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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-07-13
DANIEL AND SILVER.

We have had our attention called to
the remarkable change in Senator
Daniels views on silver, and it has
been stated to us that this change in
the Senator Is as radical as that of Gen.
Rosser We are not prepared to admit
this latter charge No change can be
SO radical as to drop from the Demo-
cratic into the Republican party. 1t is
like the fall Of Lucifer. But to change
from an advocate Of silver to u nom
advocate 10 radical, when the change
| takes place in one who was an advocate
Of greenbacks and has talked silver and
| voted silver ever since the power OF
talking and voting became his. That
may, however, be explained. Yet why
should any Que carp at and fuss with
Senator Daniel, when the illustrious,
the great, the good, the almost wor-
shipped VIM. Mckinley has been gull
| ty OF CITATIONS and summersaults as
compared with which the tumble OF
/
over, to triple turn in the air, off a
spriugboard entirely over the backs OF
| many elephants. Mr.. Mckinley only
few years ago was an ardent free sill
yer advocate himself. HE VOTED FOR
FREE COINAGE when the Bland idea
was in the ascendency. He smote the
Democrats hip and thigh because to
his mind they were not doing what
they should for silver. He was afraid
of tho word GOLD so late as the con-
vention of 1896. Now behold limits
chief supporter and friend. This may
not be remarkable we must admit in a
man who little while ago was a civil
service refOrmer, but who when be bad
an opportunity to reform it. took the
| first backward step taken since the
days of President Arthur. Nor is it
remarkable in man who one day &c
clared 1t to Ue OUR PLAIN DUTY to
give the starving Porto Ricans free
access to our markets, such as citizens
of this country ought to have, and
then the next day ut the demand OF
the Tobacco and Sugar Trusts re
canted it all, and advocated a tariff
at least sufficient to enable those trusts
to give something to the campaign
fund. Changes of this character have
been so frequent with this great per-
sOnage that we ought not to criticize
too harshly the changes in persons
who are not apOtheOsized, but remain
of mortals mortal. We are not the
keeper of the Senator'S conscience.
He may have found his teachings all
| wrong, his ideas and thoughts dan
gerOus to our financial we'll being, and
thus rightly recanted and retracted
them, on the principle of ''better late
than never" Yet it is funny, seriously
funny, that with just as much light
before him five years ago as now when
| talking silver in season and out OF
season, Oh the senate floor and of the
senate floor, he had SO much to say
for it. Now has no word Of commen'
datiOn, not even faint praise. Was the
SPECTATOR wrong when some time
ago itspOke of the peculiarly neat and
workman like job of sewing up Of GER
tain mouths done by President McKin
ley, aud intimated that few stitches
had been taken in that of Senator
Daniel? II not, then maybe this &C
counts for the reef in the Senator
silver Sail.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-07-13

THE SPECTATOR has always asserted
and believed that VIM. j. Bryan was
lawfully elected president four years
ago. aud that the ballot boxes were
stuffed on him In several States, and
be was cheated out of the office. One
pleasure has always been ours and
that is, that although defeated he re
ceived million more votes than Cleve
land did when he was last elected, and
not IL vote was counted for him thai
he did not receive.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-07-13
VIRGINIA News.

James Cummins, of Hutton, w. Va ,
all employee of the paper mills at Gov
ington, Va, WAS drowned Friday while
bathing near the mills.
A number of damage suits have been
instituted at Norfolk by relatives Of
the 10 negroes who were drowned a
week ago in Norfolk harbOr, due to u
collision.
A Confederate monument is to be
unveiled ut Berryville, Clarke county.
OIL July 81. Hon. james w. Marshall,
of Craig county. will be the orator OF
the occasion.
Col. Charles OBJ. Cowardin,. editor
of the Richmond Dispatch, died at bis
home in that city on Thursday even
ing, after an illness of two weeks with
typhoid fever He was one of the best
known writer's in the South.
Mr.. James A. Buckner, who has
been residing in Winchester for the
past year, was found dead Wednesday
night ut his home. He was cousin
of Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Of
Kentucky.
A. B. Overstreet. deputy collector OF
Otter district, Bedford county. has dis
appeared and warrant for his arrest
has been issued. 1t is not known where
he has gone, but it is thought prob
ably to North Carolina. His shortage
reaches $2,l00.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-07-13
Excursions to Atlantic City or Cape May.

