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


H. ST. GEO. TUCKER.
Parnassus. Tuesday, Oct. 26, 7 2. M.
Hermitage, Thursday, %, &" g.
ONLY TEN DAYS OFF.
There are many reflections that must
crowd on the mind OF Democrat or the
man who has been Democrat, on the eve
of the election which takes place ten days
from to-day. The fact will not be lost
upon him that this is the first time IN this
generation that the question will be sub
mitted to Democrats whether they will
elect congressman in accord with, and
to heartily support an Administration of
their OWE political faith. 1t is peculiarly
a grave rnateses Oh consid--sy
Democrat who hsss in the +,
states. for it is the first time that be fass
been abs to fold his arms in peace and
listen To ~ rawlings of the leaders of the
Renubl;ca,s - against him and hissec
go s;th IL sori,ruf capla Auc ssdee tb.;
,sstnoa., m and all danger of ectional
- ~ stands Grover Cheisnd. q
&c Presidants1S Knous we'll that
does SIS saasy the threat of Sher
!, that "fcr this generation at least''
..sie nor his people shall participate in the
national government doats powerless on
she air. He knows WE'LL that Mr.. Blaine's
threat of revision of the vote in the
Southern States until they are forced to
Tespond to the census returns, is idle as
long as he does his duty and aids In elect.
ng Democratic House to support a
Democratic President.
We have said if he does his duty, 1t is
a. duty, and also a measure OF Sc If defence.
Khe Democrats of Virginia. are TO say at
is election whether it is best for the
nth to have Democratic President
IA the peace and prosperity she is enjoy
IS Row. or whether she shall be RENTED
80 the anxious and disturbed condition
which has characterized her In the past
under Republican ascendancy, with its
eyer threatening sectional legislation -
The alternative is no ghost resurrected to
lit through ward meetings and bring out
The votes; it is an issue that is now being
daily repeated by the most distinguished
leaders of the Republican party and which
is applauded by them. The question with
The Southern Democrat is simply whether
ne will cast his vote in support of the first
administration in twenty years under
gyh So,,thorn nnunCorofo hou hod
voiee in the National government; In
which foreign nations have had an oppor-
tunity to know by our representatives
that the South lie civilized section of
our country, or in fact that there is any
South atall; in which the federal Office
holders at the South have been taught
that they are the servants and not the
masters Of the people, and in which the
name Of American is understood TO cover
che people South of the Potomac as we'll
IS North Of it. 1t is the first administra-
lion in twenty years by which the colored
reople of the South have been taught that
they were nsc,, and free men, and not tenn
porarily enfranchised slaves, whose rights
depended on the success or defeat of this
party or that in politics. II the outcome
of a Democratic Administration had
been no more than this last thing, it
would have repaid all the long struggles
of the Democracy of the Nation to encom-
pass it. The uncertainty, the insidiously
cultivated uncertainty in the minds of q
large body Of the Southern people as to
their status as free men has acted as a
semi-paralysis> on her gait and retarded
the prosperity of our section as much as
the uncertainty of the other half about
their political equality in the nation.
With the Inauguration OF, Cleveland
came all this change. as if by magic. And
with it, new life. There is hardly - Sec
ton of the South which is not to-day the
scene of new enterprises started since the
Inauguration of Grover Cleveland. There
isn't Southern journal over which a
month passes that it is not called on to
chronicle some step forward in its town or
The backbone of the hard
times that were inaugurated the day Gar
field was shot and continued all through
Arthur's administration, has been broken
and prosperity is slowly reappearlng. All
these, are things that "for one generation
st least" will not pass from the minds of
The Southern people. The Republican
party is again on hand with its promises.
but it has to contend with silent and
unseen foe in the memory of the people it
Is appealing to. Its cruel and sectional
policy. the Southern Republicans plead, is
, thing of the past. Alas, and to jts