Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-10-14

illustration of the utter absence of deli
mite principle about the settlement of the
debt.
Col. Skinner then briefly examined the
two conventions that had put the Gamer
on ticket in the field. Of one of these
conventions, Auditor Massey had said that
he could have bought forty members at
$40 head if he had chosen so to do; OF
the other, which met IN Lynchburg, the
''Valley Virginian, a Republican paper,
had said
1.-THE bogus concern that met at Opera
Hall and endorsed the Re-adjuster ticket,
is not entitled to the respect of single
Republican in the State From the be-
ginning to end it was fraud, inspired by
revolutionary purpose, and in some instan-
ces directed by agencies that will not bear
the light of inspection" but
for the influences of the Internal Rev
enue officers and the deputies and attaches
of the Marshal's office. there could not
have been gotten oue-third of the Dele
gates who would have endorsed the coali-
ton movement" 1.-The Repub
licans who know of the dark ways and de-
vious tricks availed of at Lynchburg, can
uOG GuuOiSo CuCu NY 6uppCluiuS UuO S"nA
erOn ticket"
There you have the history Of the two
Conventions that put the Cameron. Low
is and Blair ticket into the field, given by
the people who know them best-a Read
juster and a Republican. On the other
hand, turn to the Conservative Conven-
ton that nominated John W. Daniel, with
such men as Tucker, Hunter, Early, and
others, with no hint of corruption lnf1u-
encing their decisions. The flower OF the
State. Those are the two paths by which
these two tickets come to you. What sort
of administration do you expect from the
one, and what from the other, judging
from the bodies that nominated them
Why is it that leading Republicans of
the Republican States show such interest
in the success of the Readjuster party?-
Solely because they desire the destruction
of the Democratic party. Why is it that
Conkling, the man who characterizes the
Southern people as tigers and hyenas, and
who is the most bitter hater of the South
ern people, sends word to Malone that his
heart is with him? Why is it that Hoar,
and Cameron and Dawes are his active
partners? Are theyReadjusters? No! The
Republican party is pledged against any
thing Of the sort. Among the last public
utterances of the lamented Garfield, was
that the Republican party could not afford
to touch anything that was tainted with
reputation. The object Of these men
is solely the destruction of the Demo-
cratic party.
He, the speaker, was no believer in ghosts
but If he were he would almost believe
that if the time honored Democracy of
Shenandoah were to join the Republicans
in this effort to break down the Democrat
ic party their old Democratic fathers
would burst the cerements of the tomb and
appear before their sons to rebuke them.
(Applause.) Is Malone Democrat ?
(cries of s'no no.") What manner of man is
this sum and substance of the Readjuster
party: who dictates their policy, who writes
their platform and who is their all in all !?
He says he went to Washington to voice
the voice of Virginia. How did he cast the
vote of that Virginia; that Virginia which
gave lbs, 900 votes for Hancock to $4,000
for Garfeld-for 1 contend that the DEM
ocratic Readjusters who voted the July
ticket really aoanted Hancock elected!
You July men believed that your ticket
would carry the State, because VIM. Ma
hone told yeu it would. Did he cast this
Democratic vote of Virginia with his
Democratic fellow Senators? Not once.
He flung himself into the arms OF the Re-
publican party and without excuse, for in
the Republican party there is no such issue
as REIMBURSEMENT. He united himself with
Conkling, Dawes, Hoar and Cameron and
voted against every Democratic motion.
A Democrat! Suppose Hancock had been
elected and Malone had cast his vote
against the Democratic party in the Senate
would any man have been either stupid or
false enough to have called him Demo-
GRAFT Suppose Bayard, Hill and VOORHEES,
had voted at that session of the Senate with
the Republicans, would not the country
have rung with denunciations of them
w Uulu uOU gUU OCHOOi IeSoNJuoocAo
who are yet Democrats; would not you
have denounced them ?
HOW comes it to pass in these days that
the old war worn veterans of Democracy
of Shenandoah are asked to vote for John
f. Lewis? Is it that Gen. Malone having
done the like Of that in the Senate is de-
termined to make you at home do some
thing of the same sort? Is it true that he
having swallowed Cameron, Conkling and
company is determined that you at home
shall swallow John F. Lewis John +.
Lewis, the same man who. in presenting
Gen. Wickham for President of the Re-
publican State Convention, at Staunton,
said Il read from the ''Valley Virginian')
that he hoped to live long enough to see
the day when the Democratic party would
be buried so deep that the hand of resur-
rectlon could not reach it. And are you
Democratic Readjusters the men to be
brought up to vote for a man who tells
you that the hope of bis life is to see your
party buried beyond the reach of resurrec-
ton ? know you will not do it! ZAP
plause and cries of no! noD Then where
are you going? When you follow a man
who wants to bury your party, where are
qou going? Where will you be when he
is burying your party and where will you
90 after the burial. He seems sure of his
game. In letter to Garfield he said THE
tendency of the ReadjusteI party is 1aoac so
clear, to the Republican party, that unless
repealed by selfish politicians they will IN
evitab7y draw up in the ranks of the Re-
publican party" NOW where are you
Democratic Readjusters to go? Is there
any free Democratic citizen of Shenando-
alb here to-day around whom the tolls are
so drawn that any man in this wide world