The Southern Railway has author
lied sale of tickets from Manassas,
Lynchburg, Harrisonburg and inter-
mediate stations to Atlantic City or
Cape May. N j., and return at very
low rates. Tickets to be sold June %,
July 5th, IL, 10. 26. August 2, 9, 16and
90, 1900, tickets limited to continuous
passage in each direction, good return
ing Is DAYS. including date of sale.
These tickets are sold in connection
with special excursion via Pennsylvania
R R aud B. & 0. r. R on special
dates mentioned above. June 20 3t
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-07-13

Gov. Atkinson, of West Va, has is.
sued a pardon to Alex Armstrong and
Frank Cumberland. two negroes. sent
from Pocahontas county in June. 1895.
for Is and IL years, respectively, fol
robbery, the published report of the
reason for the pardon SAWS: 1.-The Cir
cult Court tried the men, but notwith
standing they proved that they were
not the persons wanted. by establish
ing the fact that they we're in Marietta,
Ohio, when the theft was committed
the jury found them guilty and the
court sentenced them."
This is not true. There was some
evidence of very doubtful character
tending to prove an alabi, but there
WAS overwhelming evidence of Poca
hontas people to show they were in
the county at the time OF the robbery,
and on this they were convicted. The
feeling in Pocahontas county is so
strong against them that should eth
er eyer appear in that county again
he would be shot.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-07-13

The contemptuous way in which MI.
F. A. Richardson. correspondent OF
the Baltimore Sun, spoke OF the Dem
ocratic convention in his reports last
week ought to turn the stomach OF
every true Democrat who subscrlbes
for the paper and make him loathe it
as he would leper.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-07-13
Commissioners Sale.
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.

By virtue of deed of trust executed
May 7th, 1898, by Nina X. Beard to Ru-
dolph Bumgardner, Trustee for the Wash.
ington aud Lee University, duly recorded
in the clerks Office of the county court of
Augusta. in ID. B. 1913, page 2S7, and by
virtue of decree of the circuit court OF
Augusta county, entered On the 18th day
of May. 1900 i'll the cbancery cause of
Nina 4. Boards Trustee VS.. Nina Beard,
&c.. appointed the trustee In said deed a
commissioner for the purpose, and direct
ing him to sell the real estate conveyed in
said deed of trust upon the terms therein
named, will proceed. in front of the
court house in the city OF Staunton, at u
o'clock NJ. on
MONDAY, THE 23rd day of JULY, 1900,
County Court Day.
to sell at public auction, all of that GER
tain tract or parcel of land with the build
ings thereon, containing Sixteen Acres,
more or less, situated at Fort Defiance. in
Augusta county. now owned by said Nina
r. Beard. Upon the following
TERMS, to-wit:-Five hundred dollars
cash in hand. the remainder upon a credit
of one and two years from date of sale,
with interest from the date of sale. the
purchaser to execute bonds for the deferred
instalments of purchase money, with ap
proved personal security and the title to
be retained as ultimate security.
RUDOLPH Blu MGARDNER,
Commissioner.
l. JOS B. Wood ward, Clerk of the Cir
cult Court for Augusta county, do certify
that Rudolph Bumgardner, Commissioner,
has executed the bond required by decree
of sale in the cause of Nina r. Beard 8
Trustee against Nina R. Beard ct ais
Teste, JOS. B. WOODWARD.
June 16, 1900 Clerk.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-07-13

Should VIM. j. Bryan be elected a
large contingent from Maryland and
Kentucky, and many former Demo
Gratis who voted for Mckinley or Pal
mer and Buckner, will be among the
first to present themselves before him,
with a list OF the mighty deeds done
by them, aud ask to be placed On the
pension list.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-07-13
JUDGE QUARLES MITHDRAWS.

