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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03
The 1897 Policy Of tho Virginia
Democrats.
(Conmunicated.)

1t is our most earnest desire that the
Virginia Democracy shall make no
mistake in its policy for 1897, and we
are convinced that if the policy of
nominating only original free silver
men is pursued, most disastrous mis-
take will be made. What are the
places to be nominated for2 They are
A Governor,
A 1t. Governor,
An Attorney General,
One hundred members of the House,
Twenty members of the Senate.
A First and Second Auditor, Treas
urer, Commissioner of the Land Office,
Superintendent of the State Prison,
and Secretary of the Commonwealth,
to be nominated by the Democratic
caucus of the House and Senate elect
ed in November.
Does not any Democrat see what an
almost endless road of turmoil and
party distraction would be entered on
if the test was instituted that every
man of the two hundred nominees
must be an original free silver man.
What is an original" free silver
mani The agitation of the restora-
ton of free coinage was begun about
1875, twenty two years ago, and there
is not Democrat now prominent as a
candidate in Virginia, that we can re
cal who was it's public advocate TWEEN
ty two years ago. Who shall under
take to establish the date on which
the original may rest his claims.
What the Virginia Democracy wants
to do is to say that the Democrat who
last year accepted and supported the
Chicago platform and VIM. j. Bryan
and now stands by that platform, is
the original free silver man for it.
Any other decision would be political
madness. To say to such Democrat
that we don't want you because you
were not free silver man until 1875,
or 1886, or 1896. would simply be driv
ing q wedge into a party which has
already had block Clipped off of.it.
This ''original" idea is merely q
game to be played in the interest OF
Individual candidates here and there
who find it necessary to substitute
Originality for ability and populari-
ty. We cannot believe for moment
that the rank and file of the Democrat
ic party can be blinded to its true
character. It is so admirable an in
strument for our political destruction
ton that we feel sure it must have
been forged in some Republican work
shop.
What would the Southern people
nave said if Gen. r. E. Lee and tie
other soldiers who had been opposed
to the disruption OF the Union had
been denied places in the army because
they we're not Original" secessionists.
FREE SILVER DEMOCRAT.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03
A Dangerous Bill.

Hon. Chas. n. Fowler, III. G. of New
Jersey, has introduced bill to create
a Cariff Tommission, and has honored
us with copy. The plan looks sim
pie, but when this great power should
be delegated to two or three men, the
Sugar Trust could doubtless buy them
over and over again, and if not other
trusts might, SO at present we would
oppose it as a surrender Of our liber-
ties and as opening an avenue for
fraud the like of which had never been
conceived of before.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03

The acquittal of the Sugar King H.
o. Havemeyer last week, On an indict-
ment for refusing to answer questions
propounded to him by Senatorial
investigating committee, was the cause
of great rejoicing in the Senate, but a
chill was thrown over that body when
BENJAMIN r. Tillinan of South Caro-
lima, rose IN his seat aud asked an in
yestigation of the charges that in 1894
Senators were specializing in sugar
stocks, giving names and dates. He
further put on the Senate records the
fact that the country charges the
present members of the republican
tariff committee of the Senate with
having rooms at the Arlington Hotel
where the Sugar Trust actually wrote
the sugar schedule now in the Tariff
bill. If these reports be true, and
they have been made with great sue
cinctness, every Senator who has dab
bled in sugar stocks, and every one
who has been comforting with Sugar
Trust magnates, ought to be ignomin-
iously dismissed from that body, as
ignominiously dismissed, as Oaks
Ames was dismissed from the lower
house when il was found he had been
interested in the credit Mobelaer.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03

The tax on tea and beer has become
SO hot for the republicans, especially
for Your Uncle Hanna" in Ohio, that
it is now believed that they have
weakened, and will not put any tax on
tea, and leave the beer tax where it is,
and in lieu thereof put tax on bank
checks and other evidences of debt
Should this be done we would hardly
feel like the war had ended. This dis
pissed tax was relic of the late un
pleasantness.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03
The Cold Facts about Mr.. Tyler's
Canvass.
Editor Spectator Vandicator:

