Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-06-04

log (JAck ROSES mere commenced TO bark /
he Governor thought one dog should notin-
terrupt another. lie paid n compliment to .
Walkers good looks, and might have said |
his own should send him tothe Penitentia. |
ry, lie made fierce attack upon the En- |
quircr and Examiner, and charged the Con-
party with dishonesty in regard /
TO negro suffrage. He spoke for an hour /
aud quarter, never abiding to the Peters /
burg Platform, and dodgug every issue Of
the day, lie thought il crime to cheat
larky, and tolked Of knives and war. lie
denied that the Republicans arrayed The
negroes against the whites; said the militia
~ seized him and put him in the White
House against his will, and he was trying
like good boy TO stay there.
lie closed by telling the negroes to shut
their eyes and ears against the efforts Of
any white man, Wells excepted, to secure
their Iotes; threatening a 10. IL, Is and
nineteenth amendment if they dared to dis
obey. lie was frequently applauded by
Jack Rose and few negroes.
uUMEs FIRES HIT sn5r Isr5 CAMP.
Col. ]. W. Humes arose amid deaf
ening applaus, Of white and black.
lie said he had seen the printed invita-
ton from Coy. Wells to ''any one oppotcd
to the Principles Of the Republican Patty
to meet and discuss the questions Mt ISSUE, :"
and n, once said he was invited. The invi-
taton was very general and he had no apol-
ogy to make; he was willing to sacrifice his
preiudices upon the altar Of his country.
When he examined the record Of the genllo-
man his mind was made up. A mans pub
lie record war open for Inspection, and he
intended to yentilate that Of the gentleman
Ia oxtytil -. IL
that there were honest men in the Repu5H-
can party in Southwestern Virg' mia, who
we're being led on to ruin by those Who
sought the loaves and fishes, therefore, he
addressed them; it was yet time foi hoiest
men to save themselves. lie here shfwed
that Wells had lied about coming to Yir-
ginia in 1868, for at that very time b was
Provost Marshal in Alexandria, where he
got such taste ofVirginia pap that h
can't let so. lie said Wells wouldn't me
up to the question. He was like an ulruly
colt that got scared at trough one, and
could not be got up again. The GJernor
got terrible scare at Marion and coild'nt
be got up again Here the house fyirly
shook with the wild shouts of applause. !
He here showed up the record of Wells,
! proving him to be most unprinciplH man,
he had even brought along n man Chan.
dler) TO speak for him, who but short time
since was the champion Of anti negro spf
frage. Wild bursts of applause. lie had
said so at Marion but the Goyetior had
( forgotten it. Wells was like Bill iIIardy's
cx. Bill employed lawyer and bid him
he had nothing to pay him in but tlrnips.
| All right, said the lawyer, bring them in.
| The next day Bill brought in an overloaded
| cart, the old OK that drew il would ing up
! his feet very slowly, whom Dill would punch
him with an iron spike on the end of a pole.
| A bystandcr said, Bill what in the devil DO
| you keep sticking that OK with that spite
| for? Why, said Bill, you don't know tlat
OK at all, you don't; he's got the damned,st
| toughest hide or the shortest memory y,u
ever saw. Tremendous spplause.] tits
/ just so with the Governor, he's got tie
shortest memory / ever saw. lie can't re-
collect what he said on Saturday at Marion
! TGreat applause. Gov. Wells had BEEN
and is the great stumbling block to recon
! struetiop. Here he read from Wells exam
nation before the Reconstruction Commit
tee, and proved him guilty of falsesood aud
deceiving the negroes; that he was not on
the Petersburg Platform, or else lis posi-
ton to-day vas tissue of fabehoods
Wells had sw, rn before the Committee that
there were 25, 900 men unregistertl, who if
allowed to veto would carry tie State
against the Republicans, then Hels had
sworn that he would be beaten anlhe could
not dispute it. ~
IL reviewed the Petersburg Platform and
the Wolls-Sha lwell letter, and proved them
diametrically opposite.
lie read a resolution from the ,olored
Convention to show that Wells rsn one
ticket East of the Blue Ridge and aiother
! West CT it. |,
lie put question after question to Chan
der and smote Wells, hip and high Wells
says the principle Of the Republican party
is that the people shall select their iulers
and make their laws. Then, sir, in the
name of God, l ask you, standing here upon
the ruins of this people, by Win: rig you
claim to be Cove nor oil Virginia. Widest
shouts of applause, during which Wells
dropped his head looked the personifcation
of an ass. fool, villian. 1t is enough
to make the angels weep. .
Col. Humes here directed his remalils to
! those persons who refuse to vote, and told
them that If they stood idly by when the
I State was being piilsgea, and Refused To
vote II should be remembered.
ue made a telling address to the colored
| voters, showing that tho Wells party were
not their friends, and that suffrage bad been
| given the black man without their aid; that
Chandler had owned slaves to the last, and
was the champion Of anti-negro suff age.
/ The farm and mule business had played out
and the Radicals he'd nothing to give them.
The white men Of Virginia are willing to
! accord TO the negroes what they do Tot ia
tho s ate tlat Wells comes from. lie drew
laughable picture Of rpet-baggers hang
ing around the doors of Clerks Offices life
lean dogs about the kitchen door for bones
Col Ilumes concluded bis speech and
| the widest shouts and huzzas Of hurrah for
Humes Hurrah fer Walker! Give 'tIn
hill Humes fs
.a CHANDLER.
THIS nasal-twanged supple jack ATTEMPT.
| cd reply to Col. Humes, but everything
! was a hum and confusion. Persons were
talking Of the terrible lashing that Humes
had given Wells. You could hear then say
''where in the devil did Humes come tomi'
81 krowed him from boy, didn't tell
| you so |" "Wunder IL Wells did steal that
! letter. why didn't he say something about
! II y and a thousand remarks of similar
nature. Chandler, driven TO despair, bigan
| to tell anecdotes, aud finally attracted sIIne
attention, but not until many white Wen
4 and negroes had left the house. He was
! mo NhNNi hNisO VI tHO W Cilo ituLl Nhu
lacks something Of being a fool He tiled
to draw attention from Wells by giving his
own history. lie talked of Bell and E,ertt,
I the Peaks Of Otter, and the sands of Cal,
fornie, Of white and black children play ng
together in former days aud II wouldh'l
hurt them now. He would talk of anything
but Wells and the Petersburg Platform.
He tod number Of anecdotes, which were
as filthy as they were amusing. At The
close Of his speech Humes poured hot shot
into him for twenty minutes more, to-&hlch
no tried 10 reply, but couldn't get the at
tsntion Of bis audience. They dispersed
sho uting for Humes and walker, complete
! ly dro~uing the voice OF jackson hose ana
his dog.
as Wells and Chandler left ibe Cont
| House they thought of the hand. writing ou
the wal; of "Parldse Lost, and V5 thought
We hosrd Chandler say the town i dAmned
we'll labelled. They lost 200 votes By their
days work. "Let us have peace.f