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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-08-14
IN THE FIELD.

AS if free silver was not enough for the
Virginia Republicans to wrestle with, they
have a regular and a boilers candidate in
two congressional districts, DR.. r. A.
Wise (Lamb) and J. J. Dwyer (anti.Lamb)
In the Norfolk district, and in the Peters
burg district Thorpe and Chez. This will
give the Democrats an easy field in those
two districts. In the Danville district
they have nominated John r. Brown. The
Democrats have nominated Claude Swan
son (5th). Peter Otey (eth), and W. A.
Jones (1st), for reelection, and Fl. d.
Flood (1Oth) and Judge Samuel w. Viii.
iams (9th) for election. In the 18th district
the Republicans have again nominated r.
j. Walker of Shenandoah, who was defeat
ed two years ago.
The Bryan clubs in Virginia are as thick
as blackberries. In the 9th congressional
district there are thirty seven, of
which twelve are in Halifax and nine in
Bedford. and new ones are being organized
every day. OF the Bryan club of 300 or
ganized at Leesburg last Monday. sixty
are said to be free silver Republicans.
Ex-Congressman Mutchler, of the 9Th
Pennsylvania district, says that the demo-
Gratis will make very large gains in their
representation in Congress from his State.
He said: SIN the Eighth district, Mr..
Hart was elected two years ago by a major
ity of 1876. We will carry the same district
by majority variously estimated at from
2 900 to 1000. This indicates the wonder
full change that has come over the State and
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-08-14
HAS IT FORGOTTEN THEM 2

There is q strong desire among the Dem
oorats of Augusta county to know who the
Directors of the Staunton Neacs are. 1t is
the first time thas Democratic paper here
has bOlted a National ticket since the Valley
Vargiaaiom bolted twenty-four years ago
and wound UP by landing snugly in the
Republican parity where today, under the
name Of Vests: Weekly, is is the co-laborer
of the Stanton News in trying to defeat
the n atienal Democratic ticket.
WGald our friends of the Ne,FJ kindly
relisye the public anxiety by Publishing
tho names of it's Directors ? If it has for
egotten them it can ascertain them at the
various Staunton National banks all of
which are in reaehezsstreet care passing
every four meiiH faiieees
M rs are the Directors of this ship
which has hauled down the Democratic
flag. Are they steering it for the same
port thai. the KalssysV5rgiaaGaa landed in.
Why were 6iaeiisz r saames taken do wn just as
the ship lurched towards the Republican
party ?
In this tempest of adverse public opinion
raging around the Neos it might at least
divert the mind of Its management, to
spend moment in hosting to the mast
head the old familiar names of the Direc-
tors which have been there Tor SO many
years and were so suddenly taken from
their place.
Will our esteemed contemporary hoiEt the
names of the Directors for just one day
and let the Democrats Of Augusta and
Staunton see whom they are fighting?
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-08-14
THE POSITION OF THE VLNDfCA-


In view of the VINDICATOR's queries adj
addressed to the News, we are amply justified
in asking Why has the INDICATOR changed
its policy? Has the change been from convic-
ton? Or at the party mandate? To keep on
the supposed popular side. regardless Of
consequences ?--.Staatnton Neaos.
The VIND1CAToR will answer that ques-
ton as quick as wink. 1t changes it's pol
icy because the National convention of the
National Democratic Party. of which the
Democratic party o; Virginia is part, on
the Sth day Of July, 1896, adopted a free
silver platform. The INDICATOR is now
Loyalty supporting it's nominees and cit
ing every argument in favor of them and
the platform on which they were nominal
ed. The VINDICATOR has never in it's
history been conceited enough to set up its
opinion against that Of the representatives
OF four millions of Democrats and, fortu-
nately for it's readers, it has never repre-
sented or been controlled by any interests
which tor even moment obscured that
sense of honor which required it to keep
faith with it's party as much as a sense OF
honesty required it to keep faith with in
dividuals.
And now having frankly answered its
question will our esteemed contemporary
publish the names of ats Directors ? Do
if it is only for one morning, put them
where the Augusta Democrats can see
them.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-08-14
BRYAN'S TRIUMPHAL TOUR TO
NEW YORK.

