Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-23

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Readjustment, warmly defending it and
saying he had never ceased and would
never cease fighting for new settlement
of the state debt. He believed that the
principles of the Barbour Bill would pre-
vail in Virginia in the end no matter who
was elected President. And it would sue
coed without outside help. All it asked
was that outside interference be averted.
1t was state matter exclusively. Would
the success of the Republican party help
| Readjusters Has not the Republican
party in the New York legislature just
! passed law and signed by Republican
governor looking to the suing OF state
In the United States Courts on her bonds.
That was blow at Reaijustment. The
success of the Democratic party would not
help Establishment. But there would be
this difference Democratic President
would not believe in interference with the
internal affairs of the states. At the least
Democratic success would mean hands
off-the states at least would be allowed
! to manage their internal affairs.
| You see that no dep .rture from the
Democratic party offers us benefits for
REIMBURSEMENT. Now what cause outside
of benefit to REIMBURSEMENT is there for US
to leave? What provocation? A mlnori-
ty Of a committee read us out of the party.
| Who obeyed this reading out? 1 didn't.
You didn't. 1t didn't keep you from send
ing Dr. Moffett to the legislature, for you
| sent him. A minority Of a committee OF
twenty seven couldn't read anybody out of
the Democratic party. The whole COM
mittee hadn't done iC, Tor when this com
mittee called the convention of May 10Th,
they backed down from the action of the
Thirteen. They called for everybody ire
spect, Of their PAS. differences. Read
out! Why; when |, IL Readjuster, went to
that q mocratic convention of May 10th,
I received next to the highest vote that
was cast for delegate at large to the Gin
cinnatl National Democratic Convention.
Read out! Why at the National Demo-
cratic Convention when the important
place of member of the Committee to
make platform was to he filed |. a Read
juster from Virginia was elected by the
j. Virginia delegation to fill 1t. And now
when I come from that Democratic Ma
tional Convention I am to be denounced
for not joining in movement to give the
, electoral vote of Virginia to Garfield
To give t:l-. vote to Garfield. You I'm
de stand that we don't vote for Hancock,
but for an electoral ticket, the men on
which will vote for him. The Democratic
vote is sought to be split between two
tickets. The effect is plain. You don't
need to have it put palmer than for me tC
tell you that in 1876 the Democratic cleo.
toral ticket in Virginia got 1879 900 votes
and the Republican electoral ticket got
$4,000 Now split the Democratic vote in
} two, and the ninety-fve beats both. and
Hancock loses the vote. And all this fol
: what? Because a portion of the party. af
ter the regular ticket was put up, split
away from it because all the men on ii
don't agree with it on the State debt. II
that is reason why don t they leave Han
cock because he don't agree with themi
Why don't some leader of their party
WRITE TO HANCOCK
and demand to know how he stands on
the State debt of Virginia? Great laugh
, ter.) If it is important to know this of an
, elector it is far more important to know il
of the candidate.
All, what folly all this is Every mar
} in Virginia knows that his tax will never
J be raised above fifty cents, nor the school
tax ever be lower than ten cents.
| TAey talk of having majority. The
, Democratic vote is 10000. Take Their
own figures, and they say they voted
81, 900 last fall. A minority of party Of
fering the creditors settlement If they
had had a majority why didn't they go te
Richmond and elect delegates to Cincin.
natl? Say they could carry 10000 of their
party with them INTO the Presidential
election, say $4,000, still that would be but
little over one-third of the Democratic
party in Virginia. Think of nearly 100, 600
Democratic voters kept out of being re-
presented at a National Democratic con-
vention by 10000, who wanted a separate
ticket
l have no objection to any honorable
step that will bring the Democratic party
together. have no objection to mixing
the two tickets provided they take Han
cock and English and tie National Demo-
cratic platform. The Democratic party of
Virginia has right to influence the ma
tional administration and it expects to-
When Hancock comes to look for this in
fluence he will find it in the regular lem
ocratic party Of Virginia, (applause).
Mr.. Barbour closed by an eloquent ap-
peal to his hearers not to let the Demo-
cratic ticket be lost in November by SQUAD
bles over State questions.
| DR. H. MoFFETT
followed Mr.. Barbour. His speech was
crisp, racy and dashing and sent the audi
ence up to fever heat and he Yves applaud
ed every minute or so. He was and al
ways had been Democrat and didn't have
to wait for any July convention to tell him
whether he was or not, applause and
laughter). When the Democrats fell in
line in marching order from Maine to
| Texas he knew his place in the ranks and
stepped into it, (great cheering). These
| gentlemen who have borrowed our candi-
date and wrenching him from the national
platform stuck him on a local platform
ought to have found out first whether he
was Readjuster OF not. The regular
Democracy is asked to surrender. Surren-
der to who-to men that up to the July
convention didn't know which side they
were going to support. (cheers). They