Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-04-27
NEXT TUESDAY AT THE NATIONAL
CAPITAL.

If an outlook with magic telescope
could be posted on the dome OF the capitol
at Washington to-day and take birdseye
view of this great country he would behold
an extraordinary spectacle. In a country
Of siXty-fve million people and extending
two thousand miles from ocean to ocean,
he would see dotted all over the Northern
and Western half Of it armies, leach num-
bering from score Of men up to hundreds
about dozen ''armies" in all. march
ing to the National Capital. Here adj
dressed by a man who says he has received
the spirit of Andrew Jackson, there ha
rangued by man who is blasphemously
claimed by his comrades to be a thew
Christi" here plodding along the roads re-
ceiving contributions Of bread and meat
from timid citizens who want to see them
pass on, there violently Selling q railroad
train to ride Oh: here preaching peace, there
practicing violence. There are perhaps
five Thousand people in all III these ''ar
mics five Thousand out Of sixty-five
millions And these five thousand e.
pect to go Washington and by the force o
their numbers dictate to colgfess-wiIr
was chosen to represent the sixtY6iye III
lions-What laws it Shall pass for their-the
five Thousand 's-relief. Tney demand H.
be provided for while in Washington
II the man with tie telescope coHli tue
close it and go down stairs into the SeHatt
he would see two PGpuIs5 Senator's, Pe?fe!
and Allen, who iii part represent Kansas
and Nebraska-offeEin resolutions t.:
''provide for'' these ''arnies'' when thes
shall have arrived in Washington. For
tunately the country has men in y Washing
ton Of a different type from PETER and
Allen, and neither will there be laws passed
at the bidding of these armies. nor viii
they be allowed to tran sgress laws alread,
made in Washington. The movement i.
foreign i'll all its aspects, such as often orig
mates i'll Europe where the people cannot
speak imperatiyeIy to the government
through the ballot box, and a large constit
uent part of the ''armies'' are foreigners
who have yet to learn the true meaning OF
freedom in this great Republic. Next
Tuesd ~ the armies are to be at Wash
ington. and We hope the occasion will be a
prolitab bic one both to them and tie dema-
gogues, in learning that law in this country
is supreme and is the voice of the whole
people, not the clamor Of the mol.
LET Us STAND FIRM WHERE WE
ARE
We publish to-day letter from MI.
Camm Patteson of Buckingham. OF the
silver question. Our friend seems to re-
gard the VINDICAToR as a gold-monomet
alist paper. II is far from it; it is @ bi-
metalist, and was an earnest advocate o:
free coinage of silver until it became appar-
ent that the United States could not, alone
in the world. keep the two metals at par
ty. 1t has become SO apparent since our
government stopped the purchase of silver,
that that act has called the gold naonomet-
alists of Europe-especialiy Germany and
Engand-to reason, and that if We persist
in our course Europe will aid in es-
tablishing bimetalism and fixing rate for
both silver and gold, that we regret to see
any willingness displayed to abandon our
vantage ground. The only way we will
ever get the use Of silver and gold at par
ity throughout the commercial world is to
let Europe See that this country intends to
stand where it has planted it's foot. We do
not enter into an argument with Mr.. Pat
teson, because we have not the space to
give to a prolonged discussion for one rea-
son, and because we agree with much that
he says. We desire the general use of sill
Yer on a parity acith gold as much as he
does. or as much as any silver man does, and
the experience Of the past and the promise
OF the present 1.-THE changing attitude in
Europe) show that this country is at last
on the right and o:sIy track to get it.