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

WALL GENERAL-A s'BY THE ETER-
MALI CANDIDATE THAT WON'T BOW
TO THE COURT OF APPEALs-A GEN
ERAI, RoUTE-DR. MoFFETT's TRUE
POSITION,
&C., NC, &C.
(Reported for the Staunton v1ND1cAroR,)
~ = HARRIsoNBURG, Oct. Is.
Sitting in front of me in the car to-day
were Gen. Jas. A. Walker, candidate of
the Conservate party. of Virginia for 1t.
Governor, and Col. A. A. Gray, of Fluvan-
ma, Conservative canvasser of this district.
Il was born twelve miles from here"
said the General looking out of the window
as we passed one of the stations in Angus
is regular picture of q muscular noun
taineer and though a lawyer, presents more
of the appearance Of brawny farmer, who
had just let 60 the plow handle and gone
to the house and put on some store clothes.
His voice is rough, his hands big, his
knowledge of elocution slight and on the
rostrum you might say he was as graceful as
an elephant. But with these drawbacks to
a popular orator there is something in the
mans eye and face that carries the crowd
with him. In the first you see that this
man is telling the truth, the whole truth
| and nothing but the TRUTH and in the
second there is such a determination to
stand by it, as convinces you that it would
be cheaper to take him out in the yard and
chop his head off than to try and drive
him from it.-He has splendid
head that looks lik it ought to hold even
so great subject as the State debt. He
said he was going to meet COL r. A. Rich
ardson who had announced himself as cam
| dldate for 1t. Governor and was to address
the people at Harrisonburg to-day it being
court day.
| Getting into Harrisonburg found that
| the day had been fixed as gala exhibition
| of the ''Adjusters' committee candidate
for 1t. Governor. The streets were pretty
! full and the ''Moffet Register" had just
| been put up in the town. 1t was noon and
the new candidate was in his room receiv-
ing his friends before the speaking, which
was to commence at l O'Clock. Spending
the intervening hour on the streets I saw
several of our Augusta Adjusters, including
Mr.. j ohm Il. Parkins, Mr.. K. S. Harnsber-
ger, Maj. S. M. Y ost, Mr.. d. N. Vanlear,
MI. G. A. Roller and others, The country
people OF Rockingham were out in pretty
| good force and many of them had been in
speeding -enator Moffett's invention. One
gentleman announced that his ticket for
the legislature was John Lewis, who he
| told me had more influence at Richmond
than had any idea, because "you see a
man that's been to Washington will just
turn the legislature around any way he
wants it. And DR.. Moffett's my man too.
He's just us smart as any of 'em.
and Colonel Richardson is my man
I've been to his room talking to him.. Up
on my suggesting to him that perhaps Sen
ator Lewis being a republican might be an
adjuster, he assured me that that Was just
a report to hurt the ex-senalor's ''charac-
ter.'
DIR. MoFFETT's POSITION.
Leaving this intelligent constituent, 1
met DR.. Moffett, the famous inventor, and
he told me that had Inexperienced his
position as to what was to be done with
the income from the Moffett Register tax.
II know BETTER" said the Doctor, ethan
to think that the income could be kept
away from paying the interest after it gets
| ",
| devoted to paying the expenses of govern
ment. What meant was that the income
would so relieve the treasury that it would
| leave the other taxes free to be used for
the State government, &c. [ had the title
| the put on the bill. After it passed went to
7 Herndon and asked him to offer the usual
title to bills ito provide for the expenses of
i government and pay interest on the
State debt, &c, and he offered it,and it was
adopted. Why, sir, always was debt pay
! ing man and a revenue collecting man
| fought to get the Merchants Tax through
| the legislature, and had a hard fight with
repudlator. | don't want to get out of our
debt, but don't think the people of Vir-
GINA can pay six per cent know they
cart, and want the rate of interest re-
duced. That's where I stand. I see my
oil friend, MI, Cowardin, of the "Dis-
patch,' and some other papers are after
me about your understanding of what
said, and I'd write the old gentleman
note to fix it, but you can set me right.
"Do you expect to be elected, doctor?"
.|'Oh, Pm sure of it, sir. There's no
doubt about it, and looking at the doctor
simply as one of the most skilful personal
might make d good run.
The
At lo'clock sharp the court house CON-
menced filling, and in few minutes was
filled. A band in the gallery which had
escorted the Colonel - played some
excellent music, and MI. Harvey Wartman
introduced to the audience Col. G. A.
Richardson, of Marion, Smythe county,
| who he said had been chosen by the Re-
adjusters to bear their standard in the
irpa dota for r.
| MI. Richardson is gentleman about forty
| years of age, tolerably bald, but wearing
full beard. He is strikingly like FL. II:
| Wells, the former military governor of
! Virginia. His elocution is after the ap-
proved style of the legal profession, of
which he is member, and his voice is
agreeable. He appeared with scrap book,
in which were pasted Gen. Walkers
speeches and other matters pertinent to
his mission, and to read which he borrow
ed pair of spectacles from some gentle
man near him. A gentleman with large
/ bludgeon and gold watch kept the time
for the speakers-it being one hour each,
and twenty minutes each in rejoinder. Mr.
Richardson said lie was not an office-seek-
er. being occupied with his profession at
home, in order to support a widowed sister
and her family, but having been called on
by ''the sovereign people" to represent
them in this matter, was now devoting his
time to it.
He read the Conservative platform which
he construed to mean that there naatst be
an adjustment of the debt, and said that
Gen. Walker in his several speeches, and
especially the one at Wytheville, adjump-
ed it and no longer stood on it. After even
that speech at Wythevifle, in which he
said reputation was larceny and forcible
adjustment highway Robbery, MI. r., was
still not willing to accept The nomination
Of the "Consolldated Committee OF the
Grand Old Valley" 1.-THE ticket-scratcher'
committee Of Harrisonburg], if Gen. W.
had apologized to the people and stepped
back on the platform (applause). But it is