Editor Spectator Vandfc0tor:
Maj. Hoge Tyler, an aspirant for the
Democratic nomination for Governor,
was in Staunton and Augusta few
days ago. Some quotations from him
by his friends have, in view OF history,
astonished me.
He was quoted as saying that the
convention in 1898 'promised" him the
nomination in 1897. Who promised"
him? Not the convention certainly.
1 have carefully read every resolution
offered and all the proceedings of that
convention, and there does not appear
a resolution or even a mention OF Maj.
TYLER or anybody else for 1897 or for
any other year. Every Democrat
knows that no delegate to a State con-
vention has any power to promise any
thing save for the convention of which
he is a member, Maj. Tyler did not
withdraw from the fight, he stuck it
out to the last. What would anybody
l'.promisen him anything for? So much
! for the promises
| Now for the brilliant hopes quoted
by his friends as expressed by the
Major. 1 may say confidently that
there is not within my knowledge a
Virginia Democrat of Maj. Tyler's
prominence who knows SO little OF the
State of mind in his party. will
fprove it. The Democratic State con
vention of 1898 met on August 18th.
Ion the Sd of that month. only fourteen
days before the meeting, Maj. Tyler'f
Icampaign manager issued the follow
ing statement of the canvass:
BRADFORD, VA, Aug. 8, 1913.
$40 date Tyler has 1888, Col. OFFER
rail- 571, Col. Buford GA, doubtful A.
ssThere are SIS delegates yet to b'
\ elected, Col O'Ferrall will not have
over $50 on the first ballot.
III. G. PRESTON,
"Sec'y Tyler Home Club"
. That was Maj. -Tylers information
up to fourteen days OF the meeting
the convention. Well, the convention
met, and to show you just how nea
Maj. Tyler came to it l give you tn
, vote on the first and only ballot:
O'Ferrail ......... .-...... ........l l4b
Tyler............. ....... sou
BufOrd 1o5
81 From this exhibit Democrats ca
, judge just how little ground there
for Maj. Tyler's prophecies now.
Of that convention about 200 out
7 the 1865 members were elected froI
the cities; the remaining 1,4OO wer
from the counties representing tn
farming element of the State. Th
g vote Mai. Tyler got was a stunnin
Q negative to the claim that was put u
: | for him then land that is being RI
! hashed in 1897 that he was the choic
of the farming element of the State.
A BRYAN DEMOCRAT.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03
Taft.

Another drop of saccahrine matter
has been added to the sweets which
are now so plentiful with the Sugar
Trust. The Daily NesoS has felt called
upon to demonstrate that Mr.. E. r.
Chapman, the contumacious witness
for that Trust is one of the persons
who, when sentenced to Jail by court,
should not go to Jail, but to elegantly
furnished apartments. Whether this
bit of gush in favor of the Sugar
Trust is due because that organization
did SO much for the Mckinley ticket
last fall, we are not prepared to say.
but it looks like it, and has no doubt
done much to sweeten the prison life
of Mr.. Chapman.
"Sweet is the hum of bees, the song OF
birds,
The lisp of children and their earliest
words"
But sweeter far than these. the Taffy
Stews,
Hot from the Office of the News.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03

The advancing dawn of prosperity
may have come, but that the four hun
dred men who ere discharged from
the air brake works at Wilmerding,
Pa, last week, on account OF lack of
orders don't think, so, is demonstrated
by the fact that they assembled there
for the purpose Of passing resolutions
to that effect, but, previous to doing
SO. tore down and broke up the pic
lures of President Mckinley, whose
election was the sure precursor of that
dawn, that hung on the walls of the
hall 10 which they met. 1t is now de-
MED that they did 50, but they did, all
the same.-Alex Gazette.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03

This being the season when schools,
academies, colleges and universities
close their exercises, we have been
compelled to yield much of our space
to reports of them, always cheerfully,
but not always to the extent we would
like. We wish in every instance that
we could say more and make our &C
counts fuller. but this is impossible.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03

Why may Staunton not do as other
places in Virginia have done, put up
signs on the principal roads notifying
tramps that if found begging or loiter'
ing on its streets they will be worked
in the chain gang?
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03

The political platform of Col. Jas
C. Cochran, who was elected Supervl
sor last Thursday, is, we are told, re
publican, but we are also told that NJ
is in favor of paying every dollar OF
the Virginia State debt, and OF dis
franchising the negro. The negroes
however, always vote for him.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03
Saturday, the 26th day of June, 1897,
TRUSTEES SALE

