Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-08-29
4 PARTY OF FALSE PRE-
FENCES.

Il PARTY OF FALSE PRE-
FENCES.
The people of the South are invited in
this campaign to consider new phase of
the Republican party's character.
For nineteen long years the inhabitants
of that portion of the Union known as the
South have been traduced, villified and
slandered by the Republican party of the
powerful North. 1t has delighted to in
form the world that south of the Potomac
river life is not safe. land property
rights are not respected that no man is
safe who dares to think and vote other
wise than with the ''Bourbon Democratic
party" and that social order does not ex-
list in the whole broad expanse of Southern
territory. But swift change has come
over the ''spirit of its dream.'' Having
nominated a candidate who has been re-
pudiated by the most respectable ard con-
servative element in its own ranks, the
Republican party has turned its eyes to-
ward the South to secure, if possible,
enough electoral votes to make up for its
losses in the North. And for the fir
time it now processes friendship for the
Southern people, promising by its protec-
tive tariff system to build up the waste
places of the South. But there is a max
i'm, old but true, which Virginians and
their Southern brethren should bear in
mind.-"Beware of Greeks bearing gifts"
Stop and consider the history of the Re-
publican party before you heed it's prom
Uses. ''By their fruits ye shall know
them,'' and every Southern man should
apply this test before giving the Radical
party his vote. The Republican party
has been in power twenty-three years, and
what has it done for the South?
Four years of its reign were spent in
waging war upon weak section of the
Union. Of the war and the causes which
brought it on, and the issues it settled.
we have nothing to Say. We recognize
the fact that the hopes and interests of
the South are bound up in a perpetual
Union-that henceforth this must be an
''indestructible Union of indestructible
States" Therefore we do not arraign the
Republican party for it's war record-black
and bloody as it is-but we do propose to
hold it to strict responsibility for its re-
cord in peace.
For eleven years after tie war closed
the only attention the Republican party
gave the South was an endeavor to control
its elections by means of Federal bayonets
Scalawag and carpet-bag Republican gov
ernments were fastened on every State IN
the South except Virginia; corruption
and fraud ran riot everywhere, and the
aotite people, who paid the taxes that sup
ported these mockeries of governments,
were robbed and insulted without mercy.
And when the Anglo-SaXon blood-Wbich
acill rule wherever it may run-cuuld stand
no more, and wronged and outraged
people rose in desperation to save what
what little was left them, the Federal
bayonets, directed by Republican admi
nistration, crushed to earth the instructive
efforts of freemen to free themselves. When
the long night of Rerublicanism in the
South closed, and hope dawned once more
in hearts that had almost ceased to hope,
grievous spectacle was presented.
Great States lay in ryin. business enter
prises of every kind had persisted, the
people were impoverished, and their fields
were clothed with abundant crops of
weeds instead of corn. cotton, and the
sugar-cane. The history of the Republ-
can party was written on fair natures
face, and even to this day traces of it are
yet to be seen.
Who can believe the professions of
friendship made by this party of false pre-
fences? Why was its aid not extended
when the South needed it most To-day
we are able to take care of ourselves, and
we owe no thanks to the Republican party
for it.
1t also processes to believe in ''free
ballot and fair count" When did it
practice what it now breaches Remem-
Der the Presidential steal, when Samuel J.
Tilden, the foremost man in the Republic.
was robbed of his rights. and Re
publican imbecile installed in his place.
And with this colossal election fraud
upon their shoulders, the Republican par
ty announces It's purpose to give the
American people "a free ballot and a fair
count"
And what does this party of false pre-
fences offer the Southern people for their
political support? Only protective tariff.
Its orators come here and speak in
glowing terms of the South's great re-
sources and the Industrial future in store
for her if the present tariff policy is kept
up. But they forget the fact that the
Democratic party is pledged to give the
South all the protection her Industries
need. We can manufacture nearly every
thing here twenty-five per. cent cheaper
than the same articles can be made in the
North. And to this party of shams,
frauds, hypocrisy and false pretences, we
would say, our principles and convictions
are not for sale.
The Southern people remember your
PAST history, and will WELD the scorpion
lash of Justice with unsparing hand in
trying to drive your minions from power
on the 4th of November next.
During quarrel at New Glasgow de-
pot, Amherst county, Friday last, be-
tween Eldridge P. Morris (white) and
Lucy Green (colored) the latter was killed
by a blow from boot-jack thrown by
Morris. The woman had been circulat-
ing false stories about MorriS and when