Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-10-19
THE CHEAT DEMOCRATIC
TICTURIES.

VICTORiES.
While our Democratic brethren are re-
ioicing over the election of a Democratic
Governor and legislature in Ohio, they
should not fail to note the equally marked
evidence of the decadence of the Republic
can party in that bed rock of Republican
ism, Iowa. For Garfield, Iowa gave seven
ty-eight thousand majority, while last
week the RI publican Governor was elected
by the pitlful plurality Of twenty-seven
Thousand, a loss Of fifty-one thousand
votes in three years. 1t is an evidence OF
the rapid progress of decay in politi cal
organization which has long outlived its
usefulness which must carry dismaY to the
barnacles who have teen attached to the
American ship of State blythe waves OF
former majorlties.
The State OF Ohio by her vote on the
9 h of October, removed herself from The
C lumn on which tue Republican part,
can count for victory in 1884. and too
her place among the doubtful States. wit
the chances in favor of the Democracy
TIE repeated successes of the Democracy,
IN carrying the State for Secretary of State,
on State issues, in 1882: in again carryin
the State, month after, for CT ngressme
on national issues, and now again carry
ing the State in 1888, on State issues, re-
duces the Republican hope of recapturiDg
the State, to desrairing minimum. 1t
is hopeless task for our Republican
friends to argue that the blows of the
Democratic sledge hammer will cease.
The Democratic party has carried the
State this month under every possible dis
advantage-a sullen hanging back of the
old Bourbon element in it's own ranks.
candidate in i'll health who was only able
to make three speeches during the cam
paign, and with open and aggressive d.
visions in its ranks at three chief points
of its last msjorlties causing loss of over
eleven thousand votes-if with all these
disadvantages the party could carry its
Governor by 10000 majority and It's legis-
lature by twenty-four majority, there is
barely chance for the Republican party
there in 1884. John Sherman Saw into it
and declined to be sacrificed.
1t is almost superfuous, with the record
of the National Republican party, made in
the last fifteen years, to go into an expla-
nation of its falling to pieces in the States
which possess according to the census the
great mass of those voters who can read
and write. No party that has the record
that the Republican party has can last any
longer than its constituency have time to
to read and make up an independent judg-
ment on that record. 1t has long ago been
divorced from the American people and
for two years past has been struggling to
secure the affections and aid of bride
of darker hue at the South. AS it has
found its foothold slipping at the North,
a fact evidenced by frequent disastrous
falls in the Northern States, it has
struggled the harder to mend its hold in
the Southern States where the ignorant
blacks with an alloy of whites promised
them more success. They have turned
from the intelligence Of the Northern por
ton of the Republic to the ignorance of
the South manipulated by Malone in
Virginia, Chalmers in Mississippi, Speer
in Georgia, and Leach in North Carolina
To this movement the renewed disasters
in Ohio and Iowa will give greater
impetus. We must prepare for that in
Virginia and he ready to make certain that
on the 9th of November the drowning
Republican party does not manage to
climb up over the taffrail of our staunch
Democratic ship. Malone and those of
his followers who are ''for Arther because
Arthur is for u.s. and who are now strug-
Cling in the great Ohio and Iowa waves
must be pushed off and pushed under
water.
The death of the Republican party in
the United States and the advent of the
furnish by their cause some instructive
hints to the victorious party. 1t tells them
that no party separated from the People
and run by an olgarchy can succeed in
America. Nothing that it may have done
for the saving of the Union can atone for
its confscation of the liberties of the citi
zen under the pretence of preservation of
that union. The People will tolerate no
p rty that by excessive taxation keeps a
treasury full of their money and guarded
by a corrupt government. The people of
this great Republic have now rallied from
Massachusetts, to Louisiana to the New
Democracy which, as in Ohio, is strong
enough and brave enough to ally them
selves with the People and throw down
those who believe in hereditary rights in
political parties, who have the iDsoence
to proclaim as almost party tenet that
one man 3 blood" is better than another
mans. and that class of pretenders
known as the BEST People, have vested
rights in politics WHICH the real people are
bound to bow to.
The fate OF the Republican party should
lived long under the control Of bosses up.
held by Revenue. Treasury, and other
official rings. The day of judgment has
has come to it and while it is standing
trembling at the bar of pubic opinion, its
Lillputian imitators IN Virginia may we'll
be setting their house in order, for with the
National culprit, the People sitting in in
dignant judgment will surely destroy Its
puny co-parceners and sharers in its crimes
and its swag, the Coalitionists of Virginia.
Our esteemed contemporary, the Valley
Virginiaga. is an intolerahle Bourbon in
the slow step with which it catches up
with the movements of the New Democ-
racy. 1t is evidently under the delusion
that it is fighting the old time Democracy
with its same old organization and candi-
dates. Why, the candidates now are Ed.
Echols and John N. Opie, young, live, ac-
tive men, who are canvassing in person