Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-09-23
TAMMhNY'S GREAT ORATOR
HON. TH0S. F. GRADY OF N. Y, ADDRESSES
The PEOPLE OF AUGUSTA.


The PEOPLE OF AUGUSTA.
A LARGE CROWD IN SPITE OF THE
RAIN.
THE FORCE BILL REVOLUTIONIZES OUR
FORM OF GOvERNMENT-wAR TAXES
STILL BEING COLLECTED-REPUBLI
CAN AND DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES
CONTRAsTED.
&C., &C., &C.
In spite of the cold rainy north easter
that Set in Wednesday morning, quite a
number Of people came into town to hear
the great Tammany orator from New ork,
Hon. Thos T. Grady Oh the issues OF the
campaign. The appointment had been
made for Hon. w. G. 2. Breckenridge, Of
Kentucky, but the National Committee had
made arrangements for his services else
where. In point Of oratory Mr.. Grady has
but few equals and the substitution was a
happy one. He arrived via the 3. IL o..
railroad from Lynchburg, where he had adj
dressed a meeting the evening before, and
was met at the depot by Capt. John n. Opie,
Hon. A. G. Gordon and other prominent
democrats, who accompanied him to the
Virginia Hotel. Here the party were
shortly after joined by the Stonewall Bri-
gade Band and escorted to the Courthouse.
The crowd had already assembled on the
portico's and about the front of the build
ing, expecting an open air speech, but the
rain soon drove them inside, so that when
Mr.. Grady arrived at 1:30 O'Clock he found
his audience in waiting. AS the distin-
guiShed visitor and his escort entered the
court room, a burst OF enthusiasm went up
in three cheers for Tammany, David B.
Hill, Cleveland and Grady, proposed by
Capt. James Bumgardner. Captain Opie,
Chairman Of the Democratic County Com
mittee introduced the speaker in a few re-
marks Astounding in sparkling wit and good
humor, but which WEIR lost to the great
part Of the audience, through the tumult
of voices and the band; which all uncon-
scious of what was going on inside, were
doing their best to entertain the crowd
about the doors.
AS his name indicates, Mr.. Grady is of
Irish descent, his parents having immlgra-
ted to this country. He is rather below
the average in height, OF stout build, short
chin, large mouth, broad forehead and fine
eyes. His action is good, his voice clear
and his wit ready and brilliant.
He opened by assuring his auditors that
there need be no doubt about the So electo-
raj votes of New Y ork, they were safe for
Cleveland, and continuing, said there Was
NO TIME FOR DIssENsION.
or discord, OF side issues. Our country
calls, liberty is at stake, and Virginia, the
best and brightest of all the Common
wealths can be depended on to do her duty.
He said he had been greatly disgruntled and
disturbed by the action OF the Chicago
Convention for the first 81 hours and be-
lieved all was lost, but then came the sec
ond sober thought, always the best, and
then he saw condition of affairs before
the American people such as they had
never before controlled, a condition Which
disparaged the chance OF Republican
success To understand the situation and
the chances for the defeat of that party we
must go back two years to get the proper
gauge of this campaign. The Republican
party was the party then in power in all
branches of the Government and were
responsible for all the bad legislation
enacted. Upon this unsayory record they
went before the people in general election,
the force bill, the McKinly bill and the
enormous budget ,of expenditures of the
billion dollar congress and the people con-
demed them in a perfect Waterloo. They
were so defeated as to become not an oppo-
sition but faction. In the late election in
England the popular will had been
manifested by meager majority of 40
against the government and every minister
had laid his portfolio at the Queens
feet. lin 1880 the Democratic party
defeated the Republican not by 40 but by
140 yet not minister resigned, SO the con-
test in 1852 is to make effective the verdict
Of 1850.
Elect Grover Cleveland and my word
for it every republican minister will lay
down his seal never, never, never, to take
it up again. They tell you openly that
they intend to fasten
THE FORCE BILL
upon you. and the iniquities, the fraud and
the injustice of the Mckinley bill. am not a
Virginian. I wish l were, I have not the
ardent patriotism, which ought to he the
boast Of every man who holds he is a
Virginian, but there is not a drop of patrioic
blood in any of you Virginians if you dc
not do your utmost to put Virginia where
she ought to be and ever has been in the
forefront in repelling tyranny.
Fair and free elections! think of it! The
party that stole the presidency in 1876, pro-
noting fair and free elections, must it
not make the angels weep? Yet this is
their battle cry and their pretended excuse
for an election law. Fair elections indeed!
There may go to the polls under the force
ginia for the vilest of crimes, and whose guilt
and whose disfranchisement is known to
every citizen within the county where he
offers to vote, yet the representative of
Federal power stands by and orders the
officers to receive that vote and they must
submit OIL suffer the penalty prescribed by
the act. On the other hand voter may be
in every way qualified to exercise the right
of suffrage, yet the will of this one man
can in the same autocratic manner utterly
prevent that exercise and there's no appeal.
It is within the power Of this same officer
to certify that a man who has not received
solitary vote, has been elected and by his
single will to fix the representation Of two
hundred Thousand sn=called fraemeu AGAINST