Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-01-16

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frugal and thrifty farmers of this county
would hesitate some time about INDUCING
in. A laugh that Virginia can afford to
pay $5,000,000 for. ought to be alta joke of
the hugest proportions. but fought not to
have the picture of thousands of the chill
dfen of the poor forced to 60 without edu-
cation, for a back ground. Such jokes
come under the head of practical.
Mr.. Tucker is perfectly conscientious in
his course, we doubt if there is more
conscientious member of the House of
Representatives. but we protest against his
views being charged to the Democratic
party of our state. He would sit On the
edge of the orb of Virginia and keep her
revolving around the Federal government
meeting and repelling with centrifugal re-
sstance all its benefits which did not meet
bis construction of the constitution
dropping in magnitude year after year as
she has done until she has shrunk from
the first star to the fourteenth, and when
at last from sheer exhaustion and poverty
would descend from his perch and raising
his hat reverently say. ''thank God we
are still under the shadow of the consti-
tuition" Mr.. Tucker does not represent
the views of the Democracy of Virginia
about the Blair bill he does not represent
the sentiments of either the old 9Th or the
new 10th districts about the money
for the education of the children OF
the people, and to do him justice we dc
not understand him to claim to represent
in this matter aught else than his view of
| the constitution and what in his opin-
| ion is best for the people who sent him
| there. He does not represent the public
opinion of the Democracy of Virginia re.
garding the education of the children OF
the people, as the Republican papers of
| the State are striving to make out he does.
The animus of their effort is too plain to
deceive anybody. If they could show
| that Mr.. fuckers views on this educa-
tional bill were held by the Democratic
party of Virginia they might safely count
on capturing the State government and
starting anew the Malone era in Virgin
| ia. Why should they persIstently try to
assign to him representative Democratic
position, save to arouse the people against
that party on the false inference that his
opposition to the educational bill is the
opposition of the Democratic party. The
| Democratic people of Virginia repudiate
Mr.. fuckers position noa1, ten months in
advance of the State election; nov, six
which will speak then their sentiments
on the subject of aid to education, and
| there isn't township in his district that,
| if the matter was submitted to the popular
vote, wouldn't tomorrow repudiate bis
position and by large majority accept
| the school money for the education of its
children If the legislature were to meet
| in the interval, as there is rum0r of its
doing, it would adopt resolutions request
| ing the Virginia representatives in Con.
gress to use every effort to procure the
passage of this bill.
There is no doubt about where the Dem.
| ocratic party and people of this State stand
on this question. and they are not disposed
to sit quietly and just in front of the most
important election ever held, have the
organization handicapped with Mr.. Tuck.
er's impractical views, however conscienti.
ously held or stubornly maintained. A
repetition of the race in the 10th district
| on the broader field of the State would lose
them both State and legislature and that
would bring upon the Virginia people a
government which Wouid be simply pollt-
ical slavery. No Democrat ought to keep
Silent in the prospect of such a disaster.
even out of reverence to that most unique
and remarkable of polltico-legal eccentric
stitutional law"