Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-11-30
THE SOUTH AND GEN. HARRI-
SON

A few days ago some Southern editor
printed his views on the incoming of Re-
publican Gen. Harrison as President, and
some other editor up North telegraphed
| to some more editors at the South asking
what they thought of it. We don't re-
member that anything of the kind occur
red when MIR. Cleveland was elected, and
! yet Gen. Harrison has not jot more
| power to interfere with thu South, or
anybody at the South, than Mr.. Cleveland
had. We haven't seen that the opinions
of any Western editors, or New England
editors, or Northwestern editors, have
| been asked about how their sections were
| pleased with Gen. Harrison. We don't
see where section or geographical locality
has any place in Presidential matter.
| We expect the people of the Democratic
States at the South like Harrison's cleo
ton about as much, and as little, as the
Democrats of the West or the Demo Gratis
of New England. Neither more nor less.
To presume that Gen. Harrison, who WIS
a good soldier in the field. has any person
| al bitterness towards the people of tht
| late Confederacy who were il the Ii Id il
front of bin, is a piece of folly that we
shall not charge him in advance with
! On the contrary, we expect to see him.
if he expects to give US National Ad-
.ninistration, select Southern Republicans
. for bis cabinet, and give the South the
same chance it had under Cleveland, by
| selecting some Of his foreign ministers
from this part of the country. AS for
anything more, the Southern States have
no more to ask of him han they had of
/ Cleveland. All their rights have been
secured by the decisions Of a Republican
Supreme Court, so they will not worry
| about that. Their representation in con-
gress cannot be touched by the President.
| the Republican party, or any other power,
until the Constitution is changed, and as
the Southern States wont consent to any
change in that contract, detrimental to
themselves. that question is settled in
advance.
The Democratic States at the South
view Gen. Harrison's election with Meth
er ill will nor apprehension. They think
the chances of his making National
American President, with the good will
of the whole country, are just twenty to
one over Blaine or John Sherman, and
| fifty to one over Foraker. He doesn't
strike the people down this way as the
sort Of man those gentlemen are. and to
- II ,I,o,. hn mi Of in,
about as much of genuine good will here
for his personality as any Republican
| President is likely to have from Demo-
Gratis North or South. The Democrats of
| Virginia are not mad because Harrison
is elected; they are mad because Cleveland
| was defeated. He was the first President
| in twenty five years that had treated Vlr-
ginia Democrats like they were Ameri-
] cans, and his defeat is loss to Virginia
and America both.
The TRUE WORK FOR THE
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS.
The Democratic party has assumed to
itself the protection of the interests of the
workingmen of the country. In the
Presidential campaign it made their
| emancipation from the thraldom of the
| mouopolists its special campaign issue.
| The now outcropplng history of that strug
gle shows conclusiveIy that the wealth
which was the creation of the labor of
| those workmen, was used corruptly to
| defeat their cause. 1t is an exposure
which is capable Of being verified beyond
evidence rising to the value of strictly
| legal testimony, that half milioo of
dollars was expended by the Republicans
outside of campaign expenses, and direct
| ly in corrupting voters. In New York
| city the Mail and Express" the Repub-
| lican organ among the evening papers,
lrectly charges that on the Saturday
before the election "the great sum OF
$3.50, 900" was used to pay voters not to
vote the Democratic ticket and to vote
some of the other tickets in the field.
This fund was paid out by the N ational
Republican Committee, and this payment
is Oh .rged upon 1t by Col. Elliott F.
Shepperd, the Republican editor of the
"Mall and Express
If the Democratic leaders wish to rem
der an invaluable service to the working
men of the country, let them institute
legal proceedings to get at the true in
Wardness of those disbursements. The
money, it is believed, came from the
Manufacturing Barons and was used to
defeat the popular will, and if this is not
true, it Can be disproved by legal inves-
legation.