Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-10-24
6lLEEgA pATs FROM TO DAY.

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ELEEEN psa rs FROM TO DAY.
The next copy Of this journal will hardly
reach our readers before they are called ON
to vote on the question Of who shall control
the State government Of Virginia for the
next four years It is a most serious ques
tion-the most serious that can claim the
consideration Of any man in the next two
weeks. It is an individual question, with
the results full Of good or evil to every man
in the State, and as such, We should like to
address few words Of friendly counsel to
our people. We are emphatically with them
in this matter, with them in our business
interests, for their prosperity is our prosper
ity, with them in our social interest, for
every blow that comes to the interest Of So
cietylh here, comes also to us. We are no.
party:organ, receive no pecuniary or other
profit from the success Of the Conservative
party, other than that gained by evory man
in the prosperity Of State, and freedom
from exhorbitant taxes. Taking this WOW
Of it, after careful examination of the field,
we can see not one good reason why we
should give up the government of the State
into the hands of what is called the Radical
party Not one reason City, County, State
or National. Take the interest of Staun-
ton first. We have 900 pupils from other
States now at her boarding schools, and the
income from them il an item to every mer-
chant, hotel keeper and business man in the
community. j In looking over the business
circulsr Of one of hese schools we find set
forth, as an important inducoment to send
children here from the Southern States,
that our government is in the hands of the
white people of the State, and that there are
comparatively few negroes in this section
This is from business advertise ment, and
could hardly be suspected of originating IN
a politiosl motive. Should the Radicals
carry the legislature these schools would
lack that recommendation and, still more,
could be destroyed at blow. A Metro
politan Police bill. like that passed by the
New York legislature, taking the appoint
ment Of police out of the bands of the local
authorities would result in negro police
and that would END sendiug of glfls from
Southern States to Stanton schools. You
exclaim that they would hardly do this
They would hardly have negro polio. III
Staunton! But thay would do it. and they
have done it in Virginia. There is negro
police in Petersburg to-day. where they have
the power, and who ever hears of Southern
girls being sent to that city. once headquaf'
tiers for female education in Virginia. and
now with, we believe, not single female
college with students from abroad Ibis
il lust one sample of one blow the prespsri-
ty Of Stanton could receive.
% AT the county their piece is already point
ed. The first act of Radical legislator"
would be to displace Judge Hendren. and
elect Radical in his place. This also seems
q violent assertion and yet it comes from
Radical authority The last Conservative
General Assembly elected all the county
Judges 10 December, and fixed tho LIST of Jan.
as the day for the assembling of the legisla-
ture. Thes.State journal, the Radical organ
at Richmond, denounced this as uncnnstitu
tional and says if the Radicals carry TIL"
legislature they will treat these acts as null
and void, and elect all the county judges
themselves. This is revolution but the
tJournal" does not hesitate to stand by 1T
and says
.sWe can assure them 1.-THE Conservatives
beforehand that it the Republican party car
ries this State in the November 'lection the
General Assembly will convene Oh tn: first
Wednesday in December, and compel the at
tendance Of those 1oho pmposely r main
a,oay, IN spite Of all these wisps Of struc by
,osicA one legislative body seeks to tie dop"
another ta
Now look at the result of this de pera lon
If q legislature would assemble as contem
plated by the journal" Gov Walker would
call out the military AMI disperse it at the
point Of the bayonet, the negroes ~puld at
tempt to reinforce it, there would b. blood
shed and another Louisiana massacre, their
white leaders as usual escaping aud the ne
groes suffering, When these scenes occur
in State, business everywhere is paralyzod,
the merchant can sell nothing. the farmer
can get no money from the merchant and
the workingman must emigrate or starve
Let us look at Louisiana for the parallel o.
such scenes as would be enacted IN Virgin
ia. The Radical party is party OF vio-
,ence It has not enslaved single State
in the South without bloodshed, and the
vh;tss who lead it find it cheap enough at
the nrice. for the blacks are generally the
only ones slaughtered. The people want
facts upon which to make up their judg-
ment and here is the fact that if the Bali
cal party carries the legislature, it will pro-
coed to elect Radical judges IN place of
those We have. This strikes at the Interest
Of every man in Augusta county. for every
man. at some time or other has business
in his county court.
And the State Can VIC Judge the Radi.
cal party by any other standard than chat
they have set up in the Southern States they