Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-06-18


ing the true attitude of the Blair bill un-
| derstands that while there are some DEM
| ocrats in the House who object to it on
constitutional grounds. as partly taking
| from the control of the States domestic
| matter which belongs exclusively to them.
there is still larger number of Republl-
| cans who will not support the measure
because it gives from the national treas
ury money for educational purposes which
will 60 mainly to the Southern States.
These are the actual and we'll known facts.
The bill will never pass the House, chiefly
because of Republican opposition. Under
these circumstances some Democratic
friends of this "Or some other measure, :"
prominent among them Maj. Daniel, are
, endeavoring to effect the passage of bill
reported by the Labor Committee, of
which Maj. D. is member, which its
friends hope to SO amend after it gets be-
fore the House that it will embOdy the
main features of benefit to the South. and
at the same time to some extent pretermit
the provisions that are most obnoxious to
the Republicans who oppose it. In this
way, and in this way alone, is there any
hope of securing the passage of an act pos
sessing the general aspect of the Blair Bill.
Of course we may expect our menda-
ciOus enemies to illuminate, for campaign
of the facts. But their tactics are fully
understood and will be fully circumvented.
The sequel will show that Maj. Daniel
has in the most perfect good faith carried
out, in his congressional course, the posi-
ton he assumed in the canvass upon this
Lynchburg Yirginian.
We are not half so apprehensive of the
effect of the systematic misrepresenta-
ton of facts'' which Tour mendacious en-
emies" are expected to illuminate for
campaign purposes" as we are of going
before the people on just such explana-
lions as our contemporary gives above. The
"actual and well known facts'' would be
better established if the bill was once
gotten before the House. 1t has never been
there, and most Of the efforts, as far as we
can see Or have read of, except those of
Mr.. Willis of Kentucky, have not been
directed to getting it there, but to deliver
ing sssome better measure" from the
womb of the Carlisle committees. There
is not ghost of chance for ''some bet
ter measure" land no better measure has
been proposed by anybody if it were to
get through the House; for isnever would
get through the Senate. If the Blair bill
once gets before the House, 1T is passed.
The congressman who represent Northern
constituencies wouldn't dare to refuse to
vote for the money their States would re-
ceive. 1t is only at the South that we seem
to have succeeded in propagating a class
of statesmen so superior to the constitu-
encies out of which they sprung that they
set themselves above their wishes, opin-
ions and needs. The knowledge of con-
gressiOnal affairs on the part of the people
may be slight, but slight as it is, they will
set it against the ''actual and we'll known
facts'' of our contemporary, with these
other actual. land we'll known facts:-The
Democratic State convention of Virginia
and the Democratic legislature of Virgil
MIA have demanded the Blair bill, and not
"some better measure The U. s. Senate
has again passed the Blair bill. The Dem
ocratic House of Representatives so far
from forcing its passage has not even got
help it. Major Daniel, whose good faith
the people of Virginia need no assurance
of, is simply wasting his influence and
ability in forwarding ''some better meas
ure." If he will use both in forcing the
Blair bill before the House he will find
that the bugaboo OF hostile Republican
vote will fade like mist. The Republi-
cans would not dare TO stand recorded in
the negative.