Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-10-29

loyalty to the old county<0f Aug usta. Ii
we prove to be like him we shall be found
at tue POLLS.
a MESSAGE FROM SAMUEL J.
RANDALL TO THE PEOPLE
OF AUGUSTA.
1t gives US great pleasure to publish the
letters we give bel5w. They are written
by Democratic statesman of national
fame, who has stood all the tests that can
De applied to great man in political life.
He Is The man to whom, more than to any
otter one man in this country, North or
South, is due the political freedom of the
Southern people, and the defeat of meas
utss vised by the Republican to en-
slave Ii. u. And he is the statesman who,
more tLan any other American, has never
lost sight Of the fact that the legislation of
congress hit would benefit the country
must hrst Prosper the man who labors
with his hands however poor he may be
or however huns,le his labor. His letters
will be read with pleasure by every Demo
erat in the DISTRICT and ..hls advice will be
taken by every voter who wishes well to
his party and his counJA,: )
WASHINGTON D. c.. Ocsoba, 10. 1886.
Judge VIM. A. Hudson stduaatoa, Viaqiasia.
DEAR S1R:-I am in receipt of yo1r invita-
ton as Chairman of the Democratic Comfy
Committee to go to your city DUNG the
l.
pending political campaign. 1t would afford
me much pleasure to comply with your our
teous request and to meet the good people o
the Tenth Congressional District of Virginia
but am compelled to decline, as I have beer
confined to bed for over month by severe
illness and cannot promise myself, although
up and on the road to recovery, to be sufaci.
emily restored to health to undergo without
danger the fatigue would necessarily have to
endure.
do not forget your Democratic people
have sympathized with me in my efforts in
Congress for many years to have the DEM
ocratlc party respected and successful in every
quarter of the Union by representing the SUBJ
SbduUldi RIOWln duO tuG COlI6bpOuuiuSly ILL.,
creased welfare of every portion of the coun-
try. This policy bringing all sections into
harmonious action and giving free movement
to the development of our material resources
of farm, mine and factory has produced the
most extraordinary and benefcent results
To-day there is nowhere nation freer or
more prosperous. Here labor is respected
and receives larger remuneration than in 9TH
er countries. That this happy condition OF
affairs should continue must be the desire OF
all right thinking men; and L believe that re-
SiI " 1ilff1 5e BEST accomplished by sending to
ss Democratic Representatives who will
b to the teachings of Jefferson and Gal
and other leaders of the Democratic par
ty in the past.
Mr.. Cleveland's administration has been in
power little over a year and seven months,
and it has already corrected a great many
abuses which had grown up under its prede-
cessors, and by what it has done gives promise
of still further improvement in the future It
has grown daily in the confidence of the peo-
pie, and it only remains that the people should
send to the House of Representatives those
who are in sympathy with its effort to secure
purer, simpler and better government SO that
the hands of the National Administration may
be strengthened to uphold the right and to
defeat and destroy the wrong. I am, my dear
Judge,
Very truly yours,
SAM. J. RANDALL.
The following letter is from the same
distinguished gentlemen:
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct 10, 1886.
Hon. John z. Harris, Haarison6ury, IA.
My DEAR Mr.. HARRIS friendly letter
enclosing one from Ro. W. Burke has been re-
ceived. 1t would be great pleasure to me to
pay you visit and to accept Mr.. Burke's invi-
tation to deliver an address to the people at
Staunton in favor of Mr.. Bumgardner's cleo
ton to Congress-, but this pleasure I am COM
PEELED to forego on account of the condition of
my health. am only able to get about but not
strong enough yet to go away from home.
Make my kindest Acknowledgements to Mr.
Burke and to Mr.. Bumgardner, and tell them
~" SAoUiy oAoOi OtucI C1ICuluStduCGS WOulu
aid them to the extent of my power in secur-
ing the triumph of the Democratic ticket in
their congressional district. I shall hail Mr..
Bumgardner's election not only as something
to be wished for, but as something to be ex-
pected, because of the harmony of his poll
teal sentiments with those of the people he
seeks to represent. believe the continuance
Of our present condition of unexampled pros
perity as country depends very much on adj
herence to Democratic principles. Mr.. Cleve-
lands administration has been in power but a
very brief period, and yet it has worked the
cure of great many abuses. 1t has not done
its full work of reform and that it may be able
to do SO it should have in the House of Re-
representatives. ample support by the election
of men like Mr.. Bumgardner.
Thanking you for your friendly good wishes
and again regretting my inability to visit you,
am, very truly yours
SAM. J. RANDALL.
It is the effects of this distrtst [of the Dem.
ocratic policy] that the people now feel, and
from which they will not be relieved until
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