The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-08-17

progressive Commonwealth Of the nation,
and unfurl the banner of free education
free ballot; fair count; for American labor
and National and State progress and pros
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,,r. Partizan Mal1gnitv
1t is common for the Democratic press OF
the country to refer to President Arthur's
administration as the 'Guiteau-Arth Adj
ministration. What isexpected to be gained
by such ribaldry-such debasing and dis
grazing expressions is past our comprehen-
sion. Certainly it is not expected that the
better element of the American people, of
either party, will regard such low vituper-
alton in any other sense than with disgust
and contempt. Chester A. Arthur holds
his office through the regular forms of the
laws and Constitution of the country. He
is as much the President elected by the
people, as any of his predecessors. He was
dominated on the ticket with Gen. Garfield
at Ch icago, to be voted for as Vice Presi-
dent of the United States, and as President
of the United States, should a vacancy oc-
cur by death or any other cause in the
Presidential office. The constitution of
the country provides for the emergency of
the death of the Pres ident in the election
of Vice President, and it as much an I'M
Outstanding with them when they cast
their ballots. that the Vice President shall
succeed to the Presidency in case OF va
cancy, as it is that the President elect shall
be duly installed at the appointed time.
Gen. Arthur is the legal, constitutional
Chief Magistrate of the nation, with no
question as to his title or the Legitimacy OF
his right to perform the functions of his
high office. Yet it answers the purpose of
malignant, unprincipled and corrupt par
tizanism to stigmatize his admin istration
with the name of an assassin, and endeavor
to arouse prejudice in the popular mind
against him becau-e in the mysterious Or
dering of wise Providence, he has been
ton contemplates and provides that he shall
perform.
The calm, impartial Judgment of the
country can have nothing but condemna-
ton for the vile. venomous and vicious
spirit that stands behnds such malignant
depravity that reflects discredit upon Amer
lean character and American institutions,
and is as sure to work out the overthrow and
destruction Of the party that INDUCES and
| tolerates it,as that putridity sinks because of
its own weight. We can hardly conceive
Of the moral constitution of a man. who
| can so prostitute the press and pollute public
sentiment. as to assail the Chief Magistrate
of the Nation, elected under the forms of
| law and exercising the functions of his Of
| flee under the sanction and direction of the
Constitution, in the manner and terms that
| many of the Democratic papers of the
country attack President Arthur. 1t is a
shame upon journalism, black stain upon
our civilization, an insult to the intelli-
gence, the patriotism, the manhood of the
| American people, flagrant reproach upon
the social and political organism of the ma
ton. that snch things can be done without
invoking the swiftest and most expressive
vengeance.
e Without governmental principle to pre-
sent to the American voter for his approval,
without legitimate argument to address
to the popular mind-without an honest
appeal to the conscience OF the country, the
Democratic party is left this one vile cpl
tibet to arouse the basest passions of the ig-
norant and the corrupt-the ''Guiteau-Ar-
thur adm istratiOn''! And it is taken up
in Virginia with the name of Senator Ma
hone interjected and linked in, to excite
the feelings and invite the distrust and en-
nifty of the people of the State! Could
party desperat ion 60 further, or reach lower
depth? Are the honest people of this old
Commonwealth prepared to sustain a po-
litical organ ization, whose organs and rep
resentatives are forced to such disreputable
means to maintain cause? Without a
popular rebuke, the spirit which finds eX-
preston in the epithets to which we have
referred. will grow in its communicating in
fiuence, lower the standard of public NOR
atty, and vitiate the whole frame work of
our institutions. In no other country on the
globe would such outrageous defamation
and insufferable malignity be tolerated by
decent people. The slums and fish mar
kets might accept it as legitimate mode
Of party warfare, but men who respect the
laws and Constitution Of the country, in
woke the conservative restraints of argu-
I
the good intention and intelligence of the
constituent body, can have no tolerance or
sympathy with any political organization,
which avails of such vulgar epithets and
disgraceful appeals, to control political
movements and achieve party results. And
no other party in this or any other country
would employ such disreputable means or
strive for success through such wicked and
malicious agencies, except the Democratic
party. 1t is entitled to the exclusive honor
of the invention and it should be severely
judged by the use it is attempted to make
of it. . tff '4
|. The White Sulphur Springs Company an
nounce, through Major ]. D. Ferguson, Sec
rotary of the Maryland Jockey Club, the OPEN
ing of their newly constructed race track, and
that an Inaugural racing meeting will begin
on the 29th of August, and continue ON the
31st, and on Sept 2, 4 and 6, during which
$4,000 will be given IN added money and pur-
SEES, the Louisville Jockey Club rules to goy-
ern. 1t will be an intel esting occasion for the
lovers Of the race course, and draw doubtless
a large crowd.
A dispatch from Jamaica says Westgate,
the self confessed assassin of Lord Frederick
Cavendish and Burke, arrived there, and the
evidence duplicating him in the crime is