Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-10-09
WE MUST NIZE OUR
CLUBS.

Out of fifteen precinct returns received
spondents. Monday, eight complained of
the want of peighborhood club and spoke
of the benefit which would follow estab-
fishing one. Immediately after the Presi-
Dental election, on seeing the narrow
margin by which we carried Virginia, we
urged that the Democratic club organiza-
lions be not disbanded, but held together.
AS this was not done, we have now to ap.
peal to the Democrats of the county to re-
vive the old clubs or form new ones at |
once. We beg to assure them that there !
is an urQent necessity for this. 1t is not to be
questioned, that so imbued are the coun-
ty Democracy with the belief that this is
to be an easy victory, that they are not
doin the amount of arOrk which is neces-
sary to be done. And we feel certain that
in the county nothing like the same
amount of work has been accomplished
that is usually done, four weeks in ad-
vance of an election. The absence of
Republican legislative ticket from the
field doubtless has something to do with
this, but the Democrats must remember
that the Prohibition ticket is IN the field
to beat their legislative ticket, and needs
just the same resistance that Republican
ticket would require. Indeed, it is that
ticket which, it is announced, the
Republicans will support solidly. There is
nothing easier than to start Democratic
clubs in this county. 1t has furnished some
of the best club organizations We ever
saw, and there is hardly voting precinct,
that hasn' t two or three active Democrats
who are perfectly familiar from expert
ence with the forming of clubs aud who
could in day get up an excellent work
ing organization. AZ club is great aid
to Pre- cinct Committee and it forms an
excellent me- dunn tor communication be-
tween its neighboIhood and headquarters.
We should be glad if as fast as clubs are
formed in the county. the Secretary would
send a list of the officers to this office for
publication, in order that the people may
know who to communicate with, and for
the further reason that the formation of
one club will stimulate the formation of
others.
A county Democrat should remember
that the county Republicans have already
organized three active clubs, while our
own party only has one, besides the two
located ia the towns of Waynesboro and
Stanton. The Republicans are not letting
The grass grow under their feet.
|
MR.. WISES COLOR LINE.
The most frank drawing of the color
, line that has been made during this cam
paign that We have seen, was made by the
Republican candidate for Governor, hi M
self, in his speech at the Skating Rink
Saturday. He said that the colored man
was naturally Republican, naturally a
member of the party that blew the breath
of life into his clay and made him free
man. and that any colored man who was
Democrat, was "a DemocI at for Revenue
only" Iu March, 1881, Mr.. Wise created
a sensation in Virginia politics by a let
: ter announcing that large proportion
, Of the white Republican vote in Virginia
: was Republican for Revenue only and
''apostates for the price OF their aposta
cy." So at least the colored man who pro-
poses to be independent of the Republi
con party may console himself that Mr..
Wise does not hold him in a more Ut
favorable light than he does the Old Line
Republicans who have stuck to the Re-
publican party for fifteen years through
thick and thin. Nor, indeed, holds
any worse opinion of him than Mr..
Wise has of himself If Mr.. Wise may
leave the Democratic party and en-
joy the price of his apostacy in a
Federal District Attorneyship, why
may not the colored man who chooses
to leave the Republican party ''for reve-
nue. only,' be equally entitled to the re-
spect of his fellows If Mr.. Wise, after
being defeated for office in the Democratic
party. may join the Republican party, why
may not the colored man who has been
duped and denied recognition in the Re-
publican party, go to the Demo-
cratic party from which he may hope
for better thingsp Mr.. W iss thinks the
Republican party blew the breath of life
iuto the black mar and made him free
man! We may add to this that the black
man has blown the breath of life into the
Republican party in Virginia, South Caro-
lima, Indiana, Ohio, New York, North
Carolina, Tennessee, and almost every
debatatle State in the Union. If the Re-
publican party did not retain the breath
of life in these States. as it did not,
it is because it was content with
using the black man as political tool,
meyer advanced him single step, and was
willing that his rage should be killed at
the South if the killing furnished 1t with
campaign wind enough TO wave the bloody
sbirt. Mr.. Wise's color line comes too late,
for Virginia. The black man is learning
too fast for him.
FIfZ LEES RECORD.
We should like to use the privilege of an
acquaintance with John s. Wise since his
| c,,1 II, t,f