In execution of a certain deed of trust, dated
the twentyseventh day of December, 1895, re-
corded in the clerks Office of Augusta County
Court. in d. B. l24, page $50: default having
peen made in the payment OF part thereof
and being required so TO do by the beneficiary,
the undersigned trustee will sell at public auc
ton on the premises on
Saturday. June IL, 1897,
ct IL o'clock, the above mentioned property,
being the same conveyed by the deed or trust
hereinbefore mentioned and fully described
therein, being certain house and lot OF land
west of, and near the city of Staunton, the lot
being designated and known as lot No. Sc in
the Shumate plat and it contains by estima
ton about OF an acre. being the property
sold and conveyed to Mrs. Annie f. Holmes
aCourt by w. A. Wilson and wife, by deed
dated March 90, 1898.
TERMS:-CaSh as to expenses of the sale, all
past due taxes and a ratable proportion of
the taxes for 1897 and the sum of 81 039 IS which
is the amount now due on the said bond and
the balance in six and twelve months. evil
denced by negotiable notes with interest,
notes to be secured by a deed of trust
J.TAYLOR ELLYSON.
may Bids Trustee.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03

The Baltimore Sun is informed that
Organism in Virginia had nothing to
do with the decision of the people
against holding a constitutional con-
vention, but it has had something to
do with >the scarcity of the San in
these parts.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03
The grotesque absurdity of t

The grotesQue absufd1ty OF the
navigation laws Of this country was
facetiously illustrated in the Senate q
day or two ago, during the debate on q
resolution about sending provisions to
naturalized citizens of this country who
are alleged to be starving in Cuba
when, it being stated that there are nc
available American ships. Senator Nor
gan suggested that two English vessels
be naturalized for that purpose
andria Gazette.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03

There seems to be something rotten
in the modern Denmark known as the
U. S. Senate, says Mr.. Tillman, and he
has been prodding the fetid heap with
his pitchfork, and the odors emitted
smell like sugar.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03

The Neaos of Sunday last warns the
Hon. Jacob Lost that he must not vote
for the tariff bill with that thievlng
sugar schedule. The name as. printed
is a typographical error of course, but
the warning will surely be lost on
Jacob.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03

.To him who hath shall be given,
and from him that hath not shall be
taken away, even that which he hath, I"
saw the tariff tax law makers, to the
Sugar Trust and the people.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03
This paper has the largest cir
culation of any Newspaper pub
lished in the Valley of Virginia.
The subscription list is open to
inspection.

Richmond is fighting for reduction
from 81 to rs cents for gas. At the
present prices in Staunton we must be
robbed. Are our people afraid OF our
gas company?
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03
Receiver 5 5 Administrators Notice.

TAKE NOTICE All persons who owed any
amounts whatever to the late William
Craig, at the time of his death, or whose &C
counts bonds or ovhSr evidences OF debt, pay
able to the said William Craig, which have
matured or become payable since the death
of the said William Z. craig, will please cOiue
forward and promptly settle. Unless settle
ment be immediately made, | shall be com
PEELED to take legal proceedings to emf re ,
payment. All persons having claims agains
the estate of the said William e. Craig, will
please promptly present the same to me.
TURNER A. HICKMAN,
Administrator OF William
E. Craig, decd, and Special
Receiver in the Chancery
cause of Craig's Admipis-
TRAITOR We. Craiq's Trustee
now pending in tn. fins.
tings Cou.. for TIC -. of
June s-lts stapnton. We.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03
Z. NJ. Cushing Son, Auctioneers.
TRUSTEE IS SALE.
OF
Two VALUABLE FARMS,
A HOUSE AND LOT
AND GRAZING FARSI.

