The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-10-11

creation and made to conform their inter-
est charge to the requirements of their
charters, and thus estop their legal rob-
berry.
They demand that the railroad corpora
lions shall be dealt with as the servants OF
the people and not their masters, and that
their operations shall be regulated by laws
in the interest Of those who constitute
the State, and whose power is supreme.
They demandi that the election laws
shall be modified so as to require fewer
elections, and that State expenses i'll this
respect be reduced.
They demand that all the burdens OF
government shall be equally distributed,
according to the conditions Of the people,
and that economy and honesty should en-
ter into every department of the govern
ment.
And they demand that the people, and
not the little courthouse rings, shall rule
in the affairs of State.
There is not an impartial man in Vir
ginia who does not condemn the rulnous
administration of the Bourbons, as evil
denced by the condition in which they left
the State, and who will not approve that
of the Readjusters us shown in the practi-
| cal, tangible reforms they have brought
about. The former have no issue affect
ing the welfare Of the people, that they
will present and advocate. They have nc
State policy, dependent upon legislation,
| that they dare rest their claims to public
confidence upon. With them it is war upon
Malone man whohas shown his devotion
| to Virginia more signally within the past
six wears than ever before i'll the great
4 work he has accomplished in the defeat
and overthrow of the BourbOns, and rele
eating to the people the management OF
ltheir own affairs-who has been the mas
| ter spirit in the reforms which have beer
| instituted and the benefits which have en-
4 ured to the Commonwealth. Their hos
tility to him arises from the fact that hi
arrested Bourbon protligacy, rescued the
government from their ruinous control
and to do this had to eject the whole
! impudent. insolent and reckless crew from
place and power. They cannot assail hi
works, for they are all in the interest OF thu
people. Their stock in trade is falsehood
4 SANDER, villiiication, and not argument
4 But their mad rawlings cannot obscure thu
good the party of which he is the recog
nized leader has accomplished. Nor vii
| the people of Virginia be driven away from
Il the real, live issues before them in thi
Il canvass, by such shallow devices and trans
/ parent jugglery.
i Thetwo parties are before the people
each with it's record-the one with its fail
ures and expressions other with it
successes and reliefS-the Bourbon witt
its impudent pretense of being composed
of the best people, the select few, and leg
islating to Cypress the masses, and the Re
adjusters claiming no higher distinction
than to reflect the welfare and interest 0
the people, and to direcb legislation for tn
ameliOration of their condition and pro
mote the common good. Can the true pee
pie hesitate between them? Can they ig
more the wise legislation which has admin
istered to their relief and brought TIL
State out of the environments and dis
tresses into which the Bourbons had plunge
her, by placing that insolent, despotic fac
tion again in control of the Legislature
Or will they not again command the Read
justers into power that they may preserv
the good they have already accomplished
and press on to still other reforms whicl
are so essential to State and individual pros
perity and progress
1t is with the people to decide, for the
will have to feel the consequences,wh ethe
, good or evil