The card of Judge ]. M. Quarles,
present Representative in Congress
from this district, appears elsewhere
in this issue of THE SPECTATOR.
Judge Quarles has nothing in his Off
cial career to regret growing out of
any personal act. 1t is to be regretted
that Judge Quarles did not find it pos
sible to draw little closer to those
who opposed what is in Virginia known
as 1.-THE May Convention This
movement has grown more and more
distasteful to those who fight the Dem.
ocratic battles in Virginia, and especi
ally SO since it is believed that it
was secret effort on the part Of some,
the Richmond Times for instance, then
as now a Republican ally, to disrupt
the Democratic party. Many good
men were led into the movement
without being fully aw.re OF its real
purpose. and have suffered according
ly, others entered it better enlightened
and still advocate the movement it
purported to voice, but they form a
faction of the party and admittedly
the weaker faction. Had Judge Quarles
seen his way clearly to have allied
himself with the stalwart wing of the
party, there IS probably no man in the
district who could have, IN the face of
his clean Congressional record, stood
before him. This and the fact that be
came from Augusta. which the other
parts of the district claim has received
the lions share of this honor, are res
ponsible for his defeat. There has been
some little talk Of fraud, but such
claims come with every election, and
those who enter politics expect them,
and are prepared, so that branch of
the subject may as we'll be dismissed.
We regret that the scepter has de-
parted from our Isreal, but are forced
to acknowledge that Augusta has been
peculiarly favored, both by the Demo-
Gratis and the Republicans as to this
Office, and We bow to the will of the
majority.
Mrc EInop He'll of PooH bride,
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-07-13
M. Gushing. Auctioneer.
PUBLIC SALE
OF VALUABLE
Real and Personal Property

| will sell at public auction, to the high
est bidder, on
THURSDAY, the 9th day of August, 1900,
the farm of which John W. Cupp died
| seized, lying and being in Rockbridge
county, Virginia, on the waters of South
River, between the Baltimore & Ohio and
the Norfolk u Western Railroads, about
three miles distant from Raphine, a sta
| ton on the former, and the same distance
from VeSuvius, depot on the latter.
| This farm contains about 229 acres of
land-of which about 1872 acres are clear
ed, we'll watered, well fenced and in fine
| state of cultivation, and the balance is in
timber of fair quality. 1t has on it good
frame dwelling house, with rooms, bank
| barn, hay house, tenant house and other
out houses. and will be sold in gross and
not by the acre.
will also sell on the same day and
place above mentioned, the following per-
sonal property belonging to the estate of
John W. Cupp, decd tO-wit: work horses,
l yearling colt, IL young cattle, household
and kitchen furniture, sewing machine,
4-hOrse wagon, strong spring wagon,
| carriage, top buggy, hay fork, binder,
mower, farming implements, carriage,
buggy and work harness, 100 bushels of
corn, &c.
TERMS OF SALE of Real Estate-One
third of purchase money cash and the bal
ance in three equal annual instruments,
bearing interest from day of sale, for
which the purchaser will execute bonds
without personal security. waving his
homestead exemption, the title to be re
tanned as ultimate security.
TERMS OF SALE of Personal Property
On all sums of $40 and under, cash will
be required; over that amount a credit of
6 months will be given. the purchasers ex-
ecuting without interest negotiable notes
we'll endorsed, and waving their home
stead exemption.
Sale to commence at $50 O'Clock A. M.
A. M. CUPP,
jul G. 4t* Ex'Or of John w. Cupp, decd.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-07-13

One of the most delightful features
of the Democratic platform Is that
Republicans say they are pleased with
if. We know how the world is given
, to lying.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-07-13
FRIDAY. JULY ID.

