The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-10-28
For the VALLEY VIRGINIAN.1
Republican Rally at Lovettsville.

The republicans OF Londoun county, for the
first time, seem to be thoroughly organized,
and will give good account of themselves in
November. The meeting in Lovettsvile on
Saturday, was large and enthusiastic Dem
ocrats present remarked that IF the republi-
cans hold many meetings like this, and have
much speaking like this, the democracy had
better bestir itself" Mr.. Charles Davis of
Harpers Ferry, spoke for nearly two hours, to
as attentive and enthusiastic an audience as
we have ever witnessed. Davis is an Irish
man, and was once, when young man in
New York, a democrat. His reasons for cut
ting that connection brought repeated cheers
from the audience. His reference to the char
acter OF his allegiance was very good. at
was not" says he, "given to the N orth or to
the South, to the East or to the West, save as
those sections were component parts of one
indivisible nation.''
We should like to give his whole speech :;
but even good synopsis is out of our power
The tariff, and Randolph fuckers doctrine,
that it would be better for our people to raise
Berkshire pigs than iron, was well handled
The question then said he, is, shall we become
a nation OF manufacturers-able. to provide
everything we want-and be independent, or
a nation of swine-herds? The responsibility
insured to industry, and the dignity given to
labor as distinguished from the white trash"
doctrine and practice of the democracy, was
declared to be one of the proudest achieve
ments of republcanism-it guerdoned it with
glory. What measure has the democracy ever
passed for the benefit of the poor man? Dis
cussing this question, a history of the great
Homestead Law-land for the landless-was
given-of how Seward, and Colfax, and Ben
Wade fought for it, and how Mason and Hun
ton of Va, fought against it of how Buchan-
non vetoed the bill, declaring it to be frought
with mischief, and of how, finally, it was
passed by the republican party, and of the
pride of Lincoln in signing his name to it.
The democratic party, exclaimed the speak
equal prosperity of the people The mad
dream Of democratic leaders is, to roll back
the wheels of time, to revive the past, that
they may again be lords and masters, rich,
and surrounded by serfs and retainers. (Cries
of they can't do it, Oh, don't say that Is it
not what Lee and Jackson fought for, and
what Wade Hampton-or all that that mule
left of him-asks the South to vote for?
| Appealing to Southern democrats, Mr.. Davis
pointed out the difference between the pros
porous West and the condition of the South
of Va, once the foremost State in the Union,
now the eight or ninth in rank-explaining
the reasons. Stretch forth your Pickering
torches, Virginians, and relight them at the
flames of freedom that burn so brightly in In
diana and Ohio, and all through the West and
North. You want change Very good.
Suppose you change your course. st. Paul
was not ashamed to do it, or Peel, or Yelling
ton, or Gladstone. 1t is only men OF brains
that do it, You will have good examples, and
plenty of good company. Vote for the re-
publican party-the great party that never
fails to insure prosperity, where confidence
has been given to it. Then, with the advan-
tage of the various manufacturing commercial
activities, that the republican party suggests
and fosters with all your internal resources,
your timber, your water-power, your mineral
wealth. utilized with villages and natowns
dotting your plains, and rivalling the west in
success with furnace fires making the night
ruddy as the day, it will matter little, to you
or me, what honest men hold the offices, be-
cause, the pride, the profit the glory will be in
being the citizens, and not the servants OF the
republic,
Mr. N. G. Bracket was the next speaker.
He. delivered short address (for the evening
was getting late) but most excellent one,
He said ID concluding, that it was signif-
cant fact, and be was glad to! beab|esto.an-
nounce if, that, at the coming election, all the
republicans and converted democrats meant ne ut to
vote for local option, 81 i; i 4