Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-08-19

want TO see beaten, and the ticket best able to
do it IS Cleveland and Stevenson
The South Boston Times of Halifax,
which has been one Of the ablest supporters
OF the Alliance, warns them that support
OF the Third party simply means aid to
Harrison and the Force Bill, and adds:
The Times would sympathze most heart
lly with third party bent on reform if it
honestly believed there was, just now, pos
sibility OF success for it in this election. Be
lieving that there is no chance for its success,
and also believing that should the Republi-
cans succeed in their elections this fall, never
again in our day would there be another OPP
portunity of electinga Third party, Democrat
ic party or any other, for the elected Repupli-
can party would see to it that all future cleo
tions would but prove such notable farce
that citizens with high sense OF self-respect
would hold aloof.'
And the Alliance Democrat published at
Danville, gives the Third party orators
who are seeking to drag the Alliance into the
new political organization. the following
scoring:
eve invoke the aid of every good and true
Alliance man in the 9TH congressional district
to aid us in extirpating that political heresy
known as the Peoples party from our order.
What right under our constitution has it, any
more than the Republican OF the Democratic
party, to convert our order into secret polit-
ical society to stab honest men in the back in
the dark None whatever. And what is more,
the Democratic Alliance men in the Fifth
district up moi hp1iava fop
allow it,
The Importance of the crisis, as far as
Virginia is concerned, is no less vividls
appreciated by thinking Temperance men
than by Alliance men. The following
letter from Rev. James Grammar of Eau
quier, a lifelong worker in the Temperance
cause, to the editor Of Amt5-Liquor, a Pro
hibition journal published at Danville
shows how the effort to run a Presidential.
ticket is viewed by those who under
stand the peculiar dangers to which Vir
ginia and all Southern States are exposed
by the attempt to divert the votes of the
intelligence Of the State and waste them OIL
Prohibition party ticket:
THE PLAINS, July 16, 1892
Editor Anta-L5qboasr:
Dear Sir-When at your invitation I accept
ed the honor of being one of the associate
editors Of the paper, I had your assurance thai
though most of those associated in the con-
duct of the paper were third party prohibi-
tionists, the paper would not be run in the
advocacy OF interest of the third party. The
policy of the paper has now changed and it is
not only by correspondents but editorially
pressing the cause of the Pr ohibition party
and is flying the flag of the party at its mast
head. AS a sincere and ardent friend of the
cause of legal prohibition, [ am opposed to
this party believe that the organization OF
this party in Virginia is not only grief of
mind to the majority Of conservative and
sober prohibitionists in the State. but will
postpone indefinitely thetriumph of our cause.
Under these circumstances l respectfully
withdraw from all editorial connection with
Anti-l5quor, and beg that you will remove my
name from its staff.
Very respectfully yours,
JAMES GRAMMAR.
And by November the great body of Pro
hibitionists and Third party men will be OF
the same way of thinking. When Virginia
was in great trouble thirty years ago there
were few of her children, in line to defend
her, who fired in the air. 1t will be so in
November; few Virg;nians, in line to with
stand the Force Bill, will fire their ballots
into Third party OF Prohibition ballot
boxes. The supreme issue then will be
Virginia.