Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-08-22
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET.
3" THE LABORING MA ~"

For the first time in its long history the
Republican party has discovered thatsuc
a parsonage as the "laboring man" exists
in this country. Entrenched securely in
possession of the governments; with an
army of one hundred thousand Office
holders to do its bidding; and backed by
the passions and prejudices of the war, its
leaders gave no thought or heed to the
millions whose daily bread is won by the
sweat of honest brows. Heretofore the
objects of its tenderest care have been the
great monopol1es and corporations Of the
country, into whose already overlooking
Golfers has been poured vast portion of
the wealth won by the blood and treasure
of the people and should have been held in
sacred trust for the peoples benefit. But,
happily, these days of security for the Re-
publican party have passed away. Now
when the leaders of the party have nomi-
mated candidate for the Presidency, they
know that stern and bitter struggle is
before them, with the chances in favor of
the Democratic party. Something must
be done, votes must be secured in some
way, and this necessity led the Republi-
can party to the great discovery that not
all the people of the United States wear
purple and linen-that six or seven mil
lions of honest voters are actually ldborinq
men. And now that they have found him
out, the Republican managers are promis-
ing great things for the future to the
sturdy worker whose muscle, and not the
policies of the Republican party, has added
so much to the wealth of our country.
But Republican promises are cheap-the
cheapest articles that ever flooded any
country-and the making of them is an in
dustry that requires no tariff to sustain it
except the gullibility of the people.
When the Republican party Was in the
zenith of its power it voted away three hun
bred million acres of the public domain to
the railroad systems of the West; and the
land so squandered was the fairest por-
tion of the people s heritage.
The laboring man of the East. who de-
fore old age shall overtake him, can not
hope to find it on the fertile prairies OF
the West. Jay Gould, Russell Sage,
Huntingdon, and other pets of the Repub-
lican party, are the owners of the soil,
which is lawful property of the whole
American people. During the last session
of Congress the Democratic House CT
Representatives passed various bills, the
purpose of which was to restore to the
Government and people one hundred mil
lions acres of these lands; but Republi-
can Senate refused to pass the bills, and
thus the last chance for cheap homes in
the West was taken from the laboring
men IF the county. The Republican party
is also responsible for the system of con-
tract labor that now prevails to the
great injury of American labor. The
coal miner OF Pennsylvania and West
Virginia is informed that his services are
no longer needed, for his place is filled
with the ignorant, stolid Hungarian, who
is willing to work for less than half the
wages necessary to support an American
laborer and his family. The Democratic
House of Representatives has tried tint
and again to have this odious contrac.
labor system stricken from the statut,
books of the nation, but all in vain. a
Republican Senate or Republican Presi-
dent has in every instance thwarted the
effort to protect the laboring man of the
United States from the competition o.
servile labor. The anti-Chinese laws alst
originated with the Democratic party and
have been fought to the bitter end by
these same men who are now wooing il
dulcet tones the votes of brawny laborers
whom they once despised.
The Democratic party is the only true
friend of the man whose muscle must VIII
his bread; in fact the party is largely made
up of such men, and it would be false tt
every instinct of political policy to MAKE
war upon those who swell its ranks
Yes, the laboring man is to be found il
this country and will make his existence
known to the Republican party on the 4tI
of November next. The Republican press
and platform may tickle his ear with the
seductive word "prCtection;" but it means
nothing in the mouth of men who have
heaped burdens too grievous to be borne
on the shoulders of American labor. Re-
lief must come from the Democratic party
and that it a0iU come no man who knows
its history can for moment doubt.
MIR. TUCKER AND THE TARIFF.
The Republican party will endeayor to
make the fight fer congressman in this