Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-10-29

of Honduras and the Central American
States free of duty to compete with the
hard woods of your State and mine. What
sort of protection is that. If any man
tells you the Democrats are free traders.
you just tell him he is either fool or a
liar. Great applause.) That is the sort
of protection that this great Protection
party has given American interests. And
the ''protection' it has given the Ameri-
can workingmen has been of that charac-
ter that they have been forced to band and
fight for their bread. In st. Louis, in Chi
cagO. in Wheeling the streets have been
red with the blood of workingmen who
had become desperate under the happy
effects of Republican ''protectlon."
THE SURPLUS COLLECTED FROM THE
PEOPLE.
Look at the amounts of money, over
and above the government needs that
were collected from the people and left
idle In the Treasury Or squandered-1S7S,
500, OOO. 900; 10, $6.0O0.OOO; 80, $50, OOO,-
900; 'S1. s1OO,OO0,OOO; 1872, S145, 900, 600;
'S3, $132, 600; 's5, 1858 100000; 'Se,
$93,0O0,000. How long would this coun-
try have lasted under that sort of thingr
OLD AUGUSTA EVER TRUE.
The speaker closed by speaking of his
younger days, before the civil war, when
as Wing boy he had watched for the re-
turns from Augusta. And later. when
both Wing and Democratic parties had
combined to preserve the civilization of
Virginia, he had still watched in the
crisis of the struggle for the news from
Augusta. AS boy or man he had never
been disappointed in the news from old
Augusta-the old county ever true Jap
plause.) He should watch when he went
home for the news once more. They knew
something in that home he was going to,
of what the Republican party was capable
of. In that State, up to 1871 a man
couldn't hold Office, nor teach school, nor
practice law, without taking an oath pre-
scriped by the Republican party-even a
young gfl ffil e e9sslaan'5 get place as school
teacher without taking an oath. But
they had made grand struggle and had
released themselves from bondage and now
they would stand proudly by the old
mother State (applause.)
Lt.-GOyernOr Massey
who was received with great applause, and
was introduced by MIR. Grattan as having
been caught on the wing, followed with
brief and interesting speech. He said he
was too good a lawyer to address jury
after he saw from their faces that they
had made up verdict for his side, as he
saw had been done here. There was
nothing left for him, but to partly follow
the example of the rather ignorant minis
ter who cold his congregation that he
would first splain. then splanify and then
give them rousement," (great laughter.)
The speaker would only give them small
''rousement" The mention of Wings
had reminded him Of campaign or two
since, when he was in Floyd county. A
Republican there said he had never been
a Democrat and never voted that ticket
that he was an old line Wing, and Wing
was naturally Republican. "Are they,"
said to him, swell how do you explain
the fact that Augusta, Loudoun, and
Pittsylvania, the counties that used to
give the largest Wing majorities now give
the largest Democratic majorities in the
State ?" The fact is, fellow citizens, the
true Wing was the true man who had the
courage of his convictions. He isnot.
never was, and never will be naturally
Republican, The speaker said he had
nothing to say about either of the con-
gressional candidates personally; he had
only this to say that the Republican can
didate was the candidate Of sectional
party. The Republican party started out
as a sectional party and has been such
ever since. 1t was born SO and it has been
buried SO.
COUNTING THE ELECTORAL VOTE.
This is an election of vast Importance.
Of all the wrongs ever perpetrated under
the American flag, the counting in Of
Rutherford B. Hayes in 1875 was the
worst, and I am glad to see that one of
your noblest men and one of the most dis
tinguished citizens of Virginia has called
attention to the fact that the 50th Con-
gress counts the Presidential vote of 1888.
I haven't the slightest doubt that if that
congress is Republican it will, on the
slightest pretense, count out the Demo-
cratic candidate. You have had expert
ence in the past in this matter with the
Republican party and you know it is not
to be trusted, and you should see that
your Democratic candidate. Bumgardner,
Is elected from your district
Mr.. Massey urged his hearers to new
activity this week, and to see that their
ballots were deposited in the ballot-box
He closed amid great applause.
AT NIGHT.
A meeting was held at the room of the
Democratic Workingmen's Club that
! night at which Mr.. Gibson, by request,
! delivered another address. He brought
| matters home to the workingmen in a
very practical way. Starting out with
the unquestioned fact that thousands of
monopolies have sprung up in the Union
under Republican policy, he gave some
| striking illustrations of the difference be-
tween monopoly and an industry and
how the former worked to the dlsadvan-
tage of the laboring men. In the matter
| Of railroads he showed how it worked. A
railroad is doing fair business and pay
! ing good wages to its men. A giant rail
road king or corporation comes along and
gobbles it up. The stock is at once water
ed, to be divided among the buyers. Then
the road that could earn interest on S.
600, 900 finds it can't earn it on $40 0oO, 900.
So it has to cut down expenses and down
goes the wages Of the workingmen.
Towards the end of Mr.. Gibson speech