Well might the press reports say that
there never was anything like it in this
country, when they telegraphed the recep
ton of Bryan on the route between his
Nebraska home and New York. Al
Chicago the streets were blocked for sew
eral squares and it took Mr.. Bryan an hour
to get to his hotel, five squares off. When
he looked at the crowd and remembered
that the whole daily press of Chicago il
against him he appropriately sad in his
speech: Everybody is against us except
the people,"
at Pittsburg ''acres of people" accord
ing to the press report, were out awaiting
his arrival. The gathering was SO immense
that they had to hold two meetings in two
adjoining theatres, at each of which Mr.
Bryan made speech. The immense
were so enthusiastic that he
said in one of his speeches: ''They speak
of the wild West; it seems to me that l
have come into the wild East His re
ception at Canton, Ohio, Gov. Mckinley Is
home, was as enthusiastic as anywhere
else.
All his speeches, whether in the big cities
OF from the rear of the train, were urging
the people to look into and study the. sub
Ject of free silver.
ana We'll might Mr.. Bryan think in New
i ok wednesday night that it was "a wild
East" =! There were twenty thousand PEG
pie who got into Madison Square Garden
to hear him, and there were thousands who
could not get in. After the meeting had
adjourned another meeting of ten thousand
assembled in front of his hotel and MI.
Bryan had 20 speak again. Free silver was
the burden of both speeches.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-08-14
1896 AND 1879 IN VIRGINIA.


1t is not long since that we referred to
the similarity of the situation in the pres
emit fight for free silver with that made i'll
Virginia for REIMBURSEMENT, and to the fact
that in this fight for silver the young men
rushed to the front just DIS they did in the
days of 6 'rah for Paul. Then the Demo
Gratis in Virginia were leaving their party
on the new issue and going over to the
Readjusters, just as the Republicans are
leaving their party now and going over to
free silver. Col. W. g. Elan. one of the
most distinguished leaders Of the readjus-
ter movement, who is now editor of the
Norfolk Pilot and still a Republican, has
an editorial on the struggle Of REIMBURSEMENT
which closes thus:
"Have any of us forgotten any or all OF
this? No! And we see many striking re-
sembIances in the situation of 1896 to that OF
1879 1t is similar issue, with similar for
ces, similarly arrayed on each side. Before
it is true, the issue was local to Virginia; but
the whole country took sides upon it. just as
now on this national currency issue. 1t not
d REIMBURSEMENT of bonds that is in question,
but it is a Reimbursement of money; and all
the powers of money are on one side now
against the people, just as formerly.
The people of Virginia were victorious,
nevertheless; and the people of the United
States are not likely to be defeated now by
forces whose combined strength in 1879 were
overthrown and routed by the resolute VOTERS
of single State.
''Ihe oddities of Virginia, at any rate,
should learn something from the Fad ulster
Funder experience. i vas as bitter school to
Funders- 1fff5s@ golditess. but, if they have
forgotten its lessons they must go through it
again, with its bitterness and stripes re-
doubled"
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property holding interests of the country can
not survive Presidential election on this
continent, after it has grown into towering
political issue. The people of Amrica can
protect themselves.
How the system is to be thrown off in
Europe does not appear, but its downfall
seems to be inevitable. Professor Edouard
Suess, of the University of Vienna, world
famous savant and liberal member OF the
Austrian Parliament, says: "Whether silver
will again become full valued metal all
over the world is no longer a question; the
only question is what trials has Europe to
pass through before that end shall be reach
ed"
| The nominations of the Chicago Conven-
ton were excellent The good genius OF
America presided in their selection. They
are men of spotless character, sterling worth
and extraordinary ability. They have had
no entanglements with the past politics of the
old parties, and there is nothing in theil
careers to need explanation or extenuation
They will be elected by an immense majority
with joyful acclaim, and they will give &
strong and pure administration to the country
1 shall cheerfully vote for them and support
them with intense pleasure.
/ Respectfully.
| ROBERT W. HUGHES.
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,yUDGE HUGHES LETTER.

