The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-09-25
Mr.. Tucker at Amherst c. II.

on the 18th:
In regard to the presidential election, he said
he was sure that Cleveland, Hendricks, and
Reform would win. Uncle Sam was sick nigh
unto death, and was sadly in need of skillful
physician-a surgeon who would numerically,
yet skillfully, cut out the rottenness in his un-
healthy frame. Two parties offered the SER
vices of their respective leaders, Doctors Cleye-
land and Blaine. He held them up for an ex-
animation of their plans. DR.. Blaine, said he,
would be rejected by the people, because he,
having himself helped to make the patient
sick by conveying to him the d!sease-putrify-
ing dishonesty-with which he has so long suf-
fered, was not the man to heal the patient.
physician heal myself" must be first prac-
ticed by Mr. Blaine. Long years had not cured
Mr.. Blaine of his taint of dishonesty, and con-
sequently he could not be the man to cure
Uncle Sam and his sadly afflicted family. But
Cleveland-the renowned Doctor Cleveland
who had cured the city of buffalo, and had
worked wonders in the infected districts of the
great state of New York, was the coming man.
His fame had reached the suffering patient,
and Uncle Sam would have another doctor.
The people, sadly afflicted and long suffering
under Republican rule, must be cured; and
Cleveland was the only man able to produce
that cure. Hence he was the man. ! Ohio was
clamorous for him; New York and Indiana
were determined to have him; in fact. the
people en- mosse were bound to have him; and
Grover Cleveland would be our next Presi-
dent. ea 90
This is the style of argument that
characterizeS the, speeches of the states
man. Tucker. When he attempts to mis-
lead the people by such statements as are
| here given, he throws as bald an insult into
their faces as he did tothe Firmstones and
other iron men of Allegheny county, and
in fact of the entire State.
Mr.. Tucker knows.and every intelligent
man in the country knows. that the Repub-
lican party has accomplished more for the
pnople, than any political organization
that has ever existed in its history. Its
achievements are written in restored
Union, in preserved credit, a sound cur
| rency, an unequalled banking system, in
the oceans linked together by iron bands,
| in the homestead laws, in the marvellous
increase of American industries, in pro-
teeted labor, and ageneral prosperity with
out a parallel in the history of Nations. =
i
IS 900, 600, 900 to about 81, SOC, 900, O00-an
nual interest charge reduced from $780,
600, 900 to less than $50, 900, GOETHE rate of
interest reduced from 5 and 6per cent. to
and 81 per cent, and the debt, which was
regarded by doubling Thomases of the
Democratic party, as too big to manage,
now completely and easily under the con-
troll of the government. And these con-
summations have been reached over the
persistent and unvarying opposition Of Mr..
fuckers party to every measure that
brought about such results. 1t is such
stuff as we have quoted from the report of
his speech which has induced him to de-
cline public discussions with his Congress
sional competitor. He would not dare to
lay himself open to reply from any one
who is familiar with the legislation of
Congress and the votes of the Democratic
members thereof on the questions relating
to the administration of government and
the ridiculous assumptions he has an
nounced.
His own party in Congress have had APP
pointed Committees of Investigation, ses-
sion after session, to inquire into alleged
corruptions of the Republican admlnistra-
tions and in almost every instance have
been compelled to admit in their reports
that there was nothing to justify the labor
and expense of such Investigations. As to
Mr.. Blaine, he needs no defense against
%Io r1o 1or hui 7 To
stands INDICATED not only by a committee
of Mr.. fuckers own party appointed to
investigate the only allegation eyer insin-
uated as to his honesty and integrity, and
acquitted by the judicial opinion of Jere
S. Black, a lawyer and Democrat, SO far
superior to Mr.. Tucker in his legal and po-
litical reputation, that comparison would
be unkind, but vindicated by the over
reaching of the Democratic conspirators
in recently given to the public the batch of
his private correspondence with Fisher,
now serving as a savory morsel with the
Democratic scandal-mongers No one who
wants to be fair and just and who has
read that correspondence can fail to reach
the conclusion that there is not word or
sentence taken in its legitimate connec-
ton which reflects upon his honesty or in
tegrity, but throughout the whole transac-
tion.a exhibited high sense of honor and
justice and regard for his word that repel
all suspicion of intentional wrong to any
one.
1t is not surprising however, that Mr..
Tucker should have stopped to his SANDER
GUS remarks about Mr.. Blaine, with whom
he could claim no intimate acquaintance,
when in the same place four years ago, he
turned upon his bosom friend Garfield and
when asked about the foul calumnies cir
culated about him, said that ''he was in the
dock and must prove his innocence or
words to that effect, as reported in the
Dispatch about that time by correspon-
dent from Amherst G. H. If he could
stand before an intelligent audiences
brave and chivalrous people. as the citi-
ZenS of Amherst are known to be-and not |
repel and resent the ISLANDERS against his
intimate associate and boon compan-
ion it could hardly be expected that he
would treat Mr.. Blaine with more consid-
Grafton.
But really Mr.. Tucker must have been
in humorous frame of mind, when he
spoke at Amherst c. H., Judging from the
strain of irony in which he indulged.-
To have stated that the country was clam
orous for Cleveland as ''reformer'-
that Ohio was clamorous for him, and New
York and Indiana. must have been the
suggestion of infinite JEST and test |
of tile extent of the credulity of his
audience. And for him to assert that |
Cleveland, Hendricks and Reform would |
win was Gaping the climax of ridicule and
romance,for it is so far from all the proba-
bilities Of the canvass as thus far devel- |
oped, as to divest it entirely of sincerity. !
The fact is, Mr.. Tucker, notwithstand- |
ing his assurance to his audience that he |
had no fear about his seat in Congress. is
whipped already, not only as to his own |
canvass, but that of the Democratic Ma !
tional ticket. After his Lexington expe-
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