The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-01-22
Hon. VIM. M. Evarts.


Hon. VIM. M. Evarts.
The Republican caucus of the New
York Legislature on Monday night nomi
mated Hon. VIM. M. Evarts as its candi
date for United States Senator from thai
State after the 4th of March next to sue
coed Mr.. Lapham. The vote in caucu:
was Evarts 81, Morton 2S, and Depew 8
The nomination was made unanimous
The proceedings were quiet and devoid Of
the manifestation of acrimonious feeling
indicating an unusual degree of harmony
in the party and purpose to stand togeth
Ell in future contests. The nomination Of
Mr.. Evarts was in response to the popular
sentiment of the party. Throughout the
State the greatest interest was manifested
and not less than three-fourths of the people
in the party were earnestly for him. This
feeling prevailed outside of the State.amons
Republicans. He is recognized as one of
the first men, Intellectually, in the coun-
try. His large experience in public af-
fairs, especially with our relations with
foreign countries, his high personal and
professional character, pointed to him as
the man whom the country and the party
needed in the Senate at a time when the
Executive Department, for the first time
within a quarter of century, will pass
into the control of the Democrats. Mr.
Evarts will at once, on his qualification as
a Senator, take rank as leader. His
great abilities, his party loyalty, his vast
fund of information and his eminent at
tainments as lawyer and diplomat will
inspire universal popular confidence, and
draw about him sustaining influence and
support which will commission him to
voice public sentiment throughout tie
entire country. No wiser or more effed%
tive choice could have been made, and
none that could have cheered and strength
ened the party so much, or given greater
assurance to the commercial interests of
the country in the deliberations and dis
cussions which will necessarily engage the
attention of the Senate in the policy that
is to be adopted with foreign countries,
through treaty stipulations. His Ameri-
canism is of the heroic type, and with his
experience and capacities, he will serve the
country well and prohtably in shaping it's
international policy, and maintaining the
dignity and traditions of the Nation.
On the Goth Mr.. Evarts was elected by
the Legislature, all the Republicans voting
for him, and the Democrats for ex-Mayor
Cooper, of New York city.
The Vindicator has opened it's batteries
upon Mr.. Tucker for allegtI misrepre-
sentation of his constituency i'll his oppo-
sition to the passage of the Flair Educa-
tional Bill. If there is Sit gle member
of Congress who can consistently oppose
the measure, that member is Mr.. Tucker.
When asking the suffrages of the people
Of this District in the late campaign, he
distinctly and unreservedly announced his
opposition TO the bill, making that
opposition prominent feature of his
canvass and declaring his intention of con-
tinuiEg the fight against it, if returned to
Congress. He made no concealment of his
position. He proposed no compromise
with the friends of the measure. He de-
nounced it in the bittereSt terms, and the
Democrats of the District applauded his
utterances. He defended his we'll known
hostility to its passage, and gloried in the
fact that his individual objection had Sc
cured it's temporary defeat and deprived
the State of its benefits for time at least.
Coming back to his constituency with the
sweat of the conflict yet fresh on his
brow. he appealed to them for vindication,
and with the Viadicator in the lead, they
endorsed his action and sent him back in
triumph to renew the fight. The issue was
made clear and distinct. There was no
attempt at evasion no temporizing; no
room to doubt. Upon every hastings where
the candidates met, the Blair Bill formed
one of the main questions of discussion.
The respective views advanced were as
widely separated as the poles. There was
no common ground. The Republican
nominee ANNOUNCED his unqualified APP
proval Of the measure, and his purpose, if
elected, to use all honorable means to Sc
cure its passage. Mr.. Tucker as unre-
servedly proclaimed his hostility, and de-
clared his intention of renewing his oppo-
sitlon should he be returned to his seat in
the House. With the full knowledge that
such would be his course, the Democrats
Of this District sent him back to Congress,
and in that act they endorsed the position
he had taken. II he aoac favored the BILL
the charge of misrepresenting the voters
who elected him, might. with propriety,
he brought against him, but until he is so
situated it doesn't lie in the mouth of the
Viaadicator to read his title clear. He was
nominated by reclamation. He was placed
upon platform that denounced national
aid to public schools. He was elected by a
decisive majority, and he stands to-day the
accredited representative of this district,
panoplied with the endorsement of his
party, and newly armed for his warfare
against what we believe to he the best in
terests of his State. To this position the
misunderstanding full well his views
did everything in it's power to elevate him.
1t comes with bad grace row for our
contemporary, or any other Democratic
authority, to be hurting phlllipics at an
agent-chosen for a certain work-for
doing exactly what he was sent to do and
just what he said he would do before and
when he was selected. The Democrats of
this District made their record on the
Blair Bill in the last canvass, and they
need not try to save the sinking ship by
singing out their chosen Captain as the
Jonah.
Appropos the discussion in the United
States Senate over ex-President Jefferson
Davis and the events preceding actual
hostilities between the States in 1861, why
don t somebody hunt up the W. L. Yancey
'Scarlet Letter. written either in the
fall of 1859 or the spring of 1850 ? In it
he proposed Southern Confederacy, to be
composed of the six Cotton States. The