Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-10-26


ROCKINGHAM, AND j! DGE CHRISTIAN
OF RICHMOND, AT THE OPERA HOUSE
a STURDY AssEMBLAGE OF AUGUSTA
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF THE RE-
MARKS.
SC, &C., sc.
The weather Monday was bad enough, as
it had been for several days before, but
that did not prevent large gathering of
Democrats at the Opera House, about
twice as many as could have been crowded
into the Court House. Capt. James Bum
gardner, Chairman of the County Con-
mlttee, presided and init oduced the speak
ers, all of whom agreed that at this near
time to the election, work was better than
oratory, and only made brief and stirring
addresses.
THOS. P. WALLACE,
of Orange, and former representative of
that county in the House of Delegates,
said he had been in nearly every sec
ton of Virginia and conversed with Vir
ginians of all shades of political opinion
and he had found all determined on one
thing, to strike in November for their lib
erty. Great cheering.) The shock from
the West showed that the spoils are slip
ping from the bands of this administra-
tion (cheers) and those spoils formed the
only cohesive power that hold the Coali-
ton party together. The Democrats of
Virginia could have had Grant for them,
Hayes for them aud Arthur for them. if
they had been despicable enough to aban-
don the National Democratic party and
principles and be s'for Arthur or any of
the others in consideration of the spoils
being ''for them.'
But the Democrat have their reward
this day and hour. Look at Ohio. (Cheersl
Look at the great State of New York
which will give so 600 Democratic MAORI
ty in November. (Cheers.) Look at In
diana, look at the Twenty Six Democratic
States of this Union. (Cheers). And now
the great Democratic party that controls
them calls on the Democracy of Virginia
to fail into line. Will she? (Great cheer
ing Let old Augusta make her words
good with 200 majority. (cries of we willy
500. (more cries and more cheer1pg).-
Then l tell you that on that night you
shall look for Orange with the electric news
that she too is free (Applause)
HON. JOHN T. HARRIS
of Rockingham came forward and was
greeted with loud and prolonged cheering.
He briefly sketched the political party
changes of this era. When the cid Wing
and Democratic parties were ce to face
In conflict, his friends Capt. Bumgardner
and Judge Christian being in one and him
self in the other, each side felt that if
the other won the country was in no dam
ger. But when The Republican party
came. the feeling of safety vanished. Every
man at the South knew that his State
when in the hands of that party was in
danger When it was in power IN Vir-
pinia it scrupled at nothing to maintain
it's hold. and triei to keep the voters
of the State subject to the TROOPS of the
Federal government. The speaker here
read some resolutions adopted by the citi-
zens of Petersburg in 1875, thanking him
for jnterceedjng with the President and
preventing troops being sent to the polls
of that city as had been requested by the
Radicals. He then read an editorial COM
plimenting his action, written by VIM. E..
Cameron. who is now leading the same
party that then wanted troops at the
polls. Great cheering.) The speaker
cited this to show that in so brief a time
ago the Republicans were threatening Viz
GINA with military power.
THE DFBT SETTLEMENT
now was nothing but political bugab0o
used by the Coalitlonistsf for party purposes
The Readjuster party had said "Give US
the Governor and legislature and executive
offices and we will settle the debt ques-
tion." These offices we're given them and
they did settle it, and an address was
issued by Gen. Malone, Riddlebergef,
John Paul. Brown Allen and all the mem
bers of the legislature the capitol officers
and almost every body else in the party,
assuring the people Ct Virginia that the
debt was settled, and claiming the credit
of the settlement After that, the Court
of Appeals of Virginia decided that it was
settled and now the United States Supreme
Court has said its settlement is consti-
tutional. The Democratic party met in
convention at Lynchburg and decided it
was settled. But directly the Den ocratic
uarty did that, the Coalitionists hoped eff
their own platform and said it wasn't set
tied. And now every little fellow that.
acting according to the Ritdlebarger bill,
APPLIES to q court to get his coupons
tn.
Funders are coming again." They will
change with every wind that blows If it
only helps them to blow up this fires of
political agitation.
THE SCHOOLS.
Every man in Virginia that thinks
calmly about the public school system and
is friend to it must know that this con-
tipua political agitation about 1t must
eventually end in its disruption. Public
education is 600 sensitive matterln Viz
pinia to stand the strain of such expert
ments az mixed school boards aud others,
that the Coalition are making. The only
way to stop the discord and turmoil over
the system of popular education is to make
the white and black school systems separ-
ate as thu Democrats propose. Separation
in control, as we'll as in the schools, is the
only way that quiet and prosperity can be
brought to The education of both races in
Virginia. Therefore, he endorsed the Dem
ocratic platform which means coiored
trustees and colored teachers for colored
schools, and white trustees and white
teachers for white schools.''
DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS
You, IN Augusta, cannot have any diff
o,,ltv ahout who to support whether v, II