Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-31
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY. \
We care not, if all the government Off |
cials from Grant to village postmaster,
prove recreant it is only an incident of
human frailty tomorrow, we supply their
places from an inexhaustible source all
as competent to run the machinery of gov
eminent, as their predecessors, and proba-
bly, more honest; If not SO, we keep on
quiet and undismayed, exchanging, until
we find material which is sound. OF the
stOlid thousands who take their wisdom at
secondhand, there are large numbers who
change party affiliations where corruptions
are most prevalent; but in the thinking
MILLIONS who desire a principle carried out
the corruption of their agents will only in
spire greater zeal for the preservation of
the principle, with other agents. With
our party, men are nothing, principle is
everything. Monroe w. Va.) Register,
(Repubticao.)
They have done nothing, if we except
valuable time wasted and the vast cost at
tending the same, for the sorely oppressed
tax payers of Virginia. Yes, we forget,
| they reprobated Judge Stevens game of
freeze out. We would except the few use
I full men in the General Assembly from the
charge of wasted time and misdirected en-
ergies, but we can now recall but two
members OF the entire body who have po-
| litical possibilities In the near or remote
future, Judge Alexander B. Cochran, of
staunton, and Maj. John W Daniel, OF
| LyHchburg' When the opportune moment
arrives no doubt their fellow citizens of
| Virginia will gratefully accord to them the
need Of praise and the advancement which
we feel to be really their due. We hail
! them as oasis in a desert of Legislative
| Unconstitutional Guide on the Legislature.
! While Mr.. Goode distinguished himself
by getting Blaine down i n a parliamentary
wfestle on Wednesday last, Mr.. Harms is
entitled to credit for the promptness and
thCroughness with which he repealed the
Maine bully's reflections upon the election
laws of Virginia. Mr.. Harris pointed out
| the fact that the obnoxious provision OF
! our law SO far from being peculiar to Viz
| ginia was in fact on the statute books of q
| large number Of Northern States, whence
it was brought here; and that our law was
copied almost verbatim from that of New
| York. He took occasion also to show that
| the ballot system, of which this is a feature,
was forced upon Virginia by Northern
men for their own base purposes. Blaine
| got into the wrong pew when he attacked
| the Virginia delegation. -Riclanaond En-
quirer.
If there is now any one thing palpable
before the world, it is the fact. staring
every thinking man in the face, that the
| people, by their representatives in Con
gress, have impeached and are now trying
/ Che Republican party; its craftsmanship,
I it's statesmen, it's measures, it's tools, its
rascality, its President, and his tools, its
public departments, its Indian Rings, its
War Rings, its Navy Rings, its Diplomatic
Rings, its Congressional Rings, it's poll
cies, it's unconstitutional acts, and all the
wrong-doings which have placed the coun-
try in it's present straits, and made thou
sands of homes deSolate, and thrown hun
dreds of thousands of stalWart men idle.
The people, in and out of Congress, have
| put their hand to the pillow; they dare not
look back.-Pittsburg Post.
But, in point OF fact, the board never
found buyer OF seller, and never sold any
thing How could it? Think Of Speaker
Hanger leaving his chair and his duty to
prance off to W estmoreland and chatter
with an Immigrant oyer fifty acres of wire
grassl Think of the Governor astrlde OF
a sumac bull (the steed Of the country and
eXpatiating to a hamburger on the beau
ties of the broOm-StraW of DinWiddie
Picture MI Hunter climbing Bald Knob
to sell Nj. Edwin Booths savage estate
Richmond State on the Immigration Board
At no time within the last half century
has it been so evident on the eve ola PreSi-
Dental election as now that the success OF
parties must depend especially upon the
public confidence in the unquestioned
honesty and personal rectitude of the can
didate, and upon his absolute freedom from
all sympathy for, or connection WITH the
grave errors and follies which have aroused
the Indignation and have exhausted the
patience of the American people Chicago
Tribune.
Would it not. be well for our Legislature,
while discussing the immigration question:
| to do something TO endeavor to check the
tide of emigration in our State? II Other
portions of the State are losing citizens by
emigration as rapidly as Rockingham it
will require tremendous efforts to prevent
the State becoming depopulated. On Tues
day last party, embracing perhaps as
many as fifty souls, lett Rockingham for
the West.-Rockinqhd Register.
The Republican Convention OF Augusta
county, on last Saturday, chose two black
and one white. delegate to the State Con-
vention, thereby complimenting the county
OF Augusta. We may justly infer that SO
far as Augusta is concerned the party is
two-t thirds black. They passed a resolu-
ton fayoring ex-Speaker Blame for the
Presidency Woodstock Herald.
When the procession on st. Patrick's
day in New Y DIRK passed the Hippodrome,
where the revival meetings were III SEES
sion, the bands all suspended playing and
remained so for ten blocks, by order of the
grand marshal, so as not to disturb the
meetings. Good for the boys in green
That's Christian courtesy. E1
press.
Senator Cochran S friends here state that
he will be next Governor of Virginia
Daniel and Goode will be also urged. 1t is
beyond all doubt to be between these
three. This is conceded by all politicians.
Richmond letter.
Speaker Hanger shaves himself, and is
therefore an advocate Of the tax on bar
bers. Lots of other members like him.
Richmond letter.
But let us sing, "Long live that thing
The honest people call the law
The Judge shall swing, he shall by jing!
[ That Shall play the game of draw.