The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-07-28
What do Republicans expect to gain by
this proposed surrender to faction of the

What do Republicans expect to gain by
! this proposed surrender to faction of the
Democratic party? This question is an
$ wered by the assertion that the Re-adjus-
| tiers intendto enact liberal legislation that
will effectually unfetter much of the Re
publican strength and remove from the
statute book certain laws that are disgrace
to civilized people. If this claim is made
in good faith; if the men who now cry so
Justify for repeal are willing to carry out
their professions, why is it that they do not
march under the Republican flag and unite
with that organization whose whole record
is an opposition to the obnoxious measures
By such a course no one could mistake
their meaning no one would question their
sincerity, and even with the record they
have made upon these very laws, it would
be believed that they had turned from the
errors of their ways. and intended to atone
for at least a few of their past sins. But
we are told that while Republicans in prin-
cple, they are not willing to bear the OPP
probrinm. attached to the name in the South.
Great heavens as if the name OF Republi-
can in whatever cline and under whatever
circumstances was a thing to be dreaded
by those who call themselves Re-adjusters.
In the esteem Of the world !; in the esteem
of the nation in the esteem of the people
of this State, the name of Republican holds
higher place than Re-adjusters ever dare
aspire to. Their opponents in the Demo
cratic party, if they are. the ones whose
opinions are so much dreaded, would have
infinitely more respect for the Re-adiusters
if they would boldly come out as Republi-
cans, instead of sneaking about Republican
Conventions and trying to influence Repub-
lican action in an unmanly and unprinci-
pied manner. Certainly the name of Re
publican should have little terror, for when
placed alongside Of Re-adjuster, it will
not suffer by the comparison, even in Vir-
ginia. 49,. .....,s 5...... ...
But the question Of a re-adjustment of the |
State debt comes up. TN s they claim is the |
principle of their party, With |
that principle, in itself, the Republican
party can have no sympathy whatever. Its |
whole history has been a record of direct |
opposition to any such measure, and yet |
$4,000 Republicans are asked to surrender |
to 81 900 Re-adjuster Democrats and mas
their forces upon an issue against which |
the National Republican party has con-
tended since its infancy, perling its very |
existence in more than one contest, in it's |
effort to strike down the hydra-head of Re- |
pudiation, i'll whatever guise it appeared.
If REIMBURSEMENT is the main issue at |
stake then the Republican party cannot af-
ford to touch it. If the repeal of the re-
striction on suffrage is the paramount de-
sire then the Re-adjuster party should come
into the Republican ranks to accomplish
that end. |
We are told that if the Republicans place
. ticket in the field the Bourbons are bound |
to win-that Republicans and Re-adjus-
ters will ike be defeated. If Bourbon
domination is so much to be dreaded, and
5he Re-adjusters are so neatly Republican,,
then what is to prevent them from coming
put as Republicans They boldly declare
that they would support the devil rather
than the Bourbons, and yet when the OPP |
is offered them of defeating the
Bourbons with Republican. they scorn the |
idea. They have SO little respect for Re
publicans, that they expect them to lower
heir flag when probable victory awaits,
when they themselves have no hope ofavert-
U 0arta1n 6nfoat
ed impudence, deception and fraud.
The best way to test their dread of Bour-
bons, is to nominate a Republican ticket,
and then they will know that either the
Bourbons or the Republicans must win, and
they can make their choice between them.