Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-11-03
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FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. 8. 1876.

FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. 8, 1876.
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CLOSING UP.
MEETING OF THE STAUNTON CLUBS TUES
DAY NIGHT-SPLENDID AUDIENCE AT
GRANGE HALL-THE LADIES AT THE
FRoNT-ADDREsS OF COL. JAMES II.
sKINNER-REMARKS OF GEN. ECHOLs.
&C. &C., &C.
The first division that felliin, at the beat
ing Of the long roll for next Tuesday was
composed of the 1st and I'd Ward Tilden
and Hendricks clubs. They reported for
duty at Grange Hall Tuesday night last
amid the brilliant flashing OF many lights
the stirring music of the old Stonewall
Brigade Band and with the daughters of
| the regiment out in large numbers. Ev-
erybody was in the happiest possible hui
NOR and the hearty applause. Of Col. Skin
ner's speech, and the wild cheering of Gen.
Echols description of the quarter stretch
of the race showed that the troops were
ready for action. The officers OF the staff
on the platform were Mayor VIM. L. Bal
this, Col. James Fl. Skinner, Gen. John
Echols, and President Robt. W. Burke Of
the LIST Ward club. The audience was
larger than the seats could accommodate
and many were standing in the vacant
space. Col Skinner who had been called
upon by q large number Of cur voters to
address the meeting, did what, at this late
day in the campaign, Was remarkable
feat, that is, he presented many of the ques-
lions at issue in new light and kept his
audience deeply interested for over an
| hour.
I REMARKS OF COL. SKINNER.
Col. Skinner in opening alluded to the
presence OF the large number of ladies in
the hall, who having settled their own
households beyond the necessity of reform
were now present to give countenance to
us in our efforts to reform the government.
The difficulty of saying anything new at
| this late stage of the campaign he said he
fully appreciated. The task of interesting
an audience now was much harder than in
the olden times before railroads, and tele-
| graphs and newspapers were so plentiful
| and to day when q speaker made his ap-
pearance on the platform he spoke to hear
ers fully posted about what he was to tell,
and able to correct his errors and supply
his deficiencies. He was there to speak to
the Tilden and Hendricks clubs about the
Democratic-C Conservative party or as an
old friend calls it the
DEMOCRATIC wHIG-CoNsERvATIvE
PARTY
| Cloud and prolonged applause), and that
is the name OF it i'll Virginia. The followers
Of the gallant Harry Clay, who said, 81
! had rather be right than be PRESIDENT y
words that ought to be printed in gold for
| the guidance OF the men of this day, who
ale not following it (applause), and the
| followers of Andrew Jackson, the man of
iron will, who took Davy Crockett's motto:
BE sure you are right, and then go
| ahead' (applause). have now joined and
I present q common front to the public
enemy. In old times this was thought
hardly POSSIBLE. When Wing and Demo-
GRAFT came together it was like gunpowde L
and lightning-only for an explosio n,
! but now they have been fused together in
| the fire Of a common affection, and have
rallied under the Democratic banner for
| Sam1J. Tilden, and Thomas II. Hendricks
| (great applausel. It is the banner Of d
| party that is coeval with the constitution
of the country, and it's purposes now are
| Reform-reform in the finances; reform in
the Internal Revenue, SO that Virginia
will not have 10 pay as much as all the New
England States put together; reform in
the tariff, and above all reform in the
civil service OF the government. 1t wants
to see the spirit of fraternity throughout
our common country; it wants to see bit
terness die out, and it wants one common
feeling for the advancement of o common
country -one and indivisable (cheers). It
is not only not a sectional party, but it
is constitutional party-a State rights"
party. Let 40 man be terrified at the use
Of this word. We have no thought hence
forth and forever of
SECESoION.
However that doctrine may have Jared in
the field Of rhetoric we all know how it
Jared on the field of battle.-The ques-
ton Of secession is forever settled. But
there are other State rights besides that of
ecession-rights which prevent the CEN
tralzation of the Federal government;
rights which were guaranteed the state
by the fathers of the country, and it has
been in trampling down these rights that
the Republican party has reached its depth
of corruption. The powers taken from the
States necessitated the appointment of
agents at a distance from the general gov
eminent to execute them-irresponsible
agents, afar off from the centre Of re-
.sponsibility and not held to strict account,
who soon became corrupt. The restoration
of that strict responsibility is one Of the
purposes of the Democratic party.
The speaker showed that the Republican
party, Haunting it's ''national'' character
in the face of the people, is a sectional
party. With the deliberate purpose to
create a Republican party in the South, it
gave the ballot to 100000 blacks, &C.
knowledged on all sides to be unfit for it,
and they did it with the full knowledge of
what they were DOING and the result has
been that in two or three Of the Southern
states the intelligence of the State has been
submerged and subjected to the domina-
ton of the colored race. In one of these
states-South Carolna---the expense Of the
government, which in 1851 was $400, 600
per annunl, is now ST, 800 900, and the value
of the nrOnertY is decreased 0ne.thirl ALL