Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-09-16

Your correspondent asked him yester
day what specific fact he was now en-
deavoring to impress upon the Amerl-
can people. This week, y be answer i
ed. 1.-THE fact that the Democratic par.
ty is the party of thrift and economy.
For instance. when President Arthur
went out of Office, March A, 1885, be
left for Cleveland a surplus of barely |
$50, 462, 40. When Cleveland went out,
in March, 1889, he left for Harrison the |
magnificent surplus of 1926, 34S, GIG. |
When Harrison in turn surrendered
the presidency to Cleveland in 1898, he
left behind him the pittance of $62.
45O.575 Under Harrison began the
hard times, which continued during
Cleveland's second term, but 80 frugal
and thrifty was Cleveland's admins
tration that it turned over to McKin
ley the great surplus of $l57, 213,632
| Doesn't that record sound very much
as if the Democratic party was the par
ty of prosperity ?" Of course your
correspondent scorned to answer such
question as that and here leaves it to
your readers.
General William Blrney remarked to
your correspondent the other day 1.-The
most distinguished Republicans of the
past generation have repudiated the
principles and party Of Mckinley and
Roosevelt. Besides John Sherman,
who opposed the war on the Filipinos
and was therefore prosecuted on his
dying bed, and Tom Reed. who resign
ed the second Office in the gift of the
American people because of his disgust
with his party comrades, there remain
Boutwell,, Carl Schurz, and Teller,
wheelhorses of the Republican party
Through two generations and all OF
them in it's Cabinets, and ex Senator
Edmunds of Vermont, whom Mr.
Roosevelt nominated for the Presiden
cy in 1884, who has just joined the Par
ker Club in New York city, and will
vote the Democratic ticket. on the is
sues of trusts and imperialism. ISM
it strange that these lllustriOus mel
, should abandon their lifelong associa
J tions unless they had the best Of rea
, sons Then there's Ben Harrison: a.
{ an ex.president be sternly opposed thu
4 Philippine policy of the United State'
and told Mckinley to his face. W.
I hold no commission from God to polio
! the worldp 1t is now reported tina
/ General w. H. H. Miller of Harrison
Cabipet and Hon. S. N. Chambers
Harrison 8 district attorney attorney
l will vote the Democratic ticket"
9 Congressman Sulzer. the red-heade'
/. rustler from New FORK city, who ha
d bis foot in the road good deal of tn
time, was here ON Thursday, full of in
!. formation. He said I'VE in New Yorl
e meau to have ten or twelve hard-work
8 ing Democrats assigned to each of tn
o {, 900 election districts in the state
IS force of $4,000. About 5000 will b
4? expended on an average by each, TO
a printing, meetings, carriages, &C.
8 They will take two careful canvasse
g costing probably million dollars. b
It the first week in November they wi
/ have their lessons by heart. We neve
d had 80 thorough an organization a
r we have this year, and the first car
n vass of the state above the Bronx
about finished"
Congressman J. Adam Bode c
~ Duluth, is now galloping through tn
10 United States expressing himself o
% every eligible stump. Fifteen year
ago he was a reporter in this city, an
! a very lively boy he was. He followe
= his business to the West and came
u Congress from the Zenith City Of th
Unsalted Seas as a Democrat. The
~ he INDUCED in sober second though
= and came as Republican. A sentenc
70 of his speech the other day at Chat
% tauoua was, 1.-THE first thing Demo
- Gratis need to do is to get right wit
e. God" No auditor ought to mentiO
. or even remember the fact that it di
y not occur to Adam Bode to get RICH
with God till after the Democrat
party had refused to re elect him.