Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-04-08

The negroes of Texas took control of
the republican convention of that
State. That is just what they should
have done, and what those in Virginia
should do. They supply the republic
can party with the whole of its really
effective strength, and should there
fore, especially according to republi-
can professions. exercise the rights of
the majority. and send the lilly whites
to the rear, where they belong Azec.
Gazette.
We understand that Hon J. P.
Moomau, who represented Pocahontas
county So acceptably in the Legisa
lures of 1898 and 1895. will probably be
a candidate for the Democratic nomi-
nation for the State Senate from this
(the 8th) district. There is no doubt
that Pocahonts county has very strong
claims for his honor, and they could
hardly have better representative
than DR.. Moomau. Well educated,
experienced and capable, he is withal
a gentleman of scrupulous honor and
high moral character. We shall wait
the development of his candidacy with
interest.-Monroe Nv. Vd) Wotchmaqa
THE PHOTOsCoPE.-The New York
World very properly says that Mr.. Edi-
son has right to feel grieved at news
paper illustrations which misrepr sent
his photoscope and make ridiculous
claims as to it's results.
His invention deserves the best pos
sible treatment. 1t ia work of genius.
It took 1000 years from the first dis
covery of the possibility of producing
artificial electricity to make the first
application Of it. But within two weeks
or barely more than that, after the an
nouncement of the X-ray discovery.
Mr.. Edison had demonstrated the prac
ticability of so applying it as to enable
the eye to penetrate what had been
considered wholly Opaque solids.
American ingenuity and genius for
the practical in scientific work have
never been more brilliantly demon
strated. The monograph. the kineto-
scope aud the photoscope are trio of
inventions which would immortalize
any man. And the greatest of the
three is the photoscope.-F redericks-
burg Star.
in 1894 the republicans said to the
voters of the country: Give US a ma
jor1ty in Congress, and we'll make
everything boom, business will revive,
work be plentiful and money abun-
dant." The ignorance and prejudice
to which they appealed believed them,
and gave them what they asked for.
But the result was just what intelli-
gent people knew it would be- Every
thing did not boom, business did not
revive, work did not become plentiful,
nor money abundant. Indeed, no
matter what may be said to the con-
trary by those who want to keep up
the price of bonds and stocks, every
observant man knows that the con
dition of the people of this country is
worse now than it was in 1894. But,
with this patent fact before their
eyes, the same republicans now cry:
"Give us another republican Congress
next November, and also republican
President, and all will be WE'LL" thus
showing the estimation in which they
hold the foolishness and gullibility of
the men whose votes decide elections
| in the United States.-Ale1. Gazette
SOUND CURRENCY The New York
Herald says
IF the United States currency was
placed on a solid and unassailable gold
basis and peace with foreign nations
cultivated. the capital of the world
would be laid at the feet of our manu-
facturers, and all our industries could
be immensely, economically and rapid
| ly developed. Blind partisans are
! flooding the land with denunciations
of the Wilson law as the cause of all
our financial and industrial troubles
since 1892. But even some of our lead
| ing "protectionist'' trade journals are
protesting against this exaggeration
and pointing to the condition of our
currency, and the consequent lack OF
credit and capital, as powerful contrib
utory causes. The refusal of the pres.
ent Congress to do anything for cur
rency reform and it's ceaseless agita-
ton of the tariff question and lingo
schemes have done and are doing far
more to destroy the credit OF the ma
| ton, to depress its industries and to
cut down the revenue of the govern
ment than the Wilson law.
Protectionism met with It's Gettys
burg defeat in 1894, and if it joins
forces with the free-silver party it will
find it's Appomattox next November"
In bare and cherries room in a
great barren house in Baltimore there
lies dying au old man. Heart disease,
poverty and want hold him in their
grim clutch. He is Frederick Nicholas
| Crourh, the author of that tender and
beautiful ballad kathleen Mavour-
neen." Years ago Professor Crourh was
famous man. Two hemispheres rang
with his song. 1t gushed in a passion
ate volume of melody from the lips of
such celebrated and lovely lyric artists
as Jenny Lind, Parepa Rosa, Anne
Louise Carey. Anne Bishop and Ire
belli Its history is wet with tears''
in truth. Half century ago the au-
thor of kathleen Mavourneen" was
known by fame in every country. To
day he is dying of starvation, neglect
and disease in a shabbily pitifully.furn-
ished room. Reverses which human
hand could neither stay nor avert
swept away his fortune. The end with
all it's pathos and misery is near. And
such is fame's reward in this master OF
melody's case. How ineIpressibly sad
l-Petersburg Indec Appeal.