The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-09-25
Yost and Tucker in Bath.
WARM SPRINGS,
BATH Co. VA. Sent. % 1894
,lito7 VirqiIa5dn. Stanton. Va.

Editor Virgiaid'a. Stanton, Va:
This was the first day of the fall term
of the Bath Circuit Court, and quite a
a goodly number of our people were in
attendance, though scarcely as many as
usual. Messrs. Y ost and Tucker were
present, and DESTROYS of addressing the
people, and after some preliminary skir-
mishing Il joint discussion was arranged
for. and the courthouse having been Sc
cured. the opposing candidates presented
their various claims to public favor to a
full house.
Yost led off, Tucker followed. then
Yost again. and then Mr.. Tucker closed.
After feeling his audience little, Yost
began an aggressive fight, vigorously at
lacking Mr.. fuckers record as Con-
gresham, and challenging him to explain
and justify the many votes cast by him in
Congress, and also his failure to vote for
several bills which were promotive of the
best interests of his constituents.
Mr.. Tucker labored very hard to put a
good face on his record, and to prove to
his audience that it was a proper thing
to devote his time to the consideration
and discussion of constitutional questions,
the exact points of which were not visi-
bic to the naked eye, and though he had
not yet succeeded in securing any reduc-
ton. much less the abolition of the inter-
nal revenue taxes on whiSkey, fruit bran
dy and tobacco, yet he asserted that he
had honestly earned the full amount of
his salary. and felt perfectly sure of con-
tinuing to draw it for two more years.
Mr.. Yost succeeded in having Mr.. Tucker
assist him materially in calling marked
attention to the variance in Mr.. fuckers
professed beliefs, the impracticability of
his theories, and the inconsistency of his
actions and votes, driving some nails well
home in his record and leaving Mr..
Tucker to clinch them with his lame ex-
plantations.
Mr.. Yost evidently had the crowd
with him, which seemed to understand
thoroughly and appreciate fully the points
made by him against Mr.. Tucker, as he
aired the blanket story and showed the utter
absurdity of Mr.. fuckers figures on the
various manufacturing enterprises OF the
country. Mr.. Tucker stated with great
minateness the growth in wealth of the
North and the South respectively, the
North absorbing twenty-six billions and
the South only four billions of the thirty
billions of dollars of increase in wealth |
occasioned by the prosperity of the coun-
try under protective tariff evidently |
his audience would stop where |
he left them, and not go on to the self |
evident conclusion that policy which |
had made tie North SO rich might be a |
good thing for the South, if it would only
consent to put it into practice. and that it |
might be good thing to get rid of such
old time theorists as he, whose obstruct-
i've ideas prevented the South from reap
ing its full share of the rich harvest of
profits growing out of the home manufac-
ture of products for our home markets.
Our party friends are highly pleased
with the days work, and the evident in
disposition of the people to hear more
from Mr.. Tucker, most of the audience
leaving the courthouse as he rose to be-
gin his second speech, indicates that they
nave had enough of MI. Tucker. and
clearly manifests their determination to
give him the go by for better man. I'm
ess the signs of the times are very mis-
eading, Mr.. fuckers name will be
from more than one Demo-
,ratic ticket, and our friends predict that
Bath county is sure for Blaine, Logan,
md Yost. ONE WHO WAS THERE.