Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-09-19

"Wednesday Sept. 10,s 1877.


'ssss-aas' GeneralsJanes 4. walker. ~'ss.
,ysFfegsy r---@ssss a@g&
This gentleman. candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor, has settled the ques-
ton as tpiwhether there shall be a can
yass, so far, at least, as he is concerned.
,Headeliyered himself, according'to the
Riehmohd Dispatch, lat aWytheville on
the 10th .inst.,' on sthe only question
which 'seems,to be Involved, which ex-
hibited him as utterly devoid of all pro-
per sense of respect for the opinions of
conceded majority of the constituent
body of the State. q After an array of so
called facts which demonstrate his total
Misrepresentation, mot to say inexeusable
ignorance, of what he was discussing, he
proclaims ''forelble reimbursement as
highway robbery and declares for an
increase of taxation TO 80 or 20 cents,o
presumably what more.may be neeess-
airy, to meet the debt as funded. Such
language as.this from one of our candi-
datesw are not disposed quietly to
submit to. Nne-tenths of the people
OF Shenandoah are in favor ofan adjust
ment of thisdebt, as they have recently
expressed themselves, and this number
otlour people are characterized by Gen.
eral Walker as highway robbers. We
hurl it. back at the gentleman, with the
indignant assurance that, if he was in
favor OF an increase of taxation when
heewas in Richmond personally solicit
ing votes for the place he occupies on
the ticket, and. when he accepted the
nomination on "a platform declaring
against it,. We can stand the imputation
OF criminals by his code. The time
never was when candidates had immu-
nifty for broadcast insult to their peers.
from the hastings, and that time, we
hope to God, has not dawned now. By
this undignifed characterization of high
way robbers, General Walker steps
down and out ofhis high place as can
didate for Lieutenant-Governor and
appears in the role of a popular bull
dozer. 1t disentitles hun to the votes
of the people who agree with him no
less than Of those who disagree with
his views as then expressed; and if it
be too late to put another in his place,
he should be allowed to become the next
Lieutenant-Governor with the votes OF
the very few who can appreciate invec-
tive and denunciation in high places
and the still feWer.nnmber who want
an increase oftaxatlon to pay war and
military reconstruction interest on the
debt in violation Of precedents Of the
fathers whose shoes General Walker,
as statesman, is unworthy to unlatch,
and in wanton disregard Of both the law
and equity Of the case.
In a moment Of milder and more be-
coming discussion of a great state ques-
ton, General Walker said that further
effort at adjustment, in view of the de-
cision of our Court of Appeals, is revo-
luton, and that he had surrendered af-
ter this adjudication as did General
Lee at Appomattox. All but the as did
General Lee! No man ever heard that
honored and immortal Virginian hurl
epithets at the small but respectable
number of his fellow. citizens who dis
sented from his views Of Reconstruction
Trained in the school of discipline,
possessed of all the elements of great
ness, he knew how to respect the feel
ings and opinions Of others. 1t has been
great weakness with too many gener.
ais to imagine themselves exactly like
General Lee. ..--.,
But General Walker did not surrender
like General Lee. 1t was he who offer.
cred and chanapioned the resolution II
the House of Delegates against receiy-
ing the coupons for taxes, which carried
the question in one aspect before the
Court Of Appeals, He had spent the
session lighting against paying interes
out of The 81, 100000 lying IN the treas
ury when he went there, and again fol
readjustment (forcible) on the five yea
plan Of varying interest rates; and Sc
prominenta character was he thatwe fnt
him olinching the, work with motion!
and appointed by the Speaker to carr,
bills to the Senate; and~on PROPOSE
ton the same session to reduce taxel
from soto 40 cents he could not vots
atall. lnMarchefss3, eafter the Cour
} Of Appeals had decided Cthe question
which wentup on.his resolution, whei
it was revolutionary, according to hi
later view, o.attempt to do more a
readiustment, and when it was ''H1GE
Way ROBBERY" he voted 70
House bill No. 140, prohibiting the re-
celpt of coupons for portions of tn
public revenue set apart by the constr
tuition for free school purposes and tn
permanent literary fund, after. it wa
proclaimed on the floor of the house b
himself and all other readjusters, tht
the object of this bill was to carry ne
whole matter back tothe Court osap-
peals for a adjudication. And snen
the Senate defeated this object oy' an
insidious substitute, General Waiker
manifested his chagrin BY not Young at
all on the substitute. On snat a.. M meat at
hath this, our Caesar fed ehat ne mas
grown SO great? What IS quickened
his conscience to the salzation that
,,hotho d;d IN 40 ;s lghWayo robbery