Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-09-26

| been enacted.
The Democratic policy is to increase the
price of produce and labor and to deminish
the cost of living. Under the Republican
policy, the farmers have to sell in the cheap
est markets and to buy in the dearest and
| that is what has put them on the way to the
poor house-they lose when they sell and lose
when they buy
The Democrats have taken off some of the
rails of the fence, aud will take off Others and
give the farmers chance to sell in the high
est market and to buy in the cheapest. I'm
| der the Mckinley bill all the implements,used
| by the farmers are sold for less prices abroad
| thanat home
The Trusts are broken down under the Dem
ocratic tariff, and the tools of the farmers are
| now free of tax. He gave list of samples OF
goods showing how prices had fallen on what
the people had to buy. Overcoat cloth that
cost So is now SIG, and he suggested than
the voters could get overcoats to wear on the
9th of November when they went to the polls
to vote for Harry Tucker.
Prosperity and adversely are matters of
growth, and prosperity, that is coming. will
not come as a sunburst. but slow and steady
growth, and growth cannot be seen. 1t was
impossible to sow and reap the same season.
The Democrats have established home-rule,
| and abolished the detestable Federal election
| laws, through the agency of the able Repre-
sentative of this district.
In 1890, when the Mckinley bill was pass
| ed, he predicted how it would work, and his
prediction was verified in 1884, Let the peo-
pie be patient
The Democratic party has done more good
than all the other parties-lt has given low
taxes, economy saved OOOO, 900 year, and
advocates. fraternity and home-rule. 1t had
its birth with the establishment of the govern
ment, and has survived all others.
The Republican party sprang from dark
incident-its mission has been fulfilled, and if
it was decent 1t would have died and not
have given us the trouble to put it to death.
The Republican party stands for high taxes,
the perpetuation of sectional strife, and of
hatred to the Southern people.
The Populist party stands for castles in the
air as winter residences, and for free tickets
on steamboats, to Utopia. 1t wants the gov
eminent to own all the railroads that would
cost seven times all the money of the coun-
try of all kinds, and would give the govern
ment million of office-holders, and the re
suit would be the end of civil liberty.
The Prohibition party stands for a single
idea 1t is Cyclops, a one-eyed being. 1t is
attempting what it cannot accomplishment
cannot be made better by force-moral sua-
sion is the only successful mode.
In Kansas, ingalls, said, the Prohibitionists
have all the prohibition they want and the
people all the liquor they want, and all is
lovely and the goose hangs high.
This State tried the Moffett Punch bell, but
in two years they went to the jink shop as
the Prohibitions are going now.
We have he said, an abundance of land,
wheat coal, and labor, but money is scarce,
and he wanted more money. We should
have State banks and the restoration of silver
to its former place. The only difficulty is to
get hold of dollar and to keep it. He then
advocated at some length the question of the
free coinage of silver. In 1878, the Republi-
capital might be enriched at the expense of
the poor.
In 1873, the Republican party destroyed the
State banks by imposing tax of ten per cent
on their issue. 1t was not only detrimental
to the interests of the people, but it was I'M
constitutional, as its purpose was not for
revenue, but the destruction of the banks.
The Democratic party is the greatest that
has ever existed. 1t has defeated all other
parties that have arisen, and defeated all the
isms that have sprung into existence, and it
will survive to bless the country.