Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-10-05
Tucker and YoSt !!
JOINT DEBATE BETWEEN THEM
AT THE SKATING RINK.

AT THE SKATING RINK.
| Ga Saturday night H. 81. Geo. Tucker
and Hon. Jacob Yost. the Democratic
and Republican candidates for congress
from this district. met at the Skating
Rink.
The audience was very large one, and
the negro element had an unusually large
. representation in it, which, we presume,
accounted for many of the 1nterrupting
cries during fuckers speech, and for the
leaving Of good portion of the Republi.
closing fifteen minutes. Some of the
white Republicans. notably Mr.. Chas.
Curry, tried to stop this discourteous con-
fession of being worsted, by calling out to
them to come back, but they did not heed.
Many of the Republican element mistook
the occasion-the presentation by two In
telligent and capable gentlemen, of the
two sides of an economic question-for
the ''old times Of 'sl-s3, and seemed to
think IS 'rah for ost'' was an over
whelming answer to any good point
Tucker made on him. The discussion
itself was an admirable one, Mr.. Yost
said everything that could lie said for the
present High Tariff, aud the man who
votes for him after hearing Mr.. fuckers
full explanation of Low Tariff, 10 ust do
so from willingness to tax himself that
some other man may prosper.
MIR. YoST
opened by saying that he had redeemed
every promise he made to his constituents
when he stood in that hall candidate for
congress, and every vote he had Cast had
been in the interest of better wages to
labor, better prices to the farmer and bet
ter schooling to the children OF the State,
and he challenged his competitor to point
out one vote of his that was not to that
end. The present issue was Protection
against practical free trade; and the Blair
Bill against opposition to National aid to
State education. The Republican leader
in this fight was a man worthy of that
position and was a head and shoulders
above his competitor.
A voice-"Three cheers for Harrison"
The cheers were given.
Mr.. Yost said he did not regard Ceve-
land as statesman, but as pretty good
politician. lie Mr.. Yost) was for "Prc-
lection for Projections sake" If High
Protection was highway robbery, as had
been claimed, then the Low Protection ad-
vocated by the Democrats was petit larce-
ny. They differed in degree. not in kind.
When man builds mill in America be
has to pay twice as much for the brick,
building it in England. When it goes into
operation he pays the mill men twice as
much. When he comes to sell his goods,
be must put on the difference in the price
between here and England. The English
man in his cheap mill worked by cheap
labor makes his goods at less cost. The
American mill owner has then two things
to do, either to
STOP HIS MILL,
or to lower the wages paid, so as to COM
pete with England. His workmen cannot
live on less wages land 1t is in this dilemma
that the Republican party steps in with
its Tariff, and puts him and his workmen
on footing with the Englishmen. It says
that the English mill owner shan't under
sell the American one. And that is
all there is in it. He. (Mr. Yost,)
paid $40 for the suit of clothes he
wore. 1t is claimed that IS per cent. was
tariff. That off, would leave So 20 for the
making and wool in the suit. He pitied
the man or woman who had to make the
suit at that price, (Applausel. He didn't
want things cheap. applause TheTariff
was all question OF fair wages or cheap
wages to labor.
The Democratic Ways and Means Com
mittee that framed the Mills Bill closed
its doors to the representatives of labor
who wanted to be heard. And when the
doors we're opened it reported bill which
made England rejoice that free trade had
at last gained a foothold in the United
States. He was charged with having
proposed to increase the duty on uIn-plate.
He had, and he did it because under the
Mills Bill steel and iron sheet could be in
troduced into this country free and thus
destroy that trade. The workman was
more bothered about what he was to put
In his dinner pail than he was about the l
cent tax year on it, (applause.) A till plate
manufacture had been started In 2ittsburg,
but England put her tin-plate down to S.
35. and killed it by the low price. We are
now paying $50,O00,O0 yearly to England
for her iron and steel manufactures.
A volce-Well; you all fixed the tariff.
THE BLAIR BILL.
Mr.. Yost then went into the merits of
the Blair Bill. 1t gave Virginia SIS, 80 900
of which Augusta and Staunton would
get $l25,000. It had passed the Republi.
can Senate three times. When it came to
the House the first time,a single objection
killed its consideration, and the oblectcr
was John Rand olph Tucker of Virgil ia.
When 1t next came John G. Carlisle the
Democratic Speaker killed it, and for
doing so was characterized by John W.
Daniel as the ''arch enemy of Virginia."
and Mr.. Daniel said he had refused to vote
him the usual complimentary resolutions
at the end of the session on that account.
And yet it was this same John e. Carlisle
that Harry Tucker now said he would vote
for for Speaker if he got chance. and this
same John Randolph Tucker that Harry
Tucker had supported for congress.
DID ANY MAN EVER HEAR
Harry Tucker lift his voice in
favor of the Blair Bill? (applause)
Harry Tucker now had found out the
| Randolph Tucker was wrong about its
being unconstitutional. He had thought