Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-08-31

Governor of Arkansas, is found to have
paid no poll tax this year, says a Little
Rock telegram. He will, therefore. not be
allowed to vote at the September election,
and not being a qualified elector, he is. UNI
der the State constitution, ineligible to Of
fee
The Washington Post gets off the fol
lowing smart squib: All of the Republi-
can Presidential possibilities who favor a
speedy reopening of the tariff question will
please hold UP their hands.
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N B.-The first hand in the TOW belongs
to the Governor of Ohio.
Hon. j, Taylor ElIyson has decided to
call the State Democratic Committee to
meet in Richmond at clock Friday even
ing, September It'll. This will probably be
during the canvass. AS the work pro-
crosses Mr.. Ellyson will visit the districts
and confer with the local committees.
M. o. c. Rucker, a young lawyer OF
Bedford county was nominated for Con
gress by the Prohibitionist of the Sixth
Va. district. The Populists of that dis
trict held meeting Immediately after the
State Convention adjourned, and also made
Mr.. Rucker their candidate.
A petition to be signed by young Demo
Gratis is being circulated requesting Mr..
Park Agnew, in the Eighth district, DO be
come candidatefor Congress in opposition
to Mr.. Meredith. WHO was nominated by
the Democratic convention in Alexandria
Governor Waite Of Colorado, has been
arrested on warrant charging him with
opening and retaining a letter addressed to
Mis-. Likens, formerly Matron at police
headquarters. Several police officers wert
also arrested on the same charge. The U.
S. Commissioner released the Governor OH
I ss100 bail.
Hon. William L. Wilson of West Va.
Chairman OF the House Ways and Means
Committee, was renominated 10y his dis
trict on Wednesday. The convention Was
the largest and most enthusiastic ever held
in that State.
In the primary elections in South Caro-.
lima, Gov. Tillman carried every county
except Charleston, Richland and Sumpter
This will insure his election over Senator
Butter.
Col. J. Hampton Hoge, the Republican
candidate for Congress in the Sixth dis
trict, has challenged Major Peter j. Otey
his opponent, to a series of joint discus
| sions. He says he will neither indulge III.
nor submit to, personalities.
Congressman kilgOre of Texas, who be-
came so well known by kicking open door
was Speaker, has been defeated for re-nom-
ination in his district by Col. C. FL. You
kun, after Il hot fight.
Congressman Holman has been renomi
mated in the Fourth Indiana district. Hall
received 80 votes and Holman 1855. At the
expiration of the term Mr.. Holman will
have been member of Congress 80 years.
The Democrats Of the First Tennessee
district have decided to fuse with the Pro
hibitionists to elect Cheyes, the Prohibi-
ton candidate for Congress, over Ander-
son, Republican.
Hon. Claude A. Swanson has been re
nominated by reclamation by the Demo
Gratis of the Fifth Va, district for Con
gress, to succeed himself.
Mr.. S. S. Lambeth, the young city at
torney of Norfolk, who was elected on the
Prohibition Reform ticket, Will resign thai
position and enter the Methodist ministry
Judge James NJ. Gregory of Chesterfield
county. q member Of the Virginia legisla-
tnre, has been nominated for Congress by
the Populists of the Third Va district.