Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-03-30

IeQ Willie - wall III tuo Ouce anu Will greatly Ia
siiitate the voting on April 7th, saving time and
writing.
THE MAY AND NOVEMBER IS
SUES FOR COALITION CAM
PAIGNS.
The Richmond WING in its issue of Mon
day sets forth the programme for its par
ty in the May elections, as follows:
Readjusters. fight for the counties.
Wherever you have the county Offices, hold them!
Wherever the Funders have the county Offices
fight for thenal
Wherever you have majorities in the county Of
fees, min or diel
Wherever you are in the minority. still fight; for
you have nothing to lose, except through submission
and you can gain nothing except by tghtinator it!
Wehardly think there can now be a DEM
crat in Augusta, who, in voting for the
county candidates in May. will be deceiv-
ed by the cry of the Coalitionists that this
is no s'party fight !" that politics among
"us neighbors" should not be permitted
to enter the filing Of local offices. The
Whig says differently. and 1t is the high
est authority. The Vallev Virqinian SAYS
differently, and 1t Is excellent authority.
Our home contemporary has laid down a
sweeping platform to the effect that ''erery
ofltcc of county and city which is held at
the will of the people, must be contest
ed.'' We trust that the Democrats of
Augusta will brush aside all this talk of its
not being political election as the mer-
est subterfuge Of the enemy. The May
elections all through the State are to be
awaited of by the Coalit1onists to get con-
troll of the county machinery of Demo-
cratic counties to be used hereafter in
strengthening their own party. In such
hopelessly Democratic county as Angus
ia, an open and straight fight against the
Democracy is, Of course, useless, but
much is hoped for by the Coalitionists
from those Democrats who can be persua-
ded that ''politics has nothing to do with
county Offices. Have they nothing to do
with county Offices? Read and remember
the uttsrances of the Wing and the Val
leg Virginian; remember that the Coal
itionists will openly or covertly have a
man to push into every Office, from sheriff
and commonwealth S attorney down, that
the Democrats are thoughtless enough to
leave unguarded. At the primary to-mor-
row week the Democrats should be
thorough and nominate for all the county
offices.
So much for the month Of May. The
effort next November is to procure leg
islature which will do the following things
according to the Whig and the next high
est NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Riddleberger:
Put the railroads of the State under a
system Of control and supervision. In
other words, put them at the command OF
the Coalition leaders. What the railroads
of Virginia would be under the control OF
political party the people of the State
can easily imagine. Railroad corporations
are not popular as they stand, but al.
lied with band of politicians they
would be intolerable.
Make fair redistricting of the State
for congressman The people of Virginia
well know what that is. 1t means in plain
English to coop the Democrats Of the
State into certain districts so as to send
eight supporters of the Republican admin
istration to Washington, to two support
of the national Democratic party. This
is adverse to the ''material interests" of
Virginia which desires to be aligned with
the majority Of the people of the United
States and not badly defeated minority.
Give the Governor the power to appoint
Commissioners of Sales, the matter beng
already taken out of the hands of the
owners of the property, by law called
the commissioner of Sales Bill" The
Legislature of Virginia has already SAID
in behalf of the people that no one man
shall have the power-the Governor nor
any other, but the selection shall be
made by the people at the polls. The Co
alitionists seek to get different legisla-
ture with different opinion.
Add one more burden to that already
borne by the tobacco growers. and as the
United States lowers the tax, the State
government to restore the burden by
means of fees to State Inspectors! This
measure has failed once at the Capitol but
x new legislature, it is hoped, will have
more regard for office holders and less for
the tobacco growers.
In short, all their old failures at strength
ening the Republican party with more
members from Virginia, at enriching
their party leaders by more official pap.
for which the tax payers of Virginia foot
the bill, are to be made good this winter if
they can elect the sort of legislature they
want this fall.
With such programme for the future
held up to view, no Democrat can intelli-
gently conclude that the possession of all
positions in the State is not thing worth
fighting for. 1t is of great value and, if
for no other reason, we should deem it SO,
for the high estimate put on it by our po-
ltcal enemies. If the Democratic party
has been long in learning the fact, let it
learn it now and thoroughly; that if the
party in Virginia had been run for the
last twenty years on the same plan that
the Coalition is now being run it, would
have been almost. if not quite, impregna-
BILE. AS a party it must discard old ideas.
Two Virginia papers attracted our at
tention last week-ene by celebrating its
seventh birth day and the other by COM
ing out in that evidence of prosperity a