Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-10-12
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOR HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
JOHN N. oPIE. of Augusta.
EDWARD ECHOLS, of Staunton.

our county according to the census
of 1880 the large number of eigh-
tsea hundred and seventy-three Negroes.
They are but recently out of slavery, are
with few creditable exceptions utterly
ignorant, have no clear ideas Of govern
ment, and furnish according to our court
records an overwhelming preponderance
e the criminal class of cur community.
: theifl ignorance and vice they COM
,bitson. They demand, and it has
led to them by the Coalition
BOARD Of Education, that
2 seats on the school
% supervise the edu-
en- By virtue of their
tees s-Taey demand,
... Just been formulated
aal convention of their race at
Louisville, that they shall be admitted to
the Trades Unions which have been formed
by white men and that their children shall
have the right to compete with the whites
in apprenticeship. They will take nothing
less or different from their demands. In
the matter Of education they have been
offered by the Democratic party of Vir-
GINA the full control of their own schools
with the money to run them. They refuse
il they demand instead their own terms.
These Negroes with no division among
them. have banded together as one man
to support Fulcher and Hamilton. Their
solidity is of their own will, they are drlv-
en- to it by no aggression of the whites;
they thrust aside all offers, all terms, and
putting themselves under the leadership
of Fulcher and Hamilton, show solid
black front against the great mass of the
people of Augusta county. Differed by
Federal and State Office holders, their
serried ranks present the same spectacle
that was witnessed in 1859, when the
white people of Virginia were fighting for
existence. The only difference is that
since 1859 these Negroes have been given
every right that the law gives them. They
have been in addition offered by one of the
great political parties the full, untram-
meled and exclusive control of their own
education. They have refused it. They
want more, they want mixed school boards,
and above all they want to humble and
degrade to their own level the white peo-
pie whose former ownership of their race
as slaves they regard as wrong that can
never be 1ully punished until they see the
(, whites themselves slaves. It was a feel
ing that was voiced for them in the Au-
gusta court house by Attorney General
Blair, when he announced that he and
Gov. Cameron and Superintendent Farr
had given the white teachers. found teach
ing colored schools at Richmond, ''the toe
of our boot" No one who heard the al
most insane wells oe arh-srh +Iet greeted
this ap.,.,sncemeplt could misunderstood
that what is moving the Negro in this
campaign is genuine and hearty hatred
of the white man. 1t is the appearance of
Messrs. Fulcher and Hamilton at the
head of such class of voters as this, with
the certain knowledge that their election
is hopeless without the aid of that class.
that fills the six thousand white people of
Augusta with alarm and indignation, and
creates the determination in their breasts
that no men holding such position shall
receive their votes.
Four-ffths of the white people of Au
gusta are Democrats, and have not for
gotten the record of Fulcher and Hamil-
ton. They have not forgotten that Mr..
Fulcher is one of the most bitter Coal-
tionists in their county and has voted un-
relentingly to cut off the heads of Demo :
cratic and experienced public officers simply
because they aoere Democrats. They know
that il he and Hamilton were sent to the
legislature they would nnhesitatingly VOTE
to remove every Democratic Circuit Judge
COW on the bench that they would vote
ss redistrict the State of Virginia so that
the voice of the Democratic people of Vir-
gi2ia would be stided and only two Dem
ecratic congressman instead of five go to
Washington. They know that Fulcher
and Hamilton approve of putting Negroes
on the school boards, voted for the men
that committed the outrage and still hear
tiiy and actively support them. If this
is not so we challenge them to come out
pnbiicly and say so.
The people of this county know that
b 'ulcher and Hamilton approved the ALI
''ance made by Gen. Malone with the Re-
publican party. approve every vote he
gave with the Republicans. and approve bis
unvarying votes in the Senate against the
Democracy. If they do not, let them come
oat publicly and say so.
The people of Augusta know that Messrs.
Falcher aud Hamilton will vote for the
Republican nominee for President in 1884
and will not vote for the nominee of the
National Democratic convention. If the
people are not correct in this let Messrs.
Fuleher and Hamilton come ont publicly
aud say which of the two nominees they
will support.
There is no public speaking being in
duIged in by the two Coalition candidates
named, and their individual sentiments are
not made public on these points. They are
soliciting Democratic votes and we give
OF the above assertions. Or if they will
authorize us we will correct them. We
will say for them if they will authorlze
that they repudiate Gen. Malone 8 alliance
with the Republicans against the Nation
al Democratic party that they repudiate
and denounce the conduct of Gov. Came
ron 10 appointing Negroes on school boards
and that they intend to support the Pres
iGential nominee of the National Demo-
cratic Convention. All! they dare no..
Every charge made against them is true.
And yet they go to a Democrat of Augusta
county and ask him to vote for them A
Democrat to vote to send Fulcher and
Hamilton to the legislature to vote to