Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-10-01
HENRY C. ALLEN.

HENRY G. ALLEN.
Perhaps there are few men in this con-
gressional district, whether Democrat or
Republican, Funder or Readjuster, that
have heard Judge Allen in this canvass
who will not admit that he has been sur
prise to them. Before he was nominated
by the Democrats for Congress he had been
heard by the people at home in some of the
Valley counties of his district while can
wasting in behalf of the REIMBURSEMENT of
the State debt-he having been one of the
first advocates of that measure-but his
addresses, while able and instructive pre-
sensations of his side of the question, hard :
~ possessed the fire requisite to make them
attractive to promiscuous audience. That
was the Judgment of both his friends and
opponents and will account for the feeling
something akin to astonishment with
which they have witnessed his triumphant
career since August last uninterrupted by
a single heck. From the first meeting in
Staunton after his nomination, at which
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by the enthusiasm he created, up to the
present time he has steadily gained and
firmly held friends and now the mere appear
ance of his tall, muscular, ungainly figure
on the rOstrum serves as signal for an
outburst Of applause.
It were well for Virginia and for every
State IN this Union if every candidate for
congress now IN the field possessed the
same sort of claims on his constituency
that Henry Allen does. He is high maj
in his principles and unbending i'll
maintaining them. He is in politics
Democrat of the strictest sect, holding
all the traditions of that party upon which
this country has grown great A hard
money man, an opponent of Capitalization
in government; man who believes that
those who accumulate property howev-
or small shall not have it taxed away by
those who refuse to pay even dollar to
the support of the government; friend of
the laborer and an opponent Of those who
would coop him and his fellows up in order
that through high protective tariff VS. the
capitalist and Spectator may skin him of
the profits of his muscle; and man who
in National affairs believes that the polit
ical offices should not be provided for by
Senatorial Syndicates, nor the legislation
of the nation be controlled by monopolies
which pass under the alias of "great in
terests.''
In this canvass he has been thoroughly
frank and fearless in his positions. Fa-
miliar with even the minutlae OF Virginia
legislation for the past ten years he has
thrown more light on it than any half doz-
en- speakers we have heard. A Readjuster
for REIMBURSEMENT of the State debt alone,
he has shown clearly the forks of the road
at which the leaders of that party left the
cause to take care of itself and diverged in
pursuit of self interest, and he has, we
think, given those who like himself, were
sincere in their Readjuster convictions,
some very new and astonishing expositons
of the course of those leaders.
We believe that Augusta county holds
in her hand the power to send this man to
Congress as the representative of the
Seventh District. If all within her borders
who hold the same political views that he
does, whether they are Funders or Read
justers, will see to it that that sympathy
is expressed by their ballots, his majority
in this county will be such that it will be
impossible for the opposition elsewhere to
overcome it. Let our county clubs make
it their business to keep Judge Allen
abreast of the Democratic Electoral ticket.
He is making gallant fight for our cause
al over the district; let the Democrats of
all shades of opinion centre on him here at
home and give him majority that the
blacks east of the mountain cannot neu-
traliZe.