Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-08-27
FRIDAY MORNING, AUG. 27, 1885.
FOR CONGRESS
FOR THE TENTH DISTRICT,
isAMES BUMGARDNER. jr
OF AUGUSTA.
WHAT A DEMOCRATIC HOUSE
HAS DONE.

WHAT A DEMOCRATIC HOUSE
HAS DONE.
There has been in power, SO far as Re-
publican Senate did not check its benef-
cent legislation, a Democratic Admins
GEatiou for just eighteen months. That is
20 say: for that space of time there has
psen Democratic President and House.
Cur Republican contemporary, the Valley
pirqinsan, whose party faith is of that in
Sense character that good piece of legisla-
sion loses half its value Ii not the work of
She Republican partY-after depreciating
esaat the Democratic House has. done, ar
raigns it for what it did not do. The ar
gament is presumably made by way of
favorable contrast for the Republican
party when it was in power. Let us take
its objections seriatim and see how the
two parties stand in the contrast which
its arraignment implies:
1t failed to pass the Blair bill which gave
$4,000, 600 to the South, 1910, 900 of which
would have come to Virginia.
And very much to its discredit, too. But
ssle Republican party was in absolute
sower taoenty-taco gears after Emancipa'
zion and didn't vote dollar from the
Treasury to education in Virginia.
How was that Have the people
any more cause to believe the Re
publicans would let such measure go
through the House now than they did
when the Republicans had both House
and Senate
It failed to repeal the Internal Revenue
system or even modify it,
The Republican party had the power to
10 it and it has been practicable for many
Years. Instead Of repeating it, they uphold
sG. Can the peonle expect more in this
-szIreetien from that party than from the
lem ocracy which has declared its repeal
IS part of its national policy.
It failed to reduce the war taxes.
How in that have the two parties differ
I'D, except that the Republicans have had
qears and failed to do it and the Demo-
Gratis have only had months.
It failed to appropriate one dollar to coast
serve such as we have.
Our contemporary had as well complain
chat the Democrats failed to make an ap-
preparation for the purchase of fint-lock
ynuskets, as to talk about Notifications in
these days of torpedoes and electricity
The Democrats are doing better; they
nave commenced the construction Of
navy.
It ignored the demand of half million
people for the admission of Dakota as a State.
The admission of Dakota as applied for
VAS protested against by Republicans. land
Democrats as well, from the Territory. And
Congress, kindly gave them time to as
ascertain what they really wanted. But
40 American who has studied the q. s..
Senate, now the House of Lords of this
country, will regret that the rotten
ooroughs, represented by bobtail western
serri,s oSfi;SaseA barred off as long as pos.
sfble.N
Itfaifed to pass general bankrupt law, as
,z4eaanded by the business interests.
Why didn't the Republican party when
in possession of the government do it
1t failed to pass the Mexican pension bill,
Just measure that would have benefited many
Of our neediest and most worthy citizens.
1t did pass the Mexican Pension bill
and the Republican Senate defeated it, as
many of our neediest and most worthy
citizens" know to their cost.
It tried to pass bill to admit raw materials
free and carry out Democratic free trade
IDEAS, and it succeeded in bringing paralysis
upon the country the like of which has not
been experienced in a generation.
1t didn t touch hair of the tariffs head.
It stands just as it did when Democratic
administration came in with not clause
or letter altered-a tariff passed by Re-
publican Congress and approved by a Re-
publican President. If our contemporary will
admit it, it knows that the master mind
In the Democratic party, and the master
and mastering mind in the House of Repre-
sentatives, is Samuel J. Randall, and that
the wildcat theory schemes which emanate
from those eminent Republican free trade
journals, the New York "Times," the
Evening POST and the Chicago ''Tri-
bune." or may be evolved by that roar
ing whisky interest OF the West, which
knows no party, will find common grave.
The chief difference, we take it, between
the work of the present congress and
those that preceded it, is that the former
Ia Democratic, for as matter Of record
there is no House of Representatives for
many years that has passed more wise
measures for the welfare of the country,
and what is equally important, killed
more unwise ones. The Democratic party
has proved in but few months, that it is
safe to trust the interests of the country in
Its ban Is and is fast yindicating its right to
aconfdence that was hesitatingly given it
year and half ago-a confidence it has
secured as much by undoing such Repub-
ucan legislation as the alienation of i'm.
mense bodies of the public lands to rich
corporations, as by enacting fresh and
wise legislation of it's own devising.
The Baltimore s.Sun" of Saturday says
that the wheat exports from Baltimore SO
far this month, the first of the new crop
year, have been encouraging, and the
grain-dealers are doing good trade. For
The week ended on Thursday the exports
included 752.715 bushels of wheat and
80,679 barrels of -four. The wheat season
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