Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-11-02
FRIDAY MORNING. NOV. 2. 1894.
4 FEu7 WORDS AT CLOSING.

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This hasn' been long campaign. We
wish it had been; we wish there had been
time enough to make clear to every voter
in Augusta tie meaning and effect OF the
first step towards lower prices that has been
made by the Democracy.
But some Of it you have seen with your
own eyes. That is just the beginning OF it.
1t depends on you to say whether it Shall
be continued, OF whether you shall go back
under the hard saddle Of the Mckinley
bill.
You have heard Mr.. Yost. He has been
perfectly frank with you. He believes in
the Mckinley dill and he has told you so.
lie believes that it is good policy to tax
some people by Protection in order that
some other people may prosper, and he has
told you so. DO You think so? Has that
policy pursued under this government for
thirty years given you work to-day Has
it, with it's ''home market" delusion, shown
you home market, OF a foreign market.
or any market anywhere on earth, where
you can get more than fifty cents for your
wheat to day?
You have heard Mr.. Tucker He too has
been perfectly frank with you. He has told
you that he does not believe in providing
for one man at the expense Of another. He
has told you that he believes every man has
right to what he earns, without having
to divide it with some other man, and that
after he has earned his money he has Il RICH;
to cheap market in which to spend that
money. He has shown to your own eyes
the cheaper things his policy promised you.
and shown you that the promises have
been performed. And that is all that there
is in economic poiitics-that a man shall
have the spending of his own wages aud
the right to buy the most for them he can.
Laws that make living hard to get, des
troy the happiness of men. Do you think
you can gain anything by throwing away
the chance the Democracy offers you to
live comfortably On little money? 1t has
been struggling for thirty years for the
power to give you this chance. Don't
throw it away now that you have it!
But you have your grievances: somebody
or other has treated you badly? What has
that got to do with your vote? Suppose
somebody had told you six months ago
that you were NOS much Of a Democrat any
how: that your Democracy was only a thin
veneer and that it only needed a personal
grievance to show what you were and
make you desert your party ard vote for a
Republican, what would you have thought
of it How would you have taken it :?
Submitted to it quietly? We think not.
Suppose, six months ago, somebody had
told you that you had 10 political principle
at all: that you talked as if you were a
Democrat, but if anybody wanted to find
the stuff you were made Of they would only
have to wait until you had a disappoint-
ment, and then you would certainly at your
first chance give the Republican party half
your vote land the Democratic party noEe
of your vote) by staying at home? How
would you have taken it? Swallowed it
meekly? We think not
Does any Of this strike you as putting ii
in a new light, a light you had not thought
of before? We hope SO. You are not that
man, nor that sort OF man so don't act like
that sort of man. Remember that you are
Democrat, voting for the nominee of the
Democratic party. Sink all your grieyan
ces, real OF imaginary; they are beneath
you. Fall in line with your oil comrades
and be ready to rejoice with them when
they rejoice Don't put it i'll any na.l S
power when you are talking OF loyalty to
the Democracy hereafter, to shut your
mouth by an i'll natured "Reminiscences