Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-11-30
Let no drone in the hive be given zip

OF Officld' hOn6y.-HOn. JOHH W. D07tscC w
has k,chpond speech
Major Uani Il has sounded the key note
upon when the offices in the gift of our
party should be distributed. For to those
gentlemen who, day in and dag out, labor
ell for our party should now be gwen the
.official honey" 1t is their just need and
they should have it.-Fdrmville Journal.
1t would be very cheering sight to see
the accomplished DR.. Ruffner step back
into the place which Farr has been going
through the farce Of tiliDg.-Lynchburg
News.
Ain ost any man would be as acceptable
to us as Dick Farr, but when his place be-
comes vacant we want to have it Tiled BY
new man. We have many persons IN Oul
State as capable as Dr.. Ruffner and WI
10 hop that the Legislature will not re-
elect any person VII" previously held Office
under the old regime. We are TOR tho,
,ugh reform in every porto and depart
ment of the State, and to do this HeciuA'
iy we want neU men. vigorous and fuil
10 to thu demands of thu tim4s .-NOif0h
Ledger
The Ledger speaks the continents #
most every Democrat in V r ina, exc
possibly, those "wto previou. ly held 'ffl
lnder the old regime" Ttit question: vii
he Democratic party in Virginia now is
simple one-whether they will recOsn'z
activity, earnestness and force in the mali
agement and government of Its orpan'z
lion, or whether they will remit all thes
qualities into the silence OF neglsc 4
follow the example of their p edecessors
and lay the train for future defeats
The toplofty superciliousness which chiv-
alric ofice-holders affect towards the party
activity which makes it possible for them
to wear the clothes as we'll az the donors
Of official position. and to procure the
bread and meat furnished thereby; and
which is actually advanced by their friends
follies Of the past. Wetrhst it will never
find recognition In the Democratic parry
of Virginia again. Activity ought to be
adopted as fundamental principle of the
party, thu result of which is health to the
state as we'll SO to the party 1t is a
diseased condition of State in WHICH the
people concede the assertion that ability,
fidelity and suitability in filing the POSI-
tions. are not consistent with robustness,
Yigor, earnestness and activity in those
political organizations to WHICH tho Peo-
pie entrust the duty of carrying out their
views. 1t is a sickly condition of the pub
lie health that breeds theorists, specialists
and claimants to vested rights in govern
ment; which divorces the agents of the
People from association with, knowledge
of, and obedience to, those who employ
them. The man who is honest, clear
headed, active and earnest ia advancing
the interests of his party has given the
best of evidence that he will bring the
same characteristics to any duty the peo-
pie may give him to fulfil; and the propo.
sition that The seeking Of an Office is be-
peath the dignity" of the man who is
DESTROYS Of Cling it., is simply one of
those honest pre- Adamite delu9ions which
have in this day degenerated into shallow
false pretense. 1t is just as dignifed to
ask the People for your elevation as to
have large connection of relations leg
ging aronnd among that same people and
trying to get you the PLACE: It is not only
just as digniied, but far moe ingenious
and manly.
This affectation of superiority to the
work of a party is of itself an evidence
of inferiority for public place. There is no
better school for an intelligent man to
learn who his fellow citizens are, what
are their wants, and what is the prevailing
sentiment of the people. and the man who
sauns it neglects large opport unity to
gain an important knowledge of men. 1t
is the public school for the adult where
the men of one craft have an opportunity
OF getting we'll acquainted with the minds
OF ali other crafts. It ls there that all the
people meet as men, and learn something
from their fellow men. The man who
neglects it leaves unimproved the best,
and what ought to be, the only entrance
into public life Whatever may be the sys-
tenn in monarchies, that is the true Amer
ican school for public men. In monarchial
coun'Ties Ehere the masses concede
hereditary atistocracy the entrance to
public life is different, but In America
where there is only the aristj:racy of
merit, this school must be attended, if,
one desires its advantages; the pupil in
Statesmanship cahnct stay at home and
receive the hnnors of the glass.
The man who affects Or feels SUPERIOR
lty to what inters SITS the mass ut his fellow
citizens is much more damaging to a
political party than the mere drone. for he
sets bad example which finds copy lists
among people who do not kao" now sim
cerely an ass the exam lar iE. This has
largely contributed to the absence from
political gatherings of many men Of clear
heads and practical interests. ard to that
extent has deteriorated our politics-local
State ard National. If man is really
cited for elevation by the people, then g
should be first at all the gatherings of that
people. If his interest are identiea, "; tn
the people, then be should confer with the
people, and be one of them. There are to
be- in the Virginia Democracy hereafter
no more leaders by brevet, but leaders
wiz, Lave been trained in the school of the
people. The men who lock with lofty in
difference On all the political movements
of the people until some prominent posi-
ton IS to be filed, will find that the people
will return their indifference with inter-
est.
simultaneously with these occurrences
the crack OF the Bourbon weapon engaged
in political murder resounded, and ths
Bourbon knife sunk deep in the counties
of Charles City. Halifax. Hanover. Floyd,
Augusta, Lee, and elsewhere, mingling
with Sabbath day sympathies, from the
Bourbon capital, and the raee cry was
shoItea with brutal ferocisy intense
enough to make yiig1pia the rival of any
Southern State in her record of blooGshec
u nd laruIae lpneo Mubono'c 1Jroca