Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-07-22
EIeCtion--TueSday. Nov. s. 1904,
WHAT WE MUST SWALLOW.

Our delegates nave gOJGon Dack Sale
ly from the st. Louis convention.
They are restored to the bosom of their
respective families, and are making
all known efforts to feel good over
their work. They read gluttOnously
all editorial matter which undertake s
to praise the nomination of Judge
Parker. and they lay aside unread all
that falls beneath their eye which be-
Titles or doubts the wisdom of the
nomination. Later on in the campaign
they may feel more certain they have
done the right thing, but just now
there is long lingering doubt. The
country has not been set ablaze, people
did not cheer as the delegates passed
through cities and towns on their re-
turn. The farmer did not sit on his
fence and smile, and when they reached
home and those they left behind wei
coined them back, there came look,
if not indeed words, of uncertainty as
to the result.
We are told by way of encouragement
that the campaign is mot yet open, that
it is not quite time for cannon to boom,
that every day Parker is growing in
public favor. that the Republ icans are
scared, that Roosevelt is nervous. that
Wall Street is satisfied, that the cor.
porations are not now alarmed, that
the money question is settled, that the
tariff reformers have hopes, that the
manufacturers are smiling, that the
working men look hopefully to the
Democrats, that Imperialism has
received its death blow, and that in
hope of Parker's election the country
is just so happy it does not know what
to do, and lastly but not least-the
GROWING feature of all their great
accomplishments and the thing that
has guaranteed confidence, and future
glory for the party as well as certain
triumph, is that the convention killed
Bryan. Theirs was the blow that
felled him, laid him out, put him. to
sleep to awake no more. All this IS
very pleasant reading. All who in the
last eight years boIted, all who voted
for regularity's sake, but who were
glad the Democrats lost in the last
elections. all who sulked in their tents,
and all who have seen the light since
they shouted for silver, and have gone
over bag and baggage to gold are ready
to support the nominee, are sur
prised that the common herd In the
South are not joyful. We belong to that
last element and we know.
We are going to swallow Dave Hills
candidate, We are going to vote the |
Democratic ticket and do what we can
to elect it. We have little hope, how
ever, that our efforts will avail |
anything, but they are to be exercised. |
One thing we are not going to do and |
that is bolt, desert, vote the Republic.
can ticket, Or any stool pigeon ticket.
We are going along with the residue
OF the common herd and take our
like little man. 1t is choice
between crow and Roosevelt, and un-
der those conditions we take crow and
lick the plate after we have eaten all
that was on it. Roosevelt and his
aeRro supremacy declarations are SO
We will take any other dose
that may be served up to us. We are
here now to announce that when men
who have deserted the Democratic
party, and by their desertiOn have put
On us Roosevelt and all that his reienI
Of terror fOrbodes and all it has given
as, come to us with candidate and
Iell us that they now DEMAND that we
help them out of the torment thew
dung us and themselves into, they are
expecting good deal for us to obey
heir commands, and if the enemy had
only such man as Mckinley to whom
voters could go, thousands would let !
Mr.. Hill and the rest of the New York
leserters fiddle, but as for them they
would not dance.
But they know the people of the
south are obliged to stand with them
They do promise them one thing and
hat is that negro supremacy shall not
u forced on them, and that is a great
eal. With us of the South, money,
Imperialism, everything !
ales into lnsigniicance beside that
ne great Issue and we can and will eat d
row before we will desert in the face
that enemy. But they deserted, n
hey went jumping into the enemy's II
imp, not caring d what happened t
he people of the South so their dollars IN
ere kept yellow instead of white. and r
. suspect now it is no loveof country
lat causes Dave Bennett Hill and his
ain OF followers to find themselves
Democratic ranks. 1t is greed of v
lin. Patriotism has nothing to do ~
it'll it. When it suited them to desert m
ey deserted, when it suited them to cl
me back they came back, using the IL
asses of the party now as We use -,
ogs, to hunt down the quarry. We 10