Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-30

men will attempt to turn the attention of
the people from that fact. Virginia pays
at least one-fiftieth of this ard 100000
600 may be saved to her. Why don't these
gentlemen love the people all the way
through. and besides saving them the
$500 ,OCO also save them the $40, 100000?
All it is sorry sight! My brother Dem
ocrats haven't we -quarrelled enough
Haven't we abused each other enough
| Why should | WHO was born Democrat
be published daily as traitor because
| choose to stand on the n ational Democrat
ic platform. am ReadJuster but don't
| let anybody pipe for M to dance. We can
all differ on taxation ard interest and that
s,rt of thing without abusing each other
I say let's stop it and fight the Radicals.
! (Applause.)
WHERE THE PEOPLES MONEY AND LAND
GOES.
These Radicals that want you to LET US
alone'' 50 badly. They say take care OF these
Democrats, there is something dangerous
about them! Why these Radical office
holders have gotten to think that they own
the government Their internal revenue
men run over Virginia and carry Off 81
900 600 of taxes. Their congress gives
IA 600 900 acres Of public lands to the
wealthy corporations of Wall street and
New England that own the three Pacific
railroads and then they want US to let them
alone, Qaughter.) Why poor poverty
! III prv,io ho
Germ up in business with the public lands
theyhave given away, (applause.)
I have no abuse for those Readjusters
who differ with me. They have right to
do as they please. They have Hancock
ticket. Do they support the Democratic
platform? No! Did they send delegates
to Cincinnati? No! Do they profess DEM
ocratie principles? No! But they put a
separate ticket in the f.ll. Why? Weren t
they invited to the convention at Rich
mond? Yes! They diln'5 send delegates
They said they intended to do the best
they could for themselves. I say if that
is your road can't travel it, (applaEse)'
They have local platform. They can't
put Hancock OH it-he's too BIZ, he would
smash t, (great lau shter.)
HOW ABOUT THE REPEAL OF THE CAPT
TATIoN TAX?
They want the capitation tax prepay
ment abolished. How are you in Angus
ia on that? We in Rockingham say that
man that won't pay his poll tax is a
sorry sort CT man (cheers), and he shan't
participate IN taxing the lands of this
Valley. (cheers.) They say it cuts of
40 600 coIored men from votine! So muc'
the worse for the colored man if he hasn't
industry enough to make dollar to pay
his capitation tax. Why not repeal the
twenty-one years qualifcation-that may
cut off somebody from voting. If the
coIored man, while we whites are paying
for educating his children, won't earn a
dollar to pay his tax be ought not
10 vote to tax other people. We
in Rockingham send $4,000 of oul
money to Richmond now to educate them
and if the capltation tax is repealed well
have to send more. Do you in Augusta
want to do it? We dent want any lazy
Negro es voting ON their manhood" to tax
our lands. (applasse.)
DR.. Moffett closed with an appeal to al
Democrats of hauever faction to close vi
and vote the National Democratic ticket
and was loudly cheered.
SENATOR VANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA
was next introduced. He rapidly reviewed
, the formation of constitutional govern
ment i'll this country ard showed that since
the Republican party had been formed its
whole drift ana tendency had been to cen
tralizatinn. Under cover Of this concen
tration of power had grown up enormous
corruption. During the eight years Of
Grants administration the official reports
showed that $12O 100000 of the revenue OF
the country had been M ide way with
The corruption had ranged from the Cred
it Mobilier down 10 gathering up the bones
of army mules by contract and placing
them in national cemeteries. He cont as
ted the ligiitneSs with which the burdens of
the general government were felt in former
times and now, and the simplicity chat for
merly surrounded free and open voting COM
pared with the marshals and other appli-
|
surrounded. There is not a relation in life
into which the vernment does not thrust
its hand. 1t is the Republican party that
has started the idea that a State officer
isn't fit to discharge the duties of his
Office, and which wants to convict him
through such creatures as Johnny Daven
port, J. Madison Wells and Eliza Pinks-
/ ton.
Mr. Vance then went on to tell what the
Republicans had done for tue State of
North Carolina while they had control of
it. How they began by saying they in
| tended to introduce the higher toned civil
lization of the North there and ended by
stealing nearly every thing in the State
except their land. They put $24,00o,00o
of the States bonds in the market and SELL
ing them down as low as so cents in the
dollar pocketed the proceeds. They
| introduced mixed schools and br IKE up the
white ones. At last the people rose against
them and drove them out Of power. And
all during those years Of robbery North
Carolina was cut off from the ear Of the
North by the cry OF the bloody shirt.
A STIRRING APPEAL
He said the time bad now coma for the
whole country to rise against the Repub-
lican party and, under tho Lad of The bra
vest of generals, drive them cut. mhe
line is formed from Maine to California,
and 10 only one single spot is there sign
Of falteriug, and that spot is old Virginia,
Can it be possible that in this great fight