Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-10-26

DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOR HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
John N. OPIE, of Augusta.
EDWARD ECHOLS, of Staunten.
WILL READJusTERs SUBMIT
TO ITs
During a most admirable speech deEver-
ed at Mt. Sidney on Saturday evening.
Mr.. Meade F. White gave some illustra-
lions of how the control of affairs in this
county, as far as it lay in the Coalition
party. was centered with its emoluments
honors and material advantages In the
hands of Two Families. No one who
could have been present. and who could
have witnessed the spirit in which the
audience received these illustrate could
have doubted that the Readjusters of the
Coalition party are not yet ready to yield
submissiyely to such an unheard of and
wholly unprecedented exhibition of nepot-
ism and greed as has characterized the
MANAGEMENT of the Coalition party in
Augusta. You cannot make tour OF the
State institutions, schools, post offices.
without having your attention attracted
to it. What explanation do the bene6ci-
aries of this system give when their atten-
ton is called to the fact that it's publicity
is damaging to the party 7 Why they only
reply that it is merely an effort Of the Dem
a. = fsofo mi n
lition ranks, and advise the inquirer to pay
no more attention to it than he would to
any other sFunder, attempt to break up
ths party and ''disturb the settlement OF
the debt"
Create dissatisfaction Why the dis.
satisfaction already exists. 1t will always
exist if little rings of favorites use the
voters Of their party merely as hewers OF
wood and drawers of water. The men
who left the old Democracy had no
thought of giving up their individuality
in any other party. Many Of them went
to the new organization with view to
establishing their individuality. The men
who left the Democracy didn't 60 to en-
list as the servants and wear the collars
of Two Families. They didn't start out
to Ego into service' as the domestic
phrase goes. They went to carry out
political object which they believed was
for the welfare of their State. They did
their full duty as members of the new par
ty, they took their share of the heat and
burden of the day, they did the york of
the party. The manner in which they
have been ignored has incensed them
They are not to be put off BY any appeals
to ''stand by the party" They are not
to be frightened by any Funder scare
crow or any tales of Bourbon spookes.-
Their party has been in full power since
January, 1881. and the leaders of it don't
even know them yet: they only know and
keep the People at distance. You can't
brighten these men by telling them that If
they talk, or if they insist on such and such
things, or if they are loud in their COM
plants, they will give the Democrats an
opportunity to hurt the Coalition. They
will heed none OF this; they intend that the
Coalition leaders shall be hurt; they have
made up their minds to that effect and
are determined that the little county and
Family rings who have Theoretically sealed
the party management from any partici-
patton by the People shall 20 under at
the coming election. 1t is of no use appeal
ing to them in behalf of Fulcher and
Hamilton, they may seem convinced but,
all the same. they are not going to the
polls or if they do go they will slip in an
Opie and Echols ballot.
They know the political situation as
there is no hope of electing either of their
candidates whether they vote for them or
not, and they see for the first time an op-
portunlty to administer lesson to the
bosses. Quiet under their wrongs they
may have been, but not Indifferent; silent
they may have been, but none the less in
dignant; and the present election is too
good an opportunity to square up the past.
to let it pass unimproved. This time, if
never again, they are determined to teach
the greedy bosses that there is such
thing as the People in the Coalition ranks.
The jolly good fellowship of Capt. Fulcher
and the joviality of Mr.. Hamilton will
not avail They will spew them out of
their mouths as neither hot nor cold. -
These two gentlemen have been too luke
warm about the rights of the People. They
have denounced the Old Democracy for
their ostracism of the people when party
rewards were to be given, and then proved
by their conduct that they were no better
tEan the Old Democracy. They have
called the Old Democracy hide bound, and
then shown that all the difference between
them and the Old Democracy is that
with them all the spoils are bound up in the
hides of two families. T hey have called
the old Democracy an aristocracy and
then shown themselves busy in erecting
affairs to the Best Families, on which the
material profits of the party campaigns
have been laid as offerings. They have
talked to the people of county court law
yers, and when the people had turned their
backs, they have themselves become men,
of ring of which county court lawyer
is the head and front. They have de-
nounced bossism, and are the bounden
servltors of Boss. They have abused the
old Democracy and then permitted with
out protest, their leaders to array them
selves in the cast off faults of the Democ-
racy and strut and hector the people with
an insolence that the veriest Bourbon
has never attained. They have talked of
the People and then forgotten them.
Tt ia for this that tho peolactad and do
spised voter Of the Common People
intends to give the petty leaders fall in
November. He is not to be whipped