Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-08-21
CONSISTENCY!


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Shades Of primitive primcness
deliver us from the BourbOns wh,
presume to teach Republicans con
sistency.
Yes, the people love consistency
and that is the reason why Virgin
ia is not a Democratic State.
The people like consistency
hence they are learning to shnn q
party which blow hot or cold at
pleasure-is one thing to-day and
another tomorrow.
They do not propose to trust a
party which protested and sworC
that the Riddleberger debt settle
ment was highway robbery and
then publicly endorsed that very
measure.
They do not look with foudncs,
upon a party which cursed the
public school system as long as
they thought it popular to do so
and now vow that they are the
pest friends Of that great institu
ton.
They do not admire a party that
calls itself the original and only
best people, and then not only
rub up against and hug the mig
gers but resort to the lowest and
basest means to accomplish their
political purposes.
They do not like party that
presumes to possess all the finer
feelings of humanity, and yet pen
up the insane people in the filthy
cells of county .iails.
They 10 not endorse a party
that opposed the Blair Education
bill while many of the children of
the State were running wild in
Ignorance.
They are not enamOred ola party
which claimed to be the only class
of people capable of running the
State Government, and yet they
called the Legislature together
four times to do the business Of
one session Cor, rather, to accom-
plish the base purposes of their
partizan rascality); squandcred
thousands of dollars of the peoples
money by trickery and fraud, which
for audacity is without a parallel;
they unseated enough Republican
members of the Legislature to give
them the power to override and
nullify the veto power of the Gov
ernor, and then, with everything
in their own hands, they were so
shamefully ignorant or crimlnally
careless that they hal to repeal or
amend large proportion OF the
law which they attempted to es-
tablish.
They can see no good in party
that processes to have a complete
monopoly in the matters of honor
and honesty, and yet have sought
to disfranchise a large number Of
unfortunate voters by imposing a
price on the ballot; and being re-
buked by the majesty of the people
they have sought to accomplish
their fraudulent purpose OF con-
trolling elections by the institu-
ton of little electoral commission
in each county, appointed with a
view to their understanding of the
necessity ~ for Bourbon success.
They are not delighted with a
party that denounced the Read
juster management of State affairs,
and yet they (the Bourbons) have
upset almost every good thing left
by their predecessors. The wheels
of REIMBURSEMENT are clogged, the
public institutions are in bad con
dition, teachers are hawking their
warrants about the streets, and al
most every good thing feels the
blight OF BourbOnism.
They do not fancy a party which,
last fall, endorsed the liquOr-plank
of the National Democratic party's
platform, and now, in their State
platform, throws a sop "a lie on its
face)tO the temperance people.
Furthermore, they cannot toler-
ate a party which would nominate
for Lieutenant Governor a man
whom they have recently denounced
in the strongest terms and besmirch
ed with the foulest epithets Of polit-
zeal parlance setting up for high
position one whom they themselves
have declared is not fit to occupy
the lowest place in public life.
Yes, indeed The people love
consistency and the voters of our
State are learning to hate political
hypocrisy, which has 80 long hid
its hideousness with the cloak
of arrogance and the hood of pre-
And the true people .
will surely show their appreciation
Of consistency by a crushing defeat I
of the horde of Pharlsees who have .
presumed to possess the land and /
all that therein is, regardless of the .
rights Of the people.
Consistency, thou art a jewel. /
BURsTED BE BOURBONIsM.