The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-10-02

MED by all who were quoted as having any
knowledge of the fact and was utterly re-
pudiated by its alleged author.
We were assured on Democratic author
ity that the Young Republican Club of
Brooklyn would not support Mr. Blaine;
the club has endorsed him by large ma
jority. We were told that the members of
the New York Stock Exchange were OPP
posed to Mr.. Blaine; it took three weeks
for the Cleveland men to raise club of 140
while the Blaine and Logan Club Of 225
was raisd in an hour on the most exciting
business day the exchange has seen for
months. 1t was said Mr.. Blaine is too sick
to make a canvass; the canvass so far has
not overtaxed him and it has been con-
Quoted with quite as much energy as the
Democrats like. 1t was said Hamilton
Fish would vote against Mr.. Blaine; Mr..
Fish says he will vote for him. 1t was
terest in the canvass; General Grant called
on Mr.. Blaine at great physical inconve-
nience and expressed the opinion that Re-
publican success was never so important
as now. 1t was SAID Senator Edmunds
charged Mr.. Blaine with being the tool of
Jay Gould. Senator Edmunds denies that
he ever had such thought. 1t was said
that Senator Cameron would oppose Mr..
Blaine quietly: the Senator took the trouble
to come all the way from Harrisburg to
pay his respects to Mr.. Blaine and give
the heartlest assurance of his support
All these falsehoods and SANDERS. great
and small, born in the desperation of a
very hungry and a very thirsty party. and
the outgrowth of moral putrescence that
has festered and sloughed as corruption
has intensified on what it fed, have been
swept away by the breath of truth. and
made to cover their instigators with shame
and disgrace, if anything could bring the
blush of shame to the brazen cheeks of the
class of Democrats, of whom w. III. Bar
mum is representative. And out of all this
slime and mud, James G.. Blaine comes
forth without a spot or stain on his gar
ments, and to-day is held in higher esteem
by thegood of all sections than before the
vile connections received shape and form.
The voice of SANDER is hushed in the ex-
ultant acclaims which greet him from the
millions as he passes from one State to
another, meeting face to face the sove-
reigns of the land, to whose grand assize
the appeal has gone forth for verdict of
vindication to be rendered On the 4th of
November next. 1t will not be an appeal
in vain. The American people feel that
that they have an abiding interest in the
reputation and character of their great men
for what affects representative characters
affects them. and nothing could be more
significant of this than the enthusiastic,
spontaneous greetings which have cheered
the pathway of Mr.. Blaine through the great
Northern and Western Commonwealth
1t is but a .presage of that still more pc
tent expression of popular thought and sem
timent which will be given through that
silent vehicle of communicating the honest
conclusions of brave and free people, the
ballot box. We confidently believe that
it will unfold a story of popular rebuke
for the vindictive and INSCRIPTIONS con-
spirators who have devised and schemed
for the destruction of great statesman,
that will serve as a lesson In all future ma
tional contests, and lift party conflicts
above the level of forgeries, briberies,
and blackmail and all manner of Demo-
ocratic inventions to attain political
power. 81