Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-08-28
A SUGGESTION TO COL. WIN. E..
CRAIG,

4 SUGGESTION TO COL. WIN. E.
CRAIG.
Passing gathering on Monday last,
who were listening to Col. VIM. E. Craig
define the position of the Republican
party towards the workingmen of our
country. we heard that gentleman an
aounce to them that the party in question
was the worklngman' friend and its mis-
sion was to elevate him. We beg Col.
Craig's pardon, but upon reference to the
Congressional Record, we find the status
of that party officially set down as fol-
lows:
[vote March 9th, 1882. in 0. S. Senate to admit
Chinese skilled laborers to the United States, to
compete with American workngmenl;
Yeas-Messrs. Aldrich, Allison, Brown,
Conger, Davis of Illinois, Dawes. Ed
munds, Frye, Hale, Harrison, Hoar, In
gals, McDill, Mcmillan, MALONE.
Mitchell. Morrill-17.
[vote March 9th. 1882 in U. S. Senate to admit
Chinese artisans to the United States to compete
with American worklngmenl
Yeas-Messrs. Aldrich, Allison, Brown
Conger, DAVIS Of Illinois. Dawes, Frye
Hale, Harrison, Hoar, ingalls,, jackson,
McDill, Mcmillan, MALONE, Mitchell,
Morrill,. Plumb, Saunders-19.
The Democratic U. S. Senators voted solidly
against both propositions
This vote may be verified by Col. Craig,
or by any other American citizen who can
read, by reference to pages 81 and 80 of
the Congressional Record of March 9th,
1882. 1t will be observed from this. that
the Republican party is not the friend OF
he.working men of this country, but of
those residing in China, and that its mis-
sion with regard to the American work
ingman is not to elevate him, but to starve
him. Col. Craig possibly intended to state
that the Democratic party Was the friend
of the American workingman and its mis-
sion was to elevate him. If such was his
intention, the above record shows that he
would have stated a fact. 1t is not too
late, even now, for Col. Craig to repair bis
error, by reading the above extracts at the
next Republican meeting he may address.
|
If the Staunton VINDICAToR supposes that
| the serious charges brought against the Bour-
| bon management of the Western Lunatic
Asylum are met by the evasive and inconse-
quential stuff it publishes it is very easily
| imposed on. The charges stand, if no better
defence can be brought Richmond Wing.
One "serious CHARGE was, that patient
died from the effects of dose of medicine
given her. The entry in the official record
in the handwriting of the Coalition ply
sycian, is that her death resulted from
puerperal mania
Another serious charge is, that another
patient died thirteen years ago, from ar
overdose prescribed for her by one of the
Democratic physicians now there. The re
cord in DIR. Stribling's handwriting shows
that he prescribed the dose and that thu
patient had often taken it before.
A last serious charge is, that patien
had been crippled under the Democratic
administration. by being dragged out
bed by an attendant. Sworn testimon.
shows that she was cripple confined tt
her bed before the Democratic admins
tration went in, in 1884. s
If record evidence. some of it in Coali
tion handwriting, is ''inconsequentla
stuff then we must confess we are un
, able to do better. Instead of the above com
ment from our contemporary, however, W
had expected from it a ringing denuncia
ton of the brutality of dragging the
names of the insane, living and dead. int
political canvass. 1t is not too late, eve
now, for tire Whig to utter its manly de
testation Of political warfare that drag
the names of insane women into a politi
cal canvass, some of these women belnI
long since in their graves.