Volume 18 , Issue 31

NW Okie's Journey

Looking back through history to 1884 we found political parties have gone through many changes for both parties, Democrats and Republicans. Today the Democrats & Republican parties were complete opposites of what they were back in 1884.

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Walking With Sweet Silly Sadie

As NW Okie says this week, "Today the Democrats & Republicans are opposite of what they were in 1884. In Virginia they had the "Virginia Bourbons," the Readjusters" and the "Mahone Mahoneites." The Readjusters were formed into the Republicans of Virginia. The Republicans were the complete opposite of what they have become in the 21st century, though.

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1884 Underground Fires Rages in Highland County, Virginia

Have you heard the story of an underground fire raging in Highland county, Virginia, December, 1884? A Strange Phenomena in 1884, that is for sure. We found this news article in the Concordia Blade-Empire, Concordia, Kansas, dated 27 December 1884, Saturday, page 65: "A Strange Phenomena." It is what an eye-witness had to say about the underground fires that were raging in Highland county, Virginia, near Monterey Court House.

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1884 Mahoney Mahoneites, White Republicans In Virginia

We found this interesting little 1884 item in The Wilson Advance, Wilson, North Carolina, dated 2 May 1884, Friday, page 2, that could fit in today's politics.

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Virginia Bourbonism Audacity of 1884

In an Angola, Indiana newspaper, Steuben Republican, dated 13 February 1884, Wednesday, page 3, we discovered this about the Virginia Bourbons as they were called.

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1884, The Virginia Bourbonism, Readjusters & Mahone Mahoneites

In The Morning News, out of Wilmington, Delaware, date 30 January 1884, Wednesday, page 2, we found this news article concerning Virginia Democratic party of Virginia which promised to do so much for the credit and honor of the State.

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23 January 1884 Bourbon Ways

It was in The Inter Ocean, out of Chicago, Illinois, dated 23 January 1884, Wednesday, on page 9, that this interesting articled appeared concerning more of "Bourbon Ways." Another Republican murdered in Virginia, as written by a special correspondence of The Inter Ocean.

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