Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-10-29
10 the Democratic Voters OF
Augusta County.

l address you IN pursuance OF a resO-
luton of the County Committee.
But few days remain until you will
be called upon to do your part in de.
termining the issues involved in this
canvass.
Never before have you been called
upon to perform more serious and i'm
portant political duties than those now
devolving upon you as citizens of the
United States, as citizens of Virginia,
and as citizens of the Tenth Congress
sional District
Your dearest interests in each of these
several capacities are to be determined
at the approaching election:
First, Shall the Electoral vote of
Virginia be given to Cleveland and
Hendricks, and shall the country re-
joice, through their triumphant cleo
ton, in the restoration of Constitution
al Government, and the blessings of
honest administration; or shall the OBJ
ject and purpose of all the machina-
tons of Malone be achieved in the
rupture of the Solid South?
Sec0nd, Shall we continue to enjoy,
in our own State, the blessed fruits of
our glorious victory of last fall, or shall
that splendid result be virtually can
celled, and our foes be made to rejoice
in the hope of speedily regaining all
that we won from them, at the cost of
such supreme and heroic exertions?
Third, Shall the Tenth Congression-
al District be represented in Congress
by that pure, able and patriotic states
man, whose splendid career in the SER
vice of his country has at once endear-
ed him to every heart in our National
Democratic household, and at the same
time made him a shining and conspic-
uous mark for the shafts of our COM
mon foes; or by his Republican adver-
sary?
The monopolists, who have lavished
their ill-gotten gains by thousands, in
the effort to purchase Republican sue
cess in Ohio and West Virginia the
Internal Revenue Department, who are
paid out of the pockets of the people
to keep the Republican party in power;
and Republicans all over the country,
who know him as one of the foremost
champions Of Democratic principles
and policy, would hail with special and
peculiar joy the defeat OF J. Randolph
Tucker; and his political enemies, in
side of the District and outside of the
District, are using every effort, in their
DOTvar ~ aCcn,1oT0Iicl, bIc do
1t should not be forgotten, that lead
ing Republican Senator has declared,
from his place in the Senate, that
=" Epe,ytAing is IustjfabIe in morals
which can defeat the Democratic party"
The recent election in Ohio, the State
of that Senator, proves that the leaders
of his party act in the spirit of that
declaration.
The Democratic voters of Augusta
county have it in their power, by simply
turning ont, every man, at tie pills, to
render the defeat of !. Randolph Tuck
er absolutely impossible.
VIII not your effort, in behalf of the
leader Of your unanimous choice, in
crease in exact proportion to the bitter
ness and determination of the assaults
against him !
Your County Committee, so far,
have performed their duties. Your pre-
cinct Committees have well and faith
fully dong the work allotted to them.
Numerous volunteer clubs have done
earnest and faithful work. The work
of organization, the work of prepara-
ton for the election has been done,
but the final 70Ork, without which all
else is useless, and which can be done l
by no enc else, remains to be done BY
y0N, and that is to attend at the polls
and cast your ballots for Cleveland 4
Hendricks and Tucker Then turn out
to the last man; see that every voter
who needs has the means of getting to
the polls; render every assistance in
your power to the precinct committees
and to the challengers on the day of
election; let no single vote be lost, that
effort on your part can secure; scruti-
nize vigilantly the votes offered by the
enemy, and permit no illegal voter to
deposit his ballot; and let old Augusta {
remain, as she has been in the past, the
proud Banner County of DEMOCRACY.
JAMES BUMGARDNER, JR,
Ch'm'n Dem. Com. Augusta County.
If the Republican party is defeated this
year there will be no waving of the bloody !