By Write of a deed of trust executed to the
undersigned j. A. Alexander, Trustee, for the
benefit of creditors, by Samuel Byers and
Martha A. Byers his wife, dated April 18th.
Of Augusta county, in d. B. l24, page 5Si, and
also OF record in the county court of Abe
marie county in d. ID. los, page 478, at the re-
quest of creditors will proceed to sell at pub
the court house in the city of Staunton, on
Saturday, June 9Th, 1897,
at IL O'Clock noon:
1St. That certain tract or parcel OF land Sit
uated in the county of Augusta, on the Valley
Turnpike, near the village OF BurketOWn con-
tanning eighty and one half (S7 " acres
more or less, adjoining the landI of W. W.
and outDui.dings, in a good: state of cultiva-
ton. and well timbered with pine and OAK
timber.
End. Another tract of land adjoining the
above mentioned tract, containing ninety five
(95) acres of superb farming land with fifteen
acres of timber, and in good state of culti-
walton. Both of the foregoing tracts have
growing wheat crops upon them, of which
purchaser will get landlords share.
3rd. house and lot situated in the county
of Augusta adjoining the lands of wilberger
and others, near Flint Hill School House,
4th. A One-haf undividen interess in a tract
of mountain land containing about one hum
dred acres situated in South Mountain in
Albemarle county. adjoining the lands of Pat
tersOn, Hoy and Others
Upon THE FOLLOWING rEBMs-t,ue- third
cash upon day OF sale, and the residue upon q
credit or one and two years. with Interest
from day OF sale, taking from the purchaser
his bonds with approved PERSONAL security
and retaining title as ultimate security.
The Trustee win chcerfnliy give any other
Information desired.
J, A.ALExANDER,
mayb tde Trustee,
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03
WEDDING CARDS

beautifully printed at the SPECTATOR
office. An elegant new line of type
for this especial purpose.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03
E. NJ. Cushing Il Son, Auctieneers.
TRUSTEES SALE
OF A
Lot of Real Estate in the
City of Staunton, Va.

By virtue of deed of trust executed to me
by Ii. NJ. Patterson and wife of date June the
17th 1896, of record in the clerks office OF the
Court of Hastings for the said city of Staunton,
and default having been made in the payment
of the debt secured therein, and having been
requested so to do by the beneficiary therein,
will proceed to sell at public auction, to the
highest bidder, in front OF the court house in
the said city of Staunton, Va, on
Saturday, the 26th day Of June, 1897,
at IL NJ. of said day, that certain lot or parcel
of land situated tie East side of South
Market street in said city, said lot having G
frontage of so feet on said Market street, be-
ing bounded on the North by the lot of Mrs.
w. B. Kayser and on the East by the lot of
Reeves Gait.
TERMS OF SALE Sufficient cash on day OF
sale TO pay the costs of sale, all unpaid taxes
ON said lot, a bond due sirs. Mary J. Conner for
$500 with interest from June the 18th, 1886, and
as to the residue, terms will be made known
on day of sale. K. N. PAGE,
may 21-4t Trustee.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03

A recriver has been appointed for
the Swift Creek Cv.lon Miils, in Ches-
terfield county, below Petersburg.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03

Mr.. Harmon w. Siggins. long prom
ipent Jrmh merrhan. Of Pc '-r,.!s:.rs-.
huf -, ~, ia. s.~e:s-s vs.. r., sssis, ut
Of s;;s A4eni, G.eu il t'e latter ely
FRIDAY.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-03
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.

Pursuant to decree of the StauEton Hust.
ing Court entered on February goth, 1897, in
8 Company manufacturing Company VS.. the
Trustees of tine Wesleyan Female Institute,
the undersigned Special Commissioners, will,
on
Monday, the 10th day of Nay. 1897,
at l. O'Clock NJ in front of the court house door
at StauntOn, sell at public auction to the IL
highest bidder, all OF that lot OF land RtlIH
with the buildings and appurtenances sE
situated in the city Of StauntOn, Virginia, and
which has been for number of years Occu
pied and used by the Wesleyan Female Insti-
| tute as school for girls, which said property
was conveyed to the Trustees of the Wesleyan
Female Institute by deed of Geo. NJ. Cochran
of record in the Clerks office OF said court in
Deed took No. 5, page 355; said sale shall be
upon the following
TERMS-One sixth of the purchase money
shall be paid down in cash on the day OF SALE
and for the residue of the purchase money
credits shall be given in five equal annual in
stalments, falling uerespectiyeiy In one two,
three, four and FIVE years from the an, day Of
for the deferred payments Of purchase mon
ey, the purchaser shall execute his bonds,
with approved personal security, waving the
homestead; and the title to the property shall
be retained as ultimate security. The pur-
chaser shall be required to keep the buildings
on the property insured in some solvent COM
pany or companies for not less than $4,000,
such policy to be made payable to the bonded
commissioner making said sale, as his interest
may apper, and shall be deposited with the
said bonded commissioner until the whole of
the purchase money shall be paid.
THOS. q. ELDER,
A. G. BRAXTON,
JOHN B. COCHRAN.
HARRY II. BLEASE,
Commissioners.
VIRGINIA-Int the Clerks Office OF the Hust-
ings Court for the city of Staunton. l.,
Newton Argenbright, clerk of the said
court, do certify that H. HI. Bease, one of
the commissioners whose name is signed
to the foregoing advertisements, has ex-
ecuted before me the bond required by
him in the decree appointing him, accord
ing to law.
NEWTON ARGENBRIGHT
APR s-tds Clerk.
POSTPCHEMEET.
The sale advertised above has been post
pOned until
June 18th, 1897,
to take place in front of Court house in Staun
ton on last named day at noon Should the
purchaser pay One-third Of purchase price III
cash, complying with the terms above pre-
Scribed in all other respects, commissioners
would recommend to the Court that personal
security be dispensed with, which recon-
menda alton it Is believed would be respected
by the Court
THOS. c. ELDER,
A. G. BRAXTON,
JNO. B. COCHRAN,
II. Ell. BLEASE,
may 13-tde commissioners.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-10-28
FINE CLOTHING.

Mir. Thos. Davis, representing Bridge, Davis < O., merchant tsilors of Chicago, arrived on the stage from San Carlos today, ard has opened up an elegant line of samples of imported and domestic wo,,lens for suits, trousers and overcoats. at the Kinney House. Bridge, Davis & Co.,, have built up an enyiable reputation for fine custom work; their prices are reasonable con sidering the quality of the goods and workmanship and every garment turned ont by them is guaranteed to give entire satisfaction. Mir. Davis also carries line of fine shirtings, which are made to order in any style desired. He will remain in Globe only few days, and those in need of good clothing shoul l call and inspect his samples.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-10-28
UNITED STATES COURT.

The term of the federal conrt for tho Second judicial district, held last week ut Florence, was very brief, court having ntiiorrned or Friday last, and tho record shows paucity of results, tue grand jury returning but seven indictments, and not a single case came to triol. Chas. O'Ncsll and Chas. Williams, from Globe, indicted for selling whiskey tc Indians, plead guilty and were each sentenced to six months Imprisonment in the Pinal county jail and to pay fine of $l00. Joe Tucker, cowboy who formerly worked for Mir. Zschoegner on Salt river, and who was arrested ut Geroni- mo for selling whiskey to Indians, also plead guilty and received n like sen tence. The charge against F. W. Smith, (colored) from Globe, of selling whiskey to Indians, was dismissed Chas. Colbuth and Joe Ch-ain were indicted for larceny of 5000 taken from the stage on tie reservation. They are at large and it is not likely that either of them will be apprehended. The other two indictments found were for audultry against man and woman from Graham county. Pinal county did not furnish single case.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-10-28
A NARROW ESCAPE.

Walter c. Shanly narrowly escaped being crushed to death in the Hoosier shaft last Friday morning. The sixth level station is being cut out, and Shanly was engaged in cleaning up the rock, from the floor in the shaft, that had been knocked down by blast. The cage had taken mp one load and had been lowered to the fifth level.
 It being Shaply's first shif! in tho shaft he was not aware that it mas GUS tomary to lower the cage the second time without ringing, and while he was in the act of picking up the loose rock, the cage with the car on it, descended noiselessly and bore him to the floor. He called to Tommy North working near by to ring up the cage and North responded with alacrity, but another miner on the opposite side of the shaft not noticing the signal in his excite ment rang second bell and Engineer Baylis interpreting the signal as two bells, (to lower) let the the cage down upon Shanly crushing him to the floor under weight of TOO pounds.
 Almost immediately the error was rectitied and the cage raised. Shanly was subjected to the great pressure only few seconds but long enough to render him momentarily unconscious. No bones were broken and aside from a strained back and few minor bruises he was not injured, but his escape from death seems almost miraculous. No blame attaches to the engineer or to the men in the shaft. aud ali par ties feel deeply thankful that Shanly escaped with comparatively slight in iury