The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-08-30
Democratic Missionary Work

L
ously concerned about the electoral vote
of Virginia is apparent. While Mr.. Bar
bour is giving out the assurance, by relt-
Grafton, that the State is certain for
Cleveland and Thurman, and endeavoring
to inspire confidence by the positive terms
in which he conveys this belief, it is Gu
rious to notice the efforts that are being
made to discredt this assumed confidence.
The State is being flooded with the most
prominent Democratic speakers from 9TH
er States, and i'll the Valley especially is
there the evidence that all is not as serene
and hopeful as is affe cted. Breckenridge,
of Kentucky. Que of the most prominent
of the Democratic orators, was called to
Harrsonburg last Court day to help
O'Ferrall, and while he delivered him
self of an ornate speech, and conducted
the discussion with the courtesy and
grace which are native 10 him, he did not
make any converts or dampen the ardor
of the intrepid Republicans OF that noble
county. AT Stanton last Monday, Sena
tor Voorhees, was injected TO enljghten
the so>ereIgns upon Democratic doctrines
and purposes. 1t was lot the fortune OF
the writer OF these lines to hear him, but
from what We have heard OF bis RENAL KS.
and the impressions he made. it would
have been better tor the Democracy and
for Mr.. IL. st. Geo. Tucker if he had not
been imported. He game at the earnest
pleading of Hon. j. Randolph Tucker to
help his son Harry and eXtTicate the young
man from the difficulties which hedge
him in his own position and that OF his
party Oh the tariff the Blair bill! and Dem
ocratic fallicies generally. 1t is true Mr..
VOORHEES, did not discuss these. or III
deed anything else, related TO them
but contented himself with waving the
bloody shirt. and an hDdignllied, pru'
tai assault upon Hon. Levi P. MOI
ton, the Republican candidate for Vice
President. He essa.ed 10 make cap
jtal out of the fact that The banking firnn
ct which Mr.. Morton is a member had pur-
chased bonds issued 10y the State OF North
Carolina, when the credit of that Stat
was SO low that nobody else would touch
them, believing as he did that the people
there we're honest, and would, when they
became able, pay their honest debts. He
manifested his confidence in them, When
others did not, and because he now wants
his money, when the State is able TO pay
Mr.. Voorhees, denounced him as guilty OF
criminal offence.
But if we are to judge from the dis
gust expressed by prominent Democrats
at the speech of Mr.. VOORHEES,, We may
safely conclude that he did neither the cause
of his party nor the nominee of the Demo
cratic Convention in this district for Con-
gress any good.
At Lovingston on the same day Sena
tor Blackburn addressed the people. an(
at Lexington on next Monday. Mr.. Car
Isle is booked for a speech. 1t will bs
remem bered that these gentlemen are tht
chief apostles OF Free Trade, aud the de
tenders of the Whiskey Trust, which i!
the backb as well as the treasury OF
the Democracy of the State from which
they come. They are both the avowet
VI POIlSJ "a paw Seioi "'N
the Blair educational bill, and we pre-
sumo they come to help 10 elect Mr.. IL
st. Geo. Tucker, i'll order to have vOt'
in Congress to sustain their views from ;
district now represented by friend O
American labor ana popular education,
Hon. j. T. Harris also made his appear
ance as a Democratic elector at large an(
Democratic candidate for Governor, ant
Hon. j. Il. Tucker was present to eDgi
neer the programme and wind up with thu
farce of the performance. In this he Il
an adept, and there was nothing NOR
farcial than the repetition of his old woo
hat story to illustrate the effects OF pro
lection. Cur people had heard the lictlol
so often, that they knew what was coming
and bread grin came over the face O
his hearers, as be proceeded to unrave
the threadbare story.
In ether sections of the State Demo
cratic speakers Of national reputation arr
billed 10 address the people in behalf O
Cleveland and the Congressional candl-
Gates, but if they lave no more effec
than the deliverancts at HarriSunburs
and Saunton. the republicans Can safel.
allow them IA flee field aid al uninterupiet
performance.