Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-10-27
WHAT you ARE TO VOTE FOR
NEXT MONTH.

NEXT MONTH.
There is not Malone canvasser on the
stump in Virginia who does not insult the
intelligence of Democratic Readjusters by
attempting to excite their apprehensiOns
that if the Democratic members of the
National House of Representatives are
elected it will give power to "Funders,"
who will use it to undo what has been done
in readjusting the State debt. No more
patent fraud was ever used in political de-
bate, and that is saying good DEAL There
IS not State officer to be elected, nor
member of the legislature, nor any man
that has in the remotest degree the slight
est official connection with or power over
the State debt of Virginia, or the creditors
who hold it. No member of Congress.
whether Democrat or Coalitionist, can by
his vote, directly or indirectly, affect it.
The funding of the debt under the Rid
dleberger bill IS noao progressing daily at
the State Treasurer's office IN Richmond, land
if the President of the United States were
tomorrow to call special session of
Congress with the object of retarding or
Fastening that funding no law it could pass
would have the weight Of feather to that
end. Those very men who thus trifle with
the credulity of their hearers, k,loao, this
is so, and that what they are saying is the
boldest deception, and are throwing their
hook at random, taking the chance Of
hooking a fish that knows no better
Further, they know there isn't party or
even a decent number Of men in the State
who would oyerturn the settlement of the
debt if they were placed in possession of
every department of the government, and
with the highest court of the Common
wealth to back them.
The debt question in Virginia, whether
of payment, reputation or readjustment,
is dead and buried, and Malone brokers
and politicians who scooped the butter
while the people of both parties were
sweating at the churn dasher, have got
ten their last dollar out Of it. The free bal
lot and fair count" adventures who were
penniless and have grown rich on the stock
speculation attending the struggle, have
made as much out of the people of Vir-
ginia as they will make and their game Is
up. The Democratic cat will gull no
more chestnuts out Of the fire for them.
and the job is turned over to the Republi-
can black cat, which IN Virginia, has been
pulling chestnuts out of the fire for its
white office holders ever since the Four
tenth Amendment gave it claws. 1t is
the discovery of this declaration of indie
pendence by white Democrats that moves
Malone orators to address the fears of the
more credulous with such audacious
proposition as that the debt settle
ment will be overturned Thea very
men who utter this stuff know while they
are saying it that there is but one power
in the United States that can undo the
Virginia settlement, and that is the Uni
ted States Supreme Court, body whose
decisions member of Congress is no more
able to affect than member of your Board
of County Supervisors.
The moving cause of the statement is,
reduced to the briefest form, that General
Malone wants to deliver to the Stalwart
Republican, Arthur, six more Stalwart
Republican congressman from Virgi mia.
1t is the Arthur party in Congress that is
in danger of being overturned, not the
debt settlement in Virginia.