We give to-day the letter of Hon. RDbt.
W. Hughes, Judge Of the U. S. Court for
the Eastern District of Virginia. on the
subject of the Chicago platform and its
nominees. He has long been regarded as the
closest student of and ablest writer on the
subject of free silver, in Virginia. He is
a Republican of thirty years standing, and
was once the candidate of the party for the
position Of Governor of Virginia. Those
who recollect his decisions when the Vir-
ginia debt question was before him, will
not be apt to style him y ''repudiator. 'and
we think even the syndicate ranks de- not
hold an idiot sufficiently reckless to style
him an anarchist.
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The Wall-Street Episode Of July.
New York journal of Commerce.


the Stock Exchange
would make interesting The causes which induced general aeo
the Treasury gold the rue spread
These existed but proportion
disturbing evoked from The facts had been foren
and their selling stocks
aon time made pence for creating nan
blame this attempt to p1eeptate
other b needed who did not need Dor
row Million and could sell without
stint wit" n f bang a @ @ @ s sna wished to their
possible prices They speculative mllonas nir
we're in the forefront Of the assault Their united
millions To those with Wasreet affairs
in the leading
the operators The attack appears to nave been
evidence Of joint understanding and
from the fact that the attack was pushed
Intervention Of the banks
arrangements % Treasury
that among the assaans were citizens ac-
custoed blend politics with large speculative operations Men
who high party councils, who distinguished themselves
the national conventions and who have figured conspc
ousv before country valiant opponents of the free
heresy credy pued oave been the ranks OF these
millionaire RAIDERS both political parties having been equally re-
presented lies the interesting phases this
Extraordinary feat of buccaneerng speculation The facts
veal depth OF venaity which had scarcely been
prepared expect the moral slums of Wall street, We
heard of members of Congress and of high politicians spec
ang of sugar bills and the mysteries tariff leg
and the of administrative departments but it's
at least something that who leaders protecting
our money system should employ themselves i'll creating
pancs and endangering the ability of the Treasury
to maintain gold payments How near these high pol1t
with their millionaire associates to succeeding In
their attempts crisis may be inferred from the
fact the confidence they have destroyed
the banks deemed necessary contribute to
the Treasury gold reserve while the foreign bankers have in
tervened stop gold exports by issuing needs be- oooooo
of bills exchange These grave precautions DUE almost
cusivey attempt this millionaire combination supply
themselves stocks panic prices sorry discourage
ment to the true faithful who sacrificing much
to protect financial to find that among their
coaborators in the cause money those who
ready to great national danger occasion for ncea
ing their private wealth.
that
Chicago
possibility restoring
teh enconfde OF
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-08-14
THAT HOPED FOR REACTION.

sAs pants the hart for waterbrook,' SO
pants the sorely beset Republican party for
some signs of a longed for reaction among
the Democrats. 1t will never come; it
cannot come. What is there to bring it
Will taxes be lessened between now and
November, will lard increase in price, will
it be easier to get a dollar, will the hard
times have disappeared, will the merchants
once more see business rushing across their
counters. will wheat leave the low
grounds of finance and once more look a
dollar-a-b ushel in the face? No, none of
these things will happen. There is and
will be no cause for reaction. The coun-
try from now to November will be on the
hopeless ''present gold standard basis" of
the National Republican platform. 1t will
be only after Bryan s election that the peo-
pie will take heart and have reasonable
hope Of better times.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-08-14
A CAMPAIGN or EPtrHETs.

