Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-10-20
LOCAL NEWS.

MEL
q, crowded, during the early hours of Satur-
I,r nights by persons going to or coming from
~. market house, by those making purchases
y, ,b, retail stores located 10 that section OF the
a. a,r and by those idlers who wander through
, a.. streets an note the qualities of people"
and witness such scenes as may be presented to
'hs;r curiosity seeking eyes. From such ample
'',,eriaL brass baud in brilliantly iuminat-
w. hall, in the Immediate neighborhood, could
uUt fail to attract large audience, and such
r,s the case last Saturday night, when COL T.
Y Hughes, the Radical candidate for Govern
ar Of the State, aud Mr.. L. Ii. Chandler, pur-
s,,,nt to previous announcement, addressed an
assembling e Of the voters of this city, by far the
largest portion OF when was composed OF the
.,Ipred element.
n the appointed hour the two speakers for
H., occasion marshaled by 4. w. p. Garnett,
AID accompanied by Mayor Berkeley, Judge
Inlerwood, and Messrs L. f. White, |. G.
O'N,al, L imund Burke, and the colored candi-
dare for the House of Delegates, John B Sy
max. entered the hall, the band heralding
iihci: appearance by. playing Hail, the Con
m ring Chlcttaln Comes, and with the eX
Union of Judge Underwood, who modestly
seated himself among the audience, advanced
10 the stage aud occupied the chairs thereon.
The musical strains and the succeeding APP
r,usc having ceased, MIR. White rose and NOV
ed that Mayor Berkeley be made chairman Of
the meeting, aud putting the motion it Was car
rird unanimously. The Mayor thee introduced
r,l. Hughes as the standard bearer Of his par
~ during the contest to be decided on the 4th
nryimo, and the Colonel commenced two
ioars speech by au enumeration Of the sever
al places 10 the different sections Of the State
ia which he had lately delivered the same
speech and in all Of which, including Fairfax
Court House, where he addressed an inter.
,,tiug' audience. the Radicals, IN his opinion,
were going to sweep former Conservative ma
oriries as bare as fields and forests are by NJ
ycmbers blasts. Having thus apparently to
his own aud the cvlorcd peoples qualification,
satisfactorily proved that his election was Ger
tain, he said he would proceed to discuss the
principles of Rspub licanism his part OF the
campaign's work-the discussion Of its mea-
Sures, he stated, being the part OF those who
followed him; but it the latter do their work
with no more profitable results than he did his
last Saturday nis bit it were better left undone,
for his role 10 the programme could not fail to
remind one of the famous speech made IN
Fauuuier county during the Clay campaign,
aud which as reported 10 full was as follows
Fellow citizeus [ shall proceed to discuss the
prra, Questions of the tariff, the bankrupt law
and the distribution of the public lands. Hav-
uc disposed of the first of these, will now
bring our attention to the second, which, in
fact, is no bankrupt law at all and having
done with that | will detaiD You no longer, for
the distribution Of the public lands is subject
with which We having nothing TO do" The
misunderstanding and hand in the game Of
goycrnment-beug thus summary disposed
of, and the Reconstruction acts and 18th, l4h
abd 18th amendments, 10 all of which he ac
kuowlcdged the Conservatives acqulesced, hay
np been similarly gotten ril of by the assertion
that their Justice was eIf:evident, he branched
out upon vari,.us Emergencies With the idea
pubaby that in his bright radience aud col
lateral light" his audience must be comfurt.
ed, not in his sphere" and If so he succeeded,
for he made much better speech than Its ex-
orlium presaged. He laid great stress upon the
fact of the adoption of the present State constltu
tirp BY the Conservatives, forgetting 90 n1ent,oo
the only reason thar induced them to vote tor that
measure, which was 10 get rid OF military gov.
rrnment. JUDGED the Colonel was Remarkably
torgcttuI during the whole evening, tor he SAID
tina, his adherauce to the States Rights doc
trine had terminated when the foundation up
90 which that doctrine was based, slavery
WAS swept away at the conclusion OF the
war in 1868, forgetting to recall to bis OVID,
and to bring to the remembrance OF bis hear
ers the fact that he had voted for General
Frauk Blair after that gentleman famous
ultra States Rights letter in 1868 His asser-
ton that Conservatives had made this contest
upon the ground of color is disproved by his
lEnchburg speech aud by the arttul appeals he
made for the colored vote, though the effect OF
the latter was somewhat lessened by his state
ment that Notwithstanding the fact that the
State was going Radical by large majority
none of the candidates on the general ticket
were colored, and that of all the candidates
Of that party for the Legislature but twenty
had African blood in their veins, and that the
white members OF his party were opposed TO
mixed schoois--siInply upon the ground, how
ever, that if they favored that measure the
whole free school system would tail ana Inc
yolored children be deprived OF education, AS
TO the course he would pursue with regard 10 a
Civil Rights bill, ii passed by the LEGISLATURE
in the event of his election, he would make 40
promises it would not be proper, he sald' 1or
hun to do so, but he would 60 so tar as to say
that his party desired the passage OF no laws
that would not affect all alike, without regard TO
previous condition.
The Colonel is not an attractive speaker auu
that he is disiDgcnuous one was made mani
lest By his assertion that the CONSERVATIVE party
is opposed to the public schools.
He was listened TO attentvely, having Dcen
Interrupted but once, aud then oy a question
which he failed to answer when ASKED, and at
the conclusion of his remarks, which were re-
ceivcd with bat faint applause, the band struck
up, John Browns body lies moulding 10
the ground.
l.. H. Chandler was then introduced ana
made Que Of his characteristic speeches., coni
meucing by stating he had always been treated
50 well in Alexandria that when here he felt
like the McGrcgor upon his native heather, but
winding up by saying that only in one other 10,
stance had he been treated as badly as ne mao a
becu in this place The truth is he was ire
qucutly and improperly interrupted but II Is
also true that his desire to raise ,ausu
at the expense OF his questioners, ana us
Insulting retorts provoked most OF Lne cd IL,
,erruptons One thing, however, ne. saiu
which raisnl him preatlY in the eStlmatlOH VI