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A seven-page political pamphlet produced by the Republican Party in Virginia in 1889 takes aim against conservative Democrat John Strode Barbour, who was then running for U.S. senator. Titled The Barbour Blight! Points and Proofs for the People, the pamphlet praises the political skill of William Mahone, who was running for governor on the Reublican ticket, while denouncing Barbours policies. The pamphlet ends with the warning: Every vote cast in this election for a Democratic candidate for the House or Senate is a vote to send John S. Barbour to the U.S. Senate, and thereby to endanger all the Protective safeguards we have, to encourage foreign importation at the expense of home production, to perpetuate the internal revenue system and increase its taxes, and to crush every hope of Federal aid for popular education or any other purpose for the general welfare of the States or the citizens thereof. Citation: The Barbour Blight! Points and Proofs for the People. JK2358 .V65 1889. Special Collections, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
