The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-10-11

sire to change the policy that productd
them for one that as often as it has been
tried has proven failure and brought dis
tress and want upon the country?
We do not helieYe the American people
want change We do J a' believe the
people of Virginia will vote for Change.
We have CONFIDENCE in their common
sense and their understanding OF cause
and feet. to rebuke the silly and senseless
appeals of mere theorists which declare
for policy that. In the past, has proven
curse, aid against policy that has
proven blessing.
A Democratic Chorus.
There is a singular unity in The chorus
that the Democratic newspapers and
Democratic correspondents sing when
noticing the discussion bet Ween MessTs.
A'ost and Tucker. They play upon enc
string with such uniform iteration, as to
raise the suspicion THAI there is d literary
bureau somewhere from WHICH their in
spiration is drawn, 1t was first that Mr..
Y ost received Il seYert ''drubbing" from
Mr.. Tucker, then that he was "doWned,"
of it," No one should Object to these
veritabe TEACHERS of reform methods
drawing upon their imagination foF their
facts. if that is all they have to console
them. The campaign lar'' is privl'
legged character, with au elastic con
science, if he happens to possess such
thing. and moves and acts under LICENSE
that recognizes no moral restraint al 10
ethical rule. He is a political plunger,
reckless Of the fate of his great proto-
type, Annanias, and Indifferent to de-
cent prcnrteties, if he can only succeed in
creating false impression, favorable to
his man, At Amherst, the first discus
sion, where the audience was largely Dem
ocratic by reason of the weather pre-
venting this ATTENDANCE of the country PEG
pie, there was spirit OF partial fairness
in the reports of some of the correspon-
dents. But these were too favorable to
Mr.. Y ost to suit the game that was evil
IDENTIFY determined on. So the local paper
contorted it into 'fdrubbiDg" that Tuck
er administered to Yost. and the advice
that Tucker should follow Yost through
the district, to expose his fallaclous argn-
ments and his weakness. AT Nelson e.
H., where TUCKER Was SO numerically
hacked that the comWiseration of Repub-
lcans was evoked, " Ost got the worst
of it," At Stanton, it was modified to
the questionable term that " ost met his
match" and at LeXiDgt on that Yost was
"worste d.
The facts of the case as comm unicated
by competent and intelligent observers.
do not bear these versatile serihblers out
in their statements. At no place that
they have met. has Mr.. Tucker been able
to maintain his cause in a legitimate ar
gument. At Lovingston his failure was
80 apparent that even his looks betrayed
his humiliation, and at Staunton he SO ut
terly failed in justifying the boasts and
expectations of his friends, that they
have not been heard to scarcely refer to the
DISCUSSION.
But IT, pregnant fact about these joint
discussions is that MI. Tucker has been
driven to abandon the views Of the pfesi
dent and the Democratic National plat
form; to ignore the platform upon which he
himself was nominated and pledged to sup
port: to djsoWn his distinguished fathers
constitutional opinions, and to declare for
legislation against which he is committed,
in bis advocacy of the Democratic national
ticket and platform, 1t looks indeed, as
though Mr., Tucker had gotten himself
so plixed up that it is difficult to tell ex-
actIy where he does stands. The Vind5
Gator pledged him to tbs support OF the
BLAIR bill and MIR. Tucker says, as 3 denier
resort, he will do so: and yet he much
more earnestly says that he stands upon
the st. Louis platform and supports Mr..
Cleveland, both of which are against that
measure.
1t is evident that Mr.. Tucker is learn
ing good deal in this oauyass, He started
out with an assault upon Gen. Harrison
about the Chinese question and the labor
riots, and made such extravagant and con
fused statements, when there was no one
to reply to him, that discriminating
public sentiment has caused him to halt.
He professed a burning GesiTe to get loid
of "little Jake Yost,' so that he could
metaphorically chdao him up, but he seems
as chary of the dose as if it were red
hot poker. The only successful feats ne
has accomplished, have been in stripping
himself to the waist, and attetudenizing
as gladiator to beat the air and mouth
the moon.
One thing is very sure the Republicans
throughout the district wherever they
have been present at the joint discussions,
have expressed themselves more than
pleased. This YVES especially so in Low
ingston, Staunton and Lexington, and
when that is the case the Democrats are
welcome to all the Getions their perturbed
imaginat ions can cOnjure up.