The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-10-28
Tucker ana white at Spring Hill,

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Correspondence OF the vIRGINfAN.l
On Saturday, 23d inst, Messrs. Harry
st. G. Tucker and M. F. White made their
appearance in Spring Hill to instruct the
yeomanry of that village and vicinity as
to their duties in this coming election
After some fine music ny the Spring Hill
band, Mr.. Tucker mounted the rostrum
and commenced by telling the dear people
that they must hold up the hands of Cleve-
land. the only man who had held the ex-
ecutlve chair for the last rs years who was
not disposed to trample upon the rights of
the South. Hard times next attracted his
! attention, laying the cause to the Republi-
can party, and claiming that as 1t had
taken that party twenty years to bring on
the hard times, his party must be allowed
twenty years to restore good times. He
waited from this point into sectionalism
and held the Republican party responsible
Tor all the Ills elgendered by the two sec
lions. Shilehe Tucker was pouring hot
Sn0t into every man that did not look
through the same political spectacles that
he did. He next launched off on cheap
labor, charging the Republican party with
importing the foreigner into this country
who could be hired at 40 cents per day to
the exclusion of the honest labor of our
own country Here he made a desperate
effort to prove to his audience that the
party in power was the only friend of the
laborer. Lastly he took up the tariff ques-
ton and discussed its merits to great
length from has standpoint, aiming to i'm
press his audience into the belief that
every dollar OF tariff paid came directly
from the pockets of the American people
went so far as to say that under the pres
ent Republican tariff every man that wore
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heavy tariff upon it. His hearers did not
seem to comprehend this logic. He
wound up by declaring his party in favor
OF tariff for revenue only, and his can
dldate. Mr.. Bumgardner, standing square
~ upon that platform opposed to pro-
tecting any branch of industry. The
speaker here took his seat. forgetting that
the Blair bill or the education of the chill
dren OF bis country was in the issue. At
least he did not refer to it.
Mr.. White next made his appearance
and commenced by telling that he had
come here long. long ago, when he was
but beardleSS boy-that he had been here
for a long time, and with his mastery
eloquence endeavored to convince the
dear people how much he thought of
them. After which he ventured to launch
his boat upon the great ocean of free trade
discussed it upon local basis of right
and WrO 6 between man and man, failing
to give any of the advantages or disadyan-
tages of free trade and protective tariff
aswrought out by the experience of the
past and the wants of the country at pres
ent. He seemed to get wound up so COM
pletely in his own web on this subject that
he crawled out from beneath it's coil. and
turned to Tucker and asked him what was
the name of that bill about education.
Tucker gracefully informed him that it
was the Rlam Bill He then said by mis-
management of the Republican party
while in power, Tor in substance) they had
accumulated an enormous sum of money
into the treasury of the United States
which he was willing should be appropri- |
ated according to the provisions Of the !
bill or something better, though be-
neving that it was unconstitutional and |
wrong, and that Mr.. Bumgardner held |
similar views.
The speaking throughout by both gen
tlemen was courteous, showing DISPOSE
ton to extend rights to those who oppose |
them, each eulogising Mr.. Yost in the |
most complimentary terms.
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