Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-10-21
For tie EaQuitt
FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

plScHsSion Osthtsh -utATs IFGoF ana '"OHt- -
Pryor hot on PoehataH NemocrdcH tc.
! 1t was my good fortune yesterday to al
tend Prince Edward Court. Though the day
was unpropitious, there was large crowd in
attendance. attracted like myself by their anA-
| iety to hear the discussion between Goode
and Pryor 1t has never been my iot to hear
discussion more fairly or more ably conduct
, ed, than was this one throughout. Ii was
evident to my mind, that in calm, dieniiied
senatorial eioIucnce. Col. Goodc is at least
q match for his opponent. while in the lighter
and more coloquial style Pryor can't DC beat
in fact he is an tai.
According to agreement. Col. GoOdc led oil
| in a speech of an hour and half in which he
most ably vindca;cd his conrsc in opposing the
nominee of the Farmyile Convention In his
opinion that Convention was held undo: cir
cumstances which did not require 1t. The
people all over the district, wherever he had
! been, had expressed u wish to see 4 free fight,
but the politicians had willcd j, differently and
were now flashing the people into TIE support
of Pryor Pryor, in the Washington States,
sometime in the month vi January. 1888, had
pronounced that there was no longer "A Demo
! cratic party. If so, by what hccls-pocuS had
I il been rcsurrcctcd from the grave to which he
consigned it. lie had asked Pryor this qucs.
ton all round the District and hal only rccciY.
! ed for answer that he tpryor) had assailcd his
| party for his paIty'> good" /! there was 10
! Democratic party then. how came THESE men.
who nominated Pryor a; FaruylIc to cali
themselves Democrats: According 20 Pryor,
himself, they were not Democrats, and their de-
cision was the mere ipss IrN' ot;. parcel e:
| Prvor's friends, and ~ such, not binding upon
the party.
! Col. Goode next took ~ his opponents re-
| cord and charged him with having been IN Is:
vor Of Squatter Sovereignty and OF the noinna
! ton Of Stephen 4. Douglas bv thc Charleston
| Convention. He proclaimed that lc VGOodc) wa>
in favor Of Congressional intervention to pro-
tcct the Southern STAKEHOLDER i'll the territories
purchased by Tie common blood and the com
/ mon treasure, and that under no conceivable
| circumstances would he vote Tor that arch.trai'
tor to the South, Stephen \. Douglas Ills op
! ponent had taxed him with being c0n"crt
from Whiggery 70 Democracy, llcwouId Sho"
! from the record that Roger \. Pryor had termed
at least u dozen times 10 his one. This he w;,>
I proceeding TO do III II mastery naIner whc!
we were called out Of the Court room and
! did not return until Mr. Pryor got up Il
speak He protested against the Siur whicl
| Col. Goode had cast upon the people OF this
! District by saying that they had allowed lh"Ei
selves to be dictated to by the politicians. The
people lad thought 1t necessary TO hold Con
yention, and whether OF not 1t was necessary.
they had appointed him their champion and
sent him fort! under their baEucr and with
their acclamatory sanctioE 10 fight their battles
and God help him, h. would not prove lecrc
ant to the trust. 1t WAS not incumbent upon
him to disprovc his opponents charge against
him of favoring Squatter Sovereignty, mas
much as his opponent had failed 10 suhstantl-
ate it, in his opinion; but this he would say,
| that if any one could prove it upon him, he
would retire at once from The field and ncver
offer for another office at the hands Of the rco.
! pie. Stephen \. Douglas was not his first noI
! even his fifth choice for the Presidency, but II
Nominated by the Charleston Contention lac
would checrlully support him. He charged
Col. Goode with inconsistency and with heing
| dsorganzer, because the Opposition regarded
the support Of Il paper edited by g",'iet fr"ni
| the land of goldfish and lumber.
! Col. Goode replied to Mr.. Pryor in Speccli
! of half hour. IN which he spoke IF his pros
poets for election. and said that the good old
Democracy OF Mecklenburg and Powi:atan
would support him at the polls.
I Mr.. Pryor rcjoined in y speech Of some
length, in which he said it was true that Mccklcn.
burg would 90 for his opponent, aud also Powha'
tan He appealed to the Democracy Of Prince
Edward TO roll up larger vote for him on that
account, and thus protect him from this attempt
on the part Of Col. Hopki", .iriendS IA P0icha.
/ tan so STAB him IN the Jdci.' Col. II pknS
! had submitted his claims to II convention, the
fairness of which was unqurs;ioncd, and he
thought it very discrcdtable in his (llopkinS)
friends now to refuse him their support. Upon
these, he was particularly severe, and hls de
nunclution Of them Was received with applause.
Indeed, both gentlemen were applauded voc!'
fcvously throughout. 'iAT"n.