Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1852-10-20
UELEcrIoN Tuesday, Nov. End.
The "Teiiiug Millions"

The great secret of Locofoco success is "blar-
ney." While protesting to be the peculiar friends
of the people, the demagogue leaders of that party
are increasingly engaged in the effort to hoodwink
and deceive them. They address themselves to
the Iaborug classes especially boast that they are
the only safe guardians Of the rights and interests
OF the ''toiling millions" and denounce the Wing
party as composed Of ''lOrdly aristocrats" who
would build up towering monopolies aud rlderough-
shod over the humble poor. They have their Gin
mjssaries at every wharf ready to embrace the poor
emigrant as soon as he sets foot upon our shores,
and whisper in his unsophisticated ear the honeyed
words of aduation Aured by the magic name
of Democracy" untold numbers of honest but I'M
suspectng people, both foreign and native born,
are wheedled by hypocritlcal pretensions into the
ranks of q party which cares for nothing but their
votes Virginia would this day be Wing State
but for the votes of men who arc thus mserably
delnded, and she will never be redeemed from the
,hraldom of I.ocofocosm, until the eyes of the Ia
borer, the mechanic and the artizan are opened to
the hypocricy Of their leaders
Modern Democracy is indeed the friend of the
mechanic and artisan, but not the mechanic and ar
tisan of our own country The policy pursued by
that party tends directly to reduce the wages OF
the American laborer to the level of the pauper Ia
Dor of Europe. Hundreds of Woodworking men,
dependent for living upon the sweat OF their
brows. have been driven from employment by the
oppressive operation of the present Locotoco tar'
and are now sitting with folded hands in dleness
and want The Locofoco party is indeed the friend
of the foreigner, but not of the foreigner who has
emgrated to this country for the purpose OF secur-
ing fair wages for his toll. Therarms are thrown
around such foreigners in loving embrace, when
votes are needed to insure the spells Of oice but
the practical effect of the policy which they advo-
cate is to fill the pockets Of the men from whose
grinding oppression they have fled While the
l,horers Of our own land toll from the dawn OF day
until late at night to earn scanty subsistence, ana
are paid what they do earn in worthless shlnpias-
ters the purses of British spectators are bursting
with American Gold And this is the work otthe
pecular friends ofthe laboring casSes-the peoples
party. How long will the working men OF Amer
lea DO bamboozled BY the spccors tlattery and
captrap words of the falsely called Democracy
These empty professions may catch your votes as
thew arc designed to, but your votes will perpetu-
ate system at war with the vital interests otthe
.'toiling millions" 1.-THE policy Of the Wing par
ty in protecting American labor, and encouraging
home industry is calculated to build up monopoes
here, the inevitable effect of Locofoco policy Is to
sustain and perpctuate the crushing monopoiies OF
Europe, and to fill the already overlooking treasu-
ries of English capitalists with money that ought
to be in your pockets.
The laboring classes of the country are the last
men in the world who ought to lend their aid to
the Locofoco party and if they could be brought
seriously to ask themselves and candidly to answer
why they are Democrats, they would be the last
men to do 80. Honest in their convictions they
will continue to act with that party so long those
convictions remain mistaken. Mature reflection,
however. could not fail to work change, and to
such reflection we would earnestly urge those Ia
borinr men in this community who have made up
their minds 10 vote for the Locofoco candidate IN
tho coming election Pause and examine well the
issues between the two parties, before you cast
vnur votes