National Republican., 1883-04-13
VIRGINIA IN 1884.
Brahonc's Organ On the Political Fu-
turc.
Richmond WHO,

nOJ say Wo WU NOt 90 Utm you Nv looij NOT WNt
,ce be found wim your bourbon allies, north or
SOUTH"
Tho veriest dullard among tho bourbons,
while he hopes that the stale cry of demo
crat and white man" may deter readiusters
from pressing their success to its perfect con-
summation, yet doubts the efficacy of that
clamor. Wantonly outlawed and insulted by
bourbon committees, state and national, we
have swept Virginia In three great political
contests-in two of them winning upon ma
tiOnal issues. In 1882 we won almost exclu-
sively upon national issues Always read
Justment has been bitterly antagonizod by
the bourbon national organization falsely
calling itself the democratic party. Had the
prayers and efforts of the bourbon democracy,
north and SOUTH been eflectual, readiustment
would have been crushed; the state debt
would still be a lever for the despotic EN-
ployment of brokers to opprcss our people
the public schools would still be the object of
pillage almost to the point of suppression
free suffrage would have been by word and
a jest; Virginia instead of being the proud
and Independent state that she is to-day un
der the benign influence of readjuster policy
and principles would be in the despair and
humiliation from which the consecutive tri-
umphs Of readjustment rescued her.
What, then, do we owe the bourbon national
organization Sympathy2 Cooperation
Help2 Or do we owe it scorn for, its inn
potent hate2 Ceaseless hostility for its wan
ton warfare upon all our cherished objects
accomplished despite its opposition2 Why
should bourbon funder organs affect doubt of
the courage and fidelity of 1oadjusters who
have marched through the fires of hate and
persecution to the triumphs which have put
bourbon funderism under their feet2
1t is characteristic of the purblind leader
ship of bourbouism to expect readjusters to
desert their colors under the allurcments of u
cir tod 10 RI nv nf
that incompetent leadership which despises
popular intelligence as to the real public veal
TO expect the people to be kept in bondage to
exploded dogmas and an abandoned senti-
mentalism. 1t is weak ovasion-mere hypo-
critical pretense-that bourbon organs every
where do not remember the emphatic decla-
rations of readjusters in the campaigns of
1881 and 1882 that they were torerer di-
rorced from bourbon democracy, both state
and national. These poor leaders and
their dupes ought TO know that re-
adusters are not TO be frightened by
names, no matter how opprobious. Read
iusters remember your vilifcation which
they despised as much as they despise your
Establishments now. When you declared last
year that in being for Arthur because Ar
thur was for us" we had become stalwart
republicans the people still indorsed us,
knowing what readiusters are as well as they
knew it when you publicly called the read
juster party u combination of negroes and
white trash" When you called the liberal
and patriotic President, who has so power
fully aided the Virginia liberals to Danish
sectionalism from politics, and who seeks to
restore equality of north and SOUTH the
"Guiteau President" the people still in
dorsed us for indorsing Arthur. Why pre-
tend ignorance of the lessons of the two great
pitched battles of 'S1 and 49, in which the
people discounted contemptuously your out
cries as to mere names? Why deceive your
selves into the belief that the people do not
understand what government is as distin-
guished from mere autocracy or party dicta-
tion2
Virginia wants friendship with the federal
government; and in pursuance of the broad
American policy, in which she has taken the
lead, she cares little for the political atiilia-
tions and nomenclature of the past. Said
Macaulay: at is the nature of political par
ties to cling far more tenaciously TO their
original hatreds than to their original princi-
pies A generation of wings whom Sidney
would have spurned continued to make war
upon generation OF tories whom Jenries
would have hanged" . sgzIJyy
Readjusters will repel no honorable and
sincere allies In conserving their beneficent
achievements and i'll promoting their patriotic
aspirations But they know their enemies
and will not trust them. Whenever readjust-
ment has lifted its giant arm for the protec-
tion of Virginia against the assaults of funL
derism, it has found iunderism covering
under the wing of bourbonism, spuriously
styling itself national democracy. Bogus de-
mocracy, through Barnum, who sought to
buy voters, calling them mules; through
Bayard, the federalist and hereditary enemy
of the true democracy of Jefferson through
Vance, the ex-know nothing, and Joe Brown,
the ex-radical, assailed readjustment when it
sought an honorable settl ement of our public
debt, the restoration Of our public schools, a
free and unpurchased ballot, and the banish-
ment of the baleful sectionalism which had
arrested the happiness and prosperity Of Vir-
gnia and the south.
Readiuster while they lock shields for the
great battle of 1884, while they exchange the
fraternal countersign, have nothing but de-
fiance for their enemies, state and national,
no matter how ostentatiously those beaten
foes may disport the tattered colors of sham
| democracy. eve are Tor Arthur because Ar
thur is for u.s." and Arthur is for the Vir-
ginians who fight for nationalism against Sec
tionallsm; for the Yirginians who seek to
| place Virginia in tho vanguard of American
states in love for great country which great
| Virginians largely helped to create and which
| blesses 50000,O 900 of people We are for the
| maintenance of the settlement of the public
| debt, which sham democracy, state and ma
tional antagonized at every step, and which
sham democracy, state and national, would
bIlll NO lOI " lIco DuliOJ
popular education in Virginia, which sham
democracy state and national, bitterly fought,
and which it still secretly hates and hopes
to upset. We are for protection to American
| industry, especially to Virginian industry and
labor, and againststhe free trade, pauper labor
system which Tucker, Watterson, and the rest
of the sham democracy advocate. The read
.usters of Virginia, who have restored their
state to the eminence she had among COM
mOnWealths when she made presidents and
shaped policies for national parties, will have
no alliance with bogus democracy. They will
not be found in "a "pigging in the same
trucllle-bed" with Bayard and Beck, Barnum
and Brown, nor in political wedlock with
Massey, Fulkerson, Tucker, and the other
leaders of the Virginia bourbon contingent.
They will find allies to help them make Vir-
gnia potential and enduring influence in
the future of American politics-allios heart
lily respecting her people and their rights, and
anxious to aid in promoting all the interests
Of the state, present and prospective.