Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-05-01
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in other sections, where the advantages
are less and the returns from we'll directed
energy far inferior to what are offered
here. Why is this The answer comes
to every rejecting man, and was given in
the cruel SANDER uttered before the SUI
preme Court of the United States, the
other day, that her people were 'roeues
and Swindlers.' Some OF the very men
who participated in the so-calied Farmers
Convention. and grew eloquent over the
theme Of immigration, have proclaimed
to the world that more than one-half of
the voters of the State are highway rob-
bers.'"
That is Ancient History! Sometime
later than that was the announcement OF
Hon. William Maxwell Evarts, the for
mer Republican U. s. Attorney-G
of two Republican administrations, and
but few weeks ago elected Republican
o. S. Senator from New York, in his
speech On the coupons last week before
the U. S. Supreme Court. He said that the
''one-half the voters of the State" OF
| whom the Virgirian speaks, were not only
robbers, but after robbing the creditors
had passed an act "outlawing" them
That IS modern history which has escaped
| our neighbours attention. II was the ad-
ministrations of which Evarts was part,
| that made immigration pass the borders
of Virginia as if avoiding plague. It
| is the five hundred thousand blacks who
| furnish the bulk of the Republican party il
| Virginia who foIm the barrier to the in
flow of white immigration. 1t is the pub
lie men of the Republican party who warn
the world against the South aud Virginia,
just as that same Evarts did mouth ago
| when In public address he said ''the
| South is the same at heart as it was twenty
years ago." or when he said, not a week
ago, that President Cleveland's Cabinet
| CONTAINS three members from that ele-
ment which convulsed the nation in civil
war, and but one loyal soldier to face
them" That is the sort of talk from the
the war in peace and warns the world
against the South. 1t was such speech
as Blaine, the VaTqinian's candidate for
the Presidency made at Augusta after his
defeat about the South, that makes emil
grafton pass On to what it believes will be
a more peaceful home.
IA majority of the people of the couD
try are Republicans, but whether Repub-
licans or Democrats, they have no inclina
| tion to make their homes in State where
such reckless defamation of political op
ponents is the rule, and party nomencla
ture made the shibboleth of manhood
rights and social recognition
The majority of the people Of the Uni
ted States are not Republicans and have
not been for years. That party has no.
had President elected by majority OF
the people since Grant. But if they were
where would they find less of reckless defa-
nation than in Virginia. No man whe
reads the political papers of the Eastern
and Western States can fail to be struck
with their virulent and often disgusting
campaign personalities. 1t is in those
States the great scandals of all campaigns
are born and aired with fit vulgaritY. And
none viler than in the Republican press.
as the last Presidential canvass well
proved. The bitter defamation in VIZ
ginia IS light by comparison, and came IN
to vogue with the Malone party. They
Denounced one-half of the voters of tbs
! State as thieves who had stolen the school
fund and we're in turn denounced as high
way robbers. But all this belonged to the
hustings and the newspapers and the quiet
citizen who never stirred the pot never got
| tarred with any of it.
| But all this is aside from the merits OF
| the convention that we fnd the Farme,
| held. In it, all shades of political opinion.
| were represented and got along in an Or
! DERBY and genial way without clashing CT
views There we're Democratic and Repub-
lican farmers, but no man got boost for
ward in politics. The action of the con-
veption Was If a common sense character
and creditaole to those who participated
in it. And on the whole it was just one
of those hopeful sort of movements look
ing TO the future. which we sincerely re-.
gret to see made the object of impeach-
ment on political grounds. Its action
was certainty not calculated to mi urt
either of the political parties in this state,
nor, as far as we can see, aid them; but
was simply what it pretended to bean
effort in some way, by hook or crook, to
put Virginia on new, practical, and
cammon sense road to prosperity and thai
by the men who own the State and are
more deeply interested in it than any one
else.
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