Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-10-31

increased for the purpose of providing for
the public Indebtedness, necessarily at
forded protection to all forms of Ameri-
! can industry and stimulated it's grow tn.
Such protective duties. but perhaps more
wisely apportioned, must have been laid
IT Blaine had never been born, or if the
Republican party had ceased to exist. The
national debt on January l, 1888, was ST.
1884, III ,728. 1t will require the imposition
| of high duties upon imports to provide for
! the payment of the interest On this great
debt and for the increase of the sinking
| fund intended for its redemption. The
debt of the United States is an obligation
| which is absolutely sacred, and the neceS
sary duties will continue to be imposed
| even if in the mean time Blaine should
cease to be remem bered as a public man.
| 1t is conceded by men of all parties that
| these duties must be revised under Re-
| publican President. Such revision would
be made in the interest of corporations and
| individuals known as contributors to Re-
publican campaign funds. Under Dem
ocratic President such revision Will be
made in the interest of the whole people.
| The National Democratic party has ex-
pressly declared that in revising the pres
ent apportionment of duties it will pro-
tect the labor and capital involved in ex-
listing industries, and that it will always
| protect American labor and enable it to
| compete successfully with foreign labor.
This committee frankly confess to you
that it has conducted this campaign
against enormous odds. 1t has been your
battle. and it is necessary. The expenses
have been paid for by your voluntary con-
tributions. The Republican treasury. on
the contrary. was at the beginning of the
campaign filled to ovefflowing. The large
contributions of office holders, the larger
, donations of contractors who have accu-
mulated enormous wealth in public jobs,
and the grants of money made by favored
corporations have created unquestionably
campaign fund larger than the DetGo
cratic party can command. Ii the Blaine
managers had stopped with this accumu-
lation of money and had rested content
with its corrupt use, we should have left
them to their devices, knowing that their
expenditures would be unavailing, but
while we write a meeting of manufactur-
ers, summoned by those managers, and in
session at the Fifth-Avenue Hotel, has,
by request of these managers agreed to
stop the work at their factories unless
their wOrkmen will support Mr.. Blaine.
This attempt to coerce the workingmen
of the country to support Mr.. Blaine will
be remembered at the polls in November;
not only by the sturdy men whom it was
lut0uueu W dueCO. pub ny Ill tu0 WOIk-
men in the United States. You have full
ly awakened to a sense of the supreme i'm
portaUce of good government. You are
putting forth all your power to secure it.
This committee, placed in position which
enables and compels it to see the effort of
a great popular movement, can forecast
the issue. That issue will be the triumph
ant election OF Grover Cleveland as Pres
ident and Thomas A. Hendricks as Vice
President of the United States.
[Signed] A. P. GoRMAN.
Chairman Executive Committee.
VIM. II. BARNUM, Chairman.