Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-02
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FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 2. 1886.

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FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 2. 1886.
Local
SAD REUNION OF FEDERAL OFFICE
HOLDERS.
MouRNFUL oBsEoUIEs OVER THE CORPSE
OF GRANT-A sUNDAY-scHooL BOY
HITS A MoURNER WITH GRAVEL
sHooTER-TURNING FROM THE CORPSE
To GARFIELD,
&C., &C., &C.
On Monday last the courtroom present.
ed the usual spectacle which attends
Republican ratification meeting. On
the stand we're thaprominent Office -hoIders,
and in the galleries were the colcred CON
stituents without office, while, scattered
through the Democrats yhO occupied the
lower flor, were here al d there some Of
fee holders OF the humber rank OF gau-
ger, Inspector and The Ike. This view was
brought wildly to mind IA few minu es i.f-
ter after til. assembling 10y "a herce attack
Oh the Democrats ~ OF Of The office-!'old-
ing orators, aid The allegation that their
moving motive in this campaign was TO
get possession of the Offices. The meeting
was presided over by Mi. Robt. G. Bickle.
Major s. Nj. YosI, postmaster, introduced
to the audience
u. s. DISTRICT ATTORNEY w. s.
LURTY.
Mr.. Lurty said he believed he was adj
dressing an audience composed OF men
who desired to hear the truth, and men
who were not swayed by the domination of
party. He said the principle of the Re-
publican party was now and had always
been that every man, white and black,
should be
EQUAL UNDER THE LAW.
Mr.. Lurty evidently didn't know the
history Of his party or the candidate he
was ratifying. In the House of Repres-
| entatives in May. 1866, Mr.. James A. Gar
| field, of Ohio. in a speech on bill. pro-
posing to disfranchise those who had given
aid to the rebellion, said 1--WE quote from
the speech officially reported in the Con
gressional GLOBE seth Cong, part 8, page
2,463l:
sNow, Mr.. Speaker, if the gentlemen who report
this bill will put in section, that all aoho parteipa
ted in the rebellion shall foTeUer be excluded from
the riglt0 electicc franchise, in all cases relating
to national offices, then aeM say the proposition
aciI be just and one could stand upon mat
ter Of principle. Anything is just, which excludes
| from privilege and power all those infamous men
| who participated in rebellion. The proposition.
| without any modification, without any limitation,
would meet with my approval, as one emnently wise
and just, if it could be practically carried out''
| Mr.. Lurty went on to say that another
great principle held and maintained by
the Republican party WAS ~
| FAIR AND FREE ELECTIONS,
evidently forgetting that President Hayes,
the Republican President has in the last
month, at the instance of the leaders of
his party vetoed a bill passed by a De-
mocratic Congress, of which the only pro-
vision was that the deputy U. S, marshals
| used at elections should be chosen equally
from both political parties. This is the
difference between principle and practice.
His party, he said, favored free schools,
|
had diverted 81, 100000 from the school
fund, but MIR. Lurty did not explain that
this diversion" was caused by the inevi-
table tax receivable coupons, and that
these coupons are still in the basement Of
the capitol, never having been diverted"
from there. His party also had the credit
in his opinion of giving the homestead
law. He should have added that it was
| an ingenious arrangement by which you
can get poor laborer's work, poor mer-
chants flour and bacon, and then when
they sue you sit on your homestead with
a comfortable home and laugh at them.
The stir raised in the country every cleo
tion by the Democrats was, he said, cause
less except that they We're after the offices.
The sound currency was attributed to
the Republican party. Mr.. Lurty then
launched into
ANGLING FOR THE READJUsTER
VOTE.
He said he was no Readjuster himself but
he could not see how Readjusters could
stand on the Democratic platform which
pledges that party to the payment of the
National and State debts. He lamen-
ted Virginia's financial condition but for
got to tell his hearers that her great debt
was irrevocably fixed upon her by the con-
stitution adopted by the Republican I'm
derwood Convention. He stated that
$4,000 of twice used coupons have been
discovered in the Auditors office, but did
not give the direct denial of it given by
those most likely to know and which has
been in general circulation in print for
several days. He said
VIRGINIA WAS FALLING BEHIND
under Democratic rule and that no CAPT.
tai from the intelligence of the North
(which was the Republican partly would
come, and he forgot to say that more
Northern capital has been put into
railroads. and iron and copper mines
in Virginia and into coal and iron
in West Virginia in the last if
teen years than in any fifty years before
the war. And both are Democratic States
to the backbone. He closed by handing
small piece OF taffy to the old line Wings
and informing them that all their old par
ty principles were to be found embodied in
those Of the Republican party.
U. s. DISTRICT ATTORNEY
L. L. LEWIS
next addressed the meeting. He ia the
District Attorney Of the Eastern District
of VIRGINIA and will hn rooonoatod o. ~.