Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-12-10
SOME BRIGHT SUGGESTIONS.

Brother PendletOn of the PdfiYOi
and HerdId published at Marion,
Smythe County, in the heart Of the
great Southwest, has "A plthy way
OF putting things. 1t IS almost im-
possible to tell inside facts as to
Virginia affairs more energetically
than the Patriot and HrdM t,lls
them. Here are some of the recent
utterances of the Patriot AMI Her.
dM:
The following was the official
vote in Virginia in the two years
named:
Total vote in 1885. ...... .2S9, 05i
Total vote in 1886. ....... 225, 30I
Showing a falling off of. SO, 1853
OF this great fallingoff Is, 400 was
only from the Republican vote,
while 50,325 was from the Demo.
cratic vote. 1t is thus seen that
the Republicans won the day by
10000 Democrats staying at home
and not by any increase Of their
own numbers or strength. 1t is
also a notorious fact that if the
cOlored vote be deducted from the
Republican vote they would not
have carried but a single district
in the State, nor would their vote
have mounted up to 90, 0OO.-LyRch-
burg Adrdace.
The vote gwen in the recent cleo
ton simply shows that more than
fifty thousand Democrats in Nir.
ginia are sick and tired Ofthe expedi-
ency policy. They are sick and tired
of being told they must stand on
platforms and vote for candidates
intended to be as nearly Republican
as possible in the doctrines they pro.
fess. Not in the imitation, but in
the antagOnism of Republicanism,
lies the way to Democratic success.
-RichmORd State.
TO these statements the Patriot
and Herald replies:
There is vast amount Of truth in
what the state says. 1t is true that
some of the Democrats Of Nir.
ginia are tired of the expediency
policy Of their party; but large
number of those who failed to vote
in the last election were influenced
by disgust Of another kind. They
are men who are really for Republi.
can principles and a Republican
platform. They are for what the
State and the Democratic party are
not for, that is a protective tariff.
They are for the Blair Bill and 9th
er Republican measures and have
only voted for and acted with the
Democrats because they were led to
think that the Democratic party
was for these things. If they failed
to vote Democratic in the recent
election it was because they were
Disguised with the inslncerity Of
the Democratic party, and realized
that the only way to secure what
they desired was by allowing the
Republican party to he restored to
power. Taking it for granted that
fifty thousand Democrats stayed
at home on the 2nd of November
because they were Disguised with
the conduct of their party, 1t is but
reasonable to conclude that
they will be so Disguised with De-
mocracy in the future that they
will vote Republican. A party is
in an awful fix when large numbers
of its voters are filed with disgust
toward it.
The Patriot and HerdM further
says:
We told the people in 1888 that
a Funder- Democratic victory meant
unSettlement and destruction ofthe
Riddleberger settlement. Our pre-
dction has been verifed.-HdriOa
Patriot and HcrdH.
So speaks a Republican paper.
We beg leave to remind it that il
the Riddleberger settlement has
been unsettled and destroyed, the
work of destruction was done by
Judge Bond and the Supreme Court /
Of the United States. The "Funder- .
Democrats" certainly have for the
asst three years been engaged in
trying to make the Riddleberger bill /
! settlement. There is even now /
nothing in the way of making that |
dill fnality except the Federal /
,ourts.-Richmond Dispatch.
Yes, but the first effort Of the
'Funder.D Democrats was to amend
IN Act of the General Assembly,
Known as "Coupon Killer No. ~
that had been declared Constitutions
Il and rGiid by the Supreme Court
If the United States with an
that the same Court
lad before pronounced unconstitu-
ional. But for the foolish or de-
ignedly corrupt conduct Of the
legislature of 1888 the decision of
he Supreme Court in Aatoni rs.
frecnhOU would not have been
made useless, and the debt question
would never have gone into the
Ourts again.