The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-10-10
The Canvass.

Since the announcement of Gen. Echols
as candidate for Congress, he has addressed
the people in Highland, Shenandoah and
Page counties. The reports we have gotten
from those localities assure US that his
speeches have been we'll received and made
deep impressions. The discussion of the
finance question has been eagerly listened
to, evidencing that the people want informa-
tion in regard to it, and that they are not
satisfied with the wild notions of Judge Har-
ris and Capt. Paul on this subject. AS the
canvass progresses, and popular attention is
drawn to the only real issues in the contest,
we are satisfied Gen. Echo.s' views will re-
ceive liberal endorsement. We cannot tell
to what degree the people have committed
themselves on this subject. Certainly it is
one that they should carefully study before
they cast their votes. 1t involves vital in
terests to the whole country, and cannot be
lightly regarded.
We cannot say at this writing, what the
result will be, as between the three candi-
dates. We will not attempt to mislead the
as to that, nor confuse the canvass by sensa-
tlonal statements about popular sentiment
in this or that locality. We will await the
result patiently, and in the meantime do
what we can to aid him in intoxicating
healthy views as to the que stion at issue.
OF one thing, however, we can speak con-
fidently. Whether elected or not, be will
stand out in Virginia and before the coun-
try as the representative of honesty in gov
eminent, honest money, and honest dealing
in all business relations. He will stand upon
a firm platform-one that will wear-and
one THAT will eventually win. No other
candidate for Congress in the State of Vir-
ginia has taken ground so high, and met with
such emphatic condemnation, the financial
fallacies that are being flooded over the
country. We believe if gentlemen in the
various portions of the district, ..and es-
pecially in the Valley counties, who agree
with him, would endeavor to educate public
sentiment in relation to this imports ant
question, he will be elected. The princi-
pie he represents must gain in popular favor
the more clearly and earnestly it is pre-
sented, for there is something in human ma
ture which responds to honest sentiments
wherever and whenever uttered. The com.
mon sense of the people cannot fail to dis
cover the fallacy aud deception of the no.
tons of Judge Harris as he presents them,
for they know that money worth having can
only be gotten by honest labor, or in ex-
change for its equivalent, and that irredeem-
bic paper money is not honest money and
can never answer the purpose of honest
labor. Had the Southern Confederacy is
sued coin money, it would be good yet, al
though the authority by which it was issued |
was destroyed. You cannot destroy the val |
ue OF good money, and that is the only kind |
of money government should furnish fer
honest labor;
Whatever Emay he the result of the can
vass, Gen. Echols will have nothing to re-
greet. He can point to the issue maintained
in all time to come and do so proudly, an d
will be more honored in defeat, if that be
his fate, than his successful competitor upon
q cheat and delusion. 1t will be the people
who will have to suffer and not Gen. Echols,
It they shall allow themselves to be swim
lied into che belief that they can get money
working for 1T, or realize substan-
tial prosperity upon any other basis than
hat which is sustained in the arguments of
1en. Echois.