Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1871-10-26


Fellow CITlzgNs - When I consente =
10 become candidate for the Legislature
| thought I would pass through the cam
paign as quietly as possible. | was not
in The habit of speaking in public nor
writing for newspapers. [ thought \
would act the farmer all the way through,
bur few of my friends, only a few, have
recently rather insisted on my lay down
q platform. This they Eave right to do.
BE ready always to give an answer, to
every man that asketh you eason oftbe
hope that's in you, with Weakness and
fear. Pet Ill. Is.
I am living en- limestone rock, whose
area embraces over 200 acres. This rock
has indentures and re,ices that are filed
With Garth, these spots of soil [ cultivate
with pillow and hoe and thereby manage to
live and support my family.
ThisI give you as my physical plat
FORM
God has been very good to me. He
put me ia possession CT this rock and lets
me enjoy almost uninterrupted good
health gave me strong arms to labor, SO
that, ''these hands have always minister
ed to my necessities.
This is my Independent platform.
[ live amongst an excellent people
They arc very civil and obliging, we often
congratulate ourselves that we rave such
good neighbors and frieads. We try TO
reciprocatc their good deeds, and thus we
enjoy as much peace and as little strife as
is likely to exist in any ncighborhood :
This is my social platform.
I was poor boy, was taught to work
and -prsetice economy by my parents. |
never bought an article for which / did
net intend TO pay; have endured much
self denial for the want of money. When
bought on credit paid as soon as |
could /, SO | owe but little money and |
think have man intaincd my credit.
This has been my tinaneia platform.
/ have drunk very little liquor (noue at
all in good hcahh) nor used teoacco in
any of its forms. This is my temperance
platform.
was born, raised and educated Lu-
stheran, I am indebted for what am to
persons who lived. labored and died i'll
the Lutheran faith. III the Lutheran
church / have to lied aud tried to serve
God since assumed the obligations made
or entered into by my parents at my
Baptism.
For her my tears shall fall,
For her my prayers ascend,
TO her my tolls and cares be given,
Till tolls and car es shall end.
This is my religious platform.
can say the same of Democracy that
I have said of my church; my ancestry
were both Lutheran and Democrats
as far back as | have been able to trace
them, / have always voted the Democrat
ic ticket, fe 1t at home in the institution
and regarded it as my birthright. tn is
is my political platform.
Doyou wish me now 10 abandon my
ole platform upon which / have stood
for twenty-five or thirty years and adopt
a new one, have tried this one and am
satisfc d with it. think have succeed
ed on it. ''Iere [ disposed to lay down
IA platform on all tue questions that are
now agitatipg the minds of the people,
ii would only be repetition of what you
have already heard and read.
But will say this much. | am OPP
posed to repudiating any more than West
Vas SHARE { say onc-third) of the pub
lie debt. The Funding bill! as it now
stands should be repealed at once.
The expenses ef.ouf State government
must be paid, and only That money (if
there be any that is left in the shape of.
surplus should be paid as interest on the
state debt If there is none left, we can't
pay any, what is left, be it much or little.
Our taxes must not be increased The
people are crying fer retrenchment and
redress they make no conditions, but
they want it on almost any terms5y 'whi;h
it can be obtained.
Now here is my State platform. Mark
it. L is Economy IN legislation. am
il favour of looping off, cutting down and
casting out every expense that the state
can do without.
If I am honored with seat in the next
House of DelegatesI will insist on the
most rigid economy that it is possible for
a Legislature to exercise. Now, Fellow
Citizens: | will give two reasons for not
giving my particular opinion on the cues
ton in hand. First No body would be
benefited. Second. Many of those ques-
tons cannot take shape before the Legis-
lature meets.
Respectfully Submitted,
WIN. II. CLINE.