The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-06-02

not forget that the Republicans are about,
and are not bound to either of their train,
and will see to it that their power is
felt.
The Path of Duty.
The indications from every portion OF
Virginia encourage the belief that the Re
publicans are becoming fully awakened to
the Importance of maintaining strict party
The danger which has con-
fronted them for the past few months of
being deceived into an abandonment of
their political identity and the surrender of
their party oneness is fast disappearing,
and the old time vigor and courage of those
who have stood by Republican principles in
the fiercest and bitterest of political con-
test, once more being asserted. There was
never time in the history of the Republi-
can party in Virginia, when the necessity
was more pressing for distinct announce
ment of Republican principles and adj
herence to Republican organization. We
have before us the uneXampled prosperity
of the country as.the result of Republican
ciples. Our own State is feeling the invig-
Grating and progressive influences of the
results of Republican policy in the develop
ment of her hidden wealth, the establish
ment of mechanical industries, the enhance
ment of material values and the general
thrift which seems to pervade all branches
of industry. The people begin to under
stand and realize that the financial pol
icy of the Republican party has been
the source of this changed condition
of things. They comprehend the cause
and etfect-that the basis of business opera
tions is safe and enduring, and that the out
flow must necessarily partake of solidity
and permanency. They recognize that it is
to the Republican party that the credit is
due for the suspicious change that has come
over the business relations of the country
to its courage in steadily contending for
ard finally achieving return to Old-time
methods of maintaining public credit and
encouraging public enterprise. The won
derful operations of the Treasury Depart
ment in reducing the public debt. decreas-
ing the interest charge, .essening the taxes
of the people and establishing a currency
that is the equal of gold the country and
world over, has not only established the
credit of the government to be the equal of
that of any power on the globe, but has diff
fused its influence through all the ramifca-
lions of trade, and reached to all portions
of the country. 1t is the reflection of this
healthy condition of national affairs brought
about by Republican craftsmanship and ad-
mnistration, that is stirring the energies,
inspiring the confidence and directing the
endeayors of the people of Virginia and all
the States of the Union. The Republican
party ii Virginia is part Of the great ma
tional organization which has achieved
these results, and for it now to abandon its
identity with it, and allow an absorption of
its forces with an organization, whose
leaders were among the fiercest in de-
nunciation of the methods and motives
which effected these benefcent fruitions.
would be to proclaim their own treachery,
invite universal scorn and contempt. and
forever brand them as mercenary adve ntu-
rers and unprincipled place-hnnters. We
have now at least the respect of the better
element of the Virginia people, irrespective
of party, and indeed an under-current Of
sympathy to degree that has never before
been extended. AS the passions and preju-
dcas of race and section abate and are worn
away by the action of time, the govern
mental principles which have been instru-
mental in subscribing so bountifully the in
terests of the people are recognized and the
party whose creed they constitute is ad-
vanced in public favor.
The policy of the Republicans of Vir-
ginia is to adhere steadily to their organ-
cation, flame out the principles of the ma
tional party as they affect public obliga-
tons, State and Nation, Industrial enter
prise and political freedom, and appeal to
the better judgment of the people for en-
dorsement. These they have right to
claim as their cardinal doctrines, and those
uated and become the controlling influence
in the administration of the country and
especially the South, will see the necessity
as well as the policy of cooperating in
securing the success of the party which pro-
claims them.
The indications point to revival of the
interests of the Republican party in Vir-
ginia. The specious promises and deceptive
methods which have been employed to dis
integrate and demoralize our forces, have
been exposed by the very greed that has
marked the announcement. Each recurring
day ill only the more fully develop the
motive at the bottom of all this newborn
liberalism" and demonstrate that it is
with the Republican organization alone that
the great ends of its mission can be accom-
plished. The clouds are dispersing-the
mists and fogs which have obscured the
pathway of safety and eventual success
are dissolving, and soon the clear light of
duty will direct and govern all the move
ments of the party.