representatives, was given in Washington
the other night at a meeting of the Inter-
state Democratic Association. Represen-
tative Livingston Of Georgia, made a
speech in which he denounced the Senate
tariff bill and promised that the House
would rip the McKinleyism out of it.
Gen. Basil Duke has created sensation
in Lexington, KY, by assuring Henry Clay
Mcdowell. a Republican, that he will
stump the district for him if Col. w. G.
z. Breckenridge is re-nominated.
U. s. Marshal S. S. Vinson, created
much excitement at Huntington, W. Va,
by interfering, with about twenty of, his
deputies, in the Democratic legislative pri-
maries, in behalf of men in favor of Cam
den for U. S. Senator.
Rockingham Register: ''The corpora
ton election for Mayor, Recorder, Treas
urer, Assessor, Sergeant and members of the
Town Council will be held in Harrisonburg
on Thursday, July 26. Unusual interest
attaches to this election in all parts of the
State by reason OF the fact that it will be
the first election to be held in Virginia I'M
der the Walton Australian ballot law.''
A Richmond correspondent of the Nor
folk Virginian, Gays the plan of the Popu-
list Prohibition combine this fall is for the
former to conduct the canvass in the coun-
ties and for the Prohibitionists to make
anti-saloon erusades in the cities.
Speaking Of the approaching effort
to unite the Populists and Prohibi-
tionists this fall, now being made, the Rich
mond correspondent Of the Petersburg In
deX-Appeal says that last fall conference
was held with the same view at Ford s
Hotel in Richmond, between Chairman
Gibbs and MI. Pierson, at that time Chair
man Of the Papulist party. MI. Pierson' s
proposition then, the writer states, was fol
the Pros to unite on the PQpulist guberna.
torial ticket. bnt this was objected to by
q Chairman Gibbs. who in talking about the
conference, said Mr.. Pierson wanted the
Prohibitionists to give up everything and
walk into the Populist camp, practically
without conditions.
Livingston, Nelson, letter in the Char
lottesville Progress, says: "There was
large crowd in attendance on court day
and considerable business was done. II
was the most orderly court-day ever seen at
Lovingstop; Senator H. D. Flood, of APP
pomattox, was here looking after his po-
litical fences. Mr.. Tucker has many rela-
tiyes in Nelson, and has a strong follow
ing.
State Chairman Gibbs says that the Sill
yer Lake Quartette and 1872 speakers have
been booked by the Prohibitionists for their
fall campaign in Virginia.