Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-09-28
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GER AND DIR. MOFFETT-JUDGE JOHN
T. HARRIS OPPOSES BoLTING THE NO
M1NAT1oNs-A CONFERENCE CALLED
AT cHARLoTTEsvILLE, OCT. 4rH, TO
NAME CANDIDATE IN PLACE OF
WALKER,
&C.; aC., &C.
(Reported for til Staunton VINDIcAroR.)
Saturday, Sept. %.
Arriving in this town this morning I
found a hand pill posted on the walls,
which read as follows:
ssThere will be meeting in Harrison
burg. on Saturday, September 22d, to con-
slider what is necessary to be done in view
of the utterances of the candidate for
Lieut.. Governor. Representative men
from all the Valley counties will be pre-
sent. The exigency calls for prompt and
decisiue action. Every man in favor of re-
adjustment Of the debt, and opposed to an
increase of taxation, should be present.
Turn out, Valley taxpayers, or your Ia
bors have been for naught Something
must and will be done. The issue is made
| up. Either we must acquiesce in increase
OF taxation or name another man for
Lieut. Governor. We cannot ignobly sur
render to our task masters. Let there be
a full turnout from all the Valley coun-
ties. This action is taken after conference
| with leading men up and down the Valley"
| found very strong feeling among the
bar keepers on the SuEject-a gathering of
Representative men from all the Valley
countless being something calculated to
improve their trade, and the circus, which
is an equally reliable source of revenue,
not being due until the following Monday.
By 10 o clock this feeling If elation had
changed into one of the deepest anxiety
but one Representative man. outside of
| Harrisonburg having appeared. Various
reasons were given for the absence Of the
other representative man''-public expec-
tation having been so aroused by the hand
bill that it was calculated that at least two
would be present. By IL O'Clock the wild
est rumors were afoat regarding the other
man, and his friends in vain tried to &C
count for him. 1t was reported that he
had gone to basket picnic; that he had
fallen off his horse near McGaheysville;
that he had gone to Richmond to see Gov
Kemper about the two condemned prison
ers. A little later the malicious began to
circulate report that there was no ire
| preventative man,, and large odds were
given that he wouldn anneag ct all. Alas,
that the evil minded should triumph! 1t
turned out that the other man from all
the Valley countless had so ignored the
''exigency" that he had stayed home, and
shown a criminal Indifference to ''the sur
render to our task masters" Why this
other man did not make full turn out"
of himself from all the Valley counties"
will ever remain a mystery, but ] have an
abiding confidence that when he comes to
his dying bed he will have no greater re-
morse gnawing at his conscience than the
fact that he should have put patriots to
| the expense of two dollars and twenty-five
cents for printing a hand bill, and then
| stayed at home.
After dinner the court house bell was
sounded, and some stragglers on the green
repaired to the inner temple. By count
| there were forty-six, over whom Col. Bar
| bee, of the pretty village OF BridgeWater,
was called to preside. A gentleman with
a wide forehead and a large bludgeon took
q front seat and lead the applause with
| tho latter,
Capt. II. Fl. Riddleberger, Of Shenan-
doah, the only nonresident 'represen-
tative man from all the Valley countless
present made speech He read
General James A. Walkers speech, as
reported at Wytheville, and said that in
making it he had put himself off the plat
form-his utterances having deprived him
of any claim to the suffrages of the people,
and this meeting was to ask s. conference
with other SECTIONS Of the State, by which
another man might be selected, who en-
bodied the views of majority Of the Con-
sentative party. He Urged the Importance
Of the action of this meeting, as it would
be presented to the people at Stanton,
next Monday. He represented the danger
of having man of Gen. Walkers views
in the position of 1t, Governor, where he
had the power to appoint the committees,
and said he hao the names of two hundred
prominent men in different sections of the
State, who were willing to cooperate in
the movement to change the candidate
seemed to vie with Gen. Walker in the
strength Of his language, inquiring wheth-
or the people were to be made sl-a-a-a. yes,
whether they were to submit to being called
highway robbers, and that sort of thing.
DR.. S. III. Moffett, the most celebrated
legislator now in Virginia and whose name
you can hear literally embroidered with
curses in the bar rooms, was the next
speaker. He is the author of the Moffett
punch, the most valuable invention Of
the age and description of him
may not he out Of place. He is
a solid, short-eoupled looking man Of fifty,
eyes and black moustache and gray hair.
His style of speaking is admirable, being
nice mixture of the lecturer and. conven-
tiOnaiist, but he is fluent to volubility and
seems never to know when he is done. He
has way of going over and over his sub
ject that is appalling and when you are
certain he has done, he takes drink of
water and begins again, leaving you moth
ing to do but to feel that it is the will Of
God and to fold your hands in patient sub
mission. The doctors manner is the old
and rolling them off glibly. He commenced
by going into the financial condition of the
State and tossing about "accumulated
millions of interest,"" with the deftness of
ball tosser keeping so many balls in the
air that his audience could not tell which
was which-than which by the by no de-
vice can be more admirable in politics. !
The DOCTOR, however said this was not pol
tics this was Business, which was very
true and very bad business at that and !
worse was to come in the announcement |
by the doctor that the receipts from the |
punch were not to be applied to the |
ing criminal charges, lunatic asylums
deficits and so forth He said Gen. Fields
stood squarely on the platform.
Capt. Riddleberger here offered pream-
BILE and resolutions. They were quite
lengthy and we give only the points of
them. The preamble recites that where
as to the surprise and deer. regret of the
undersigned, Gen; James 4. Walker of the
county of Pulaski, who was nominated
as the Conservative candidate for 1t;
Governor did, both at Richmond and again
at Wytheyille undertake to set aside and
violently assail the platform of the party
by advocating measures precisely in antag
ohisp to those distinctly and emphati eally
embraced therein; and whereas, Gen:
Walker ip his said speeches, not only did
SO attempt tv set aaide and assail the will
and PURPOSE of the party which nomina-
ted him sby the edorsement and support of
curaS directlu cnntraru thereto hut |