Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-11-02


But. says the vINDIcAToR. never mind about
these things. They are trivial when placed along
side of the fact that the Offices. under the Readjus
tiers. have been distributed to few families-a
select aristocracy-m whilst the people. the common
people who do the voting. cont get smell at the
public crib Valley Virpinian.
All things are trivial in Republic COM
pared with tie Iigh of the people of
government to participate in that govern
ment. 1t is not alone the public crib
hat the people OF the Coalition party have
',een debarred from bv the managers of
that party. 1t is the right to govern them
selves. right that the people of all parties
want. To repeat our cotemporary's own
language with reference to the star cham
b-r management of the leaders of the
Coalition party. concerning the congress
sonal election in the Seventh district, we
say:
1.-The people are not slaves that they can with i'm
nuuty be thus trihed with, nor can their iudepen
ence and courage be compromised in the interest
( any personal scheme that instin ctvely revots
ler sense of right and justice. They have had too
luch OF star chamber craftsmanship and will hold
in remembrance this act of fragrant disregard OF
the popular will.'
The people of Virginia who may be in
the Coalition party are not slaves to be
hus treated. and the election in Novem-
her will show that they will resent it at
he polls. The people are not Office hold
Of DF1 Init hovy n
shat in naming officers and filing places
hey shall have voice. They do not
propose to have that voice stifled in every
election where it may suit che party author
tiles so to do. Nor do the white voters In
the Coalition propose that all the ''smells
at the public CRIB" shall be distributed to
the olfactories of few personal favorites
confined to still smaller list of the Best
Families.
Bnt that is always the way ; 1t was the
fashion with the Old Family ridden De-
mocracy. When the people began to get
FESTIVE, they were told not to bother them
selves about the mercenary matter Of
smells at the public crib." but to turn
their attention to the tariff. to the danger
from abolitionists, to states rights
those were the topics to interest the com
mon people and on which thev needed in
formation TIE Best Families of that
day were willing, at odd times, between
smells at the public CRIB, to furnish tie
needed information BY orators, and when
the fathers died, the sons of the fathers
were willing to carry on the business of
the firm. The people were told in that
day just as they are told to-day, that there
are more important things for the uoters
of party to attend to than the public
crib.
But the white element of the Coalition
party will not remain quiet under these
assurances. They were not quieted in the
Old Democracy by them, and they will be
none the less revolutionary in the Coali-
ton. They have the remedy in their own
hands and they know it, and there lies the
danger; they know it and are thinking
about it. They know that without them
the Two Families in Augusta are like
wings without body. The Revenue ring
and the Courthouse ring and the Family
rings cannot cast the votes of the party
it takes the voters to DO that. You may
keep the people under while the offices are
being distributed, but on election day they
are the masters. And on that day they
will bear in mind how the ''snells at the
pablo crib'' have been distributed and to
whom, and will resent the nepotism and
close corporation which has characterized
the distribution. The bugle cry of s'staHd
by the party" will fail to drown their
remembrance of their wrongs, and they
will give the county ring fall that will
bring it to it's senses.