Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-10-28
To THE VOTERS OF THE SEVENTH

To THE VOTERS OF THE SEVENTH
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF viR-
GINIA:-
| earnestly ask every voter in this
District to 90 to the polls on Tuesday,
Nov. Sth. 1898, and vote .for Hon.
D. C. O'Faherty, the Independent
Democratic candidate for Congress
from this District. He is democrat
both in name and in principle. He
believes in local selfgovernment; that
each community should govern It's
own local affairs; that each individual
should work out his individual enter
prises without help or hindrance from
government; that the avenues OF dis
tinction should be open alike to the
rich and the poor; that the poor men
should have an equal opportunity, and
share with the rich in being elected
to office, and in governing and con-
trolling the best interest of this re-
public. He believes in a government
by the people, ofthe people, and for
the people, and not by rings and
clioues. lie believes in govern
lnent by the masses and not by the
classes. He believes that the people
in each county should determine who
their Judges should be, and he would
not interfere with the legislature in
the election Of County judges, or
other officers. lie believes that the
people Of each county should select
and elect delegates TO attend COZ :
rressional conventions, and that the
congressman has no right to selec,
and furnish list of delegates to at
tend a congress 'ional convention, as
Hay did, when he furnished list of
delegates for Warren county to go to
the Charlottesville convention, thus
depriving the people Of Warren of
their right to name their delegates.
Mr.. O'Flahcrty believes that tan
ton should be limited to the support
of the government, economically a@
mmstcred, and that taxes levied for
other than public purposes are
Legitimate and unjust, impositions
and burdens, that to give help to one
nun, or class ofmen, not extended 10
all, is the rankest privilege, that TO
exclude one man from what is allow
cd another, is the groSsest monopoly;
that to exact from one to benefit
another is robbery. He is an honest
and sound bimettalist, and holds TO
the use Of both gold and silver as the
standard money of the country,
without discriminating against either
metal, but that the dollar unit of
coinage of both metals, must be OF
equal intrinsic and exchangable
value; that the silver metal put in the
silver dollar, should be worth as
the gold metal put in the gold dol
lar, and that silver and gold money
should be OF equal value, and that all
paper money should be redeamable
in either coin; bat in the coinage of
the silver and gold metals into money,
he flvors gold as the unit or stand
ard of value, because it is used as
such by the leading commercial
nations of the world, and is moie
convenient in eff citing exchange,
and thus facilitates trade, and i'll
crcases and builds up commerce in
our own country and between the
leading commercial nations. Beng so
used, the demand for it is greater,
more constant. and universal than for
silver; its general use as a unit or
standard of value by the leading
commercial nations give 5 to it per-
nancy and vouches safe Its future
u>e and stability as a money metal,
because no nation now using it can
change from it to any other unit or
standard of value without disturbing
it's business and entailing upon itself
great.los Gold being coined into
money by all the leading commercial
nations of the world, makes the dol
lar coined out of the 90 l-2 grains Of
gold worth the same the world over;
its value is universal and not local, is
permanent and not temporary; is uni
form and not fuctuating; and for
these reas ons i a better unit or stan
dard of value, than silver, the value
ofwbich a. a money metal is local,
and not general; is temporary and