The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-08-10

returned and reported the the following as The
permanent members of the club: President
John E. Roller; Vice Presidents I'll. Lee
! Martz, Adolph Wise, VIM MeAllister and A
j, c. Rohr;. Secretary. C. Fl. yanderford
Assistant Secretary, 3. s. Conrad5 Treasurer
TIC. Myers; Executive Committee, j. 3R
Jones, B. G. Patterson, r. D. Cusfen, e. A
Sprinkle. NJ. NJ. Sibert and VIM. Stands
This announcement caused q sensation, The
committee. had blnndered. AAWet blanket had
fallen over the crowd and the very devil was
to pay. If you scan those officers you will
see the name of the editor Of the Old Common
.areaM and four of its prominent supporters,
and not a Register man on it's Commonwealth
ring was very visible the name of Liggett,
Wartman or Devier did notappear. AS pan
acea for wounded honor, Jones moved that
Giles Devier and A., Hickman be added to the
Executive Committee. So as it now stands,
the, Old Commonwealth flies the kite with the
Register tackled on to It's tail Then as if to
add insult to injury, persons were requested to
call at the Commonwealth office and sign the
club list.n Eek Senator Roller then delivered
an address of about fifty inmates in length.
Roller is a handsome man, fluent, speaker,
but evidently felt embarrassed. lie appeared
Outof place. His style was that Of an alumni
orator more than a stump speaker. lie launch
ed off by saying thai he had nc, personal feel
| ing in this campaign, that we now have an iac-
ceptably ticket, that we only have a popular ma
iority of not quite half million to overcome !;
| If Virginians are true to themselves victory Is
more than certain that it ought to perch upon
our banners. and that the Republican party
was q party of hatred wrong. corruption, OPP
preston, and utterly unworthy of trust or con
| tidence. He referred. to, General Dix, and the
Eboys in bllle,5 and contehded that the Republi-
| can newspapers were endeavoring to fire the
Northern heart. He pitched into the free
school system. He declared himself opposed
| to the Resumption Act, but just here forgot to
state that he and g1dena differed on that sub
ject. He demanded its immediate and uncon-
ditional repeal He referred to Blaine and the
Pacific railroad, but forgot to mention Tilden
and the Terre Haute railroad, He admitted
that the Western District Of Virginia was we'll
differed, and concluded by stating that Hayes
was a terribly bad man, because when General
EARLY was making his. raid on Washington,
Gen. Hayes did not run away, but arose calm
ly in his seat to deliver q speech before Con-
gress upon subject foreign to the War, utter
" and entirely ignoring the sredonbtable Ear
ly's thundering against the gates Of the capital
city. After the ex-senator had concluded, the
band played the ''Devils Dream and slump
jim Crow Medley.'' II Mega si
Capt. John Paul, in response to call made
lis.ap pearance. 4 do not knowsof any person
in Rockingham county who has more personal
fellow, intelligent, Industrious, and possesses
to an eminent degree the tact of making friends.
As q Commemorative Attorney he has not his
equal in this State, and very few superiors
|anywhere. After the meeting last night there
were many opinions Of hi effort expressed.
have listened to many Of his appeals, I have
seen him before q jury not only have every
juryman shedding tears, but hold the entire
audience spell-bound. L have heard him on
the stump, when by his. resistless ,eoquence,
staid old men, the, very pinks OF sobersided-
ness, would become so excited Us to throw away
their hats. have listened to him in debates
OF knotty points of law when by his power of
eloquence he would add new interest to the
dryest and most prosaic of Chitty or Black
stones passages upon rights of persons and
things. Only twice in my life have I known
him to FAIL once, in the Miss Plaugher trial for
murder. when he really had no case, and last
night. | suppose he failed for the same reason
lie hod7to ease His speech was but the
echo Of ex-senator Rollers, with tae eXcep-
ton that he paid his compliments to Fax and
The VALLEY VIRGINIAN. We did not say
Captain that 'sthe Democrats of Harrisonburg
were down hearted" but suppose from the
fullness of the heart your mouth spoke. With |
the single exception ''that the colored citizen |
is better man than q federal office-holder."
no objection could be urged against his speech.
After Paul concluded, Mr.. Wright Gatewood |
assembled the stand TO 'deflne his position, = |
the crowd was tired out, their patience exhaust |
ed, and they refused to remain. Mr.. Gate |
wood promised to ''dcfine his POSITION at |
some future period. ~ ~ i
The crowd present numbered about one |
hundred and fifty, probably few more. There |
are quite q number of strangers in town now, |
and they were attracted to the Court House to |
kill time I suppose, and as they were dressed |
in ''stere Clothes" the crowd was better dress
ed than the Hayes crowd OF Monday night pre-
ceding. The Hayes men of this as we'll as
nearly every other vicinity are the bone and |
sinew of the land, and arenot ashamed of their
working clothes. 1t was noticeable that not a
single cheer was given for sTilden and Hend-
ricks. Whilst Paul was speaking and at the
time he was discussing the stealing by the
Republicans little night bird flew into one
of the windows Of the Court House and this is
the song it sung,
'sTweed, tweed, twee twee tweed,
Tweed de de tweededle de Tweed,
At about ten o'clock the club adjourned to
meet at the Court House next Friday night
VIM. D. Maiden,s hitherto prominent Re
publican sof this county, living near Goods
Mill, published in the COMMONWEALTH last week
his card announcing his intentieAi@ not 10 sup