Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-10-18
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STAUNTON,v VA.
FRIDAY MORNING. OCT. IS, 1878.
A WARNINGS.

Some of our hard money Democratic
friends are running so fast that they can
not take time to read the figures, and, in
stead, are taking for granted those COM
ments on the October elections, which are
addressed by the Republicans to the faith
rather than to the understanding. Some
of them, in their exhuberance, forget that
the Democratic party, which is in the ma
jority at least quarter of million, is it.
self the only honest money party in the
country that has the power to give success
to that cause. The recent elections in
Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and West Virginia
prove that it alone can cope with the
greenback delusion, which made SO Wig
orous but abortive start under the lead
of that prominent Republican, Butler.
Take Ohio, for instance: in nearly every
district where Democrat was elected he
beat both Republican and a Greenbacker
In electing their eleven members, which
they did to the Republican, nine, they
beat the following regularly nominated
Greenbackers, as we'll as the Republican
nominees: Sd district. M. P Nolan; 9Th,
Stephen Johnston; 9th, w. G. Holgate;
18th, Henry Kahlo; 9Th, Orlando c. Brown
9th, Christopher Lewis; 18th, Jno. Printz;
18th, Thos. J. McGinnis; 18th, Geo. w.
Pepper. In Indiana the Democratic nomi-
nees beat the following Greenbackers, re-
gularly nominated, as well as the Republic
can candidates: Srd district, Ara E. Long;
4th, Geo. W. Gregg; 9Th, Reuben A.. Reilly;
9Th, Henry Awhile, and 18th, John Stude-
baker. In West Virginia the Greenback
nominees beaten were, in the 1st district,
Jno. A. Thomson; I'd, Henry s. Walker
Supported by the mass of the Republican
party, which did not make nomination in
that district), and 3rd, M. Basel. In
Iowa, which State is always set down as
horelessly Republican, there were three sets
of candidates for Congress in each district
Except the 9th and 7th), Democratic, Re-
publican and Greenback, though the De-
mocrats and Greenbackers united on the
State ticket. The result here was that the
Republicans carried five districts, and that
in two districts, the 9th and 18th, J. r.
Weaver and E. II. Gillette, Greenbackers,
beat the Republican nominees. The
four States elected fOrty-fve congress-
men, OF whom seventeen are Demo-
Gratis, fifteen are Republicans, two are
Greenbackers of Republican antecedents,
and one is Greenbacker of Democratic
antecedents. The result changes the present
representation Of these States from thirty
Republicans and fifteen Democrats to the
figures given. We do not see how as at
fecting Congress this sort Of election is to
be held up as warning, or how the De-
mocratic party in Ohio, Indiana and West
Virginia is to be held up, after its stiff fight
with Greenbackers, as yielding to that
organization.
Then as to the State vote, some of our
friends seem to have forgotten their
figures. Iowa gave Hayes, two years ago,
SO ,205 majority; one year ago the Republi
can candidate for governor got 42,l93 ma
jority, and this year it gives Republican
majority Of hardly $1,000, if SO much. In
Ohio, which since the sudden resurrection
of William Allen four years ago. has been
changed from Republican to a
doubtful State, the Republican Secretary
of State, six years ago. was elected by
$685. majority over the Democratic nomi-
nee, Hayes carried it 1916 majority,
and now the Republicans have carried
it by only 1854 over the Democ-
ratio nominee In Indiana, Tilden carried
the State by 5,515, and the Democratic
majority last week was 1880. In West
Virginia the returns are not yet definite
enough to state the vote.
The struggle in this years elections, as
is known, is for the possession OF
Congress, and those that have taken place
haveshown that the Democratic party has
been able to defeat both the Greenbackers
and Republicans and make gains; that the
Republicans have not been able to defeat
the Democrats and Greenbackers and
have met with losses. and that the Green
hackers have been only able in az election
for forty-five congressman to secure three
II the last named does no better in the
November elections, it will pass out OF
sight as a political organization.
While our readers are having dinned in
to their ears by peripatetic orators ali
about the dangers of contraction and the
dangers OF imitation. the oppression of the
national bank system and the great value
of those institutions, let the INDICATOR
take the advantage of momentary lull to
whisper word confdentially. There
isn't the slightest possibility that the con-
gress to which these gentlemen are aspir-
ing can change the present status of the
finances. The Northern Democratic SEN
ators are all hard money and honest money
men, and whatever the House of Represen-
tatives might do in the direction OF ''food
ing the country with gresnbacks' will be
stopped in the Senate. Long before there
is any chance of change in congress on
this subject the hard times will have passed
away and the greenback craze be for
gotten. AS to the national banks they are
chartered by law for five years to come and
cannot be disturbed. That question may
come up at the congressional election four
years from now.
These crazes have come along before
and passed away. Let some of the dele
gates who attended the Democratic con-
yention in New York that nominated
Horatio Seymour, tax. their memories and
see il they don't recollect that the hall was
besieged by greenbackers with cheers for
greenbacks in their mouths. and badges i'll
imitation of greenbacks on the lappels of
their coats. And yet this has SO complete
lv passed away that most men have for
gotten it. It was nothing but feverish
delusion as it is now. The old cast iron,