The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-06-02
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Political Notes.

expected that they would. But the orr
tory and magnetism of one man brok
the Cleveland slate, and the result was
pretty even division of honors-the IN
nority getting the lions share. Johl
w. Danip ,sever appeared to better &C
vantage tl.;ti, lie did at the convention
He knew he had fight on hand, and h
went into it with gloves Off. 10 hi
| grand oratory and sagacious and daring
| leadership may be attributed the uneX
pected result He carried every poin
| for which he commended, and adopted {
platform that represents as man,
colors as Jacobs coat, involving view
and policies that one-half Of the party
will repudiate when they understand
the purport and meaning of them. Dan
iei, however, was for conciliating anC
gratifying the Alliance element of the
party, and succeeded in giving them al
they could reasonably ask. 1t was foi
$ harmony sake, and not for principal
or for the lasting good of the party
Should Cleveland be the nominee, the
Democracy Of Virginia will be handi
capped by the free silver resolution of
the State platform, and the national
convention will be compelled to repudi-
ate it or give up all hope of success in
November next But the Richmond
platform is for State use, and will be
ignored in deciding national interests,
after the national convention has acted.
The declaration against the continuance
of the internal revenue system of col
Letting revenue is popular, and with it
we fully agree. But if tariff duties are
to be reduced-the custom-house receipts
cut down-where will the revenue neces-
sary for the purposes of government be
gotten? The tendency would be to-
wards direct taxation, and then the
deluge, and the party that would initiate
that policy would be swept from the face
of the earth.
1t is amusing to notice the devices the
Republican opponents Of President Har-
rison are inventing to encompass his de-
feat at Minneapolis. The opposition
lacks leader, or rather some one who
will confer upon himself the influence
and power of q crystallZed opposition.
The Washington Post, edited by Mr..
Frank Hatton, an astute politician and
fearless partizan, is trying the patience
of its readers in the multiplicity Of its
suggestions and the variety of the
boons it is inaugurating for possible
candidates. One day it has great ups
rising of the people for John Sherman
and the concentration OF power that
will result in his nomination. The next
day aen. Alger is thought to be the
favorite, with a boom and a hurrah
which, but for the hollowness of the
the sound, might deceive somebody.
An1ss again, an ad9oit leader i'll that
paper gives out the information that
the nomination Of Mr.. Blaine at the
Minneapolis convention would be ex-
ceedingly gratifying to that gentleman,
after all that has been said and done by
him to prevent it, The Post cannot give
the assurance that Mr.. Blaine wodld &C
cept the nomination and make the con-
test. Oh, no, not that but the Secre-
tary would consider it the proudest day
of his life for his party to disregard his
positive statement that he did not want
the presidency and would not accept the
nomination for it if rendered him on a
silver platter, and force the nomination
upon him and then adjourn. This is
all very fine but very thin politicts. 1t
is little game to divert public atten-
tion from Mr.. Harrison. It is a ruse to
keep the friends of Blaine, Sherman and
Alger in hopeful mood, and then the
final refusal of Blaine could come to
spring one of their names upon the cons
vention and attempt to rush it through
with whoop.
AS Gen. Floyd, of Virginia, once said
to Hon. Lewis Z. Harmand-' Lewis,
you can't set trap to catch a snow Bird
So it is with Gen. Hatton in this instance
There can be no tap set to defeat the
nomination of Harrison. The masses of
the Republican party demand it, and the
will of the masses will be obeyed. All
this f1uster and buster about q formidi>
BILE opposition to Harrison in the Re-
publican party is nothing more than
bother and panacea. Harrison will be
nominated, and it will be left with Gen.
Hatton and friends to defeat him at the
polls. if he is to be defeated. And why
not nominate him from Republican
standpoint? No objection can be urged
against his administration by his party
friends. 1t has been able and clean and
been Republican. If he is to be defeated
it should be because a majority of the
American voters do not believe in the
policies lie has enforced or the princi-
Piles which govern him. For handful
of Republicans to get up a clamor
against the President because he has
not distributed the patronage to please
them, is nothing short of treason to
principle. They would not dare to &C
before the country upon the low and de
grading doctrine which their position
implies-a national proposition that the
SDOliS Oh Office WAS lJS AAiOoi'S
Yet that is the solution of the oppOsi-
ton, when it is analysed and boiled
down. They cannot Dust the President
for recreancy to party or its principles.
The only preteAt they can give, if the
truth were known, is that Mr.. Harrison
has been the President and has not
abrogated the duties and powers Of his
office to the altitudinous statesmen who
are now conspiring to defeat his renomi-
nation, because they have not controlled
the share of spells they assume they
ought to have done. That is the source
and essence of their opposition. Har-
rison had better be defeated at the bal
lot box, standing upon the record he has
made, than to be elected by yielding to
such influences.
The conditions in the Democratic party
are almost Identical. The opposition to
Cleveland is not because he has not
proven himself to be the greatest states
man, but the Democracy, as developed
since the war, is that he has not hewn