Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-08-21

"Mark! where his carnage and MS cOnqueStS
cease,
HE makes solitude and calls it peacew
Byron, to-day, could we'll apply these
words for the Bourbon who pirates like the
V1NDIcAToR. Fraud, force, violence and
MURDER have done their work. and the vic
Tins of wrong stand voiceless in their woe and
subsection! Copiah and Danville are afraid
Wing.
SIT was by organized fraud, violence and
the PREMEDITATED MURDER of defence
less, unoffending citizens and a monstrous
usurpation that they 1.-THE Democratic party
acquired supreme control over your affairs at
the Capitol Gen. Mato'ee's Speech at the Re-
publican C0aaveaation.
Such utterances as these from the leader
Of the Republican party in Virginia and
from its most prominent organ, are calcu-
lated to arouse something more Than a
passing indignation in the minds of
those who depend on the prosperity of the
State for their livelihood. They are almost
peculiar to the locality of Virginia and to
the vocabulary of the Republican party
here. In other States like those at the
North there are political riots involving
| far more loss of life than at DanviIle, but
one never hears the State held up to public
adherence as being under the control of
murderers. Why Is it so in Virginia !?
Why does the Republican party here cast
all decency TO the winds and seek to
brand the majority of the people as muir
derers Why is State just awakening
into progress, branded to the world as
under the rule of ass assins ? 1t is because
the Republican party of Virginia is not
as the Republican party of other States.
! It is because it IS the party, the machine,
| the political engine of one man, and be-
cause it represents simply the individual
rejoicings of that one man at victory or
his rage, individual anlmosities and fran
tic anger at defeat. 1t is because the
| efforts of the Republican party do not
rise above the level of a personal struggle
for the glory, the ambition, or the revenge
| of single man who controls it.
| 1t is from such a party. 90 organized,
| that alone could come such misrepresen-
tations of Virginia and her people as are
furnished in the extracts we give above.
And what do they ask in return for this
abuse? What for calling the Democracy
of Virginia, murderers, ballot box stuff
fers, usurpers, assassins, thieves Of the
school fund? Why they ask that after
complacently swallowing. this dose, they
shall step up and vote the Republican
ticket, The party that raised the hue and
cry in 1881. and appealed to the people to
| down the whole Democratic party because
a single one Of its canvassers bad spoken of
the Republicans as highway robbers, y
ed murderers, ballot box suffers and assas.
| sins, to swallow the insult and vote for
| John s. Wise
How many Democrats in this State are
likely TO take that sort of language from
| a leader, two-thirds of whose followers
| are blacks, and then join in the motley pro.
| cession and vote that leader Is ticket? How
| many landholders in the State will read
this branding of the State to the world as
under the control of murderers and usur-
| pers, and then vote with the party that
| thus brands their land as unsafe for habi-
| tation !? How many voters in Virginia
| whose bread depends on capital from
| abroad are going to vote with party that
warns capital away? November will ans
wer these questions by giving the forces of
Malone the most emphatic defeat they
the Republican party will be cured of fol-
lowing leader who makes the first rake
for campaign ammunition, in the gut
ter. -osaa- 4.