Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-10-01
Another Richmond in the Field.

In announcer column we PUBLISH IAe
card of Gen. John Echols announcing
himselfa candidate for Congress in this
District. We commend its careful and
thoughtful perusal to the citizens ofthis
District. In it he sets forth his views
upon the State debt and national t.
nanses, which we think must meet with
the approval of all honest men.
Upon national finances he takes the
only true view, that of the Democratic
party, and the only one that can give
any permanent relief to the people. A
stable currency is the only hope of the
working men, and he who advocates an
inflated currency, which must neces-
sarily become deprecated, is playing in
to the hand of the capitalist, and strik-
ing at the laboring interests of the coun-
try.
The policy advocated by Gen. Echols
is the true one. Let the Government
issue as many Greenbacks as the COM
mercial interest of the country demand,
but let them be promises to pay In
coin of certain intrinsic value, redeem
able either in aorese'ste or IN future.
Gen. Echols, we understand, will at
no distant day, give to the voters OF this
district, his views in a more extended
form, upon the important issues OF the
day. In the meantime we give our
hearty approval to the manly stand
which he has taken against the great
political heresy Of the day and again
commend to our readers careful and
thoughtful reading of his card.
DEMOCRATIC ECONoMY.-In order, If
possible, to break the force of the Demo-
cratic record of retrenchment ofgovern-
ment expenditures, the Republican
chairman of the Senate Committee on
Appropriations, Mr.. Window, of Mime
sofa, was recently required to furnish
campaign document belittllng Demo
cratic economy. His misrepresentation
have provoked a reply from Mr.. Black
burn, of Kentucky, which most effec-
tually aid thoroughly disposes of his
perverted exhibit. He shows that the
rate at which the ordinary expenses of
the MISUNDERSTANDING expenses
on account of the public debt and PEN
sions,-has increased, is, as ne have
heretofore demonstrated, equally amaz-
ing and alarming. He proves that the
sums expended for these purposes DUR
ing ten years beginning with the fiscal
year, which ended June 80, 1855, consi.
derably exceeded the same expenditures
during the seventy-three years preced-
ing the outbreak of the civil war. He
further shows that, during the last five
years of Republican control in the
House, there was an actual increase of
expenditures. They were greater by
over thirteen millions in 1876 than in
1871. Earnest and successful efforts in
the direction of economy did not COM
mence until the Democrats obtained
majority in the House of Representa-
tives. The savings effected by the last
and the present House amount to eigh-
ty-eight millions. Some fifty millions
more might have been saved but for the
resistance offered by Republican SEN
ate and administration.
There can be no possible doubt that
the good work begun by the House of
the Forty-Fourth Congress, and con
tinued by the present House, will be
carried still farther by the Forty-Sixth
Congress, should that body contain-as
we are confident it villa Democratic
majority in both of its branches.
The SOUTHERN STATES AND THE