Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-07-21

ton OF delegates in such manner as to
them may seem best.
A. KoINER,
W. D. PEACHY,
J. N. WHITE,
District Committee
No principle in voting for old man Mas
seY. eh? Well, you just let the old man
say once that he isn't going to vote with
the National Democracy in Congress. and
you'll see whether there is any principle in
voting for him or not. He wouldn't get
Democratic vote in the State of Virginia.
That is the test of principle ia this cam
paign. 1t is a National campaign-the
election of representatives to the National
Congress. There are two parties and only
two in the field all over this United States.
One supports the Republican Administra-
tion and the other wants Democratic Ad-
ministration. One is the Republican par
ty and the other is the Democratic party
all the little side shows that pick up other
names as temporary expedients are work
ing in the interest of one or the other of
these parties. In Virginia the Republi-
cans wear Readjuster rosette on their
lapel, in Maine tie Democrats sport
Greenback rosette. But they both have
well defined object. The Virginian will sup
port Arthur's Republican Administration
through thick and thin with all its cor
ruption and extravaganza, with all its Gen.
tralization eddies and currents, with all its
doWny nests for monopolies, and with all
its heavy and burdesome taxation of the
people in the interest of those monopolies.
The Maine man will oppose all this to the
bitter end. In this election in Virginia
John s. Wise wears one Readjuster rosette.
John E. Massey wears another, bigger,
redder, older one than Wise's, but instead
of flying his colors in the interest of Re-
publican Administration he is the mortal
opponent of it, Of its representative in
Virginia, VIM. Malone, and of political
bossism. Wise's rosetts is ornamental,
he is new recruit as it were. joining the
army after the victory had been substan-
TALLY won, but in time to be present at the
distribution of the spoils. of which he re-
ceived a Federal appointment. Old man
Massey's rosette has seen service; is bat
tered and old; been IN the REIMBURSEMENT
fights when there was onIya small brig ade
to back it. Its wearer has been in every
battle until the question of Readjustmen
was settled. We don't suppose Democrat
ic Readjuster would vote for Wise in pre-
ference to Massey on account of the SER
vices he has rendered readjustment. MIR.
Wise's claims on Democratic Readjus-
tiers are as nothing compared with Mr..
Massey's on that score.
What s'clains'' has Mr.. Massey on Dem
ocrats who were not .Readjusters? We
shan't repeat what he and his friends have
done in blocking the ''boss" game in Vir-
ginia, because gratitude is an empty cur
rency if it hasn't the stamp of expediency
to back it. Your gratitude to public man
is more damaging than your ingratitude
if it leads you to put him IN position to
be defeated. Mr.. Massey's claim on the
Democratic party is based solely on his
ability to break down bossism. and the
fact that he is Democrat in opposition
to the Republican party. Can he beat
bossism? Well now you let the old man
attend to that. Whoever takes Massey
for fool or fanatic has failed of getting
his measure. He knows what he is about.
All you have to do is to see to it that your
ballot for him is in the box; he will attend
to the thirteen thousand that was lacking
last November. Just leave that branch
of the business to the old man. If he gets
defeated you won't have yourself to re-
proach for it; if he is elected you have
Democrat in Congress dead sure and an
opponent of Boss Malone, world without
end.
But it would be SO much better to have
one of ssOur oaun men, as standard bearer?
My boy, if Massey beats the Readjuster
Republican-Mahone candidate for con-
gress in Virginia, he will be the ownest of
the own. Any man that says he is Dem
ocrat; acts like Democrat, and will vote
with the Democrats in Congress is o,cn
enough for us at this period and for all
future time. We know the s'true and
tried men, as well as you do, are as proud
of them and honor them as much-honor
them from the bottom of our hearts. Why
then, with this feeling should we take one
of them and because he is chivalric enough
to carry the banner, put it in his hands
and run him under dead fall? 'Tisn't
good sense or humanity, is itp
There are some Democrats who can't be
brought to support him? Never you mind
about that; you support him! The wisest
and most sincere of men change their first
resolutions. This very journal for which
we are writing, then edited by as true
Democrat as ever held a pen, declared at
the first news of Withers withdrawal and
Walkers nomination in 1869, that it
would not support him. and yet after re-
Election, no pen in this Valley rallied more
men to the emf anchisement of the State
in the election of Walker. Virginia again
needs an enfranchisement from one man
rule, the like of which was never seen in
Virginia. Under military rule, the young,
old, women and children we're not hunted
out of petty Offices on the suspicion of be-
ing Democrats. This bondage to one man
must be loosened from the State. We
have tried it and failed, and now Mr.. Mas
sey offers to try it on his own account
Long life to your slick hat and spectacles
old gentlemen and may the Authorship,
which you could haze had but refused on
Mahone's terms, be replaced with DEM
ocratic seat in Democratic Congress!
HON. JUHN r. HARRIS.
We make the following extract from a
private letter written by the Hon. John |
T. Harris to friend in this city: