Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-07-28
lank. Now Belknap is on trial and Sec

Rotary Robson has barely missed impeach-
ment; three senators and numerous mem
bers OF the House; then Schenck' (they call
him bluff old Schenck); then Avery, Nc
Donald. Joyce, Nickel If man supports
man who endorses this administration,
in preference to reformer, it would seem
he was tit for lunatic asylum. Hayes
| cannot make a different administration
He is surrounded by the advisers of Grant,
who would keep him in check even if he
| attempted reform. 1t is not alone dis
| honesty that has become common with
men: there is immortality in the air. Not
only are men dishonest, but women are
FAST 1t is Virtue against Vice, and to
correct it you must strike at the centre
Washington. When you have reformed
that you will have different atmosphere
| in the nation.
Has Hayes in any. way developed the
talent and skill, the nerve and energy to
do it? Tilden is man of great industry.
No man ever accomplished anything with
out industry. We hear of brilliant work
of men of genius; but get behind the
scenes and you find they are great workers.
It is said of Henry A. Wise, who is one of
apparently the most spontaneous orators
in the country, that he is one of the hard
est workers of his age It is ordained of
Heaven, from the departure from Eden,
that success and greatness shall come by
the sweat of the brow. Y gu want man Of
integrity and boldnes5 like Tilden. You
want man who is willing to fight
corruption in his own party, and a man
that will act his prom ises. One of the can
didates before you is a man who, with
strong hand, has put his honesty into prac-
tice against friend and foe; the other en-
| dorses the administration of Grant and
| Belknap and Blaine and Robson and the
rest.
| THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY AND POWER.
| But the Republicans seem to haye an
+ idea that because their party ''saved the
country" it must be continued in power, no
matter what it does. 1t is like that hypo-
critical old fellow who, having embezzled
the funds of the bank Of which he was
| director, was examined before the church
committee. The committee made their re-
| port, acquitting him, to the effect that
though it was true the brother had stolen
the money and left the institution crippled,
yet he had been warm and loyal support
er of the old flag [laughterl. The party has
had control Of the government for sixteen
years, and now want it again. Like the
old woman whose husband was drowned,
and his body was found full of cells: ssTake
out the cells" said she, "and set the old
man again." [Laughter.l These Repub-
licans want to be set again until they get
the last eel in the United States [great
langhter]. He had no idea they would
leave a. dollar when they left Washington,
and if when Grant and his friends retired.
they would only leave the buildings at
Washington the Democrats would be
| grateful. 1t is important to us of the
South to have an honest, economical
government is the question with
us. AS Sfor the money question, as Col,
| Johnste> Bald at st. Louis, that with US
in Viz la is an abstraction laughter. /
View kindly government; one whose
| swo, protect US, and not whose bay
onets will pierce us. Give us this, and you
will find 70 truer State, no more loyal State,
than Virginia
OUR CITIZENSHIP.
The speaker, when he felt the throbbing
of the heart of the country at the Great
West felt proud of being an American
citizen. Sargent Prentiss, once in
speech N an eastern city, said: II have
stood On the banks of the Father of Wa
tiers and said fellow citizens' I have
stood on the banks of the Ohio and said
fellow citizens To-day I stand here on
the banks of the Susquehanna and can say
fellow citizens, and, thank God, I can
still travel thousand miles from here and
still say fellow citizens.'" [Applause.1 If
! that was the feeling in 1910, what is it now
with our great country of to-day-how
much greater our love of country? We
| don't want a government of force and the
baydnet, but one whose corner stone shall
be ! reconciled brotherhood, to which
none shall be truer than Virginia [cheersl.
We shall be proud to call ourselves Ameri-
can citizens when the foul vultures. have
taken wing from our soil, and the only
bird left shall be the American eagle
| [cheers]. Therei no reason that Virginia
should not love the Union Her great
men have been at its head; all her recol-
lections of greatness are connected with
its glory, and she has no reason, if properly
treated. not to rally to the support of 9
Union worthy of the name. The ticket
We have in the field IS the
WINNING TICKET.
Connecticut is surrendered, and New
Jersey is a fixed star in. the Democratic
constellation. If New York in '73. on a
promise of reform gave Tilden $50 900,
what will she give him in rs, after his
great reformation. If the vote was taken
tomorrow, New York would go for Til
den, as sure as the speaker stood here
[applause]. The Southern States will 60
almost solid. The Pacific States will 90
Democratic on the money issue and the
Monaghan immigrant resolution. We
can carry it even without Indiana. But
Indiana with Hendricks and old ''blue
jeans Williams,' is in blaze of excite
ment. II she goes Democratic in Octo-
Der, the bottom of the Republican tub is
fallen out. just as the bottom of the De-
mocratic tub fell out in the Greedy cam
paign at the October elections. How any
man who ever acted with the Democratic
party could fail to go for Tilden, exceeded
the speakers comprehension There were
always, it was true. some men in a neigh |
borhood who would give up their principle |
for office. In the last speech John B. |
Baldwin ever made in Albemarle, he spoke
of class of men who had four cardinal |