Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-11-02

YESp POCkEP TICKETS.

This campaign has been conducted on {.
it in Virginia for many years. The issue,
almost purely economic one, has been
, discussed without excitement or bitter
ness. There will be but three names on
| each ticket-the candidates for President,
Vice President and Congressman
each Of the three represents the issue OF
the day. To scratch any name On it is to
| scratch the principle il represents. This
| is not an election in which men are pre-
i sented with ticket containing score of
names Of men put up merely to get offices,
and in which one may scratch one man
because be don't like him or another man
because he has offended him-this is
campaign for great principle. Either the
Democratic or Republican ticket repre-
sents the principle Of the voter, and to
scratch it shows that he is willing for
! some reason or other to abandon some
man OF his own party representing his
principles, and give aid to d man of the
other party who does not represent then.
Wv CUPunoiA5 tIIlS SCidICulug process,
because the voter of the vest pocket ticket
at national elections is, with rare excep-
lions, man who has scratched his ticket
Ii 1t is Republican the chances are that
he has scratched Yost and voted for
Tucker, and If he is q Democrat the
chances are that he has scratched Tucker
and voted for Y ost. In either case he has
absolutely surrendered the principle for
which he and his party are coatending. 1t
is hardly necessary to tell man that
to vote for Cleveland for President and
then vote for Yost for Congress, Or for
Harrison for President and Tucker for
congress, is simply voting for President
and then trying to send man to congress
who shall thwart his policy and tie his
hands on every occasion that offers. Il,
therefore, can find no support from COM
mon sense and practical point of view.
From party point of view, to vote so is
simply treachery to the party you belong
to, and there is no other name for it. It is
sailing under Democratic colors and
knlfng one of the Democratic candidates,
or it is sailing under Republican colors
and knitting one Of the candidates of that
party. For Tucker aud Yost are as much
the nominees of the National Democratic
and National Republican parties, as Cleve-
land and Harrison are.
The canvass has been open and above
board; SO let the election be If you are a
Democrat, vote the Democratic ticket; if
you are a Republican, vote the Republican
ticket. At elections for numerous city or
county offices, there are always on hand
number Of annoying friends of the cand-
dates, almost as numerous as the candi-
dates themselves, who poster the voter
with their solicitations and give the quiet
citizen an excuse for providing himself in
advance with vest Locket ticket. But in
Presidential elections there is little or
none of this-the chief object Of the work.
ers being to bring out their own party
strength. so there is no excuse for voting
vest pocket tickets. The ticket are at the
polls in thousands for every shade of poll
tical opinion~-walk up to the ticket stands
in open day, take up your ticket, and vote
it in the face of all men. You know which
party you belong to, then vote its ticket
If you don't like the Congressman Oh it
strike him out boldly IN open day. If you
are going to do it, go ever the breast
works in open day. and not by night
gtb vest pocket pass. This is free
country snI 20 free American, who
is doing what he believes right. ought to
allow himself to be driven to tie Vest,
Pocket ticket for coucealment. And what
does be gain by it after all He is suspect.
ed of trsachery by his party friends, and
not without reason,