Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-10-22

shame, it is thing of the present. Mr..
but of the future. Mr.. Blaine says it is
not only the policy of the present and fu-
ture, but must be continued until the
Democratic party is tried for its 'crimes."
The plea that the sectional policy of the Re-
publican party is thing of other days is
promptly denied by its leaders of this day
as soon as uttered. But what else could
the people expect from the Bourbon leaders
Of Bourbon following. There is no real
RepublicaDism to-day, when we think Of
that party as it appeared twenty-five years
ago, with its great leaders now in their
graves. Which of the great ideas with
which it commenced life, has it not per-
verified? 1t freed millions OF black men
and then enslaved them in political bond
age. IG started with the economic idea of
Protection and perverted it into mould
from which to cast great and grinding
monopolies. 1t started to make America
naval power and ended with our flag float
ing over useless hulks in every dock on our
coast. 1t started out as National party
and ended with a cabinet, Supreme
Court, every foreign mission. and nearly
every government Office filled with
citizens of one section of the country 1t
started out to make an ideal Republic and
proceeded in its work by bayonet-
ting State legislature out of State
capitol. It started out after the civil war
ended to give the country untold prosper
ity-it continued by plugging it into
| financial panic in 1873 and into STRESS of
hard times that commenced six years ago
and hasn't ended yet. 1t promised pro-
lection to American labor which would
| give it good wages and happy homes-yet
| for six years past the labor strikes have out
numbered all the rest since the civil war
Its Labor protection policy has resulted
in the creation of great millionaires and
| wealthy corporations that can, and do
| lock out thousands of laborers on any day
they please and without moments
warning to the wage worker. 1t is po-
licy that has forced Labor to look out for
| itself against the gold bugs created by it.
Its greatest crime is that it can learn
nothing. 1t does not know today that
| the South is on its feet. 1t does not know
to day that the wage worker of America is
on his feet. 1t still believes in martial
law in political economy, and Force bills
in the solution of great political ques-
lions.
1t is this Political Failure that asks you
to vote ten days from now for Republi-
can to 60 to Congress and obstruct the
Democratic policy of Democratic Presi.
dent. 1t is this Political Failure now in the
decrepitude of life that appeals to you to
| turn from Democratic President and
| from. a democratic policy and give your vote
to 1t. This '.lean and slippered pantaloon"'
of American politics asks you to turn your
back on the robust and victorious Nation
al Democracy and fall in line in its de-
| feated ranks. It promises you, what?
Benefit from It's policies2 Oh. no; all its
| policies have been tried thoroughly, with
the entire government to enforce them,
President, Senate, House, Judiciary De-
partment, Army and Navy to back 1t, and
failed. 1t has had full, free, unques-
toned swing of National power and left
it-where the National Democracy found
it two years ago-the people suffering from
hard times, Labor and Capital organized
against each other, Anarchists holding
-htly meetings soon to resul. III blood
i'iIsssssS& communists teach ing the doctrine of
free iahi and common property-legiti-
mate products Of she grinding monopolies
that bad arisen under and been nurtured
by the Republican policy '.for the benefit
of Labor,"a policy that had organized an
army of poverty stricken workingmen of
ficered by millionaires. The Republican
party, its policy, its temper, Its statesman
ship, its justice, its capacity to run
great nation, have been given trial of
quarter of century. 1t has failed and
the American people have laid it aside.
An appeal to a Democrat to ally himself
| with it is like an invitation to assist at the
nnrolling of political mummy.