YOU farmers who favor free coinage will
have a hard time of it between now and
November if epithets canmake it hard.
Your maligners departed from the con-
stitntion twenty-three years ago to de-
monetize one of the CONS OF the constitu-
ton, and made it SO that it now takes two
bushels of wheat to get dollar instead
OF one. And when you try to 60 back to
the constitution and restore the old plan Of
your fathers, they call you an Anarchist.
They take the railroads of the country
chartered by you and built over your land
for legitimate commercial use, make them
the stake of gambling millionaire syndi-
Gates, wreck the solvent ones, and put one
half of them in the hands of receivers. And
when you propose to stop this by law they
call you an Anarchist.
lou create banks who are doing business
on and profitiIg by your capital, and when
you want bG' restore tile currency Of the
country to It's old footing these banks form
national conspiracy against you to bring
on panic and ruin you. And when you
propose by law to take tais dangerous pow
Ell Qua Of the conspirat ors' hands they call
yOM all Anarchist.
Their Supreme Court by one majority
reyerses its decisions of hundred years
and decides that the Vanderbilts, Rookie
fellers, Gonlds. and the other millionaires,
who own the bulk of the wealth Of the
country, shall pay no income tax and shall
not bear their proportion of the taxation.
And when you say that that court it
changed shall be changed in the interest OF
the tax payers of the country, you are called
an Anarchist.
You, you Virginia farmers, whether you
are Democrats OF Republicans the
money power knows no party-you who find
at the end of twenty years that your land
has gone down to half price, that your
wheat and other products have gone down
to half price, and that dollar has gone up
to double price; you owners of the land
and employers Of labor who have lived
sober. orderly. law abiding lives, and are
raising families to live the same lives after
you are gone; you. when you complain of
these things and determine to resort to the
ballot and the law making power to remedy
them, are called Anarchists
And called SO too by the men who have
grown rich on your losses.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-08-14
A FRIENDLY CAUTION.


To those esteemed co-laborers for the
defeat of the National Democratic ticket
the Staunton Daszy News and Yost's
Weekly. ...-
Brethren. you are two fellow travellers
to defeat. Youg time in the land of the
living is brief and should be made the
most of.
If vow waste it in recalling what the
VINDICAToR las said instead of replying
to what it is saying saoac, you are lost be-
fore your time.
Try and answer the expectations
doubling expectations of your friends by
making an effort to answer what the VIM
D1cAToK is saying today. You will,
doubtless, fail, but you will b ave secured
a larger attendance of friends at your polit-
ical funeral. "-
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-08-14

We are afraid we are about to lose the
esteemed editor of Yost's Weekly. Like
Falstaff before his departure, his mind is
going back to bis Republican youth, and he
is 'babbling of green fields. " Last week he
made the discovery that the VINDICAToR
had criticized the VALLEY Virgimidn when
1t w-nt into the Republican party in
1872. We don't recall that criticism
but it must have been tremen-
dous. 1t did the Republican party more
BARN than the editor of the VALLEY Virgin
san did it good. Up to that time viftori-
Gus, in two years the Republicans had lost
the House, in two years more they had lost
the Senate, in four years more they had lost
the Presidency. and they kept on down till
they lost the whole government. The &C
cession Of the editor of the Wiley Virgin
san whose tender Democratic stomach
could not stand Horace Greeley, started
the Republican party down hill and it never
recovered. In the mean time the VINDI-
GATOR and the Democratic party have
taken possession of the land and will renew
their lease next November.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-08-14

