The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-02


weakest citizen.
ut holds that the powers delegated
by tho State were intended to bo sufli-
cient to secure the strength and tho
glory of nation and that the guar
antee of the States to give their people
Republican form OF government was
pledge that may be enforced. 1t be-
lieves in works of national improve
ment, in navy, in pensions for dis
aDled soldiers, in a tariff for protection,
| In national aid to education, in national
banks; it will be led by the logic of it's
existence to the tablishment OF
| postal telegraph, of postal savings
banks, and warehouse for the lnspec-
ton, insurance and storage OF grain, as
we'll as of whisky and of goods in bond.
1T believes, in short, that wherever
tho individual has surrendered so much
to establish government, that it Shall
not be found too weak to protect his
| property, his privileges or his life.
Against Democratic outcry it has
Tor our convenience opened the Missis.
sippi and. SPAWNED tho continent; for
our comfort carried the national domain
| into homesteads; for our security thrown
It's guarantee over the banks, and re-
| deemed its irrcdeemable' paper SO that
the scan earnings should be safe, and
the most ignorant should know that
tho paper i'll his pocket is gold.
ut scorns the theory that State is
moro than nation, or that an Ameri-
can citizen with all the advantages of
his birthright shall go down to tho
level of European wages, or the I'M
lighted depths of European life.
III tho Republican party of Virginia
fails to keep step to the music of the
| Union, to proclaim the civilization of
the Nineteenth Century, to advance
with its irresistible front, then it is not
the Republican party, and the hour has
| come to change its name. Omitting
theories, we are carried by our local in
tcrests to tho Republican side of these
questions, for the same law that fixes
Pennsylvania in the Republican column
carries Virginia to that side.
"When the value of lots and house
in this city of Roanoke went down
twenty per cent while tho roostors
were yet growing over the great FREQ
Irade'victory of last November com
pensation may have come in Christening
| OF spirit to the devout Democrat who
every morning says his prayers facing
Monticello, as the Lord seemed to him
| to rcbukc Tho hateful matcrialism of
the times, " but that OF his Republican
brother-in-law, when the curse of the
same tradition strikes his house.
and that shifts the responsibility calls
us together. a decision that does not
affect the whole nation nor equally
every part of Virginia, but is destined if
| not reversed to bring another blight
| upon our section.
"tor be it known that although while
the boom was on, men who made invest
ments for the moment, expecting to
sell quickly, did not consider much the
political or social conditions, whom it
comes to tho question of permanent
investment the charge that has been
mado that in the mineral district of
| Virginia there cannot be FREQ election,
is as alarming as if it was proclaimed
to be under lynch law or in anarchy.
If, in this period, when you and l
are striving to restore confidence and
secure new investments, it is proclaimed
that Republican of Massachusetts or
pennsylvania cannot come to Roanoke
or Buena Vista and exercise his rights
of citizenship, do you think no will
SEND his money where he would not
send his son, or do you think that all
tho money of tho North is in Demo
cratic hands, and that we may defy the
sentiment of q nation?
''The State of Virginia cannot afford
to be unjust. Above all, we require a
change in our election laws. The pres
emit law Is without excuse. 1t invites
fraud. 1t provides way TO defeat pop
uiar opinion. It establishes, q prcce-
dent full of peril. 1t places test on
human virtue that even the Demo
cratic Christian ought not to DO sub
Jected to- Partisan boards from which
there is no appeal, registrars who have
power to disfranchise, ought not to be
submitted to by the men Of any party
who would not SOW the seeds of disorder
and invite calamity
Ihere is another matter demanding
| even moro serious consideration. We
| como to protest against the declarations
that our State is given over to anarchy.
nave for quarter of century done
] my part toward discovering our mineral
wealth and have predicted an unparal-
leled development. Much has come to
pass, but we have been embarrassed at
every step by the discredit of tho State
and the general belief that the Repub-
llcan, who might come here, was not as
free to profess his political opinion, not
as welcome to the homes and the honors
OF the State as If he should renounce
ms allegiance, and no man can number
the millions of dollars that have been
withheld or have on his account passed
us by. We have resisted this charge at
every point and asserted that in the
counties west of the Bluo Ridge we
were steadily winning our way to the
respect of our opponents and making
election frauds impossible. Suddenly a
midnight conference sends out formal
resolution that, if recorded, will stop all
further development. Formally tho
Republican party of each county is to
announce that Republican has no