Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-11-22
FRIDAY MORNING. NOV. %. 1878.

81 n ~ " n
FRIDAY MORNING. NOV. %. 1878.
WHAT THEIR CAMPAIGN rs TO
We do not apprehend any trouble from
President Hayes new s'policy'' towards
the South. We presume that policy will
not 90 beyond the proper execution of the
laws and if he should propos anything
further and outside of that he would
doubtless feel keenly the lack of sympa-
thetic majority in congress. But we have
a very strong conviction that his well
known sympathy with the persons of color
at the South who he thinks are fearfully
oppressed, may mislead him into execu-
ting the laws in only one half the Union.
Wesay this because tits disagreeably appar
ent to his well wishers among whom we de-
sire to be classed, that his principal ad-
visers since the fall elections have been
such men as Zach Chandler, Senator Ed
munds and gentlemen of the same stripe
who had of late held aloof from him. I'm
auestionably the outside appearance of the
preparations at Washington are for raid
on the South alone. Two States have been
singled out for the attention Of the U. S.
Prosecuting Attorneys-South Carolina
and Louisiana and of the prosecutions the
Federal Secretary of State says: mo
ssman who is reluctant to obey the instruc-
s'tions Of the administration rega riding the
punishment or prosecution of the perpe-
sstrators Of these outrages in the South
twill be trusted in the performance OF
s;that duty. To be vigorous in the per-
ssformance of such an important duty the
tsofficial must be in close and earnest SYM
s.pathy with the underlying motives which
ss1nspire it's direction and disclose its ne
"cessity.'
From this it would appear that the South
alone is to he the locality where intimida-
ton of voters is to be hunted out. Now it is
a conceded fact that no man knows better
the inside history of Republicanpol in
Massachusetts than that eminent Repub
lican and brevet Greenbacker, General
BENJAMIN F. Butler. Of the last election
in tibet State in which he wasdefeated this
well-informed gentleman says: II should
"haye been elected if it had not been for
"the most outrageous and persistent bull
s'dozing of the laboring men of Massachu-
sssetts by their employers, which changed
thousands of votes. In one case man
chad factory with very considerable
ssnumber of voters employed in it. He
sstook them down three at time in his
ssprivate carriage. He voted the three and
ssthen went back for three more and voted
s'them, and so on till he had gone through
ssWith his men. In other cases where men
s'asked leave of their employers to 60 and
s'vote. they were told they could 60, but
s'they need not come back any more if
''they did-that they did not want their
''services any more. In another case, in
ssmy own city, where man found one of
sshis workmen on the street. he literally
ssGOok him by the shoulder and marched
him up to the polls and made him vote
s'the Republican ticket although he was
ssknown to be exactly the other way, and
chad SO declared himself-amid cries Of
s'Shame! shame! shame! Don't vote
against your principles!" from the people
sin the ward-room. The Mississippi plan
ssof bulldozing is much more honorable and
star more brave. That is done with a
ssshot-gun. and two men can play at that.
ssThe Massachusetts, plan is to work upon
ssthe laboring mans fears that his wife
sand children will starve during the win
sster that is coming, which is simply
4sknayish, cowardly, and dishonorable; and
s.yet it is done by men who claim to be
honorable men, openly advocated in the
newspapers, and circular was printed
sin this city, which would have been dis
istributed if had not found it out and ex
<sposed it beforehand, calling upon the en-
tployers to exercise the vast authority
-stbey had over their employees to make
A'them vote against me. The chairman OF
s'the Republican State Committee sent for
s1leading manufacturers, and had them 1T
4sthe Parker House at his room, to advs'
with them for that purpose. Ii he denies
isit, can prove it. hope l shan't hear
ssany more talk from the Republicans-il
AsCongress where l am-about bulldozing
ssthe negroes"
Perhaps the United States officials in
Massachusetts, are too much in sympathy
with the underlying motives" which MIR.
Evarts speaks of, to interfere In matter
50 publicly made into history, as this bull
doing in Massachusetts. Now all Presi-
dent Hayes has to do to make his ''new
policy" popular at the South is to enforce it
also in the North. Don't try to make fish
of South Carolina and flesh of Massachu-
Settes.
But we expect nothing from the Presi-
DENT Is policy except the evidence already
clear since its commencement that
the next campaign for the Presiden-
CIV is to be made against the South
.ern States. We desire nothing better.
The North is Disguised at this programme
and will show it at the polls. and the South
will only be put beyond even a possibility
of being counted out.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
There is, we think, good deal of un
necessary uneasiness in the public mind of
Staunton about the public schools of the
city. There Is plenty of room for discus
sion but discussion will only tend to per-
p.ex the parents and would be fruitless
and endless. The new Superintend ent,
DR.. Hamilton, is an earnest, consclen tious
gentleman, who will give his whole atten-
4;o,, To, hi xxrcrlr and who Is amin atpd nv a