Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1885-08-08

less Offices, cutting down expenses
in the various departments, retus-
ing the acceptance OF contraciwork
not fulfilling the specifications, and
in securing to the people tile vast
area of the public domain unjustlY
held by large corporations. We
congratulate the people of Virgin.
la that he has removed in many
instances the obnoxious partisans
who neglected public duties for
party work, and have confidence
that The blessings of good govern.
ment already secured will be- am
plified and extended under an adj
ministration which has set its face
stcrnly against corruption, and has
so speedily entered upon the great
work of reform.
We spnrn the charges brought
against the Democratic party set.
forth III the document 1urp0rting
to be Il Republican State platform.
1t says, for instance, that tlieiDem
ocrats Of the last Legislature I'M
seated seventeen Republican mem.
bcrs and seated Democrats, where
as the records show that out OF,
twenty.three eases Of c0ntestSover
elections, in ten cases only,sSere
Democrats awarded seats, and in
only six OF these were Republicans
unSeated.
Essays that.the. Democrats pass
ed over seventy acts rslieyiEg de
finlting collecting office ereas;
with a single exception nos such
acts were passed. The acts refer
red to were less than twsTSty III
number, and we're concerning Sure.
ties and weressnpported by the Re
publican Governor. Agaillsit is
charged that the Democrats sqnan-
,leretlthe surplus they foundSinthe
State Treasury; whereas q larger
surplus now exists than when the
Democrats came into power, about
one million Of which has been in
vested IN Riddleberger bonds. OF
such eXtravagances, contradiction
and disqualification is this Re-
publican platform made.
Tie Democratic party has always
been foremost to exalt and dignity
every function Of the State Govern
ment. 1t has created the vast net
work Of railroads and turnpikes
which have developed our reSour-
ces. 1t has been the steadf,st
friend OF labor, and it has never
neglected. The just and ordered
rights of property; frowning on all
class distinctions in all efforts to
array one portion Of the commune
ty against another on issues ont
side of the domain OF politics, it
recognises and will maintain all
classes OF the Commonwealth III
their civil aud political rights. We
must not overlook che vast impor.
lance OF Democratic control OF the
Federal Government, and we ex-
hort every Vrginian to remember
that the success Of Democratic
policy in Virginia may well be ofvi-
tai moment in confirming and
strengthening the suspicious hold
on the confidence of the country
now happily established i'll the
pure and enlightened administra-
ton of Mr.. Cleveland. We there
fore proudly proclaim our allegi-
ance to the Constitution and the
Union Of the States. and to the
national Democratic party as
their interpreter and defender
To that great patty is specially
maintenance of those principles of
local self government administer
ed By tile States and limited i'm
perial power entrusted to-the Fed,
eral administration, which can
alone by their harmonious work.
ing secure and perpetuate the free
institutions OF a territory so ex
tensive and populations so vast as
those Of the United States. Men
of Virginia! In that fundamental
idea of the Democratic party is
summed up your final condemna
tion of our oppopents-the only de
nunciatlon we mean here to visit
on their heads. Other times and
other places will serve for the de-
tailed criticism of their men and
measures. Let this suffice here
They were first the allies. they
now proclaim themselves full and
accepted members of the National
party. The patriotic
voters of this Commonwealth will
never surrender it's destinies to
that party of sectional hate and
constitutional hcresy.
Confident as of old that the
true heart Of the people will utter
it's real voice in thai free and I'M
tramInelled election which recent
legislation secures, and that the
virtue and intelligence Of the State
will be awarded due influence in
its Government, the Democratic
party calmly submits the issue now
joined to the voters of Virginia.