Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-07-05


The polite but positive way in which the
Republican Clubs which met in Cleveland,
| Ohio, last week, declined to enter into the
pitfall President Cleveland and his Demo
cratic friends had prepared for Republicans,
/ seems to have disguised them Virginia
Enterprise
Our Republican contemporary needs to be
posted on what is going on in his own par
ty. The ''pitfal'' was prepared by Presi
dent Tracy, who presided at the meeting
of the Republican Clubs. In his opening
speech he said that the ''value of these
conventions lay in the fact that they en-
abled the Republican party to 'face square
consider any and all of the complex ques-
tons which confront us from time to
time.' Mr.. Tracy must have been sur
prised when few hours later he beheld
the convention lodging the ':complex
> questions which. it was expected to
face squarely," and running, with it's tail
between its legs, from the pitfall which he
had prepared. How does the Enterprise
account for this other ''pitfall' into which
the same body fell at Denver last year
much to the satisfaction of the free silver
Dubois:
"We believe in the use Of gold and silver as
money metals, maintained on perfect parity
and interconvertibilty. We do not believe
that there will be permanent return of pros
perity to our country until the full use and
highest position of silver shall be restored,
and we favor such legislation as will bring
about this result"
The artful president Cleveland and his
Democratic friends" doubtless our
neighbor thinks, dug that ''pitfall'' into
which the Republican Clubs fell at Den
yer. The fact is that the Republican party,
which until the last few months had every
prospect of success in the next Presiden-
tial campaign, does not know what to do
with the currency. With it, between the free
silver and sound money men. it is ''good
lord' and good devil' without knowing
which to turn to. 1t seeks refuge in dead
silence on silver and strident denunciation
of tariff, though it knows that it will not
touch line of the tariff it it were to carry
the whole government next year.
We are indebted to the courtesy of Mr.
Charles Catlett for copy of the New Y DIRK
Sun Of August 2Sth, 1886, just sixty years
ago. 1t was published daily by Benz. ii.
Day at the price of one cent per copy. 1t
contains what appears to be an installment
of that wonderful test of human credulity,
Lockes Moon Hoax. purporting to lie from
1.-The supplement to the Edinburg Journal
of Science" In that day there were 20
steamers, and the arrivals OF sailing ships
were far between. The hoax was an inge-
niously written description of telescope
astronomical discoveries made by Sir John
Herschel then said to be in Africa. 1t des-
cribed people and beasts discovered by tie
lished 10y installments, and for many days
the sale Of the paper was wonderful-com
ing to an end, however, when an arrival
from England showed it to be hoax.
The Sam was up to date OH the circula
ton question, even that early, and claimed
to>have 1880 circulation, of which 2,G00|
were Stsold at the markets, &c., which it
said was, the largest circulation in the
world, the london Times having only
II 900.
One Of the advertisements is that OF
James Gordon Bennett of the New Y ork
Herald, which announces that having pro-
cured ''entire new MATERIAL and the "use
of a double cylinder press,'' he wiIfresume
the publication OF the Herald at No. >202
Broadway.
There were two theatres ADVERTISED
Niblos Garden and the Franklin theatre,