Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-07-19
POLITICAL NOTES.

Inc virginia OOtlIU VI AppcttlS HIS
granted mandamus on the petition of
Mckinney (Rep.) candidate for Sheriff in
Appomattox, requiring the clerk of the
county to issue to him certificate of
election, and deciding that the election
commissioners had no right to throw out
the Spout Spring precinct. 1t is not thought
that this decision will carry the Common
we llth's Attorneyship with it and throw
Mr.. Hal d. Flood out. The court bel |
that the commissioners of election for a
county had no aatnarity TO rfjeGt the vote
of any precinct as certified to them by the
judges Of election. but that 1t was their
duty to include in their enumeration each
precinct just as the judges of election GER
tilted it to them.
Says TING IND Annapolis Journal Rep "Be-
tween Editor Howell of the Atlanta Con-
stitution apd Senator Stewart Of Nevada
the contest fqr the cap and bells as cham
pions Of silver has been pretty even: How
ell was ahead when he proved that the per-
iod Of the eountry:s prosperity was that
in which silver was In most general use.
and then selected a decade in which silver
was not used at all as money. But Senator
Stewart took. the lead when he declared
shat tbs lsarrlagse ST thaaa country had fall
en- off 40 PEE cent, because Of 't4e CRIME OF
1873, for which he voted.''
cit is already settled says the Boston
Herald lind. J. "that free silver coinage can
not he put into the Democratic presidents
! al platform next year. Kentucky saves
Ohio, Hino;g, i snd Missouri from threaten
ed danger, and before twelve mouths Lave
elapsed, if we are not mistaken, it's effects
| will be apparent in the more southern
states as well.''
Senator Blackburn has been called Oft
the stump in Kentucky by the democratic
State central committee because of his free
silver views. The Senator, however, says
he will be bound by no committee, and viii
conduct his eanyass on free silver. The
committee in return will make no appoint
ments for him to speak.
Secretary Hoke Smith will leave Wash
ington to-day for Georgia, where he viii
deliver several speeches in advocacy Of
sound money. The invitation to deliver
the speeches has been extended by leading
business men Of important CITIES of tn!
State.
The Atlanta Journal has four columns o.
interviews with the working men Of tina
city on free silver and says as a result, We
find the gratifying assurance that they ar
Overwhelmingly against this calamitou
ism.
Mr.. Jas. Willard for the Senate from
that district, and S. r. Donahoe for thu
House, are the two names most discussed
now by the Democrats of Prince William
county.
Mr.. Bland Massie of Nelson, speeia
deputy U. S. Internal Revenue Collector
under Gen. Lee, and member OF the las
legislature from Nelson, is candidate fol
the Democratic nomination for State Sen
ator from the N elson and Amherst DISTRICT
The Virginia Republican Association al
Washington has followed the example Of
the Virginia Democratic Association il
that city. END adopted free silver coinage
resolutions.
The Democratic State Committee Of
Missouri has, by vote of seven to two
/ determined to call State convention 'st(
consider the FINANCIAL question:" to NEE
at Portland Springs, August 9th.
Mr.. N. B. Early. Jr., is candidate fol
| denomination by the Democrats of Greer
and Madison for the legislature.
Senator Teller says he will never s'follow
the republican party into the gold bug
camp"