Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-08-01
Col. Holidays Position.

Col. Holidays Position. ....--
Under the above caption the Old
Commonwealth defines Col. Holidays
position On the state debt in the follow
ing paragraphs:
"The state debt question being an issue befor
The people, and knowing that the citizens of Rock
ingham, who are favorable to COL Holiday for
Governor, are deeply interested in the question,
we have endeavored to ascertain Col. Holidays
views We have learned that he is opposed to
repudiation that he is opposed to increased taxa
ton, believing that property cannot bear it, and
fayors any e-adjUstment of the debt which will be
honorable to Virginia and satisfactory to our
creditors; that if elected Governor he will be the
servant Of the people, and his aim and ambition
will be to do their bidding.
'The state debt question, as we said last week. is
matter to be determined by the Legislature, and
belongs to the Legislative not the Gubernatoral
canvass. The Governor has the veto power, but
Col Holiday will not exercise it in opposition to
the will of the people, should they, through their
representatives determine to offer compromise
to virgina's creditors.
''Col. Holidays position is the proper one There
| are but few people who would repudiate, yet a
vast majority are favorable to compromise. In
the compromise wants to bring discredit
upon Virginia's honor and fair name. Neither
does any one desire to deprive virgnias creditors
of money honestly borrowed and spent for i'm
proving the material interests of the State. The
people of Vir inca want to pay their debt but being
unable to do SO, they willing to pay what they
can. In these views Col. Holiday coinc ides.-He
is with the people, and Governor vii bring all
his energies and talents to bear TO secure the re-
| suits so much desired by ALL"
Col. Holiday is here put in the posi-
tion Of the Frederick county justice,
who, when asked by his associates for
his opinion on a certain matter under
adjudication, promptly replied, Gen
tlemen I'm a nuisance on that cues
ton"
The writer would seem to have it
understood that he speaks er catAedra.
Surely Col. Holiday has not authorized
by any positive consent or declarations,
the publication Of such a batch Of non.
sense. No man should have, or can get,
the office Of governor of this state who
could so underrate the good sense OF
her people as to try to palm off this
stuff for position on a great public
question. 1t favors nothing, and prom
ises nothing but to do nothing, even
surrenderng the prerogative of the veto
on any measure affecting the debt ques-
ton. Col. Holiday could not be put
in more absurd and ridiculous position.
A state six millions deeper in debt
than she was at reconstruction for accru-
ing interest, and getting in deeper and
deeper to the tune of a million year,
cannot stand such a position. We can
not think this is Colonel Holidays
position. We almost know it is not.
We cannot speak by authority however.
Shenandoah cannot and will not accept
this vague, evasive, doless, nothingless
efusion as outlining Col. Holidays
Views on such an important question
of state polity. She is for Holiday as
she understands him, not as he appears
to be understood by our contemporary.
The state has subslsted four years on
doleful jereu,iads and past recollections.
She cannot stand it any longer. Be-
tween the sterotyped sentences of
''honor and glory Of the Old Common
wealth" and what ''her creditors will
accept 1--WE have been badgered until
every acre Of land in the state is under
mortgage and capital avoids US as it
would investment in the grasshopper
regions of Kansas.
Let it be known that no personal or
party considerations can intervene this
time. Policy has hitherto prevented a
due consideration Of our debt. 1t is
now at last, thank Heaven, paramount.
II can have, and demands, our whole
attention. 1t cannot be ignored on the
8th of August. Like Banquo's ghost
it will refuse to down on that occasion.
1t cannot be trided with or lodged. On
such platform. Col. Holiday would
have no right to think, much less act,
on the public debt. He would stand
pledged to strict neutrality and wholly
Invested of that individuality which has
hitherto characterized him, and without
which there can be no qualification to
the governorship. Col. Holiday will
repudiate the position. Gea lyt