Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-10-28
Foraker in New York.
From the Richmond Dispatch


Judge Foraker spoke at jamestown,
New York, on Wednesday last. He carried
his malignity with him, and in New York
as he had done at home, vented his spleen
upon the poor prosecuted South, and wav.
ed with strong arm the flag of tho bloody
shirt Next week he is expected in Virgin
ia, so we are told, but we can hardly credit
the rumor. At any rate, Mahone's New
York organ, the Tribune, reports him as
having spoken at jamestown as follows:
''The Republican party should be return.
ed to power, first of all because it has not
been in any morally legimate sense turned
out of power. The solid South is meant
| by this remark. 1t has been said that VIC
should not arouse memories of the war.
call your attention to the fact that in Vir
ginia in Fitzhugh Lees canvass the caval
cade that attends him to political meetings
bears at its head the battle flags borne by
the memorable Pickett's division at Gettys
burg. The Democrats are taking the cad
in arOusing war memories. I do not be
lieve that the war memories of the wrong
side should be appealed to and those of the
right side forgotten. The Republican par
ty does not appeal to memories of the wal
in speaking of the Solid South 1t refers
to the condition of things to-day when
speaking of the solid South The recon
struction policy gave the blacks vote, and
thus added thirty-eight votes to the cleo
toral college. In the last election the PEG.
pie back Of those thirty-eight votes were
missrepresented. By this means the men
who followed jackson and Lee were Civ.
en- two or three times greater pplik a
power than that held by the men who FOL
lowed Sheridan and Grant"
| If Democrat had made speech feul
year ago containing the sentence first above
quoted, he would have been denounced
from Maine to Minnesota as donble-dyeo
traitor. Sherman did as much as any Other
man to cheat Mr. Tilden out of the presi
dency, and as much as any other man tc
elect Foraker Governor of Ohio, and gel
Foraker has the unblushing impudencs te
declare to an audience in Mr.. Tilden's owr
State that ''the Republican party has moi
been in any morally legitimate sense turned
out of power! Mr.. Cleveland was not elect
ed at all, according to this new doctrine. Ii
Foraker preaching treason? If not, what
is it? Gen. Logan says Fitz Lee rides or
the s'treason stained saddle" of his Uuclt
| Robert E. Lee. Does not treason of g
deeper hue ''stain"the speech of judge
| Foraker?
"The men who followed jackson and Lee, >
| quoth this Ohio missionary, "are giver
two or three times greater political power
than that held by the men who followed
Sheridan and Grant" What falsehood
The Republican electors in Ohio and Penn
sylvania Suppressed the votes" of sever
hundred and fifty-eigLt thousand white
men-Democrats- cast the entire cleo
toral vote of those two States for Blaine
Seven hundred and fifty-eight Thousand
suppressed Democratic white votes in only
two States in the North will Offset all the
negro votes Suppressed in the same way
in South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, Geor
gia, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Wha
would Foraker say if he should be confront
ed with that fact, or with the fact that ever,
Rhode Island Republican has forty times
as much influence in the United States Sen
ate as New York Democrat, and tel
times as much as Virginia Democrat?
| Of course if Foraker comes to Virginia
he will be afraid to stand up in the presenc'
of any Virginia speaker and make blunder
so numerous and statements SO falsS ant
incredible. He will not divide time will
Massey, nor with ANY other Democratic
speaker.