If David X. Hill should succeed III
carving New York for Bryan, nothing
but death would prevent his nomllia
ton for the Presidency four years
hence.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-07-13

Let it be understood that while Mr.
Hanna seems to be pleased with the
Democratic ticket and platform, the
trusts will be obliged to ante up just
as handsomely az before.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-07-13

John II. McGraw and Charles r.
Durbin, of Grafton, w. Va, are inter
ested in the Simpson, PruntytOwn &
Fairmont Railroad Co., recently char
tered to build a lire between the towns
mentioned, a distance Of twenty miles.
The company is capitalized at $1,000
900
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-07-13

The Petersburg Iron Works have
just received q contract from the Uni
ted States Government for II, 600 three.
Inch shells.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-07-13

We hear it said that Mr.. Bryan was
disposed to be Boss and desired to
dictate the platform. Did those who
object to this ever hear of one Grover
Cleveland? This objection comes
principally, we feel sure, from those
lovers of VIM. Mckinley who admire
him because be sat meekly and sub
United to the will of his boss. II Mr..
Bryan had not been Interested in the
kind of platform the Democrats were
TO make, when almost every State in
the Union had declared be should
stand on it, there are few who would
not have written him down as a fool,
if not worse-a knave. Who else had
so much right to dictate. Who under
the circumstance would have remain
ed quiet. Would such man have
been Mark HANNAH
There are now in the treasury of the
United States nearly 800, 900 more
money than is needed for the expenses
of thu government The session of
Congress just adjourned refused to re.
duce this Calling taxation. which in
the month just past was ST., 900, 900 in
excess of our needs. The most rampant
Republican papers admit that this is
dangerous, any ordinary man ought
to raise his voice to end such an out
rage. But no. The taxes were not
reduced because a large fund was need
ed to assist in carrying the election.
This money is used in Thousand ways
as a campaign fund. One way has
been to increase the salaries of little
cross roads pOstmasters In doubtful
States We know of one which has
been increased $300-for clerk hire,
and the whole revenues of the office
we do not believe amount to that sum.
We cite this to show how the footing
is now going on.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-07-13

Mrs. Edgar Hall, of Rockbridge,
while gathering cherries last week had
the misfortune to be struck in the
eye bv stick which fell from the tree.
1t Inflicted a wound which caused the
loss of sight of one eye and the other
was also affected
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-07-13

Entered at the PoStoftce at Stanton,
Va as second class mail matter.
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n and With s Ts S1G mental 4 P 6s but H no G9
fore @ a we that webster ha sa. adsnnae 1a Un S
boy returned from country fair noheT said o n Daniel what
whit brother
people n him and give hm any mers
all mankind promise 49, ..
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and until the head The Senate and directed from the
and the ehohouse from the stone wall whence he read to the rude audience
progress T and Of wst no~ rean to make mem say af e after
his death that he merits not only statue out lasting IL to %
o%sfs on s mental a e hs aeRd highest the bar
lasting
jurs,
tom and memory.
the find
the awmaher something
and the first hut the lesser these other grounds is his power speech Emil
had occasion careful study OF Web
speeches and orat with them and all that
guagez comparison apology
think feeling
put pebbles
stammering speeches conflict with
enhanced perfected
in.the the and before
dstnciOnarst qualities
i has d g f G asai s in Ss di Ths
the power soaring on g wing to the i rhs Of oq Above
atory
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THE ADDRESS AT BUNKER HILL.

