Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-08-15
THE RADICAL PLATFORM AM
ITS REPRESENTA TTVES.

Certainly nothing more vulnerable was sv-
er offered to people whose votes are wan.
ted, than the platform of the enemy assem-
bled at Lynchburg, and the address Of it's
candidate for Governor, prin+ q, with more
than lightning rapidity, in Washington and
Richmond before it was delivered. The
longest resolution in it is devoted to the
James River and Kanawha Canal, pet
scheme of the Conservative party, in augura-
ted by leading Conservatives, SO much in
terested in it that Conservative legislature
has giuem the work to the general govern.
me1t to accompr it. The Radicals know,
or ought to know that this is no political
question, and that it is the western members,
regardless of politics, that are to secure 60 "
eminent aid by combination with the
southern, and that this combiE alton can beat
the administration or anything else that
stands in its way, and fiually, that the very
worst thing that could be done by it's friends
Of any party would be to mix it up with po.
litics. As was aptly said by member of the
recent agricultural convention at Indiauapo-
lis, where twenty-five States Of the west and
northwest were represented ''had the repre-
sentatives from Virginia rested the cl,ims
of this great work on the success of either
Conservative or Radical nominees in the
coming struggle in Virginia, rather than its
capacity to furnish cheap transportation to
the bread markets of the Atlantic ocean for
the surplus grain of a country producing
more than 1000 millions of bushels annu-
ally, the silly pretenson would have been
booted ct by both parties there represen-
ted"
Another resolution favors the develope-
ment of the natural resources of the State,
which under Conservative rule "have lain
dormant" Dormant! what do they mean?
A new railroad opened to the Ohio, making
a great pathway to the sea from the West
a dozen railroads commenced and now in
progress, three of them in this Valley the
locked up Valley from Harrisonburg to Sa-
lem, now being picked open by the railroad
laborer feet Of thirty steamships added
since $50, to those running out of the ports
of Norfolk, Aexandl a, Richmond, Peters
burg and West Point manufactures at
Richmond alone increased so per cent at
Petersburg and Manchester new factories
the manufacture of tobacco in creased so per
cent and new factories opened at Dauville,
Farmville and other towns wages of labor
ers higher than ever before; colleges and
universities filled with students schools ali
over the State and for all classes, With an
organization so perfect that 'en colored
conference at Richmond last week had to de-
clare in a resolution that Virginia ha made
ample provision for the education OF cslorrd
children" the publ debt provided for
without oppressive taxation and all dom
since $50 under the peaceful prosperous
happy reign of the Conservatives And
no stealing IN the government, perhaps We
ought to have said this first. Who has the
unblushing audacity to say that under the
white mans rule the resources of the State
have been permitted to lie formant ? What
does dormant mean Here is the meaning
better illustrated than al the dictionaries in
the world could do it. 1t is an extract fir m
letter from Columbia, s. c., written last
week to the Richmond Enquirer" The
writer says !: II would call their attention
to the University of South Carolin a, which
stands monument of Carolina's former
greatness 1t is magnificent pile Of build
ings with room for several hundred students;
it is grand in its proportions. and the
grounds are lordly in their dinensions-is
now depot for bats and rats, open to the
weather, and in winter the wind rattles
through tn broken panes, and bowls dis
mally as if groaning from some great load
and great load it has too, imposed by Ju.
das, Moses, Elliott, and other choice splits
"black and gray" and it has gone down
under tt burden of black, md worse than
black, regents, managers, &c. the last
stroke was the lease Of the presidents house
to a negro normal school for nimety.mine
years." That is what dormant" means
under Radical rule.
The address of Mr.. Hughes is long, but
very few extracts will satisfy the reader as
to his action, we're he governor of Virginia.
He says: "Study the character of the labor
ing population all over the world, and where
will laboring class anywhere be found so
exemplary in their conduct Or SO elevated in
their morale, all things considered, as the
negro population Of Virginia When
people Of such approved character flock in
body to political party is that an argu-
ment against that party or for it?"
What do white men say to that kind of
talk :? We have always been earnest advo-
cate Of immigration, but we have to
learn for the first time from Mr.. Hughes
that the population Of Germany and Ireland
and England that we wish to get here, are
not, sal things considered, 3 good as the
negro. AS for Mr.. Hughes talk about the
forbearance of negroes in not having whites
arraigned for interfering with their rights
in political matters, we would merely re.