Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1877-10-02
The Fair commences next Tuesday.
FE11,ow-c1r1zENs or A11nz1srA

FELLOW CITIZENS OF AUGUSTA:
In reply to a fiattering call made on me some
''Many Farmers" and to private calls made on
me to become candidate, I have at length
concluded to so announce myself, and, If neces-
sary, to become q martyr.
Felow-ctizens, if you will give me your suf-
frage, and am in luck, will do all in my
power to save you as a true Yirginiaa. Will
chanical, manufacturing or agricultural pro
fessions. will take notice as well of the la
borer as the capitalist, and try to serve the in
terestS of the one as we'll as the other.
Legislation, therefore,. has given little satisfac-
tion in our old Commonwealth. Those we have
sent of late years people say did nothihg-'twas
the people want to stop that song, and cry out
Reform" The song THAT people want il to
Hold the Fort"-1.ooays songl p watch the
Fort. We cannot sing because we have moth
Row let US build the Fort and get emigrat on
to build our cities and towns Tx apa build
chanics; Send no laeney .dit Of the State; let
your mechanics get it; what goes out does not
return. The good song of charity begins at
or West-from Europe. England, Ireland, SCOT
land, FRANCE or GerInanY-no matter WHARF, So
they are good pttixeEs. Let every capnty select
one or more men OF esty and truthiulness To
be pilots to the strangers and keep them away
from sharpers when they come to buy land
take them around and give item true state
ment of what is good land, of second or third
quality. or what can be improved. Then let the
seller pay one or half per cent to the clerk OF
the county to pay the expenses SO the stran-
ger will have safe guard, and in this way we
can introduce migration and get our land val
ued at former prices. All we need iva s,aat &c
g get them Y5h us paPtHgs d sF
iean-pid theitl al welcome. BY that
way we can relieve DIR females and improve
the class Of servants. still, let Us protect our
they get homes in our midst.
1 am in favor of tho Legislature meeting only
once in ten years, the same as the census is
taken.
am in favor of free school system, but the
way it is now conducted is failure. This year
tramp for a teacher; next q Miss, and next
year none. There can be pages written about
the system, but will explain it all in the can
vas. ~@e
The present road LAW. tae. Is a failure. It is an
& s aa Es sssm sre aaS
the county. more than four cents on the 500, as
in former times. ! am in favor of working
not sending them to the renitentiary to make
mechanics of them-placing the product OF
their labor in themarket to compete Witn she
honest industries OF the cGuuatry,, p,
| am onno5eG to yhe Funding bill, and call it
a capital hlunder. am for affair, square settle
ment with the creditors, and thus give relief to
our oppressed People. Make every creditor
the interest promptly. Make two or two and
half per cent, and then we can pay the inter-
est and the whole debt without increased taxa;
we say we cdnYot We .lust look ut home
ap{, at oar individual dhbts--for instance, doc
tors bills, merchants and mechanics bills
some rent bills extra school bills, and even our
poor editors bills. l am not for a forcible re-
adjustment, and do not give expression to those
harsh words, you niust. My Fatherland thai
gave me my birth never learned me that. mol
my adopted mother either. l am very much
opposed to have bonds that passed into sesopS
hands at thirty or forty cents on thu t,allsf nov
people: THAI is what we adilsters call high
way robbery.
| Now, gentlemen, if you give me your suffrage
| all that can say is what many cannot say,
will give you all satisfaction.
A. BLAUTH.
| My views will be fully gwen you during thu
campaign on the above, as well as all other top
| les of public importance A. B.