Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-10-07
TINsLEY & MORTON. Proprietors.
FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. z, 1879
PUT THE BLAME WHERE IT
BELONGS.

Not since March, 3rd, 1861, has the DEM
ocratic party had full control OF the nation
al government, yet nearly every Democrat
who has deserted to the Third party will
tell you he has done so ''because both the
old parties have been tried and neither have
kept their promises to the people" This
statement they have heard so often from
their leaders and public speakers that they
have accepted it in toto, without question
OF investigation as their campaign war cry,
In itself war cry is avery good thing for
party to have, but to be effective it should
at least bear some semblance to the truth.
AS matter Of fact the present generation
has never seen an untrameled Democratic
administration. How then shall the De-
mocracy be held responsible for laws which
it could not make, or for the passage of those
which it could not prevent? One of the
old parties has been tried by long suffer-
ing people, but not both Of them. For the
greater part of the past thirty-one years the
Republican party has been in full control
of national affairs and is therefore respon-
sible for the legislation enacted during that
period. If there are burdens too grievOus
to be borne, if the farmer sells all that he
has to sell in full market, if he buys all
that he has to buy in high tariff pro-
tected market, if the condition Of the agri-
cultural classes is becoming desperate, then
let the people look to the party that enac-
ted laws which have made such condition
possible and hold it responsible for the
results. The Third party people are only
half right, they have tried one of the old
parties. That party is now in control and
in turn is itself controlled by the wealthy
monopolists and tariff lords that it's public
policy has created. This class Of protected
nobility that the Republican party has so
lection for their 5af0sat industries, they
demand it and the party in power must ac-
cede to the demand OF step down from po-
litical supremacy. Thus we see the rulers
of nation in the hands of a class who mer-
cilessly rob the masses of the people a par
ty in control who are irrevocably pledged
to policy of high taxes and class legis-
lation; party who no longer receive the
majority Of votes cast, but who depend
upon the debauching Of a sufficient num-
Der of States to give them majority in
the electoral college. Having lost the con-
fidence of the people through their many
missdeeds and sectional legislation, they
have now come to realize that their only
4Ioo az o,,{ oE foIo
election law which shall give them unllmi-
ted control of the peoples suffrage. This
is the party whom the American people
have tried and found wanting. The Dem
nation of the negro and carpet-bagger was
Overthrown in the South has been slowly
but surely strengthening its hold upon the
confidence of the people. 1t has tor years
been the popular party and is stronger now
than it has ever been. 1t controls the
House of Representatives by large ma
jority, and in the Senate their opponents
have small majority. To the people De
mocracy means less taxation, reform in
the civil service department, and an honest
and economic administration Of the gov
eminent.
The situation before the people is there
fore unchanged. The leaders of both the
Prohibition and Peoples party acknowl-
edge publicly that there is no hope for eth.
Ell of the side issues in this contest and that
the race is between the two old parties
To the friends Of honest government the
Democracy alone extends a hand
that can help-if you refuse it you help the
Republicans. There is no alternative
your vote either supports Democracy OF
it supports Republicanism-Which