Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-11-30

leu in making the announcement or It's
new departure, if it can be called SO, says,
Democratic Bourbons can make the
most of it in denouncing us. The noise
thew will make over our tumble" will
n It alarm Us. Where duty calls US we
snail be found battling We owe the Bour-
bons nothing, and ask no favors at their
hands as party.
There will be little denunciation of the
Spirit, we take it; this is free country
and a mans politics are his own affair.
The Democracy has no quarrel with
Democrat who turns Republican and goes;
their quarrel is with the Democrat who
speaks and acts for the Republican party
and still attempts to stay very desp'ca-
BILE proceeding. The editor of the Spirit
is only few days behind his leader, Gen.
Malone. who announced IN his dime
novel account of his defeat in Virginia.
written exclusively for Northern circula-
ton, that:
'.As your chairman, call upon every
loyal Readjuster in Virginia to rally to the
old standard and reform to Gght new
battle against their old Bourbon foe in the
national campaign of 1884"
One, and only one hand seems to have
been cordially held out from the Republi-
cans TO welcome the defeated Boss, that of
| George e. Gorham, dear George" tht
expectant future Secretary of the Senate.
In the issue of the National Republican of
the 18th inst, George says of the Gen
erals circular,
There Is no reservation or evasion IN
the words of General Malone He une-
quivocally places himself shoulder to
shoulder with the foremost Republicans in
the land in the contest of 1884 and assures
us thGt he believes he speaks the senti.
ments of the Readjuster party
The rest of the Republican party, In
view of 1884, fight shy of the new recruit.
as being company that it will be best for
tlejr next Presidential nominee not to be
found Ia, il he hopes to be elected. The
example set by Gen. Malone in his circu-
lar, in defining what national party be
will affiliate with in 1884. will ere many
days be pretty Thoroughly followed by the
members of the Coalition party. Those
who have all slcng intended to follow him
into the Republican party will go
there, and those whose honest desire was
the readjustment of the State debt will be
found again in the ranks of the Demo-
cratic party. The Democratic Readjusters
whe have fought with the Coalition and
who really constitute the only one, of the
many factions, WHICH has sustained no
defeat of principle in the eve campaigns
fought in Virginia. will take the follow
ing common sense view uttered by tn.
Page Courier. one of their ablest organs:
s We shall be fully satisfied If they 1.-THE
Uegaacrats] make good their promises be-
fore the ELECTION, and adhere to the
policy announce4 ;p their PLATFORM
and take care of the schools, stc :.
as they have pledged themselves
to do, they are good enough Rad
busters for US. This is all we have been
fighting for. IT they don't, then it is be-
tween them and the people,"
This resolving into National party rela-
tions in Virginia, has been much fasilita.
ted by the recent Democratic victory. 1t
has been true, that in spite of all ASST
RANGES to the contrary, a very large mass
of the Democratic Readjusters have been
afraid to trust our party with the enforce
ment of the Rlddl-berger bill. Many of
them who bad little sympathy with the
communistic and incendiary speeches Of
the Coalition leaders, and at heart were
disguised with the tyranny of Mahone
and the violence and vulgarity Of his
han vol fp1 bof or OF
one part Of their harangues might be
true-that the Democratic party were not
sincere at Lynchburg in pronaunSing the
debt irrevocabiy settled. They wanted
peace in the Safe, aud no n IRE civil
commotion over the debt, and thought it
better to trust legislation with even such
men as the Coalition leaders than to run
Tie tisk OF the reapeDlng OF the dett
question. The Democratic victory has
put the matter wtss.e -! those doubts car
lature will carry out the Riddlebergpr bill
in letter and in spirit, and that, as the
Courier says. is all that is wanted,
The return of the Democratic Raadjus
tiers to active corporation with the party
in STATE affairs as we'll as nstional: for
they have never acted With The Republic
can party in national elections, il good
opportunity FIR a general house cleaning
in tn OLD hnme to welcome them. They
DO s.ob Gune, as we mus. recnilect, as DE-
feated opponents, thay have carried every
point in State affairs that tLec startea
out to carry. and the man is political
idiot who attempts to treat them as cor
quered foes. Let US welcome them back
new family arrangements. If any of the
old family REGULATE as kept some of the
members in intellectual serfdoa, with no
opportunity to rise, let US abandon thos,,
unjust regulations; if any of the elder
members of the family have m ,uopoliz.d
all Che upper seats at the taLle by force Of
habit let as 5resk mp this bad habit if
we have baen calling che dogmatism of + he
past by the name OF senerated Wisd on. let
US put a sop TO 1t; if We have been call
ing dust covered habits and rut bound
preindIces, the results of mature expert
eDce. let's have done with it (; If we have
been dividing cut the loaves cf the family
only among the dudes Of thu parlor and
neglectirg the muscle of tue field, let's
put an end to it. Let US have q new house,
a new party and new regulations. If We
do, the old farm Will never again have
trials and contentious to disturb it.
-rp>N<e.>S
SAINT J RANDALL.
If ia with great SurNrisa NM IN saw