Show il VIKGINIAX POLITICS i The political contest this year in whuclthe people generally take most interestis that in Virginia where the struggle is between Demoo racrplremd simile and Republican ism and repudiation as represented bv Mahone The gallant General Fitzhugh Lee nephew of Robert E leads the Democrats as candidate for GovernoT whifej Iii equally brilliant man and also a member of one of the old and respected re-spected Virginian families Captain S Joimfe Wiser is the standard bearer of the ppposition Even young men of todaytBanremember w iyn Virginia occupied oc-cupied one of the proudest places in the galaxy of States but how woefully she has been degraded bv Mnlinnoi The honest reputable andelf ting t-ing people are doing all they can to redeem the grand old commonwealth and Testore her to her place in the t VUnioV but they are having a hard Blrugglehaving the repudiators the adventurers the Republican sand the imegroesall to tight and overcome It is believgd Iiouevcr thatthe Democracy I 1 will Win tit is not now aa it Jiai bell I for eight fars post = the aflininisTatioi I doe not stand atthe back oflMdhbae funnjhtojjlrn j with J the sinew t js of war in Uipfpfpc of file Fcdeil patronage 1 t t J I s = 4t of the State from the highest positions down to the most iniigmOcant post office all of which were given out as bribes to men who could be used Cleveland Cleve-land holding himself aloof permitting permit-ting neither side to have the advantage advan-tage whicfc the Federal government might give The Lee family ishoo objectionable to the blacks than pretty nearly any other in the State the Lee slaves iiaving been given their I frpeilom long before the war and it wa believed that many of the negroes would desert the Republicans and support Lee the Alexandria ffazettet however one of the best informed and ablest Democratic journals in the State says i that with only a few exceptions every negro in the State will vote for Captain Wise But the Gazelle is not discouraged discour-aged by the fact that the opposition will be supported solidly by the blacks It says that the circumstance itself will secure General Lees election by a large majority The reasoning is that blood is thicker than water and as long as the negroes remain solid just so long will the white people do the same The redemption of Virginia and its complete rescue from the Mahonites will bejas gratifying in the North as in the South |