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

have been charged with intending to turn
out the Democratic circuit judges if they
get in the legislature. Let them deny
that. They can deny none of these things.
if they can our columns are open to
them.
Then if they cannot deny these things
they cannot ask the support of the people
Of Augusta on political grounds; political
ly our county is overwhelmingly opposed
to all of these things. They annually at
the polls express their hatred and detesta-
tion of the Coalition party; the ambition
Of the ignorant blacks that form a major
lty of it +; the tyrannical, au.ocratic and
un-republican methods that characterize
It's conduct; Its selfish Ignoring of the
people except on election days; its new
aristocracy which it is essaying to set
above the People and its total disregard of
those who make and unmake political
parties. If they cannot appeal to the
people Of Augusta on political grounds.
as they well know by this time they can
not, can they succeed on personal 81 ounds?
Can they, let US see. One of these candi-
dates, Capt. Fulcher, we have known for
a quarter ef a century, longer possibly
than any man in this county has known
him, and he has always been our personal
friend, a friendship that has been valued
by US. Yet, if it was necessary in carrying
out his partizan ideas to benefit his party
he would stop at no injury he could fairly
infict in political warfare on us. In one
thing he is model. which some weak and
mercenary Democrats would do well to
initiate. He spares no one that stands in
the way of his party. He makes no ALI
ance with anybody, friendly or otherwise,
by which his party is to lose vote or by
which he can be baff1ed in his efforts to
injure the opposite party. In politics he
is bitter. unrelenting and cruel partizan.
His running mate Mr.. Hamilton is of the
same sort. Now how can two such bitter
COalitionists expect to get Democratic
vote By admiration of their personal
qualities You know their personal quail
ties are not carried into their politics. You
kn0W that. You have seen 1T. You have
seen men walking the streets of Stanton
and the roads of the county with families
and ,uithout nook TO buy them bread. They
were not politicians, they were simply
citizens working for living in humble
employment. They were turned out of
zans, but for holding the opinion that is
now topmost in twenty-five States out of
the thirty-eight in this Union, and which
Ohio re-affirmed week ago, that the
welfare of this country is safest in the
hands of the National Democratic party.
The work was taken from them for think
ing; for some of them had not spoken out
their Democratic principles from years
end to years end. They dared to think
with the great majority of their country
bread was taken from them. This was
done by Board of which the kind hearted
and jolly Fulcher was member, and by
party of which the jovial Hamilton is a
High Priest. You can seq how wide apart
men s personal qualities can be from their
pOllClcal qualities.
Would you vote for them on the score
that you are under personal obligations to
them; that yeu have received some favor
from them ? Then let US say this to you,
and it is the opinion of all right thinking
men in all parties. that the man who, on
the ground Of personal favors. votes for a
man representing opposite political con-
victiOns to his own. is no better than the
man wto takes dollar greenback for his
vote. Capt. Fulcher ill tell you this be
is man of honor. JLo. E. Hamilton will
will tell you this he is man of honor.
LII you. Democrat, went to one of those
men, and on the plea hat you had loaned
them money in the past or done some other
favor and askt d their vote as payment in
gratitude. they would insult you as they
ought to. II they applied to you on SINH
lar ground it would be because they held
your moral principle as of low standard.
or your intellect at the standard of weak
ling. No true man will vote anything but
lis political convictions No sensible man
will be deceived by the statement that this
is personal struggle between Opie and
Echols Oh one side and Hanilton and
Fulcher Oh the other for places in the le-
kislature. Thee is nothing personal about
+. 1t is struggle between Fulcher and
Hamilton leading the solid black vote of
Augusta to win place in the House of
Delegates, where their vote may aid the
worst political principles ever presented to
the people of Virginia by the corrupt and
defeated Republican party of the country
on the one hand: and Echols and Opie with
solid constituency OF white citizens of
Augusta seeking to win place wi here they
may resist bossism and the suppression of
the voice of the people, and where they
may render aid to the great. strong, and
triumphant National Democratic party of
the American Union.