Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1887 — VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS. [ARTICLE]

VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS.

They Meet to Consider the Much Mooted Debt Question. AH the Speakers Warmly Eulogize the Present Administration, and Declare it to Be the Best in Twenty-flye Tears and the Assertion is Loudly Cheered. The Democrats of Virginia met in State Convention on the 4th to consider and decide upon some place of action on the* debt question. All the speakers warmly eulogized President Cleveland’s administration, and were most enthusiastically cheered in the assertion. Samuel H. Moffitt created the greatest enthusiasm when he said that President Cleveland’s administration was the most American and the most honest the country had had during the last half a century. Senator John W. Daniel also eulogized the administration but condemned civil service reform in strong language. The resolutions adopted, indorse the National and State administrations, demand repeal of the internal revenue system, favor a revenue tariff, approve the action of the Legislature in its hegotiations with bondholders and pledge the party not to concede any better terms than those offered, ask recognition by the national government of Virginia’s claim for compensation for Territorial concessions, and also for loss by dismemberment of her territory, declare in favor of State pensions to favor national aid to education, and deprecate the creation of a surplus in the National treasury. On the debt question the Riddleberger bill was adopted as a plan for the settlement of the matter.

His Aim Was Bad. Julius Albreach came to Quincy, 111., from Jackson Miss., several weeks ago to murder his divorced wife of twenty years and her present husband. His aim was bad, and he killed their son, aged eighteen years? Bunday, Albrecht cut his throat in jail.