Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-11-01
Harris (Dem.) Early (Rep.)
THE SPEAKING, MONDAY.

The audience in the Court House, Mon
day. was large. Particularly noticea BILE,
compared with other meetings lately held :,
was the large attendance Of colored people.
Their gallery was packed with men. and
had the unusual addition of several color
ed ladies to grace the occasion. Gen.
Echols came in early and before the crowd
gathered. Where the negro vote of Staun-
ton Tor such of. them who may be entitled
to vote by the payment OF the capitatlon
SAX is going, was plainly Indicated by their
hearty applause at the appearance OF Capt.
Paul. and their silence when Judge Harris
hove in sight. This difference of recep
ton was kept up during the continuance
of the meeting. The speeches were nearly
the same as have been heretofore delivered
here. and our report of the meeting shall
only notice what would strike a spectator
as Indicating the spirit of the audience,
with reference to it's vote next Tuesday.
There we're in the crowd party OF men
evidently determined that Harris shogldn' It
suffer for lack Of applause, and another
party, including some OF Capt. Paul s
friends from his own town, seemed to have
similar intention with regard to their
own toWnSman.
Judge Harris opened his speech by telling
the story of how a job WAS put up to beat
the race horse, Ten Brock, in four
mile race, where it was arranged that one
competitor should push him hard on the
first mile, another On the second, another
on the third, and on the fourth COMPARE
lively fresh horse was to go Iii and beat
him; ''put," said the Judge, "old Ten
Brock faxed 'em all out" Wild cheers
and cries of .Hurrah for Harrisr'] And
now, cheered by the sound OF your voices,
my fellow citizens, old Ten BroeoA will
finish the congressional race by throwing
dust in their faces loud cheering). Mr.
Harris commented on the 'sdiversOn" OF
the school fund. and said that, ieverthe-
less, though there Was nobody else paid
Paul and Echols got their Sc a day before
they came home from the legislature
[Great laughter). He drew laughable
picture of Paul bowling for forclble ad-
justment in the Senate, and Echols telling
the creditors that if they didn't take per
cent. that fellow, Paul, wouldn't give
them anything. Mr.. Harris appealed to
his hearers to know if they had ever wit
messed 81 remarkable a canvass-all three
candidates of the same political faith, ard
vet not one of his two political opponents
were able, after careful search, to find or
givesto the public one Objectionable vote
given 10y him in a long service OF ten years
in congress. The only cry was rotation
that meant to rotate him, a faithful repre-
sentative. against whom they themselves
could find no fault in the past, out, in order
that one of them might be rotated in.
Capt. Paul rose amid loud cries for him
He said Judge Harris talked like the seat
iu Congress was his personal property, but
it Was The peoples property, to elect whom
they pleased to it. They said he. tl.e
speaker, should have it, And by the eter
a., gods, I'm going to have it, too. >
{Loud cheering am the only candidate
that brings you any endcrser but himself
and I come to you with the endorsement
of the great county of Rockingham Zap
plause). Capt. Paul said he had seen il
published in newspapers, antagOnistic tx
him, that the colored people were going te
support him. Haven't they a right tx