Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-07-20


The election Of delegates to the Demo-
cratic Congressional Convention of the
10th district has resulted up to date as fol
lows
Tucker Augusta. 35: Amherst, -;
Bath, 3; Cumberland, Tin part) S; Staun-
ton. 1G-total 90.
Flood-Appomattox 9; Oath, total,
10.
Shepherd Vista, ..
Figgatt-Botetourt 16.
Total delegates already elected-9S.
The remaining delegates to be elected are
Cumberland, July 20-3; Nelson, July 23d
IA; Allegheny, July 20th-G; Buckingham,
Aug. 9th--17; Fluvanna, July 2oth-10;
2Sth-20-total to be elected, "A.
The convention will have 1851 delegates
in it, and as Stare required to nominate and
Tucker already has So, with II yet 10 be
elected. there is 10 doubt Of his renomina
ton OH the first ballot. If the Other gath
erings to elect delegates wind up as That al
Amherst did Monday, in a knock down and
drag out fight at the depot between Flood
and Tucker Whoopers," the perspective
is warlke. The Amherst delegates were
carried by vote of Tucker 334, Flood 2oS
Since the Amherst convention MI. Flood
has withdrawn from the contest.
Utah on Monday night took her place as
the 45th State in the American Union, the
President having signed the bill admitting
her, late in the evening.
Gen. Malone has sent out circular say
ing that as the Republican State Commit
tee did not authorize the Republican nom
mating congressional conventions now
being held. there is no obligation resting
on any Republican to support the men
these conventions may nominate.
The overthrow OF Populism in Kansas
seems assured by the decision of the Dem
ocrats to run straight" ticket this year.
In 1892 they fused with the Populists.
and the two parties polled 1853, SOY votes for
Lewelling, as against 15S,075 for the Re-
publican candidate.
1t seems more than probable that Gen.
Jas. A. Walker will be the Republican nom
inee against ''Cyclone" Jim Marshall in
the 9th district. When the Wythe county
convention of Republicans met at Wythe-
vile last week to send delegates to it's cen
gressional nominating convention, it invi-
ted Gen. Walker to address it which he did,
and announced his intention to support the
Republican nominee for Congress whoever
he might be. Both Walker and Marshall
are natives Of Augusta county.
At the Appomattox County Convention
of Populists last week, resolutions were
adopted opposing any fusion with the Pro
hibitonists at Lynchburg. The resolu-
lions assert that the Popullst party has
promised the people to keep in the middle
of the road'' away from other political
parties, and that to violate that promise
twill result in the disruption and disin-
tegration of our party" The delegates to
the Lynchburg convention were instructed
to oppose fusion.
Rockbrdge County Ne,us: Free raw
material is Democratic principle recog-
niZed in the Democratic platform and the
Democratic congressman should give it to
the people. In the natural order Of things
the raw material that should be first placed
on the free list is coal.0
The Prohibition Reform party at Nor
folk having turned l6 white men off the
street cleaning force and put Negroes in
ti,oir y,1aooc tho form, or t,orn6od tl,o ctroo4c
with a banner on which was inscribed
''We are the men discharged to make room
for negroes.A
Petersburg IndeD-Appeal: 1.-THE situ-
alton in the tenth district is complicated
The one representative who succeeded in
attaching his name to a platform demo
cratic measure is Mr.. TUCKER, Of that dis
trict. 1t is further and unique distinc-
ton for him that he seems to be the only
member who tried to do so. The tariff bill,
known as the Wilson bill. was not drawn
on the lines of the platform, nor was there
one clear cut demand for the repeal of the
federal tax ON the circulation of State
banks. Even if defeated in the contest for
re election, Mr.: Tucker will have achieved
fame as the one platform DEMOCRAT in
congress Of democrats
The feeling among the Republicans of the
10th district in favor of the nomination of
Hon. Jacob Yogt, seems to be almost if not
quite unanimous.
1t is stated in Norfolk paper that tie
Of the State Prohi bition Com
mittee will be transferred to Norfolk from
Staunton.
A rumor is going the rounds that Col
J. Catlett Gibson Of CgIpeper, will be an
independent candidate for congress in the
9Th district against Hon. e. E. Meredith.
Kansas, which was the birth place of the
Populist party seems to infect the mem
bers Of it everywhere with it's native mad
ness. 1t is stated that PopuIist State
Chairman Iiobson, in speech in Powha-
tan county, advised the members Of his par
ty to carry ropes to the polls next NoVem-
ber and hang the Australian ballot consta=
bles if they did not act honestly, and we
see that at IL Popuiist meeting in Topeka,
Kansas, Mrs. Anna L. Digs, who was OH
the platform and who was being scored by
Mrs. Mary E. Lease, replied to it with,
'sY Oh are a liar! You are a liar!'' This
was just after Gov. Liewelien of Kansas,
and Gov. Waite Of Colorado, had finished
the same meeting. Verify this
Populist party and its leaders are political
curiuslties.
The editor Of the Broadway Enterprise,
Republican, who recently
lived in the Northwest. having been criti-
cised by the Spirit Of the Valley, for at |
lacking the Mckinley bill which is again the
issue this fell replies:
Our esteemed cotemp orary-the Spirit Of
he Vait4y, seems to critieise our editorial |
where we liat! the audacity to find fault with
he Mckinley bill. Ii he would kindly show