Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-09-14
FRIDAY Morning, SEPT. IA. 1894.
"DLsSATLSFLED DEMOCRATS"


A large part of the capital which the
Republicans of Virginia are banking onfo1
the election OF their congressman this fall.
is what they call dissatisfied Democrats
This country for the last two years has
been full Of dissatisfied Democrats, Repub
Iicans, Populists and Prohibitionists-
that is to say dissatisfied everybodies, who
didn't like the hard times and have beer
suffering from them. AT such times q
voter is apt to be not only dissatisfied with
his party, but with his wife and children
his grocer, his employer, his workmell-
everybody.
But we would like to hear one sound
reason given by a dissatisfied Democrat
for not voting for his party nominee, and
still more would we like to hear some Dem
0crat give sound reason for voting for the
Republican nominee. n man that has read
the events of the past four years can come
to the conclusion that the hard times that
commenced before Mr.. Harrison S admin
istration ended were brought on by the sue
ceeding administration. Before MI. Harrl-
son left the Presidential chair, wheat was 50
cents a bushel and still tending downward.
We expect it would he hard to prove that
this was the result Of tile policy of MI.
Cleveland who followed him. But, leaving
grain and coming TO labor, our Repupllcan
friends put forward the claim that it was
The apprehension of changes i'll the tariff
that unsettled business and closed facto-
ries. Very well; the tariff has now been
settled, what do you want to do, PROSTATE
1eviving manufactures by creating another
apprehension about changes in the tariff
There would be no common sense Ill thai
and vet that is Just what the Republicans
are asking Won to do. We do not suppose
for a moment that any Democrat OF ordl-
nary reasoning powers holds with the Re
publicans that the tariff suspense brought
on the panic and hard times in his OWE
country. If he did. he would be put III all
awkward situation to account for the same
hard times in Great Britain, France, Ger
many. Australia, Russia-all over the
world.
The Democratic party has, after thirty
wears absence from power, at last passed a
tariff bill; at last broken down Ill many
places the protection wall. 1t has made
many of the necessares of living cheaper. 1t
has had to withstand the enormous pressure
brought to bear by the manufacturers, by
the capitalists of all protected interests:
it has had to figat the Republicans; it has
had to fight an clement in its own ranks,
and yet with all this it has won victory
and taken a long step forward i'll relieving
the people from the burdensome taxation
of a high tariff, What would you have q
Democrat do now? Turn from the party
that has done this and go over to the Re
publican party which upholds high taxa
ton through Il prohibitory tariff ? What
possible excuse could you give for this
How, in moments of introspection,
could you settle with your political con
science OF your common practical business
sense if you committed such a folly as
that =? Il you are d Democrat at all you
are for lower tariff taxation; that has
been your belief and profession for years
past-what sort Of excuse could you give
to yourself for turning away from the low
Ell taxation now offered You and voting for
a Republican whose political faith and acts
are bound up in' taxing Ole man thai
another man may prosper?
You don't want to carry other men and
their families Oh your back and your wife s
back do YOU? Look fer moment at the
elementary view of tariff taxation LII a
paper Was circulated in the county of
within it's bounds to pat his name down
for $40 to enable a couple of hundred OF
men to get good wages working at some
industry i'll the county. how would you
take it? Why you would laugh at the
proposition, you would naturally say that
you had to support yourself without taxing
the county people to do it, and these two
hundred men must do the same. And that
is just the feeling that has taken possession
of the whole population Of the United
States. Il men want Il living they must
earn it themselves, and not live Oh other
men. i Oh pay far more than the $40 ask
ed, by higher taxation on everything you
wear and use, through a protective tariff
But the man with the paper tells you that
it viii give you market for what you
have to sell. This does not satisfy you, TO.
you reply ''if / have to f3ay FOR establishing
a market" it viii be much cheaper to me
10 tLo al of Di oh
Baltimore that have been shipping to;
for after all the man that works these 200
men is not going to pay more for my bread
and meat to feed them than the price is III
Richmond and Baltimore" And that is
about the whole story; you have put Ill
your q: swer all the dynamite that is requir-
ed to explode the 'silome market" theory.
So we hardly think any Democrat can
bes'dissatisliad over even apaTtiil deatruc-
ton Of Il system that provides for q llw
to make him subscribe to give other people
a living whether he wants to OF not. Now
what else is there to make him dissatisfied?
His congressman and the distribution Of
offices That is q very small affair. Or
Augusta We do not suppose hundred were
applicants for an office. You certainly are
not going to refuse your aid TO your nomi-
nee because some other man failed to get
an office? This would indeed be a failure
which you would find it hard to settle with
your political conscience about You
have been voting the Democratic ticket to
secure lower taxation, tie sweeping away
of Federal Interference with elections, and
the placing Of the national government iii
hand not iiiiinieal to any section Of your
country. All those things your congress
man has lielpei Sou il. They have been
voting it to get al Office. 1t Cannot he pos
sib!e that y0u are going 10 get Gown from
your patriotic position to take up their III