Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-23

GREENBACKER IN THE COOL-THE
"PEoPLE OF ROCKINGHAM' RECON-
MEND PAUL,
&C., &C., &C.
(Reported for the Staunton VINDICAToR)
HARRIsONBURG, Aug. 10th.
To have been addressed as Here! you
man!'' and to have been charged with
petty larceny five distinct times on a turn
pike ride of twenty-five miles is
enough to make a newspaper man wish the
congressional canvass was over. But it
all comes from having females at the toll
gates. To a man you can snap back.
s'How the - was 1 to know it wa a toll
gate?" But with a woman! She hasn't
a bit of consideration. She let's you drive
by and then hauls you up just in time for
a carriage full of people to drive up and
witness the notifying experience. The
position is painfully humiliating. The
"Here! you mani" has called the most
disag1eeable attention to you; the terrible
distinctness of her remarks in answer to
the lowly and subdued explanation you
are trying to make, and the whitening
sob, yes!" she gives to all you have to say
makes you miserable. The "Oh, yesl" of
a toll woman means a hundred things: it
means that she has had that sort of thing
tried on her before; that she don't believe
a word you are saying. and finally that you
are only wanted to pay up and drive on.
| and not waste any more time trying to
| establish your probity. In the morning
passed through the gate entering Harrison
burg, unseen, and this evening I beaming.
ly told the very good-looking girl there,
as 1 returned, how I had done it through
I ignorance. She merely said "Oh, yes!''
but if ever 1 heard anything in my life
that meant, Eyes! and you would have
done it again if 1 hadn't caught you'll it was
that young girls remark. You may set
this up in large type: "The man that
wastes Establishments on a toll gate girl is
like the man who builds a raft of snow"
No doubt it will be copied and credited to
Sidney Smith: it sounds so much like
him-what's that?-somebody saying,
"Oh. yes!".
THE MEETING.
The town was full of people, but though
it::was said on the streets that John E.iMas-
sey, John T. Harris and John Paul would
all speak, the country people didn't come
| into the court house in numbers large
! enough to pack it. The audience however
/ was a full one. and most decidedly a Paul
one. The people who are enthusiastic over
| Senator Paul in Rockingham lose sight
| in their admiration, I think. of the ques-
| lions at issue. They are mainly carried
away by the strong individuality of the
man and by his frankness which last is
| mitigated by none of the caution usually
| exhibited by candidates. He has the most
| perfect confidence in himself and his ad-
| mirers share this confidence with him.
When, for instance, he makes a good hit in
his argument they are silent; but when lie
wild with applause. While he is speaking,
you can help cate ing some of this feeling
in spite of all his heresies. L hear in this
town that his record as an adjuster is not
of great duration and that, as Parson Mas
sey says, he is a very young convert, so
young that he was opposed to the election
Of Judge O'Ferrall when he ran as a read
juster after the Funding bill was passed.
| The meeting was organized with the vet
| eran Geo. E. Deneale as chairman. He is
| over seventy years old, but on the rost,l m
he has the strong voice and fire Of youth.
| He is one Of the original readjuslers OF the
| county. Seated in a prominent place in
front of the stand 1 saw MI. D. Newton
Vanlear, one of our Augusta delegates to
the legislature, and among the look
| ers on in the audience the venera-
| BILE Capt. Thomas Burke Of Angus
ia, his son Capt. Tom. Burke, Mayor of
Huntington, W. Va, and Mr.. Edward
| Echols and Maj. S. NJ. Yost of Stanton.
After the organization of the meeting it
was discovered that
ONLY MR.. PAUL WAS PRESENT.
Mr.. B. G.. Patterson said he was autho-
| rized by Hon. John T..Harris to say that
he was detained by sickness, but hoped by
the 1st of September to commence an ac-
tive canvass
Mr.. Paul.-Is the gentleman also autho-
rized to announce that Mr.. Harris is a
candidate for congress :?
MI. Patterson-I have said all that /
was authorized to say-that Mr.. Harris is
detained by sickness.
A voice-Epizooty? [great laughter.]
Mr.. Paul said he::was tired Of this one
horse race. The desire of the people is to
have all the horses in the field before them.
This was a sort of still hunt that he didn' It
want. He had invited Brother Massey to
come, but he gave as an excuse that he
had to attend a Baptist. Association. 1
don't intend to stop this fight for Baptist
Associations or for anything else. I am
in the fight until it ends at the polls
(cheers), and l want somebody in with me.
As Delaney says, only one is too much
like a Seidlitz draught with only one pow-
der: there amt any fz about it (laughter).
I am here to give you my platform-the
platform that 1 intend to stand on from
now to the polls, and afterwards, too, if
am elected (%applause). The crying evil of
the day is that puplic men can't be gotten
to define their positions. Why is it? II
there is anything 1 am proud of, it is that
I have never occupied a doubtful position
upon any public question. Public men
should seek to give a high individuality, a
lofty independence to the discussion OF
public matters, and never todeal in double
dealing. A public man is not SO, merely
that an office may be conferred upon him,
but because he is looked to as a leader, a
guide, an instructor on public questions.
This is the first opportunity I have had to
announce to YOU directly that 7 am a can.