Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-07-19
FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 10. 1878.

There is no more thrifty. county in the
State. nor one with better population
than our next door neighbor Rocking
ham. but by some fatality it seems to be
made the bivouac for all the political and
religious experiments that tramp the
Virginia highway. In religion the Assem-
sionists chose that county from which to
ascend to Heaven and a Mormon Apostle
was so much pleased with it as a
missionary ground that nothing but
ducking in mill pond cut short his evan
gelical efforts. In politics the failures
have been no less ridiculous. Not a year
has elapsed since the nomination of 1t.
Governor there against the regular nomi-
nee of the Conservative party moved the
State to wonder and laughter and yet only
last Monday again we have a meeting in
the same county boiling from the Conser-.
yatiye organization of the District and
State and favoring convention OF Read
iusters to nominate one of their own num-
her for congress. Senator Paul,
whose speech we give with much fullness
in another column and around whom nearly
the whole of the interest of the occasion
seemed to gather, so much so as togive it the
appearance of personal instead of a po-
litical gathering, made what, for gentle
man of his acknowledged ability, seems to
us most extraordinary speech. In one
breath he denounced some of the press for
saving it would not seaport an Adjuster
and himself announced that he would not
support Funder; in one breath he de-
nounced conventions as. evils, worked
by wire pulling politicians and at the same
moment announced his readiness to go into
an Adjusters convention; in one breath he
claimed that the Adjusters had an tower
whelming' majority in the district and at
the same time urged that that overwhel-
ming majority lied by the smartest and
most prominent politicians in the State)
could not have it's will over the minorl-
tv in a convention; in one and the same
breath spoke of the glorious rescue OF the
State by the Conservative party and advo-
Gated it's destruction. and in one breath
smoke of his services to the Conservative
party and-bolted. This is a:remarkable
record of a public address and we refer the
reader to the report of the Senator speech
for its accuracy.
The Adiusters of Rockingham, if it is
indeed they who are in this movement,
and not merely the followers of popular
county leader, have made great and, they
will find, fatal mistake. Engaging the
Hon. Jno. T. Harris is fair game. They
have a perfect right to vote man OF their
way of thinking into congress in his place
if they can, but engaging the great Con-
servatiye party. to which Mr.. Harris is
only fly on the wheel, is another and
very different thing. They have grappled
with the people at large when they strike
at the party. The people of Virginia do
not think the Democratic party has ended
it's mission, and they will turn their back
on any public man who says so. The
Democratic party of Virginia is part and
very important part Of the Democratic
party of the United States. To it the
National Democratic party has looked in
every Presidential campaign with the GER
6ainty that old Virginia would be counted
on the right side; to it's representatives IN
the halls of national legislation have been
awarded the most important posts; to 1t
the Democratic party of the United States
has paid Difference i'll the past and will give
honor and glory i'll the future; to it Ameri-
can Democracy has looked ever since the
DAVIS of reconstruction as an unfailing
ally. who has stood by its side as 1t has
pressed its way UP from under the bayo-
nets of the Federal administration, the
control of the government. Break up the
Democratic party of Virginia Break up
a glorious, victorious party just on the eve
of Presidential election, when our
brethren of the nation are counting on see
ing the Virginia Democracy in the front OF
the battle-the last battle that is to be
fought before it enters into possession.
This is midsummer madness-the effect OF
the moon on politics. But that is the pro-
position? A bolt from the organization OF
the Democratic party of the State, q sep
crate Adjuster organization. Then, what
nextp The Presidential election comes
along and finds the Democratic party OF
Virginia split in twain, neither recogni-
zing the other; and then the Republican
party. which our friends, the boilers, so
earnestly urge is dead, springs into acti-
witty and carries the Old Dominion for u.
S. Grant. This talk about coming together
again is idle.-Rival political parties in the
madness Of struggle for supremacy will
sacrifice everything, just as we see to-day
some Of the Adjusters willing to break up
the Democratic party OF the State, cast its
glories to the winds and its power to the
dogs. rather than another division OF the
organization shall have supremacy.
The action of the Rockingham Adjus-
ters. or those Of them engaging in the
nesting Of Monday, was without shadow
of excuse. Of the ten counties in this,
seventh, district ecery one except Augusta
is q Re-adjustiaag county. To the legisla-
ture Rockingham sent re-adjusters, Shen-
andoah sent read usters, Albemarle sent
re-adiusters, Goochland sent re-adjusters,
Fluyannah sent re-adjusters, Highland
sent a re-adjuster, Bath sent a re-adjuster,
Green sent a re-adjuster and Page sent a
re-adiuster. The majorities are large.
The leading Re-adjusters, Massie, Paul.
Moffett, Riddleberger and Splitter. are in
this district, and one Of them, the last. is
one of the committee that called the Staun-
ton Convention. The pretense that II
These counties SO decided they could not
get readjuster TO represent them, is ut
terlv without ground.
And finally where are those gentlemen
going now that they have belGed? No
MATTER how many parties there may be in