Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1884-09-19
NOT TO DISCUSS

" NlOituCt hllu DlOOuSutu, duu ilidhlUR
a grave subject of Congressional enquiry
have placed them beyond the pale of pro
per controversy upon the hastings ant
rendered legitimate discussion impossible
Now Mr.. Barbour knows this is false, anC
the reason he assigns is not the true one
Said a Democrat this morning to you
correspondent, in reply to the question o
what he thought of Mr.. Barbour's "gener
al" order: 81 cannot say l approve ii
1t looks like run, / profess to be al
honest man. The order, in a narrow
political sense, may do with politician
and Office-seekers whose cOnscences ar,
elastic. but in every other phrase it is dis
honest, and the Republicans will so see i
and use it. Mr. Barbour's only true mo
tive, if he had given it, tor dscouraginG
| Joint discussions, is this: he fears to en-
| Tighten the people on the only true issue
in this canvass. Joint discussions would
do this, for it would bring out the voter:
on both sides. Whereas, separate discus
siOns will only bring out the respective
following of each wing to hear their own
side If the Danville affair was all Mr.
Barbour had to fear, he should encourage
Joint discussions, for he claims the Demo
Gratis of Danville were justiable. He
fears the tariff issue. Relying upon keep
ing the white people ignorant to carry
the election, at the same time claiming
that ignorant negroes should not be al
lowed to vote, is rather a contradictory
position for q man like Mr.. Barbour to
take in the face of willy and vigilant ad-
versary. Honesty is the best policy, sir. y
NUMEROUS SCHEME.
In addition to tho order of retreat above
referred to, the Bourbon "red shirts" have
adorted another line of tactics less credita-
bic to themselves than refusing to meet
their opponents in joint discussions,
though it is more in consonance with the
spirit of Bourbonism. Instead of indulg-
ing in the eccentricity and playful pas
time of wholesale Danvlle butchery to
carry the State this fall, it is clearly their
purpose to inaugurate a reign of terror by
putting a few of the more prominent Of
the Republican leaders out of the way.
Senator Riddlcberger has evidently been
selected as the first object of attack.
Their sharpshooters are logging his foot
steps daily. He is now being subjected to
a series of malignant and villainOus per-
sonal attacks through the Bourbon news
papers, the aim being to involve him in a
personal quarrel and in this way give
some murderOus wretch an excuse for
using the knife or pistol. The Senator, it
is to be hoped, will treat these assaults as
contempt. General Malone has never never
paid the slightest attention to the ten
thousand frantic attempts of the Bourbon
braves who have sought for years to draw
him into a fight, and in so doing has set
good example, and any gentleman can
well afford TO descend into the gutter for
THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING MURDERED
by some "seedy descendent" of once re-
spectacle ancestry, to crafty the low
malicious instincts of scum which the
late civil war unfortunately put astraddle
the shoulders of the true men, the merit,
the real genuine hope Of the State, and
who would now dominate its future by
such acts as disgraced the State canvass
in ISL, and splashed the streets of Dan
vile with helpless and unoftending blood
in lS33 Strange always, and often, very
often, bad people are these Virginia Bour-
bons. Claiming to own in fee the con-
science of the State, yet they denounce
the religious press of the country for re-
fusing to sustain for the first office in the
gift of the people man who has com
mitted murders twin sister," and put
themselves on record as having murdered
their own fellow man in cold blood, and
then deliberately forced their henchman,
starvation being the alternative offered,
to violate the ninth commandment to con.
ceal the atrocities of their crime.
HOW YosT USED UP TUCKER.
The discussion at Lexington, Va, be-
tween young Mr.. Yost, junior editor of the
Tdlley VTginian and Republican nominee
for Congress in the Tenth district, and
Hon. John r. Tucker, is a subject of much
talk and newspaper comment Yost gained
complete triumph over this GOliah of
BOurbonism, exposing his record, and even
forcing him to admit that he has been
guilty of Misrepresentation, and had de-
lIberately, on at least two occasions, de.
feated bills in which his constituents were
vitality interested, and then by manipu-
lating certain city papers had managed to
shift the responsibility on the shoulders of
certain Republicans. He also forced him
to admit that he opposed the reduction of
the tobacco tax, and delayed the passage
of the Blair educational bill. Your cor
never saw public man more
"hacked" than was Mr. Tucker, and never
did he see o delinquent labor harder to
acquit himself of his shortcomings and
little demagogueries. His friends spent
the entire evening making all manner of
excuses for him. Lexington is the county
seat of Rockbridge county, and the home
Of Mr.. Tucker, yet on the evening of the
bets were freely onered on the |
streets that Yost would carry the county |
by 200 majority, yet no takers could be |
found. The defeat of Tucker would be |
the first great step in the right direction |
md would be beginning towards re-
moving from Office a set of overrated old |
3Ourbons of the "bombproof, school,
whose public careers have been hurtful of |
very true interest of the people of the
south. Mr.. Garfield knew Tucker well,
md when he said, Tucker has no origi-
lality, he is no thinker, mere platiudi-
arian," he had gagued him for all he was
worth.
THE FIRST DISTRICT.
Thenews from the First Congressional
istrict was unexpected. Judge Cartoons
bourbon friends were certain of his re-
omination but it now leaks out Barbour
7as opposed to it, and Thomas Croxton
yas the choice of the convention. Garri-
On was defeated by IA votes two years
90 but the House aided him to steal
lagos seat and Barbour knew the people
nly waited for the hour of revenge, hence {
Q orders that Mr.. Garrison be set aside.
SOLDIERS REUNION A BOURBON
MASKED BATTERY. {
The soldiers reunion in Botetourt turned [
1t to be, as it was supposed by many it c
ould, masked battery for Cleveland.
he managers made loud professions that :;
, politics should enter into 1t, and all ex-
'ldier residents of the country were in
ted to be present and participate. Con- I
ling in these promises many Federal :
ldIers and ex-rebels who propose to vote >
7 Blaine were present. A few minutes
fore the line Of march was begun for
Q fair grounds a large banner bearing
o inscription "Cleveland, Hendricks,
lniel, and Reform" was thrown TO the
eeze, and stretched across the Main en- "
lnce way to the parade grounds. The ,,
ect was electrical Fully three hundred u
IN Immediately quilted the ranks. This t
nduct was only in full keeping with the =,