The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-08-30
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Republicans indicated.

Republicans INDICATED.
The present position of parties i'll Vir-
ginia is significant and tangible endorse
ment of the Republicans Of the State and
the measures they have uniformly adj
vocated. The Readjusters have won theil
great battles by taking up, adopting and
enforcingthe main views which the Repub
licans advocated before the Coalition force
was organized The Democrats, in State
Convention, have formally endorsed what
the Readjusters have done, and given
their approval of all that the Republicans
have demanded. We thus find that both
elements Of what was once the Conserva-
tive party have been compelled to accept,
as their State policy, that outlined by the
Republicans, and the Bourbons now pro-
pose to be evenmore liberal than the Read
justers on all the controverted questions
which they have heretofore opposed.
| Notwithstanding the fact that the Re
publicans of Virginia have been de-
nounceds}as enemies Of the States pro-
scribed i'll all the relations Of life because
OF their political convictions and party
identity, their vindication now comes
from their former accusers and defamers,
and their devotion to the best interests of
the Commonwealth attested by the adop-
tion and practical enforcement of the
measures they advocated, when the whole
Conservative party was arrayed against
them. We do not wish to detract any
thing from what is due the Re-adjusters.
Without their aid the Republicans could
have done nothing, and the State would
still be groaning under the expressions and
wrongs of Bourbon administration. We
merely refer to the situation to do simple
justice to the Republicans and show to
the people the injustice which they have
suffered in the past. No sooner is the
policy advocated by the Republicans prac-
tically adopted and enforced their liberal
views and demands crystalized into laws
than all the great interests of Vir-
ginia receive an impulse forward-the
sympathy of the people of other States is
interested in our behalf capital and en-
terprise seek our borders, and new ma
terial, with the new political dispensation.
sheds its beneficent influence over all our
interests.
While the present Democratic party has
indirectly and publicly given it's endorse
ment to what Republicans have heretofore
presented forsaken in terms, their own
moss-coyered and proscriptive notions.
and commended, substantially, the Read
justers for aiding the Republicans in the
work they proposed, yet the Democratic
organs have the effrontery to appeal to the
Readjusters to forsake the Coalition for
fear that it will lead them into the Repub-
lican party If principles and policy af-
lfecting the welfare of the State, and ac-
comprising good for the people, are what
parties are formed for, where would be the
crime should the Bourbon affected appre-
hension be realized? Have they not given
IN their adhesion to policy and declared
for that the Republicans have proposed
DO not they, i'll their Lynchburg platform,
as clearly and indisputahly acknowledge
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they nave been wrong on all State ques-
tons? Have they not invited Republic
cans to offer for elective Office and formal
ly announced their purpose to support
them (? Unquestionably so-a fact known
to all men. And yet they have the audac-
ity to assail Republicans, and denounce all
others who cooperate with them in State
matters, in the face of such a record
They have the impudence to arraign the
ReadJusters and endeayor to prey upon
their fears, by charging that they are
tending towards the Republican party and
must eventually land there unless they
return to the Bourbon fold Would they
not be as near Republicanism, by identi-
tying themselves with the so-called Demo
cratic party of Virginia. in the light of it's
recent utterances at Lynchburg,a s to State
measures, and it's support of Wickham for
the State Senate, as they would be by adj
herring to tie Coalition ? Both have en-
dorsed the issues in the State as presented
by the Republicans-bo have courted
the support of the Republicans and the
Bourbons would hail with delight any
proposition from Republicans that would
give them the State government.
The difference is that Republicans and
ReadJusters have made common cause in
the adoption of the measures that the
Bourbons now approve. but which they
opposed until they were adopted and the
benefits to the people flowing from them
realized With everybody approving and
commencing, it is not reasonable to sup
pose that the Readjusters are going to for
sake the work of their own hands, forsake
their own allies, and unite with .their'ene-
mics. Nothing but Bourbon stupidity
and 1mpndence could have conceived such
a thing.