Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-10-16

paragraph from Gov. Hills speech at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, on Wednesday of last
week:
THE Democratic party has no new issues
10 SET. we started where we We're in 1884 and
il 1888. In 1888 we set the flag of tariff
reform upon our shoulders, and there we shall
carry it on to victory. If the Republicans are
tired of the issue they can abandon it; we
shall carry it to the end
That is chart that every Democrat who
wishes to see the earnings of the people OF
the United States remain in the pockets of
the earner-whether that earnerl live on the
farm OIL in the field-instead of being gath
cred into the bank accounts of manufac-
turing monopolists or the vaults of the U.
S. Treasury, may safely steer by. This is
not the millennium. We are still in world
where we have to accomplish but one thing
at time, and struggle pretty hard against
protected manufacturers and the Stat that
is fried out of them, to get that. Let the
people Of this country first get the tariff
laws fixed SO that they can keep what they
earn-whether it is silver OF gold OIL bank
notes, in their pockets. After this we can
get silver put on footing with gold where
it ought to be. But, it is said the Alliance
wants it and wants it now. Somehow there
is spirit abroad OF talking about the ALI
ance as if it was wild, untamed sort Of
organization that had suddenly broken into
the arena, and that was not amenable to
reason. While the real situation is, that
the Alliance is composed of men with the
| largest interests at stake in this country,
and with which reason is even more Ope
ratiye than with any old political organl-
cation. The members OF the Alliance pay
the bulk Of the taxes that support this gov
eminent, if people could only remember the
fact. To the Alliance, on the silver ques-
tion, we would just say this much. Until
you get the strength and numbers to make
sure winning party of your own, you had
better stand by the party you can get the
most out of. The Democratic party is
standing by you now for all they are worth,
and it looks like they intend to stand by
you for more yet. If you turn in and beat
the Democratic party in '92, you'll all tum-
BILE into the ditch together, for the Repub-
lican party will never give you free silver,
OF let your earnings stay in your own pocket
or let anything else. And moreover, if they
ever get you separated from the Democracy,
and they manage to thrash you both and
capture the government once more, the
Farmers Alliance nor the Democratic par
ty won't be heard of again in this country
for twenty-five years. You must do just
like the Democratic party did after the
civil war burnt it out of house and home.
Y on must take what you can get every
time, and if you keep on doing that you
will end by getting what you want. In
eleven years after the civil war closed the
Democrats had the House of Representa-
tives. In seventeen years it had the Senate.
In nineteen years it had the Presidency.
In twenty years it had the Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court and the General of the
Army. Take pattern 10y the Democratic
party, the wisest political organization that
ever existed, and make it your friend as
long as you need friend.