Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-06-04
THE FALL CAMPAIGN.

" ItlNil tNUNitA tu WIN ltlti NlNt
to local or national affairs and par
ties, the Virginia campaign of 1856
may have iar-reaching and decisive
results, and VIII have them if the
people, as heretofore, are equal to
the demands of the occasion. Or
dinqrily the Bourbons have sue
cessfuly evaded the real issues of
a campaign by ignoring state ques-
tions, and Haunting federal ones,
or vice versa, as best suited the
eXigencies Of their situation or by
ignoring both, and appealing mean
ly to race and sectional preludices
but IN this year of grace all then
usual holes are stopped. Cleveland
tells them that they must cease the
race and sectional cries he points
them to the negro votes by which
they claim TO have carried Virgin
ia, and other states and the Vir-
GINA returns themselves show that
she went Tor Cleveland, and also
Tor Lee, if she went for them at all,
by cOlOred votes returned from the
black counties 1891 and 1850. And
OF all issues, state aud federal, the
BOurb0ns have not a single one up
on which they can safely defend
themselves. We say dctead, and
we mean it most emphaticallv, for
the Democracy in everything and
everywhere isput ilagTantly on the
offensive by its own acts, by its
violated promises, and by all the
results for which it Is responsible.
On state and federal account, suf-
fIagc, education, labor, taxable
property, productive capital, and
every right and interest arraign it
and call it to judgment. Even the
loot and Doodle of public plumber
fail it. The attraction and cohe-
sion OF the SpOils are wanting un-
der an administration which really
is quite at sea as to what princi-
pies, measures, and men elected it,
and which therefore requites all
with an impartial ingratitude in
the dispensatiOn of federal patron
age.
Virginia BOurboniSm can betake
itself to nothing but force and
fraud. i can deceive nobody ; it
can persuade nobody it can buy
nobody. Its conduct has fully eX-
posed and condemned it in all mat
lerS, and it is a confessed beggar
for aims to carry on the state gov
eminent. Can the fraud and force
which placed it in power protect
and save it now Let the Virgin.
ians of 1869 aud 1879 answer in a
manner becoming their record : a
people slow to wrath, but invinci-
bic when aroused.
The national congressional cam
paign committee has been recently
rcorganized aud announced. Upon
it we see that name Of suspicious
auguIy. civilian Malone, Of Vir-
ginia." lie was the hero Of 1869
and 1879, md now he can and
must be the hero Of the third and
decisive victory over BourbOnism
in 1856. The prestige Of his form
er achievements, and services is
all undimmed by the bourbon sue
cesses of lSS3-'Si'Sj-fOr all men
know how those successes were
won. His capacities are in the full
strength of a development through
experience. State chairman of his
party, member Of the national con-
OCCASIONAL committee, and United
States senator, he is in position to
give his magnificent abilities as a
leader and manager their most 20.
tent exercise for Virginia and Re.
pnbllcanism. Barbour, the Bourbon
dismayed at the outlook
in Virginia, and feeling that it will
not do now to attempt repetition
Of his Danville campaign, is pre-.
pairing to retreat to EurOpe-even
declining to run again for Congress,
his own district now being tired of
him and his utter incOmpetency as
q representative.
Virginia has six districts that
should send Republican representa-
tives to Washington two of these |
only now have such representa-
tiyes, and four are to be won this |
year, if possible. But already, to
divert Republican energy, to con-
fuse Republican effort, and to dis
courage Republican resolution, the |
Bourbon schemers Of the fourth |
congressional district are endeav-
onng to fOment the old dissensions |
which put two Republican candi-
dates in the field there in 1884,
while similar tactics are employed
in the second district-these two
districts being now overwhelming
" Republican. 1t is with no hope
Of carrying these districts that the
BourbOns are TINS working, but to
weaken Republican endeavOr In
he four doubtful districts, The
initial steps in the program have
)een takel at Petersburg in a So
,alled Independent movement
against the Republican municipal
icket nominated for election on the
ourth Thursday of this month. If
his entering wedge for Bourbon
SIN have any success in the city
lection, that success will be fol-
owed up by a like movement in
he district for Congress. We beg |
cave to warn every liberal and
mt. Bourbon OF Petersburg against
he insidiOus schemes which have
10 other end in view than to strike
Town Republicanism so that BOur-
,onism may have unquestiOned
way. That independence which
5 all one side is bogus and any
Independence, no matter bow hon
st, is a fatal mistake il it help
}Ourb0nism to extend its control
n hold its present grip.
Republicans Of Petersburg and of
he fourth congressional district,
he eyes Of the state and Of the
JniOn are upon you, and you are
expected to DO your duty without
vavering. Stand firmly shoulder
0 shoulder; set an example Of
and zeal, hold your cen
raj citadel, and in the coming con.
.ressional struggle strike terror to
he enemy, not only by your cordi-
i harmony, but by a devotion and
enthusiasm that shalt inspire every
ffroiuia Rppuhlicau in avf ~ 1ia.