Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-10-24

mluuLeS eacu To-Day. line llSG mad been ar
ranged, but DR.. Moffett, who was at the
head, preferred not to open.
Col. O'Ferrall said he was no bushWhack-
er during the war and didn't think much
of bushwhacker in peace. He had had
great difficulty in finding DIR. Moffett in
this campaign and was SO rejoiced at meet
ing him now that he would take any place
on the list assigned him.
DR.. Moffett replied that Col. O'Ferrall
had found him twice at his (M's,l own
meetings and he had given him half Of his
time.
It was then agreed to let the chairman,
Col. Deneale. put the names Of all the
speakers in hat and draw them out in
the order they should speak. This was
done and the draw came out-Strayer,
Barbee, Moffett, O'FerraIl, Wood, Sipe,
Gray and Harrison.
Mr.. Strayer occupied his forty minutes
in attacking the McCulloch bill, begging
his hearers not to shift off the old Funding
bill only to find themselves in the stocks
of the new one. He made some shots at
O'Ferrall's record on the debt question.
Col. Barbee enlarged on the inability of
Virginia to pay the debt and said when
after the war, the legislature pledged pay
ment of it, it was not representative
Virginia legislature, but composed of
such men as our friends in Massachusetts
and Rhode Island would let us send
there"
DR.. Moffett was welcomed by loud ap-
plause and after announcing that he was
debt paying man, public and private. as
his ancestors had been before him,
pitched straight into O'Ferrall's record on
the debt question and asked him if he
stood there now.
A voice-"Do you stand on your record
of seven years agop'
DR.. MI do have not changed one
iota, so help me God"
He said Judge O'Ferrall had arralgned
him in the county for supporting Wood
son who. held that the Funding bill was q
contract Well ! lie had rather support
Woodson wrong than some other people
right. He said his vote for the Bocock-
Fowler bill was only vote ''to make the
bondholders come down and roost along
side with the people," (applause.l Judge
O'Ferrall had attacked him about re-
trenchment, and yet O'Ferrall had sent a
letter to him and Paul asking that his
salary as county judge be, increased cheer
ing). At this point Judge O'Ferrall arose
and denied the statement. DR.. Motfett
then Withdrew the statement, and appeal
ed to Mr.. Paul to say if such letter had
not been sent by somebody. MI. Paul
said it had been sent by Mr.. Patterson.
Explaining his February speech (which
will be found later on in this report) DR..
Moffett said he had thought it was good
settlement, but that was without the AL
len amendment, which was tackled on af
forwards. He said he was the author of
the Moffett Bell Punch, and he should al
ways advocate taxing the honest mans
grog, instead of the bread and butter of
the poor man and his children (applause).
In reply to Judge O'Ferrall's statement
about having difficulty in finding him. the
Doctor said modestly that in the last six
years he chad encountered the giant minds
of this State on the debt question, and
could say that he had killed as many of
them as they had of him. He admitted
that he drew the substitute for the Bo-
COCK bill, by which certificates were to be
sold by the State at rs cents in the dollar,
but it was intended to destroy the coupon
feature In his concluding appeal the
Doctor told his audience that he had Stood
by them when ''the money corporations
were against Them"
Col. O'Ferrall then rose to reply and the
applause showed that the audience con-
sained far larger proportion of Nc
Culloch settlement men than a Rocking
ham audience generally contains, indeed
it seemed to be evenly divided. The Col
ohel had DR.. Moffett's record, which is ex-
tremely contradictory, down very close and
put it at MIN without mercy. He COM
menced by citing DR.. Moffett's opposition
to the coupon feature of the bill and then
exhibited certificate from the Treasurer
showing that Moffett had paid his taxes
ia coupons. These assaults seemed to en-
rage portion of the Readjusters and they
attempted to drown O'Ferrall's voice by
cries.
"You needn't try that on me-" said Col.
O'Ferrall, 1.-THE people of Rockingham I'M
derstand that game; they have seen it
played in this court house before. l will
stay here till you hear me and if you don't
hear me I'll stay here till tonight. You
before and am not afraid to do it now.''
This announcement from the gritty ex-
Confederate Colonel changed the current
and he was encouraged by loud and pro-
longed cheering. He opened fire again by
saying that his voice Was not as strong as
his competitors, for while he was getting
shot through the lungs in the war DR..
Moffett was cutting off soldiers legs, (great
cheerlng) After showing that he was the
member who introduced the resolution in
the legislature repeating the old fund
ing bill, he caused great laughter by ex-
posing the fact that the Poor Widow let
ter which is being read very pathetically
by DR.. M. in the country meetings 1.-THE
pretended appeal Of a widow who owned
peeler bonds) never had signature and
was rejected by speaker Allen because it
hadn't. He showed that the Doctor vo-
ted against every extension of the session
by which the settlement might have had
time for consideration, and then after de-
feating that Immediately voted for an ex-
ira session from which he would get $3.50
pay. He read from speech delivered by
DR.. Moffett in Harrisonburg in February
last in favor of the McCulloch bill. viii Oh