Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-22
STAUNTON. VA.
FRIDAY MORNING. FEB. % 1884.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY As
AN ENEMY TO THE MA TERI
AL INTERESTS OF THE
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The war has been over nearly twenty
wears and the Southern people bear no
malice to the men who made up the ar
mics of the Union. It has been nearly
ten years since reconstruction ended and
for the departed carpet-baggers the South
err people hold no other feeling than
bewildered remembrance of the unheard
of scenes that were enacted under their
rule, with the National Government at
their back. But the South Of this day
and hour bears we'll defined antagOnism
to the Republican party. And why? BE
cause it is standing menace to the ma
terial interests Of this section. While 9TH
er people have been memories of the past,
the Republican party retards oar progress
Of today. The Southern States which
are now so rapidly wheeling into the line
of progress, have had hard time. They
have literally had not a friend in the
world. They came out of the great civil
war, poverty stricken, their land dotted
with the graves of the thousands whose
labor could have made them great, their
slave labor disbanded, their currency de-
stroyed. Their own National govern
ment was their enemy Did they send
abroad for immigrants; they found that
the Washington government had posted
them all over the civilized world as little
less then barbarians among whom civil
lized people could not live. Was foreign
capital to be invested in railroads; Its
owners were pointed to the West and
warned against the South. 1t was
strange right, an unique one in modern
civilization. The people were dazed by
the situation. They resorted to all sorts
of methods to convince the government
of their loyalty, and of their desire to be-
come American citizens. Some OF those
methods would have touched heart of
stone. They put up" Junior" men for place.
they adopted and voted for Northern men.
they selected men from the victorious sec
tions of the war to represent them in the
councils of the nation. they nominated
Northern leaders and great Union soldiers
for the highest Office in the gift of the
nation. Looking back at. it from this day,
they present one of the most touching
pictures recorded in history, of a brave,
industrious, well meaning people. loyal to
their word, striving through the depths
of humiliation to regain the confidence OF
their countrymen. But between them
and their Northern brethren stood the
cold, heartless. calculating leaders of the
Republican party. deaf to all pity and IL
tent on but one thing-the maintenance
of that party in power. They knew a.
little of the South as they did of Alaska
aud cared less They we're Bourbons o
the worst stripe and could neither heai
nor see the signs of the industrial upris
ing of the down trodden ST ction. The
Southern States were valuable to them
only in proportion to the number of tout
rages'' they could furnish their party fol-
campaign purposes; instead of having
issues that appealed to the interests of the
American people. With these leaders ten
years ago the recruits we're carpet.b4e
Senators from the cotton States; to-day
those recruits are such men as Malone anc
Riddleberger and Wise of Virginia. Chal
mers Of Mississippi. Emory Speers OF
political outcasts who have no
legitimate standing in either of the two
great National parties, and who appear at
the front in degrading their own States in
the eyes of the American people.
What do these men care that they are
injuring the material interests OF Virgin
la :? What do they care that such wilt
and lunatic SANDER as the Mahone-Go'
ham circular should injure their State in
her material prosperity What is it t"
them that lands in Virginia are unsaleabie.
that her mines lie undeveloped. that capt.
talists hesitate to enter her borders SO
that they make themselves solid with the
Republican party. That is what the
South hates the Republican party for. Ne
Southern man, no renegade Democrat.
goes over to the Republican party that bis
first evidence Of conversion is not the
arraignment Of his State for political
murders, violence at the ballot box, pro-
scription and the like. He must do snme-
thing to damage his State or he is no
Republican. Corrupt, without politica
principle, without influence in his State.
he is welcome if he will only represent
that State as hell to live in ON account
of Democratic rule. That is the ration
which at every Presidential election is
issued to the people at the North. But
1t Is not alone the Senators and Congress
men who engage in this work. 1t is part
II. &c ktne
hopes to make profit out of the Republican
administration. The most insignficap,
political worker in Virginia seiZas upon
this method of building up his claims on the
Republican party men absolutely without
character. and their utterauces are pub
lished in every Northern paper as an evil
dence that Virginia is no place for muscle
or capital. A few days since we saw pub
lished in the Spirit of the Vallsy d Repub
lican paper, published in Harrisonburg,
a letter of which the following is an ex-
tract
The following, which is copy of a notice which
l received, explains itself, and shows that the
by bburD0nism. has not been without lis effect and
that the feeling has been carried into this supposed
cir9jzed part of Virginia:
NOTICE.
T. E. Mace. editor of the T0l1ey Liberal YOU are
notified to leave this town and county. Ii YOU are |
here the 18th of this month on will leave in a |
boz, as will kill you, aud your damn sheet
don't suit the democratic views of This section. 90
or die DEMOCRATS
January H. 1884. Winchester Va
Bourbonlsm failing to buy off my paper, used its |
utmost means to crush it out OF eXistence and til
Readisters of that section, being of we ak numbers
] am sorry to say they u.ceeded in crushing tn.
paper and running my business interests; but, |
losing all, 1 am none he less Readjuster
[ am at present in this city, with my family,
without money, but not Wi hout friends. and pro |
pose to again climb the ladder and again fight
bourbonism.
This letter, written from Washington
City, the refuge of this class, has been