The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-10-22
Hon. II. St. Geo. Tucker at Warm
GY1ri1ps

We publish communication from the
Richmond Dispatch, giving an outline
of Hon. II. St Geo fuckers speech at
Warm Springs, on last Monday week
ago We do this for the purpose of pla
cling the views of the member of Con-
gress from the 10th District on record, as
they relate to important questions affec-
ting paramount interests OF pubic con-
Germ. With the exception OF the sub treas
urv scheme, Mr.. Tucker unequivocaliy
announces that he is in hearty sympathy
with and endorses the declaration of
principles of the Alliance. This includes
opposition to the National banking sys
TEN: warfare upon the railroads; in fa>
yor of free coinage of silver, as we'll as
free trade, or tariff fer revenue only
with other notions of a like radical ma
ture, viewed in the light of the salutary
and conservative character OF the meas
ures and policies upon which the govern
ment has been administered for the past
quarter OF a century, and more. lie also
states that he is in favor OF retaining the
public lands granted to railroads to aid in
their construction through the desert
lands of the Nation, and by which TWEEN
ty times their primal value, when do
mated, has been realized by the govern
ment.
Mr.. Tucker certainly has not kept pace
with the developing sentiment among
the better informed and more intelli-
gent Alliance people. In Kansas, the
seat and ot-bed of Alliance fanaticism,
thousands of conservative Democrats
and Republicans have left it, and united
to arrest the progress of SOME of their
| dangerous notions, and reclaim the State
ginia, in Mr.. fuckers own county, and
| all through the South, thoughtful men
who had united with the Alliance, pri-
marily to conserve the interests of the
farming community, have entered their
protest against the very excuses Which
Mr.. Tucker approves. They recognize
| that there is nothing practical in them
nothing german to healthful and patri-
otic legislation, and that it is blind folly,
| if not worse, to seek to delude the I'M
! thinking masses and lead them into a
political mirage from which there can be
no creditable escape. The great mass of
| the farmers of Virginia, and of the coun-
| try, are conservative, by the education
of their surroundings and circumstances.
and it is only when they are taken una
wares, without due time to reflect over
and weigh propositions, that they can
be lead away from such lines And when
this is the case, it is only temporary, for
they will soon comprehend the deception
and will be swift to place themselves
right.
1t will not be twelve months before
many of those who have committed
themselves to most of the main decla-
rations of the Ocala platform will be try
ing to explain away their folly and re-
greet the haste with which they endorsed
propositions that must from the very
nature of things, pass to the domain OF
"innocuous desuetude."
Mr. Tucker, in his speech at Warm
Springs and at Staunton, placed hlinself
squarely across the path of the leading
lights OF his own party on the silver
question Cleveland Hill, the Democ-
racy of New York and Massachusetts,
have all declared against the free coin
age of silver
The leading Democrats of Virginia and
the South are opposed to it, and no nom
inee for the Presidency will dare to make
canvass upon it,unless he desires to in
vite defeat and defy fate. Next year,
when the silver craze has spent it's force,
there will be many political penitents,
who will call out for deliverance
from their records and beg that the
mantle of oblivion be thrown over them