The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-08-26
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The JIMES foeis c'h'i -.
the pending campaign all that Will DO hece',
sarv in Virginia and the South Is 70 appear
20 tina common sense Of the voters TO con-
v;rce thom ~ the folly of abandoning the
Democratic for any other party OF faction
All that we need do is 10 induce tho people
% mao their own minds and do their own
thinking. and they will soon see the GRIM
inal folly Of lending themselves to any
scheme or any organization which has iof
it's object Democratic defeat.
Acting on this principle we now call upon
the white voters of Virginia who propose
10 abandon the Democracy for the Third
party TO pause and think what they are
doing. II is certain that that party will not
carry & single State Of the Union with the
possible exception of Kansas. IL assurediy
will not carry single Southern state ana
all il can do will be to divide the Democracy
90 as 70 throw victory into the hands Oh tho
Republicans. This is exactly what the he
publcans are counting on. Secretary OF the
Treasury Charles Foster of Ohio has already
announced his expectation of carrying hVe
or six Southern States through the agency
of the Third party and our Washington
dispatches Of Wednesday state that 1t
is quite we'll established that Radical
corruption fund is to be sent South tor the
purpose of assisting the Third party In Its
campaipn-i. e., 70 buy up Virginia
votes Just as the Republicans have
been in the habit of doing with the pun
chasable voters Of the Northern States.
This should be looked on as On unpardon-
able insult by Virgnians. whose votes the
Radical campaign managers hope to secure
by bribery. directly for the Third party
and indirectly for themselves.
ii being then understood that Republican
hopes of success in Virginia consist only in
seeing the Democratic party weakened by
the Third party, and that Democratic
defeat means nothing more nor less
than Republican triumph, why should we
divide? The farmers of Virginia have I'M
doubtedly suffered much. and are to-day,
many of them in great straits. Their I'M
happy condition is partly attributable 10
the natural development Of the country
which has opened up the great West to easy
access with the world, and has thereby
forced our Virginia farmers in competition
with section which is better adapted to
the production of the cereals than IS Viz
pinia.and which therefore, is able TO success
fully compete with us in wheat and corn.
This state of affairs however, cannot posi-
bly, be remedied by legislation since it is
not in any respect due to legislation. All
that our farmers can do is to work intelli-
gently TO meet the case and overcome I'M
fortunate circumstances. But great deal
of the trouble of which they complain is
due TO legislation, aud legislation directly
traceable to the Republican party.
| In 1888 the Republicans were restored to
! full control of Congress for the first time in
| fourteen years. No sooner bad they gotten
| the reins of government securely in their
| hands than they increased Tariff taxation,
/ which forced the farmer of the South to
pay additional tribute to the manufacturer
! of the North, although he himself has to
! compete with Europe and the West whom
/ he offers his grain for sale. Then they
| enlarged their pension donation to the enor-
nous amount of $l5O, 600. 900 year. which
sum has to be largely raised by Southern
/ taxation. and 80 the Southern farmer is
kept drained Of his hard-sarned money by
being by law compelled to give 1t to North
ern pension frauds and agents. And not
satisfied with this, the same Republican
! Congress which perpetrated these iniquitous
outrages on the South sought TO grind her
down and impoversh her people still more
| by Force bill which would have destroyed
Southern civilization aud progress. and re-
stored negro supremacy and carpet-bag and
scalawag rule.
The Republican party since the date of
It's inception has never yet done one single
thing for the South but, to the contrary,
everything in its power 10 degrade, humil-
late and ruin us. Why then should South
ern white voters divide. and so fasten the
chains with which the Radicals seek to bind
them upon their own limbs. and THAT,
too. just as they see prospect of relief
ahead? This is all that the Third party
can hope 20 do, and the Republican enc
mics Of our section and our people must
themselves wonder at the suicidal madness
which seems to have taken possession of a
considerable element of the Southern peo-
pie. These are some of the facts which we
are 30 anxious for all our farmers to se-
riously and sensibly reflect on and carefully