The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-09-25
JUDGE VAN EATON IN IOWA.

AS known to many of our readers
q Judge Van Eaton has been for severa
s weeks on visit to his aged parents il
Z Indianola, Iowa. He is there pure
( ~ out of fllial respect and for littl,
needed recreation-not TO canvass thai
: State for Hancock. However, leading
.. Democrats of that state, after talking
with him, soon discovered that he
knew more than most men of his age
and pressed him into service. He has
made several speeches, and, private ms
well rs newspaper accounts say, with
fine effect. Such is the impression
made by HIM that Democrats have
strongly urged him to canvass the
District against Kasson, the Radical
nominee for Congress, and express the
belief that such n canvass by him
would result in the defeat of the Rad
ical candidate.
Judge Van Eaton would probably
not consider it compatible with his
position on the Bench to make politi-
cal speeches at home, yet in Iowa,
where the air is full of lies and misrep-
reservations about the South, he
very properly considers that there is
no improperly in telling the people
there the true story about the South,
and confuting Radical assertions. This
he has done, to good effect, to large
and attentive audiences wherever he
has spoken. And he has had good
deal of fun while he was putting in
some hard licks.
A private correspondent writes !:
" When Judge Van Eaton commenced
speaking here the Greenbackers were
in high feather-were going to carry
Alabama, sure How is our party
in Mississippi? they asked. they had
hopes of carrying that State also But
Alabama was a dead shot. They
thought West was the whale that car
ried Mississippi on his snout. Then
came the report that West said he
could not live in the State if Hancock
was elected. / denounced it; told
them West never said it, The G. BIS
joined me in the denunciation They
were enemies of sectional strife,
and proposed to be the great pacifi-
Gators of the sections. By and by
came the reports of the Alabama
sweep! They uvere astonished. They
didn't know what to think until
they heard from Weaver, and
learned that they had been count
ed out" Here was agony, and now
they take up the cry and as glibly de-
nounce Southern outrages as the ,,
RAIDS. At this point Judge ,,
Van opened his fire. He lampoon- ,
ed the Greenback theory Of being
counted out with provoking and tell
ng ridicule, illustrated with wood
cuts, in the shape of side-splitting ;,
stories, which brought down the house !
md kept both the Democratic and .
Radical listeners in a constant roar of
aughter. He assured the G.. b. pa
riots that they need not be surprised :,
f they were counted out everywhere 4
II the South as they were in Alabama.
f their party had any existence in u
my State there that amounted to the "
ignity of moonshine in half dozen =
ounties, he had failed to observe or
lear of it," J.
We present here the comment from
be Charlton, Iowa) Leader of the 81
It'll inst: !"
JUDGE VAN EATON'S SPEECH.
On Monday night of this week, Judge
an Eaton, of Mississippi, who is visiting
is father at IndianOla, by request OF lead
II Democrats of Charlton, addressed the il
hancock club of this place.
The Judge has lived in Mississippi for
Yer thirty years, and bore arms in behalf
the lost cause.
A large crowd gathered in the courthouse ci
greet him, and though his speech was D.
yer two hours long, yet it was listened to ID
18th degree of attention worthy of an r
telligent audience and tlattering to the l.,
orator. TX
The Judge reviewed the history of the TIC
Iuth since the war, and showed up in th
airing cOOrs the terrible condition of the Va
,Ople under the rule of the carpet-bag- tlt
s. He also showed the reason why the to
'uth became Democratic so soon after the
ar, notwithstanding that Grant had so sa
rOng following there when he ran for a,
'esident. 1t was simply struggle for AN
istence against Northern thieves, after
e South had honestly submitted to the .
al result of the war. He discussed the OF
ll-dOzing question, and said that their be
'ctiOns were as peaceably conducted as
ywherc in the United States. The Mig
rs were AS much Disguised with the rule Tel
Northern carpet-baggers as the whites, PR
d consequently voted for their own in pa
rest by voting against such men. The sto
nth, he said, is rapidly recuperating and scI
in flOurishing condition with her i'm 81 81
,nse crops and prospective good prices 90.
II desire is peace and fraterna relations COZ
til the rest of the Union. Va
The speech was one of the ablest, best ag,
j most conservative ever delivered in 2
aritOn, and created profound sensation he
Ong all those who heard il. A lack of Cit
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