Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-06-17
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE II, 1892
THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS

ItIlu SctCl Ctl Ul1OuOduOD Ll1AOA1oy LII
the popular vote, his administration I'M
dertook to forward two central schemes.
One was economic and the other purely
partizan-a high protective tariff entailing
higher Federal taxation, and a Force Bill
to seize upon the vote Of one section Of the
country and thereby pepetuate the Repub-
lican party in power. AS to the latter
scheme the President used all the power of
himself personally and Of his administra-
ton. One of those schemes, the first, be
came law; the other passed the Republi-
can House of Representatives but failed in
the Senate.
In 1890, the second year of Mr.. Harri-
sons administration, the Republican party
went before the country on these two issues.
the one completed and the other yet I'M
completed. On them it was overwhelmed.
A House of Representatives containing
1853 Republicans to 1852 Democrats was
changed into House containing 219 Dem
ocrats to lO7 Republicans; SIX Republican
u. S. Senators lost their seats. and the Dem
ocrats carried every State in the Union
save eleven. 1t was the most disastrous
defeat ever suffered by political party in
this country.
With this warning before them, and with
the additional knowledge that in this Re-
public for sixty years emitting the excep-
tional cases of Abraham Lincoln lin time
Of wary and U. S. Grant lin time Of Recon
struction) no President, however wise his
administration, has been permitted to con-
tinue in Office second term, the party has
again put up the same candidate and the
same issues. So intent We're they Oh the
Force Bill that the temporary chairman, j..
Sloat Fassett, made it the theme Of his ad
dress in the earliest of the proceedings.
characterizing it as the Zone pledge Of the
Republican party still remaining unre
deemed" 1t was subsequently given the
honorable place of distinct plank in the
platform. The natural effect Of such pc
litical folly is to close the door to any
chance Of success in any State in the South,
for there will be found few men-Alliance.
Third Party, Prohibition OIL anything else
who have any interests in the Southern
States in which they live, who will be will
ing to imperil them by aiding by their votes
the success of measure which can mean
nothing but turbulence, rioting and a gen
eral disturbance which must paralyZe all
business and lessen the value Of every man S
possessions. The vote of 1880 also showed
that it was no more popular in the North
west and the North generally than it is at
the South. Having successfully barred off
one section of the country from giving it's
candidate support, it then shouldered that
heavy burden the Mckinley bill and re-
pudiated the author of the only feature that,
it is claimed, tempers its Chinese wall
characteristic reciprocity feature.
Such folly as that at Minneapolis must
have some explanation, and we find that
we are able to give a satisfactory one from
exclusively Republican sources. The con
vention was managed by the office holders
of MI. Harrlson's administration, and
swayed 10y the necessity Of promising the
Force Bill to secure the vote of the South
ern Negro delegates. Mr.. Wolcott of Col
orado, who nominated Mr.. Blaine, said,
holding up a paper, II have here a list Of
100 Office holders who are delegates to the
convention. There are 1000 OIL 5000 other
office holders here to fill the galleries, to
crowd the hotel lobbies, and haunting dele
gates, who ought to be in Washington and
elsewhere attending to their duties" MI.
J. S. Clarkson of Iowa, Who managed Mr.
Blaine's brief campaign, said: ''They had
all the power of the government against us
and it is a wonder that we were not defeat
ed worse than we Were.o Ard he ACIDS:
"Then, again, there were thousands of post
masters who helped along the President s
cause by arranging that hundreds Of tele-
grams should be sent here to the delegates
urging the latter to vote for Harrison.
Scores of delegates came to me to show me
these dispatches and tell me that they would
have to vote for Harrison -
How skillfully, what is called the s'South-
ern VOTE" and which MI. David Martin
1.-THE sub-boss for Blaine under Mr.. Quay
of the Pennsylvania delegation, chosen by
it as it's member of the National Commit
tee) characterized as "a lot of negro poll
ticians and bum white professionals from
the rotten boroughs of the South,'' was
worked up in the interest of the Admins
tration, may be inferred from the fact that
of all the Southern delegates Mr.. Blaine
got only So, of which Is came from Vir-
ginia. So well in the farther Southern
States did the promise of the Force Bill
work, aided by the knowledge that MI.
Blaine was opposed to such bill.
1t is not easy to see upon what cllcula-
ton, if indeed it made any at all as to the
future, the Minneapolis convention propos-
ed to elect it's candidate in 1892 There has
been no general election since the great Re-
publican overthrow Of 1890, to evince a
change Of verdict. And so far from hoping
for such change, the fact that since then
such Republican States as Pennsylvania
and Massachusetts have elected Democratic
Governors, and that no Democratic State
has sWerved from its allegiance, would
seem to make it more remote than ever.
1t the Democratic National Convention
at Chicago next week shall adopt Tariff
Reform and lower Federal taxation as the
single issue for this Presidential wear. the
success Of its candidate is secured beyond
doubt by the action Of the Minneapolis
convention. A candidate nominated by the
efforts of his own Office holders, and on the
promise to inaugurate and prosecute a sec
tional disturbance if elected, cannot carry
the votes of a majority Of the people of the
Union in this year of 1892.
THE LOGICAL TICKET FOR
CHICAGO.
The irresistible candidate logic of the