Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-03-18
FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH i8. 1892
FEW WORDS IN ADVANCE.

A E'EJ1 I1CiLOS llN L1D1 dItCE.
AS far as we Democrats Of the country
can see, the movement III Richmond and
other cities, among the ''leaders" of the
Democratic party to secure the vote OF
Virginia at the Chicago Convention for
Senator Hill is persistent and unrelaxing.
1t. does not appear to be affected by the
protests of the country Democrats; it is
not tempered by any desire to know what
those Democrats think, nor does it give any
token of intending to listen to reason, in
its fatuous progress. If, therefore, there
is any time that Democrat who has moth
ing but the good of the party at heart
should speak, it is now. II the hitherto,
but not now, representative men engineer
ing this movement think that the attach
ment of the Democrats of Virginia to Grover
Cleveland is Of the temporary, ''hurrah y
sort. as is often seen in States before Presl-
Dental conventions. they are mistaken. Ii
they think it is for the man himself, they are
also mistaken. 1t is for what Grover
Cleveland stands for, to them, in the Dem
ocratic party and what no other man, from
their view, represents so fully. When the
Democratic party of Reconstruction days
ceased tiourdering around in the bog OF eN-
padiency. and took it's stand on that refOr
mer Samuel j. Tilden. it reached firm
ground When it took it's later step and
made it's stand on Grover Cleveland it got
on still higher ground, a high plane in poit-
ical morals and principle it had not reached
before. They did not know the man; they
only knew what he stood for then, and they
know now that every day of his admins
tration he stood for the same thing boldly,
clearly, sacrificing even himself for what is
to .day the great and victorious political prin-
ciple of his party. There is no mistake, no
passing fancy with any Virginia Demo-
crat who is for Cleveland. He knows from
his own wishes for the welfare OF the party
from his own aspirations for the elevation
of that party to a higher plane Of political
purity and principle, just why he IS for
Clecelaad.
It is dangerous and insolent expert
ment to strike such a feeling full in the
face, as is now being done by those who are
seeking to use party position and party
machinery to give the vote of Virginia to
Senator Hill. For it is a feeling that will
not bear the insult with patience and acilI
not fail to resent it. You may deceive
and cheat the mass Of the people to-day,
but will you be able to get them in your
day of need, in November next? Does not
tbat In HicnnDoint
them throws away and paralyzes the first
sixty days of the Presidential campaign in
Virginia? 1t puts an end to all hope OF
beginning an aggressive campaign in this
State Immediately after the nomination,
and cuts out for canvaSserS long weeks OF
work in explaining the disappointment, and
ralIying the Democrats in line again. Viz
ginia is q Cleveland State and should have
{; Cleveland delegation to Chicago. If after
reaching Chicago that delegation should
find that Mr.. Cleveland should not he nom
mated let that delegation decide thGf
question. and let ii cast the rOte of V5r-
Qiaia for man acho stands for 2chGt
Grocer CTereland stands for, and not for
David B. Hill. To nominate Hill would
put the Democratic party back twenty
years, away back among the eXpediency
DAYS and ward heller methods of twenty
years ago; away back under the control Of
the ''for what there is i'll it, leaders. The
Democrats Of this day who are pressing
Hillare precisely the same sort of politicians
as the blind third termerS for Grant were.
who tried to force his nomination for a
third term and brought on not only their
own defeat, but eventually saw their party
thrust ont of power in the National gov
eminent and in nearly every State North
and South in the Union. They will wreck
the Democratic party as surely as Cameron
and Conkling ard their confederates wreck
ed the Republican party. Let them be
warned in time.