is due entirely to the agitation Of free coin
age. The democratic representation in
Congress from the State will surprise the
republicans.
A letter from Massachusetts says: ut
is hard to believe that Massachusetts would
60 for national Demo cratic ticket, but
from the universal talk in that direction,
and from all the indications [ witnessed
while there, am satisfied that if the pres
ent feeling continues until November she
will go that way"
Senator Martin says that boilers ticket
for President will help Bryan; the Repub-
lican campaign money will do very little if
anything in this election, and that the
Democratic ticket will carry Virginia by
large majority.
,s The boilers meeting in Indianapolis last
week, decided to call themselves by one
name, their former comrades by another
and to hold nominating meeting IN the
same city Sept. I'd. One of the so-called
delegates" at the meeting was MI. Joseph
Bryan, now conducting Mckinley paper
| at Richmond. Another delegate was the
! postmaster at Omaha.
!. Ex-Congressman Fithian OF Illinois, says
Illinois is wild for free silver, and that
men of all parties and people of both sexes
are keen set upon electing the boy orator
| who has come out of the West
A gentleman from Culpeper visiting
Washington says that from what he hears
nine tenths of the vote of that county will
be cast in favor of free silver coinage.
Last week at Wilson's Spring in Rock
bridge, Mr.. Yost had joint debate will
MI. Frank Glasgow of Lexington.
There was big gathering at Bowling
Green, Caroline, Monday, to hear-in sepa
rate meetings-W. A. Jones for the Demo
Gratis and J. Hampton Hoge for the Re
publicans.
Mr.. F. Lewis Marshall the most promi
nent Republican Of Orange Co., Va, has
gone over to Bryan and free silver.
The headquarters of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee will be at Chicago.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-08-14
POOR FELLOWS; BUT THEY WILL
BE FREED.

POOR FELLOWS; BUT THEY WILL
BE FREED.
A few days ago Decatur Axtell of the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, issued the fol-
lowing undisguised threat to the employees
of the road, being one OF eleven reasons
why he would not vote for the Democ ratio
nominees:
LIST. Because l cannot support platform
nor vote for nominees that advocate measures
which if adopted by the country will make it
necessary to reduce the wages of 5000 en-
plOyees OF the company am connected with
and to dismiss hundreds of them. If there
were no other, this reason alone would be
sufficient
To show how effectively the thi ny work.
ed and how perfectly the threat was under
stood, a meeting of c. & o. employees was
held in Richmond Saturday night and a
''Sound money" club formed. The poor
fellows even went further and adopted this
resolution
cat least one of the Rjchmone Daily papers
having published statements 10 the effect that
the Chesapeake & Ohio Cosspany was using
coercive means to induce its employees to
pledge themselves to soand money, we de-
nounce any and all such statements as being
false in every particular"
How many of the supporters OF resolu-
tion like this, following Mr.. Axtell's threat,
do you think will cast a secret ballot against
Bryan? None who were not already Re.
publicans and, very likely, not half of them.
The woTkingmen Of this country, railroad
and all others. want to be free where they
won't have to hold such meetings and adopt
such resolutions as this. And they expect
the election of Bryan to free them, as it
will.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-08-14

The Netcs publishes circular issued by
the american Bankers Association in
1894. charging that the circular published
last week in the VINDICAToR, issued by
the National Bankers Association in 1898
was forgery. A forgery on whom; what
connection is there between the two?
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-08-14

Whether Free Silver will give the conn-
try "Fifty Cent Dollar is something yet
to be settled; but that the Gold Standard
has given US Fifty Cent Wheat" is some
thing clearly settled to the country Is sor-
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-08-14

We hope the reader will not miss 1.-THE
Wall-Street Episode of July" in another
column. 1t is from the N. Y. Journal
of Commerce, a gold standard paper, which
is purely commercial and not political in
its conduct. The article clearly shows to
what desperate means the ''money power''
will resort in Wall street when it is to its
interest,
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1,.e,fy & MORTON. ProprIetors.

-, overy Friday. Price $l.OO per year
Pup,,' tor ak months, and Is cents for monshs
-lnv vas,snt advertisements l21 ceats pes Zine
i .us.srt,on and 81 cents each Insertion there
esor contracts for longer terms made at tn
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- Allegheny, Highland and Bath Counties.
Gives general and local news; stories ana mis-
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II. G. TrNsLEY,
A. 8. MORTON.
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Our friend of the NeWs is evidently
ratified. 1t announces that it is opposed
to Is cent wheat, very laudable position,
and then goes on to show from all issue of
december 81, 1884," that the VINDICA-
TOR is also opposed to Is cent wheat. That,
We think also speaks we'll for the VIND1cA
TOR, but as there never was any 8t1ND4fGGsA,>
TOR issued dated December 81, 1894, F" we
are puzzled as to where our friend got his
good opinion of the VINDICATOR from.