The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-10-24

people to mental activity and lodged with them
a desire to inform themselves more fully on fbe
important questions. His speech was ac-
/ knowledged by both Paul and Harris men TO
have been the only one worthy of the name made.
and there are scores upon scores of Rockingham
people who fully agree with the views he ad-
vanced Not ALL however, who thus agree will
vote for him, for they are too deeply absorbed in
the fortunes of the home candidates to allow them
selves to be guided by reason or Judgment
| JUDGE HARRIS
| followed Gen. Ecilols, and commenced by depre-
batting the introduction Of personalities into the
canvass. He had not gone back to find out
whether Paul was an original greenbacker or
not. 1t sufficient to know that he PAUL.
stood on the same platform with him now. No
body had heard OF Paul being readjuster until
last year. and then he rode into the senate that
hobby. The question OF REIMBURSEMENT was an
issue in no other district but this and ought not
properly to have entered here. He, the speaker,
claimed to have been readiuster years ago. and
the very original greenbacker. He believed there
was not money enough in the country, and had
so said five years ago in hisspeech. The Judge
then gave his financial views and claimed that
the present legal tenders were fiat money. Ech-
OILS and Paul, he said had both assailed him. and
if.they would just keep together he could manage
them. But they went in both directions, and as
he couldn't be at two places at once it was pretty
hard On him. Harris hit Paul some pretty hard
ticks, but,every time. the Paul men would drown
the Harris applause in yells for their favorite.
This seemed to founder the Judge, and he jump
ed from one subject to the other without con-
nectlon at all. First it was Paul. then readjust-
ment, then persecution, then back to Paul and
persecution, finances and readinstment, until he
got himself completely wound up. IN the mean
time over two-thirds Ct the audience had left
and the majority OF the remainder were evidently
Paul men, and enjoyed the speakers confusion,
but in spite OF this he sent in good shots at
both OF his competitors After while and be
fore his time was out, the Judge said he wasn't
well and sat down.
came back in rejoinder hot and heavy. He said
that Harris had been crying persecution for years
as i'll one but he had right to run in the dis
trict. He thought the people had prosecuted him
long enough. He had been prosecuted with Of
flee for years and years, and now because that
persec ution was about to cease, he went whining
around like great big bubbering school boy
Paul got off several good hits and the crowd APP
plauded accordingly.
HARRIS
reioinder was by no means up to his usual stand
ard, and even what was good was ruined by the
applause of the Paul men. The Judge was ev-
identity under hack, and lost his rebound almost
entirely. Taken altogether it about the worst
effort he ever made, but however good it might
have been, it would have availed him little in
such crowd.
1t was late in the evening when the speaking
closed, and as the crowd had thinned down to
about fifty, General Echols did not speak sec
ond time. J.Y.