Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-09-28
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| DELIVERS AN ABLE SPEECH AT
TIE COURTHOUSE, MONDAY.
| Gel. Richard F. Beirne, the distinguish
ed editor of the Richmond State, and
Elector-at-larg for Virginia, addressed
| the people at the Court House on Monday.
| He is strongly built, of medium height
| and with very handsome and youthful
| face. It was the first time the Augusta
county people had heard an address Of
, which the tariff tax formed. the burden,
and it was exceedingly gratifying to notice
! the eagerness with which the audience
| listened to Col. Beirne's lucid explana-
tions, and the promptness with which they
| caught and applauded the points telling
| against the present High Tariff tax. He
was introduced to the audience by Mr.. j :.
A. Patterson, Democratic County Chair
| man.
Col. Beirne said he was glad to address
! the Democrats of Augusta; glad to ad-
dress people with whom he had shared
the same defeats and the same victories.
He had been over many parts OF the
State and from what he had heard and
seen, the Democratic party would carry
| Virginia for Cleveland and Thurman Gap
plause.) And the Tenth district must
make that victory more complete by elect
| ing that eloquent orator and brilliant man
| Harry Tucker (applause.) He then gave
| history Of the long-lived anim0sity the
| Republican party had held to the South,
which was the reason Of that solid South
which always stood ready to vote against
any man who leads a sectional party. Its
leaders could not hide that enmity. Sher-
man who made a kindly speech in the
South, went North and made bitter one
against it. Blaine, who, while hoping for
election, made kindly speech. the
| night after his defeat made bloody shirt
| one against the South, and last comes
HARRISON ON THE SOUTHERN WAR
PRISONS.
Harrison, since his candidacy had been
treated with great forbearance by the
press of the South in their comments
but it now turned out he was "bloody
Shirt South hater, too. Last week, he
was visited by delegates OF the National
Association of Union exprisoners Of war.
In his speech to them he said:
''The story of the Rebel prison pens was
one of grim horror. In the field our enemies,
| always brave, were generally also chivalric
and humane. But the treatment of captured
Union soldiers surpassed in fendish cruelty
| the worst deeds of the savages. 1t is the black
spot without any lining of silver or any touch
| of human nature"
We at the South know that it was be-
cause the people were themselves starving.
| that the prisonsrs Of war got no better
| food, and we also know that the United
States government refused to exchange
| for our people and take their own OF of
| those prisons. When Harrison says that
| these prisoners were treated with "6end-
ish cruelty" he SANDERS every Southern SOL
| pier, cloud applause). AS for himself, the
speaker he had walked through the i'm
with pity in his heart for the brave men
sleeping there who lost their lives doing
| what they believed right, but Harrison
and Foraker and the other Republican
| leaders do not seem to know what it is to
have kindly feeling for fallen foe.
THE DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATIONS
WORK.
Cleveland's first four years has restored
! to the people 100. 100000 acres of the pub
| lie lands which had been given away by
Republican Congresses to the railroads.
| The name of Iiberius Gracious lives to-
day because he restored 20, 900, 900 of acres
to the people of Rome. Grover Cleveland
J is the Tiberius Gracious of this day, zap
| plause.) He has recommended and gotten
through, law forbidding the sale of i'm
mense tracts of land to foreigners to es-
tabllsh in America the system of alien
landlords, which has been the curse of
Ireland, tapplause). Chinese immigration
against restricting which Harrison voted
| fourteen times, has been restricted under
Cleveland's administration forever, zap
| plause). The Dependent Pension Bill at
tempt to saddle upon the country the
support of camp followers, has been vetoed
by Cleveland, while the brave soldiers of
the Union have been amply provided for
(applause). Under Cleveland the expen-
ses of the Post Office Department have
been reduced So. 600, 900 the first year. A
navy is being built, though since the war
Republican Administrations have dis
bursed $40 900, 900 for naval construction
| and no navy to show for it. An effort to
prevent members of Congress from being
paid attorneys for railroad corporations
has been made, but the Republican Senate
defeated it by test vote of 10 Democrats
and Republicans for it, and rs Republi
cans and Democrats against it. The 10.
ter State Commerce Bill, Democratic
measure, has become law 1t has been
a non-sectional, National Administration.
Among the Presidential appointments
were Curry, Withers and Wingf3ld of
Va, to foreign diplomatic positions, and
John Goode, Solicitor General, (whose con.
| firmation was defeated by Mahone.) and
Gen. Joe Johnston, Railroad Commissioner
A. M. Kelley was appointed to one foreign
mission but was not received on account
of his religious views, and to another which
rejected him on account of the race and
religion of his wife-a woman whose an
cestors were the nobility of the worl c
when tho ancestors of those who rejected
her were, just emerging from the caves o.
barbarisln. great applause).
| THE TARIFF TAX.
Col. Beirne teen took up the tariff tax
People complained of hard times! How