The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-08-24

held to accountability for their acss. 1t will
not do for them to cry Reform, Reform, whilst
they embrace every opportunity to seize upon
and peryert from its legitimate channelall the
revenue accessible to them.
1t is very common to hear Gov. Hayes spo-
ken OF by Democrats, as nobody. NOW, gem
tlcmen, ask you us sensible men. is 1t very
probable that man who has been three times
elected Governor OF the third most popuous and
wealthy state in the union, and has been re-
turned from that State to the E[ou Sc OF Repre-
scntatives, should be 4 nobody. Tilden is but
a Governor, also. Governor OF the first State
in the union, and has done much to relieve
New York from its cmbarrassments, but OF all
States of this union, that same empire State has
been the worst robbed and plundered, and that
too, by the party Of which Gov. Tiden is one
of the recognized leaders. All of the reform
measures wheel. have been instituted under his
administration have come from Republican
Legislature, and he has simply not vetoed the
bills presented for his signature. For that he
himself may be very honest man, but he Is
in the worst company that an honest man could
possible be found in, and in associating with
Morrsscy, Connolly, Tweed and Tammany
Hall, who are the synonyms OF fraud. dishonor
and corruption, he is doing little to inspire
confidence in his integrity. He comes before
you rs the great reformer and champion of
Democracy, and yet his own party in his own
State is SO tainted chat Chas. O'Connor, the
Nestor of the New York bar, boldly charged
that Tweed, the greatest thief America ever
produced, was protected by a corrupt Court Of
Appeals. He was tried and convicted by
Republican jury, and was released on 4 writ OF
habeas corpus by q Democratic court. By a
Democratic sheriff he was allowed to go up and
sec his wife, and gentlemen he is up there yet,
ut least no one has seen him come down. And
the sheriff still holds his office, and Gov. Til
den has the power to remove him. Does that
look like reform? No indeed, it is not the re-
form the people are yearning for, and we have
no idea OF allowing the Democracy to reform
the nation in the same way. Take these
truths to your homes, and think over them.
Act like men, do your own thinking, preserve
your self respect, ana be not driven at the call
and beck Of anyone. If you are an old line
is not the party of progress, and when you have
carefully weighed and considered all the acts
Of each of the political organizations if your
conclusions still lead you to the support Of
Tiden. then support him, but il on the contra
ry, your convictions teach you that the inter
actc ce x-oIr St1tn and onuntrv will hn mora
surely advanced by the election OF Hayes, then
do your duty as Il maa and declare boldly for
your choice.
Four years ago the Democracy wheeled into
line under the leadership of Horace Greeley,
and now do You say that you cannot support
Hayes and Wheeler? Do You pretend to af-
firm that Greeley was not the personilication
of abolition, and the most unblllshing traducer
of southern character, and yet you took him
with al! MS blackened record and set him up as
the god Of your idolatry, and for what To
beat Grant. Had Grant ever done you any
harm? Far from it. When johnson was in
favor OF executing all rebels ss traitors, and
the immortal Lee would have been the first
victim, Grant interposcd, and like the true SOL
der and hero that he is, said '.Hold these
are my prisoners, let them go free!' and they
did go free, and that act OF magnanimty from
the conqueror to the conquered, stands forth
to-day without a parallel i'll the annals OF his
tory, while opprobium, epithet, obloquy and
denunciation have been heaped upon the name
OF that generous victor without measure. That
Grant has done some things wrong no one will
pretend to deny, but that he has made a great
and good President no one can deny. That
among the 10000 Office holders there should
have been corrupt and INSCRIPTIONS men is
not surprising, but it cannot be contradictcd
that his administration has carried this coun
try onward and upward, with giant strides. in
the paths Of progress and prosperity.
Out of the 100000, 900 that has passed
through the hands of the Treasurer not one
dollar has been missed. 'Tis true Belllnap act
ed dishonesty, and lenounce him for it, but
not one dollar of the money he appropriated to
his own uses, came out of the public Treasury.
The Republican party has probed to the very
bottom Of its own corruptons and to-day
stands forth unchallenged
Compare Jackson's administration with that
Of Grant. From q tabular statement made by
the Treasurer in obedience to instructions from
the House it is shown that during the admins
tration Of Jackson, $l0.4S out of every $1,000
was lost in its disbursement, while during
Grants administration only 2G cents out of
every $1,000 went in similar way. These are
plain, unyarnished facts, and do not ask you
to take my word for it, but look at your Con-
gressional record. [ take them to be truths,
would not present them to you
for it is just as contemplate to deceive you in
statements Of public character as it would be
in those between individuals. And yet some
of the public speakers would have yon believe
that the taxes you are paying to the State, and
the only taxes You are paying, go into the ma
tional treasury. 1t is no more honorable to
mislead Il man in this than it is to make a
willful misstatement in private conversation.
Think we'll of what have told you, and do
not allow yourself to be deceived by prejudice
and party cry, but do your whole duty, act
like men with opinions and convictions Of their
own, and at the November election come out
boldly with the winning side, for just as sure
as the sun shines Hayes and Wheeler will be
the next President and Vice President of the
limited States