Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-10-29

| Wouiu not Dc my son. went INTO congress
with clean hands and came ou' poor. went t.
defend the liberties of the people and to pro
claim that the heart of Old Virginia would mo-
submit to the tyranny Of amy man. know
Tom Reed. He is man of iron will because
he has the backing-take that away and Int
iron will turn to clay. Ibeat him in contest
and succeeded in getting the votes OF bis OWL
party to vote to restore $1,000 to a citizen o.
Virginia from whom that amount had oqen
wrongfnlly taken by the Internal Revenue
When the Speake r's chair was occupied by
Carlisle it was filled by high judicial gentie-
man-it is now filled. by aEbrutai oiacKguaro
| When at the close Of the session. Vote Oh
| thanks was offered for the able and Impartial
| manner in VIII ich Carlisle had discharged Inc
| duties of Speaker every man rose to say amen,
Int there was none to move vote OF thanks to
Reed.
| He tbeueht that he was done stump-speak-
mo Init when he ca me here to visit Nilsson on the
| occasion of the anniversary of his marriage, he
| found him sick in bed and not able to meet his
| appointment, and may his tongue cleave to
the roof of his mouth when he would cease to
raise his voice for liberty. stand under the
| shadow of great men to vindicate the liberties
of the people (referring to the portraits of the
late Thomas J. Niche and John B. Baldwin
which hung above him). He then proceeded
to show that the Republican Congress was a
conspiracy to overthrow Republican Govern
ment and to plumber the people. He then
spoke of States rights, and said that even Ed
munds, of Vermont, had proclaimed himself a
States Rights man, when he claimed that the
States had the right to control their own inter-
nal affairs One of the rights Of the States Is to
elect their own Represen tatives. My belief is,
he said, that liberty is the most precious gift
| OF God to man. God made me free and intends
that should be free. and to rob me OF my lib-
erty is to attack God in my personality. I
| love Virginia with all my heart. and love the
United States because Virginia is in 1t. love
Virginia because 1t is my home. IL Is the
home of the Anglo-Sax on-the only language
that has that word-that has made the people
Free and the AngloSaxons have achieved lib
erty for all people. Liberty, God-given lib erty.
can only be preserved in one way, and that is
to have the power. When liberty is welded
to power, liberty is safe; but when liberty is
divorced from power, liberty is gone. Liberty
consists in managing our own affairs in our
own way. The head Of the family manages
home affairs; cities. city affairs; counties coun-
ty affairs; and States, State affairs.
Never give over the regulation of Virginia to
any other people. The United States comprise
all the States and 1t is right that all the States
should have part in its government-that is
States Rights and that is the constitu ton.
Alien power should not regulate local inter-
ests. All power is vested in the Constitution.
The charge against the Republican party as
now constituted is. that 1t is their purpose to
get the Government in their hands to use it
for their peculiar interests and for plumber.
The capitalists raise the money to enable them
to get into power. and then they will pay it
back by legislation that will put money into
their pockets that has been extorted from the
people by unequal and unjust taxation. Spec
ial interests are banded together to plumber
the government at the expense of the people.
The g. A. R. agrees to support the Republican
party on the condition that 1t will pay them
by liberal pension bills.
Reed increased the Republican majo.1y in
the House from to Is. Venable and Wise of
Virginia, Breckenridge from Arkansas, and
others, who had been fairly elected, were
wrongfully turned out. In the case of Breck-
enridge vino was good man and heightened
gentleman, as was his. father before him, they
were SO rascaliy as to charge that he was i'm
plicated in the assassination of Clayton. his
competitor. He was not swearing man, but
OF this chargeihe would say i. that a swearing
man would call 1t, id lie.
When they were increasing their majority IN
the House by turning Democrats out. why did
they not stop when they had ten majority? It
was because some of their own men could not
be relied upon to go to the extent they wanted.
They then concluded to make assurance
doubly sure and take bond Of fate'' by ad-
hitting six new States-rotten boroughs-that
would give them IL Senators, 6 Representa-
of oil
The people ofthe territories are asked, will
you support the Republican party IT 1t admits
your territories as States? They reply-hoping
to be Senators and other Observation-Disclosures
tainly.' whereupon they are forth with admits
ted. 1t is conspiracy to plumber the Govern.
ment They propose to prevent us from elect
in our own Representatives, and to count the
ote themselves The man who counts the
yotaGhas become to be more powerful than the
voter. He was prouder than Of anything else
that his son had defended the people against
this outrageous legislation. They have stock
ed the pack-they have stocked the Senate, tn
House. and the Executive. and the whole
scheme is to subvert the wi IL Of the people in
behalf of the m1llionaires
When the South was out they passed the
high tariff of 1862. The most prosperous time
in this country was in 1860 when the tariff was
lowest. We have never had an opportunity to
undo what the Republicans did when we were
away. They say, we can't change the Senate
for years and they will hold on to the McKin-
ley plumber. We must get majority in the
House and thereby stop any more wrong
doing. Cleveland Will beat the old mans hat
and the little man under 1t Great applause at
the mention of Cleveland) Give us the House
and Cleveland, and the Senate must give way.
Reed sneers at everything and everybody, and
the last thing he does when he goes to bed is
to look in the glass and sneer at himself
In 1875. the pensions amounted to $50 ,OOO, OOO
Now, Capt Bumgardner has just said, they
amount to 180,000,000. 6 times as much Is years
after the war as ten years AFTER
In speaking with Garfield about the
pensions he told him that as the defendant has
to pay the costs when he loses his suit, and as
we lost the case, he was willing to pay the
cost, but he did not want the clerk to make up
the costs every year. These extravagant pen.
sions are to buy up the soldier vote.
The rich men who loaned their greenbacks
to the Government when they were worth only
40 cents on the dollar were paid the bonds and
interest in gold. Their policy is to increase
the wealth of the few and to diminish that OF
the poor. Suppose the pensions amount to
Sl6O,0OO,O00. then of this amount the South
would pay S60,000.000, of which 1t would re-
ceive. say, s,,0O0OOO, and that would make