Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-09-29
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THE CANVASS IN THE TENTH DISTRICT

Captain Bumgardner is making vigor-
Gus campaign in our Congressional district.
In straightforward, open, earnest work he
leads the way worthy of his cause, in
manner characteristic of his unfaltering
devotion to his party, and in unfolding the
Democratic Administration of the Govern
ment. Tho strategy of the Republican
candidate and his adherents, in the endeav-
or to divert the canvass SO as to screen
their party from the effect of the public
condemnation which has been placed upon
it, avails nothing. The reports which
represent gains from the Democratic ranks
are but blank assertions that are manu-
featured for a purpose. In seeking to run
the contest by Sinking the responsibility
of that party for its past deeds and con-
duct, is an admission of the correctness of
the verdict by the people. Having only
been plotters and schemers since that YER
dict was rendered, by seeking to foment
dissatisfaction by untruthfully represented
statements of default on the part of the
Democratic party, is a barren record which
Captain Bumgardner is exposing.
But little more than one month inter-
venes before the election. The Democrats
of other counties are active, and are look
ing as they have a right to do, to Augusta
for great majority-greater than any OF
recent years, and which will settle the
politics of the district for long time to
come. The work of thorough organization
should be we'll on the way now. There is
no need to wait for Captain Bumgardner to
appear in public speeches through Augusta,
as was his custom when leading his party
in other contests. Every Democrat Of
Augusta should rather be gratified that he
is in other parts of the district stirring the
party to lively realization of the contest,
for here his personal canvass should not be
necessary. Let the work which has been
mapped out by the County Committee pro-
coed with vigor and determination. Enroll
and count your men and have them in place
at the meeting and conferences, and see
that not one fails to answer at the election.
The intelligence from all the counties in
which Captain Bumgardner has appeared
is just what might be expected. The peo-
pie are pleased with him, because his
speeches, his intercourse. and conversation
impress them with the sincerity of his con.
victions, and the necessity for standing by
the Administration of President Cleveland.
He reoites long list of reforms and i'm.
provements made in the interest of good
government. and in the manner of conduc.
ting the public business by the Democratic
President, which are the very reverse OF
the Republican rule when it held sway, and
which would again scourge the people il
that dynasty should be restored to power.
Captain Bumgardner is a man of better in
formation. and would spurn the practice OF
such humbuggery as would make the Presi-
dent of any party equal to doing or undoing
matters which would change in few
months, or at all, the course which they
must take for proper solution. If parties
and Presidents are responsible for the
troubles of the country, then the ''hard
times" which is the beginning and the
ending now of Republican ranting is the
offspring of the Republican party, and
surely they ought to know and acknowl-
edge their own.