buttons He had entered public life when
the second attack came in the movement
which ended with the Hartford conven-
ton. and with which, New England Fed
eralist as he was, he could feel no sym
pathy. Again fifteen years passed and the
third assault was delivered in the nulllh-
cation doctrines of South Carolina. Web
ster was then at the zenith Of his powers,
and he came forward as the defender OF
the Constitution. In the reply t. Hayne
he reached the highest point in plrlia-
mentary oratory and left all rivals far be-
hind. He argued his case with consum nate
skill, both legally and historically. But he
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radr o of
him of
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Q O o
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familiar quotations
passed speech recall
- He hs y him n cal
own il
that dreadful mistake Such be safe nowhere The
OF IS
safe yer
a catch
Of
Is Impulse
1t ts guilty possession and knows do With it The human heart
W not made for oil h IL tiant find
and
OF
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aud honor which came from the new in
strumeut Of government and from the
better union of the States. His father fol-
lowed his old chief in politics as he had in
The field. and Webster grew up a Federal
list. supporter OF Washington. Hamilton,
and Adams, and of the leaders OF their
party. AS he came to manhood he saw
the first assault upon the national prin
ciole in he Virginia and Kentucky reso-
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although
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supposed
the Constitution had a
mhinking
ferent from this
hps a
be nation
republics
represented but
little marvel this
the feelings a
use 10 TINS power indeed We owe large part OF the worlds greatest literature
The myths and legends
popular varyg-Gng
beautiful
sOphOles they
mainly and of the struggle of man with fate The sagas of the far North
beauty pathos
from
beauty popular
of the American people sounded to the world the
march of Democracy which then began The Mai words and music
burned with the spirit OF the French and inspired the armies which
moving the national sentiment Of his people In what he said ear
strengthened when
slept silent his M1rshael Belief in the Union and the Constitution
because they meant national greatness and national life was the dominant
world the vast ezpanse Of sea and sky all that was large and isd in nature
he happiness or worth on Te mas hn S tate too
merely the degradation which
would come from the breaking the onnn as wen as in SIM sra
"n which VS. sure to oo f the very s in e Wn 70 h with
of March Speech he cried out states are sf Mha Is 10 remain
h Mh bnI9er 70 If soe @ eamf a hand The atpes Of s
Of
This passionate country
sacrifices Of principle which would only have pS ~IG what me dreaded most
Sg G ne fo vs a work 5 sS eonet threatened the @
n Of the non STATES Wer stands out above all others as the cham
h a a other MAN of sha5 OF he called
be ] OF n powerful ne n and with an oence e 5ara among
men We may put aside all his other all his Sias claims to
s Sentence sl and e noble n Speeches %s h on @ sns Of s
country aR the N p0PG Sn ~Rn n man whoa So ent and
expressed dn tae h hops 4
he and the Union he loved shall last
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Trentanove, the sculptor.


the S
recognized by eonnosu the work OF In Chi
he
obtained The be nl poraiture Of
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anu llldniitI inc
best Judges would
rank him below the
Greek masters. the
combination is quite
perfect. One of his
famous speeches, 1t
is said, was never
delivered at all,
and none the less It
is a speech. and
nothing else, in
stinct with life. ard
yet with the impal-
pable literary feel
ing all through It,
the perfect produc-
ton of a very beau
tiful and subtle art.
Among English ora
tors Burke I'M
doubtedly comes
nearest TO the I'M
ion of the two quail
tiles. and while the
words of Fox and
Pitt are unread and
unquoted. except by
students. Burke's
gorgeous sentences
are recited and re-
peated by success
slNe generations.
Yet there is TO
doubt that Burke
erred on the liter
airy side. and we
find the proof of 1t
ia the fact that he
often spoke 10
empty benches. and
that & oil d S m u h
could say of him:
Too deep for his hca.-
eFs still went on re.
filming.
And thought Of CON
vincing while they
thought Of diving.
Burke was a lit
erary man as well
as an orator and a
statesman. Webster
was not a literary
man at all. He
never wrote books
or essays, although,
in Dr.. Johnson's
phrase he had lit
erature and loved
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among the very few
who stand forth as
the world S great
est orators. In This
age Of ours when
the tendency is to
overpraise common
place work. to mis-
take notoriety for
fame, and adver-
tisement for repu-
tatSon. it is of in
estimable worth to
a people to have as
one OF their own
possessions such a
master OF speech,
such a standard of
distinction and of
real excellence as
We find in Webster.
Such an orator de-
serves n statue.
But there is yet
another ground,
desPer and more
serious than this.
Webster deserves a
statue for what he
represented, for the
message he deliv-
cred, and for that
for which he still
stands and will al
ways stand before
his countrymen and
in the colo. clear
light of histLry. He
was born just at
the end Of the war
of the Revolution,
when the country
was entering on the
period OF disinte-
grafton and impo-
tence known as that
Of the Confederd-
ton. He was too
young to under
stand and to feel
those bitter years OF
struggle and decline
which eliminated In
the adoption OF the
Constitution. But
the first impress
sions of his boy
hood must have
been of the pros
uerity, strength.
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is
touch In all
the
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in session quotedtw times often other public