Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-10-12
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FRIDAY MORNING, OUT. 70, 1877.
Local.
AGAIN BEFORE THE PE0pJ E.

AGAIN BEFORE THE PE0pJ e.
FIELD DAY FOR AUGUSTA CAND DATES
GREEN WILLIE AND CIR AIGSVILLF
s9OrMED---APATHY AMONG THE yO
rERs-sEEDING TIME TOO MUCH FOR
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF TIL, 6 SPEEC HES
&C, &C., sc.
Whether it is that seeding time as they
tell us is the cause, OF the i act that tht
VINDICAToR is publishing the reports o.
the speeches, making person lal attendance
unnecessary, or whether it i 5 apathy amon&
the people on both sides of the debt ques
ton, we are unable to Say, but the audi
ences to hear can lidates i'll Augusta are
painfully slim. The slender gatherings al
New Hope and Greenville, az both Of which
places the Adjusters also had speakers
would indicate that the people are too busy
to come-at any rate, We'll say that us mos
com ELEMENTARY to the candidates. Satur
day was IL field day, the Senatorial candi
dldat.s. MeSsrs. Skinner, McCue, KOiner
and Mr.. $. Brown Alien representing MI
Seawrig ut, going to Greenville and Messrs
Rush. Hanger, Opie, Echols, Blauth an(
Lightner. the candidates for the House
to Cralgsvllle. AT
Greenville
the reporter found the ''enemy" had beer
around with some circulars OF MI. DaVlC
Miller. from one OF the Southwestern cOun
ties. .,l1iiu unc.ng himself ali independent
candidate for Governor, his platform, be
ing "amlcable REIMBURSEMENT If We Can; for
clLle adjustment if we must" After
some lounging about the village during
which some ct the speakers improved the
shining hour by pinning constituent OF
two, the school house; ID large and wei
built edltice, Was opened and an audience
OF some fifteen persons gathered, lncreas
ing shortly after to fifty.
COL. JAMES Il. SKINNER
opened the speaking. The character of the
debt he said Was iudisputable, being one in
which Virginia had gotten dollar for dol
lar on her bonds, promising faithfully tC
pay them. 1t was borrowed on the pledge
made by the Board of Public w orks, which
the speaker read, that Virginia would at ell
hazards and to the last extremity preserve
her credit. The creditors did no5 ask hel
for her bonds; she went out into the mar
kets OF the world asking them to buy them,
He said he Was Il debt paying man because
he was, ne hoped, a God fearing man-be-
cause he believed when Il people had debt
they owed it to God, to good morals and
to themselves to pay it. No man ever
questioned the justice OF the debt Of Vir-
glnia and lie believed she Was able to pay
it. He then explained the Funding Bill.
which he said had been more abused, more
misrepresented anG had run more men
S ark crazy then any act ever passed. Ii
any business man in the audience in a firm
owing Il debt should have his partner run
off and then a creditor should come to him
and Instead Of holding him for all, as lie
could III law, offer to strike Off One-third
d d give HIM 81 years to pay the balance
in, he would think it was an excellent Of
fer, and that was the funding bill. 1t Was
passed by such men as Hanger, the late
Senator Cochran, Waddell and Bell Wad-
dell was Chairman OF the Senate Finance
Committee anG Cochran Was on the FL
nance Committee in the House It was to
get rid of a debt, if agreed TO by the oredi-
tors, which the Court Of Appeals had de-
cided Virginia was bound for sthe whole
of. 1t has since been decided by the Court
OF Appt ais to be Il legal contract and it is
useless to veX the ears OF the people as the
AdjuSterS do with the threat that they
mean to upset It, 1t they were to remove
the Court of Appeals the United States
Courts would step in. These adjusters IL
lustrate the ancient cGuplet
The lul-frcg jumped to the bottom OF the spring;
1t was cold he could not Sing:
He tied his tail to Il hickory STUMP,
And he cussed and sWore, but he could not jump!
lGreat laughter.) The $4,000, 600 of un-
funded leAt now remains, and the Ad-
justers complain that it is held 10y the
widows and orphans who are not paid. I
Say pay them. We got their money and used
it, sow pay them. The lrst question we
should ask about this debt is ''What is my
duty; What is rightly" Look at the pro
position Of the adjusters to put all on d
footing, and then pay what they can, after
meeting expenses. a man lends Ills neigh-
boI a thousand dollars, which the borrow
Ell uses to stock and improve his farm.
Tie widow Of the man applies to him for
the money, and he says, ca fsas ll.e ex-
penses Of my hoagehold and farm are paid
after my Children are educated, it there is
anything left you can have it. but not till
then. II is true [ used your husbands
money-that fine team standing there |
bought with part OF it. but can't pay you
even the interest on it until have done al
these things" Yhe AdipsFers thtnk they
will pay al Jhe appropriate ons and EXPENSES
own per diem and then it there is
anything lett it may go to men that the
spent money belonged to.
The speaker called attention to the I'M
equal assessment i'll Southwestern Vir-
glnla-land held by the owners at Sl0G and
$3.50 given in for State assessment at $40
and so per acre, and land in East Vir,
ginia held at $50 and given in at So, and
yet the owners talked about the oppression
Of taxes He believed il an honest asaess-
ment of the State was made the tax Of 50
cents in the SO would pay everything,
viii any immigrant come TO a State that
won't pay her debts? He will ask and GET
tWo REASONS for it; One will be that they
lp0n'b pay il, and he infers THAI if they
won't pay public debts they won't pay pri-
vate debts, and stays away. The other will
be that they can't pay it. Then he infers
that State that is too poor to pay a debt
due widows and orphans is too roor for
him to makea living in, and he stays away.
Col. S. showed that with economy, vigor-
GUS retrenchment, and the income frosa the
lSip1fstI Iegs4iel, Che interest could be
faid with little, il any, additional tax, but
he Insisted that his hearers should regard
the moral view OF it, and that they should,
if necessary, make some sacrifice to pay
it. He cl sed with an eloquent appeal to
preserve the honor and good name Of Viz
GINA FOR Which n Pip last 4fbeen yaars 50
many OF her sons had gone down into the
valley OF the shadow of death (applause).
Nj. Adam NJ. Hawpe-~If you were sent
to the legislature would you try and make
the reforms you speak Of?
Col. Skinner shonld 60 there with
fixed purpose to do it, l would try to do
it even at my own expense (applause).
MAI. ARsOLOM KOINER
followed, atl4 reeQ 1904 phe Goyernor,s
message, sh6Mihg that tie debt was $50
4Te,0ODl, which had been reduced by the
operation OF the sinking fund, which
every year pays a part OF the principal of
the debt. Seven per CENT. is levied 10 DAY