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


1t Ithe Y1ND1cAroH's arraigning the Repub-
lican party for Blaine and Sherman's utter
anees1 is clear acknowledgment of the weak
ness of the position of the Democratic party
and its candidate in this district, on these
practical and vital issues Else. why should
such course confessedly wrong, be select
ed? If the Democratic party is sound on the
tariff and the Blair bill, VIII reason is there
for introducing subject which should be let
alone forever, and all agree can only hinder
our material development and perpetuate
breach in the Union that ought never to have
existed? There is no reason for it, but the
fact is that the Democratic party is not sound
on these questions, and it is trying to putty
shut the cracks by appeals to passion and
prejudice, or rather, it is trying to close the
eyes of the people SO that they will not see
these defects in that party.-Highland
Recorder.
A party that refuses to defend the peo-
pie who have trusted it with power, ls not
fit to be trusted. The death of the Re-
publican party in the Southern States was
due more to that than to any other cause.
While using the vote of the Southern
States In it's national nominating conven-
tions, it never said one word to commend
those States to the world; it never gave
out any contradiction of the statement
that it was semi-barbarlc section of the
eUnion and political .murders were the
rule and not the exception in It's history.
It's chief, ever fresh and never stale issue
before the people Of the North was Che
unftness of the Southern States for self
government. 1t has kept capital away
from our States; it has kept immigration
from our land, and it has put brand on
us wherever it's representatives we're sta
toned abroad. When their two prominent
candidate for the Presidency, Blaine and
Sherman-not in war times. not in recon-
struction times, but in this year of 1886,
and not thirty days ago, urge this same
view, our contemporary thinks the Demo-
cratic press ought to concede its truth by
silence, and-discuss the tariff II Mr..
Blaine in his own State Of Maize on the
10th of September last uttered these words
about one-half of the American nation:
'The Democratic party, that brought men
and women to the auction block and sold
them to the highest bidder, is parading now
in the blood stained garments of their s. 000;-
600 victims, for which they have never yet
been tried and for which they have never yet
asked forgiveness. The Democrats defeated
| the admission of Dakota, and hold that State
out by thirty-fve to forty representative votes,
which they have stolen in the South. They
not only take 100000 of men in the South
and exclude them from the ballot and take
that electoral strength and give it to white
Southern men, but they go into the Congress
of the United States and use the vote thus
taken to keep white Northern men from their
rights"
And Virginia paper instead Of defend
ing it's State from this is to turn off and
discuss the tariff Not fifteen days ago
Mr.. Sherman said:
''The administration, in its appointments,
surroundings and sympathies, represents the
to power of al that were dlsloyal North or
.. South during the war. I do not know how
you feel about this matter, but, aside from all
differences about minor questions, I feel that,
for this generation at least, the loyal people of
the country, and not the disloyal, should be
trusted with power in the government, should
represent it abroad, guide its policy and
write its history
And this proposition to keep the people
of the South out of participation in the
National government, to which they pay
taxes. fora whole generation. should be
| answered, our contemporary thinks. by dis
cussing the tariff! Why there is not fair
minded American either North or South
whose sense of nationality does not rise up
against this threatened prescription of
one-half the nation. No; notwithstanding
the efforts Of our Republican cotempora-
ries to turn the mind of the people from
! these monstrous utterances; notwithstand-
ing they wish to convey the idea that they
were made in the dim past when they
were made but yesterday-the Virginia
people shall know them and, more, they
shall rebuke them at the polls and all who
sympathiZe with them.
The Democracy Of the Tenth district
intends to have protection and equal
rights in the government. The Democra-
cy of the Tenth District intends to have
the Blair bill and equal rights in the gov
eminent. And the Democracy Of the
Tenth District has nominated James
Bumgardner to get these things for it in
Congress. And he will.