Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-08-31
If Not Allies What Are They!

We have said that the leaders of the
Peoples Party are the allies of the Re
publicans. 1t looked very much like
it when Gen. Field, its candidate for
Vice President, in his speech at Char
lottesville, last court, laid his strength |
in assaults against the Democratic par |
ty and Mr.. Cleveland, and had not a |
word to saw against Mr.. Harrison or
the Republican party. 1t loo1eo
still more like it, when he admitted to
the Richmond Times reporter, that the
effect of the Third party movement in
Virginia, would be to give the State to
Harrison over Cleveland. The strength
of this evidence is greatly increased by
the fact that the party nominated, by
reclamation as their candidate for
President, General Weaver, who in
speaking of the Democratic party said:
mo Republican can ever under any
circumstances have any part or lot with
the hungry, rebellious, man-hating,
wOman-selling gang corpOrated under
the name of democracy, a name so full
of stencil and poison that it should be
blotted from the vocabulary of civilized
man, and handed over to the barbarism
that it has SO fifty represented"
And the recent utterances OF Mr.. j.
Brad. Beverley, an accredited leader
and public speaker for this party, gives
such accumulated force to this evidence
as to prove beyond the shadow of
doubt that these leaders are the allies
of the Republican party. He put him
self sQuarely in favor of negro rule in
Virginia, by his violent assault on that
wise piece oflegislasion, the Mccormick
bill, which protects the ballOt-bOx from
fraudulent, ignorant negro votes, and
by minimizing the evils of the Force
| Bill, whose author has declared that
] he would put bayonet behind every
ballot in the South. Mr.. Beverley in
defence of the Republicans and by way
of assault upon the Democrats, declared
that the Force Bill is not as bad as the
Mccormick bill. If the Force Bill be
passed and the Mccormick bill repeat
ed, Virginia would be utterly ruined
| by a government controlled by negroes
and their white allies, who are worse
than ignorant, debased negroes.
And then, Mr.. Beverley cried out,
| "Away with solid South!" Down
| with the Democracy" Break down
solid South and Democracy and what
then follows? Republican negro rule,
| in large part Influenced and controlled
| by robber band of white ''scallawags,"
compared with whom the brigand and
banditti are christian gentlemen.
Break down solid South and Democ-
racy, and we will have confiscation of
property by taxes wrung from our op-
pressed people, to be squandered in
lust, debauchery and villainy, by the
vilest leaders that ever cursed people.
Break down solid South and Democ-
racy, and we will have the humiliation
and degradation of the white race, and
the habitual infection of the basest dis
honor on white ladies, until goaded to
desperation, the whites would rise in
the strength of despair and drive their
Oppressors from power by bloodshed
and slaughter.
| Northern men who have not lived
amongst us, are more excusable for
holding Mr.. Beverley's views, because
they know not of what they are talk
ing. But an educated man raised in
our midst, who utters and advocates
such sentiments, is a traitor to his race
and ansenemy-of his country.
| We repeat, if these leaders of the
Peoples Party in the South are not
allies of the Republican party what
are they? They know, as every per-
son of any intelligence must know,
that their candidates stand no chance
whatever of carrying the State, and
that the only effect of their candidacy
is to weaken the Democratic party.
and increase the chances of the Repub
licans to carry the State.
People OF Virginia, pause and think
before you follow, these men. Yea,
rather, rise in your might and over
whelm and rebuke them by your votes.
charlottesville JefersOniGn.