Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-08-19
FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST 10, 1892
THE SUPREME ISSUE IN
VIRGINIA,

cess can cOme-the Democratic and Re
publican parties. 1t is Cleveland Oh Har
rison. Every man, even the most ignorant
Negro in the State, knows this much, and
every intelligent white man knows that if
he does not vote for one OF the other of
these men his vote is thrown away. 1t is
useless to go into any moral argument
about the evils Of liquor, to Justify a vote
for the Prohibition candidate, OIL any hot
harangue about the failure of the old par
ties, to justify vote for the Third party
candidate-every man of the slightest in
telligence knows that neither of these par
ties will elect their candidates OIL will have
any chance whatever to correct the wrongs
complained of. Every intelligent Demo-
GRAFT knows that if he leaves his party and
votes with either of those parties he is sim
ply helping to give the victory to the Re-
liquor out Of existence OIL tighten the bur
den of Federal taxation on the people, Oh
stay it's hand from the enactment of a
Force Bill the moment it gets into power.
L
it is the middle of the road OIL nowhere.
The Temperance man who takes his vote
from the Democracy, and therein gives just
that much aid to the Republican party, may
do SO conscientiously. hut he at the same
time uselessly inflicts on his brethren Of
the South and the people his State an in
jury that his conscience will not after
wards excuse. The farmer who takes his
vote from the Democracy and thereby
gives aid to the Republican party.
with whatever sincerity he may do so, will
find out when too late that he has inflicted
an irreparable injury on the cause of his fell
low farmers who have been fighting for the
free market of the world, and who have
been struggling to free themselves from a
burden of taxation which he himself de-
clares has become intolerable. The ''cam
palgns'' as they are called that are being
: ah by the Prohibition and Third party lead
car n Virginia aSd every Southern State
e. eject nohsody ana are not expected to
'eiect anybody. They we expected-in the
Sotth-to defeat somebody, OF, as it is
called, the dominant party ,.ud that domi-
nant party is the Democraey-the only
party that ever stretched out a. Friendly
hand to Virginia. But we do hot be-
ieve that the campaign orators OF these
two parties are going to meet with much
success among the common sense, practi-
cal people of this State. They are seeing
fho narto Of ba cifr a
glance. Especially are the members and Off
GERS of the sub-Alliances of the State Civ
ing prompt answer to those State officers
of the organization who have gone off after
the wild schemes of the Peoples Party, So
called. The real People of Virginia are pro-
testing against the Peoples Party. Mr..
Mann Page, the President of the State ALI
ance, whose letter, read in the People S Party
National Convention, conserving to the use
of his name as candidate for the Presi-
Dental nomination, was received, it will be
recollected, with laughter" has received
from MI. J. Risque Hutter, Vice Presi-
dent of the Campbell county Alliance, a
letter in which the writer says:
81 do not want to vote for Mr.. Cleveland,
but have any other alternative than giving
aid to Mr.. Harrison, whose continuance in
power [ regard as the greatest calamity that
can befall our whole people? Could we hope
to carry Virginia for Mr.. Weaver I should
vote for him. At the outset I never thought
that the Peoples party would poll over 40, 900
in Virginia. Since the Republican party has
made the Force Bill the issue, General Wea-
yer will not receive over 5000 votes in our
State. OF those Is 900, IA, 500 will be taken
from the Democratic party, and thereby give
the State to Harrison. Is it not then our I'M
perative duty to aid in such an issue in pre-
serving to our precious Southland her solid
front against tyranny? Think So
Maj. VIM. M. Ellis of Montgomery
county, prominent Alliance man, in lie
spouse to a request of the Peoples party
in Craig county to become their candidate
for congress in the 9th district, replies that
he is "a good Alliance man in all that the
Constitution of that order requires of its
members, and an earnest sympathizer with
the farmers and laborers of this land in ali
the burdens and expressions Of which they
pO JuOUiJ COlhplollIa UuU L uO HUI UGll6Nt UuC
time has arrived when in Independent DO
litical action is to be found the panacea for
their woes" He warns the Alliance men
that the Force Bill cannot he ''pooh poohed'
as some of the Third party candidates are
seeking to do; that if the Republican party
is victorious it will pass it, and that with
such state Of things as this law would
bring about, neither the Peoples party nor
any other party could hope to dethrone Re
publican despotism until revolution THAT
tribunal Of last resort to which freemen
may appeal) should force the sceptre from
its grasp" He recalls the fact that ''there
has not been an hour since James Buchan-
an went out and Abraham Lincoln went
in, that the Democratic party has had suffi-
Gent control of the government to make
law or repeal one,'' and protests against
holding that party responsible for legisIa-
ton until it has had power. In conclusion
he says:
"With these views, crudely expressed, I
trust my friends of the Peoples party will
understand why | must decline to he candi
date for their nomination. and while repeat
ing expressions of gratitude for their conf
dence and good Will, [ shall give my humble
support to that ticket which believe will he
best able to defeat the party of high taxes and
low prices for produce, the party of protection
for the rich and the ID take the poor-the
party of monopoly, under whose policy and
legislation it has become possible for 80 900 of
the 100000 Of the people Of this country to
possess more than one-half of the country
wealth, millionaires on the one hand and
paupers on the other; the party which is re-
sponsible for having the farms of this land
The fountains of wealth-shingled over with
mortgages, and finally, the party which, not
content with the theft of the presidency in
1876, OF the hope of dominating this country
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