Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-10-19

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could yet be reached for taxation. Sandy
Stuart had been hunting for these assets
in church aisles and even. church yards,
but had not been able to find them. This
assertion Of Walkers means that iniqui-
tous measures are to be taken to search in
to citizens affairs. AS for himself he be-
lieved the Virginian's had made honest
returns Of their property and he would
rather believe them on their sworn state
ments than take New Workers. word.
The people of Virginia know what they
are about and they say they won't pay this
debt and Shy the eternal'' they won't, Zap
plause.) They talk about honor, we love
Virginia's honor too, but it will be a sad
day for her honor when her motto Sic Sem
per THrdnnis is reversed and the tyrant
bondholder has his foot upon her-neck.
All the flinders have different statements
of the debt, but the speaker would tell
them an infallible rule to know it. by and
that was that in 1861 it,7was $32, 100000
and having been bearing interest ever since
it was to-day 1854, 100000. That was a rule
of arithmetic that nobody could get over,
applause and they needn't try to fool. the
people by any other. They say that the
coupon holders must be paid and five can
touch any debt it is only the $10,000,000
held by widows and orphans. But there
are other widows and orphans who don It
hold bonds and in applying a general prin-
ciple we can't consider classes. The Rich
mond Dispatch whose palms were soiled
by the Funding, called him a bolter and
said he came to Rockingham. to talk to
boilers; but if he didn't get a vote outside
of Rockingham, he should be proud of the
demonstration that greeted him here to-
day. These funders talked about the Pub
nal,& 4l,nr no In
didn't know what their rights were. They
the Goult of Appeals that he should bow
to it and he would not bow to it; it was
created by the breath of the people. Vir-
ginia under the Funders rule was reduced
to ruin and the Governor couldn't COM
mand 371 cents to pay for a telegram to a
neighboring volunteer company The day
you put Gen. Walker in, Virginia won't be
able to keep regiment ofsparrows at Rich
mond. His plan he said was:
1st To pass an act making the Funding
Bill imperative. and failing in that
I'd. to repeal the law of 1878, by which
creditors could come into the courts of
Virginia against the State.
In conclusion he said that in spite of
party whip and dictation the sovereign
people" had taken the matter in hand.
GEN. JAMES A. WALKER.
Gen. Walker was introduced by Mr.
Chas. A. Yancey as the nominee of the
Conservative party of Virginia for 1t
Governor The applause which greeted
him was moderate, but in few sentences
it became ringing and frequent. He said
that though Valley man, and born in
fifteen miles from here he had only beer
in Harrisonburg twice in twenty-three
years. Once with Stonewall Jackson, when
Ashby poured out his hearts blood neal
him (applause). thought that day [ was
true to Virginia jcheers) Those were days
when mems souls were tried, and wher
they were not asked to be particular about
their words. There were no carpet knights
then. Again / was here eight years ago
with Withers. Ispoke for Virg mia with
bayonets at my throat. 1 was not very
nice about words then (applause), and il
the time ever comes when a Virginian
cannot speak his mind to Virginians l
want to retire to private life" Gen. Walk
er went on to say that he came as the Con
sentative candidate, and nobody said he
place. And he had complaint to enter
right here. "A half a dozen men hold q
meeting in
Mr.. J. II. WARTMAN's PARLOR
here, in Harrisonburg, with Mr.. Har-
vey Wartman as secretary, and say they
were the party, and nominate 1t. Cover
nor daughter and appause) And this
gentleman here (Mr. r.. was Mr.. Harvey
Wartman's parlor nominee for 1t. Gov
ernor lgreat laughter,) This parlor nomi-
nee said he was imprudent in his speech al
Wytheville. He was no time server, and
pursued no policy to get all mems vote
He b d appeared on the stump because he
thought it was the right of the constituent
to see his representative face to face lap
pressed them boldly. Nobody could say
he was ever fooled into voting for him
And he meant no reflection on Col. Holli
days different course in what he said
The gentleman there (Mr. R. and some
others of the committee seeing his speech
had dashed themselves into a fury and
without writing to him or saying one word
to him about it ruled him off the platform:
Was that the work OF the Conservative
partyy Was Mr.. j. FL. Wartman the Con
sentative party He thought not. They
said he wouldn't give any explanations OF
his Wytheville speech. He said that like
Falslaff though reasons were as plentiful
as blackberries, he wouldn't give one on
compulsion and he wouldn't give one te
Wartman Il Co., to save their lives
(cheers.) Mr.. Richardson was the repre-
sentative Of a meeting in Rockingham, at
Which the only man in the whole Valley
out of Rockingham was II. H. Riddleber-
ger, where the vote was Sc to Il, and anoth-
er meeting in, Richardson's own county
where the vote was Is to u, and that was
all he did represent. They didn't ask me
RI pvOlain Tbnu diGr y mop t RI cY,aal,
but I'll give them enough of speaking be-
fore get through. I'll follow them on ev-
cry stump in the State on which they put
a candidate, (cheers.)
A voice. 'They've walked up the wrong
man.
They can't run me off with a caucus
held in d parlor, (cheers.) Why. in his
own county the vote was only IS to II.
Isn't that so
Mr.. R.-I'll attend to that at the right
time,
Gen. Vile says he'll attend to me at
the right time. He's attended to me too
much already. He sent me a note to come
here and discuss the State debt. Have we
discussed the State debt?
A voice-s'Not bit of it,
Gen. W.-He's made a
STUMP SPEECH ON A FINANCE QUESTION.
He promises that if he is elected he'll bow
to the sovereign will of the people. He's
either funder or repudiator as he may
think the people want't him. Well, as for
me, wouldn't be Repudiator if every
man in the State would vote for me,
(cheers.) don't want the Lit. Governor
ship that bad. I have convictions and
can't surrender them, and hold that the
first duty Of a leader is to lead and lead
right. I couldn't lead people into repudi-
alton, because it would ruin them, for l
tell you the costliest way to pay a debt is
to repudiate it, (cheers.l
Gen. W. went on to say that he had ev-
er been an opponent of the Funding Bill
and had fought in the legislature with
Judge O'Ferrall who was then sitting on the
stand, against it. He stood now as then as
the uncompromising enemy of it. While
he was fighting it Richardson was at home
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