Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-09-15

After MI. Anderson concluded, tho
crowd repaired to the table and discussed
the good viands which had been prepared
with lavish hand, and the attendance was
an unusually large one;. all seemed to be
filed. The enterprise OF the Presbyterian
ladies furnished at the church most az
ceptable after-thought Of coffee, ice-cream
and cake, and we hope their little church
debt was considerably reduced, If not llq-
Undated, by the proceeds.
Returning to the stand after dinner and
cigars, Mr.. Harry Tucker drew the crowd
together with his clear ringing voice IN q
short speech advocating Tilden and right,
against Hayes and wrong. He established
his title to be called ''son of the Old gen.
| tleman.'' Mr.. T. IS remarks were original
and forcible, and frequently greeted with
applause. Taking his seat, the Hon. Kan.
Tucker arose amid loud cheers and clapplng
| Of hands, and commenced, as he said, a
plain talk to. his hearers, that he hoped
even the children would be able to under
stand. The time had come, he said, when
politics as an issue had come to the
HEARTS AND HOMES
| Of every man and woman in the country.
A strange state Of things exists. Our
| families are denied the Injuries and even
| the home comforts that they used to en-
10y; labor is not remunerative; necessaries
of life are curtailed OF almost entirely with
held; the laborer can 1T find work; the en-
ployer can't pay his employees; business is
stagnant; trade is at a standstill.
WHAT IS THE MATTER?
The government tax has become too
heavy to bear. There is lack Of conf
dence between man and man. The gov
eminent intended for the protection of its
citizens. has departed from the principles
Of our forefathers, and we are wandering
midst a maize OF difficulties.
The speaker then, by ~ graphic illustra-
lion, showed that in the rights of a State
was the security 81 the citizens. The
iearer man gets to a government tie
more influence he las with that govern
| nent, and the more certain he is of its pro-
lection. a citizen Of the United States
having only one voice in eight millions
is cipher--as one in 200, 000 he, Vir-
sinia voter, has more weight, and as one
Of 1000 among the voters Of Rockbridgc
he can still more be felt, but let him speak
as one of two OF three hundred voters in ;
township CT municipal election, and he
has q weight that asserts itself and claims
protection, which it will have. Now then
what interest can. Blaine, of Maine, OF
Morton, of Indiana, OF Garfield. of Ohio
OF Grant, Of Illinois, have in our welfare.
It will not do. The system wont work
States must to certain extent take care
of themselves, and this idea of a central
lied government has exploded.
He HAD BEEN CALLED A STATE RIGHTS
MAN.
He pleaded guilty to the charge. He was
a state rights man, and if he could not eX-
press the sentiments which he conscien-
tiously held, he was not the man for them,
and would then and there surrender his
commission.
When he spoke of State rights he did not
I IL. t
| of that, as BanIHill said in his speech, and
it WAS the best thing in it, che was in his
fathers house and he meant to stay there
He had as good a right there as any Of
them"
Virginia was the first free commonwealth
with written constitution the world evel
saw and he claimed his rights under that
constitution. Mr., Tucker went on to enun-
ciate the doctrine of State rights SO clearly
| under the Constitution, that no one who
| claims to be an advocate of that instru
ment can dissent from it in one particular
| AS to his utterances with regard to the
abuses Of the postal laws, he would not say
| anything. His friend, Mr.. Anderson, had
gone over the ground, and he thanked him
| for his able defense of his views. Mr..
| Wheeler knew that he did not say what he
| had attributed to him, or had displayed
the most inexcusable ignorance of the laws,
in either view Of the case he had shown
himself most unfit fol- the high office of
Vice President of the United States. The
Republican party had come before the peo-
| pie in an entirely new role, that of re-
formers. They are advertising largely the
great Hayes and Wheeler patent medicine,
| THE INSTRUMENTATION.
| The idea Of party reforming itself was
a new one and as impracticable as novel.
| AS his son said a while ago, q man cant
| perform an amputation on himself. At the
! first touch of the knife he flinches and his
hearts fails.
The Democratic House had done much
towards reducing the expenses of the Gov
eminent, though embarrassed by q Repub-
can Senate. They cut down the appro-
priations at first $50, 100000, which was
one dollar head for the whole population,
but they could not get that bill through
the Senate, and had finally to be content
with 500, 100000. Reduce the expenses
and you will see the taxes come down.
Much more could have been done towards
reforming the abuses and reducing the
enormous national expense, had there been
cooperation on the part of your law
makers, but it was up hill work, the large
minority on the other side, fought to the
last every measure of retrenchment or re-
form, and raved over the unaccustomed
restraint. The Democratic side of the
House were interchangeable in their efforts to
investigate the great and damning frauds
that had been committed in the name OF
the Government, and how the Radical side
of the House did vince and buster by turns
as the probe was applied. Mr.. Garfield
said we were like flies, scaveugers of the
air, feeding on restoring sores. He, Mr.. T.,
had only to say that if such provender
would do to feed on, there was an unli-
mited supply, the sore was monstruous