Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-08-12
a SAMPLE OF VIRGINIA DEMOc
RACY

There was joint debate in Rich
mond during the week between rival
democratic candidates for Congress.
Judge Wickham and the present in
cumbent, Hon. John Lamb, and the
following are some of the attacks made
by Judge,Wickham, and the replies or
failures to reply on behalf. of Capt.
Lamb the present incumbent:
"My distinguished opponent has adj
mitted that he violated the democratic
platform, and he has not denied that
he did not vote for the nominee of the
Denver convention of 1908. Judge
Wickham.
1.-THE Denver platform contained
many things you would not stand for.
certain votes. Capt. Lamb.
"Capt. Lamb is not good democrat
or a good republican, or good repre-
sentative. But if he keeps up his
present movement, within two years
be will be good republican. Judge
Wickham.
"lf [ was in bad company in voting
for tariff on lumber, had as collea-
CUES most of the democrats from Vir-
ginia, including Senator Martin. ~
Capt Lamb.
~ had not assumed that l should
have to defend democratic platform
before democratic audience. The only
way to secure an effect on the high
cost of living is by reduction Of the
tariff Judge Wickham.
frTr N. n~r.o II, n h oh rrcf of II xy5T% ~,
the present tarlf bill is as unfair and
as inaccurate as any statement ever
made by public man in the history
of politics. Capt. Lamb.
We gather the above from newspa-
per reports of the joint debate, and its
astounding disclosures tell plainly
why there is today disorganized DEM
oe ratio party. Capt. Lamb has been
con tinuously elected to Congress and
yet he bolted the national ticket in
1908, and of course always when Mr..
Bryan was thenominee. He has been
kept con tinually in Congress, and yet
he must have done many things dis
loyal to the party since 1896, if he were
so disloyal as to Iepudiate the 1908
platform and candidate. He has been
continuously elected to Congress not
wIthstanding the national democratic
nominee has been the same three times
since 1896. He now wants to be NOM
mated again, and on the stump whilst
canvassing for reelection, he has the
holiness to proclaim in the face of the
millions who think differently, that
"the tariff has nothing to do with the
high cost of living" Could Aldrich,
or Payne, or Cannon, have gone fur
ther? Such persons have no place in
the democratic party. Their place, as
Judge Wickham told Capt. Lamb, is
in the regular wing of the republican
party, and it is to be hoped that the
democratic party will refuse further to
elect any who entertain such senti-
ments, and thus send them there. But
Capt. Lamb is in no sense different
from most other. democratic office hold
ess in high place in Virginia, and es-
pecially our Congressman, save possi-
bly, Hon. Wm.A. Jones. They are all tar
red with the same stick, nearly all
either boltedS MI. Bryan or sulked, from
U.S.Senators down. How then can the
party hope to win 4? It cannot hope to
and with men half republican-half
democrat-in the saddle, it does not
deserve to win. He told his audience,
SIT l was in bad company in voting
for tariff on lumber, L had as col
leagues most of the democrats from
Virginia, including Senator Martini