Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-10-01


have said he had not taken an active part
in politics for many years, for the people
would have known it without bis telling
it. [Applause.] He said he had given 5000
to q colored school i'll Petersburg. How
much in Staunton? [Applause.] Charity,
with a good man. begins at home, but
with an ostentatious Bourbon he has to
E send it afar SO the world may know it.
[Applause.] You did not pay your taxes
in money. You paid them in coupons,
and nobody will ever get any schooling on
that sort of money. [Applause.]
ABOUT GOING TO CONGRESS.
We all want to go to Congress do we
(Voice-''You shall go.'Y When did your
aspirations for Congress cease? Zap
plause.] 1t was when the people found out
you were Bourbon. All this is talk
about our wanting Office. That powder
was shot off year ago. Of course we
want offices and we are going to have 'em.
[Applause.] We don't 60 round year
after year fighting Bourbonism and then
when we win ask the Bourbons to fill the
offices. [Applause.] You'd like to have it
like it was last year, when Bourbon Con-
gressmen and Senators were going around
here denouncing the people that had made
them. You will never see that again.
That time is gone forever, Applause
COMPROMISE.
We wouldn't compromise eh? That
was sharp game you tried to play with
your Absalom against our William. l
thought you knew William better than
that. [Applause.] You got up this COM
promise for political effect. We didn't
want any compromise. We don't want
any now. If we didn't know we could
elect our ticket we wouldn't have put it
up. [Cheers.l When did you all become
National Democrats9 Last Spring in call
ing your Convention your call read for 'sall
Conservative Democrats and all other vo
tiers regardless of past political associations
or differences Now, you say only those
who voted for Tilden in '76. You wanted
everybody then. You didn't stop to ask
about capitation tax. It was like the old
maid that wanted husband-it was
''Anybody good Lord, anybody" [Great
laughter.] Last week we said let every
body that favors Hancock and English
come and vote and say which of the tickets
should stay in the field. You wouldn't
have it. The Democracy that fears to
come before the people and submit to the
popular voice isn't worth talking about.
[Applause.) In one case you wanted all the
voters and now you only want the qualified
voters. When did you get to be Nation
al Democrats.
A voice.-Look up, your friends are up
stairs. [Great laughter
Capt. Paul continued-Why didn't you
word your call for this primary as you did
for the other? The fact Is that Funderism
is afraid to come before the people of Vir-
glnia in square, stand up fight, Zap
plause] All efforts of the Readjusters to
get settlement of the debt have been We
toed by your Governor. We had no power
to take your sham plan of compromise.
We proposed to let the people say which
of the two tickets should stand.
THE COLORED VOTE.
Who had colored Conservative club
marched into Conservative convention
at Richmond with a brass band? And the
only man that left the house was old Jubal
Early, God bless his name. In the last
campaign you circulated documents tell
ing the colored people what Fred Douglas
said, and what Hayes said about the Re
publicans being debt paying party, and
John W. Daniel stood up in a meeting at
Lynchburg with two colored men-one on
either hand, saying when the best men of
all parties united it was the best cause.
How long since you tried to get votes for
Wickham from colored men? But they
amt going to follow you.
Voice from the colored gallery.-No in
deed!
Get the colored men? Why Mr.. Bar
mum. Chairman of the National Demo-
cratic Committee, wrote to Col. Lamb,
ssdo all in your power to secure the colored
vote in your State" How would it have
done to try to secure their votes, and yet
rule them out of the primary? You would
under your plan rule Dyson, the Second
Auditor of the State, who is going to vote
for Hancock, out of that primary. There
are many colored people who think that,
next to Grant, Hancock did more for their
freedom than any other man-infnitely
more than Garfield, and they will vote for
Hancock.
A voice, to the colored people in the gal
lery.-Will you vote for Hancock?
A negro.-We don't say nothing. Still
waters run deep, ZEN we is running deep
now!
Capt. Paul, continuing, secuted the idea
that the colored people would vote at the
Democratic primary and then vote for
Garfield and his remarks were applauded
in the negro gallery, with cry of ''Y GU
hear us now don t your" addressed to the
white interrogation on the floor below.
The speaker then went into history Of
the 'reading out" He asked
WHO NOMINATED HANCOCK.
WHY. were the Funders in such hurry
about putting up their electoral TICKET be-
fore New York, New Jersey, and Missouri
Democrats had put up theirs. If we had
sent delegates to Cincinnati, said Capt.
Paul, they would have been sent back to
us as regulators, SO bad an opinion OF the
Readjuster party had been given to the
National Democratic party by the Funder
congressman and other speakers. But the
nomination of Hancock was made in Vir-
ginia by (leaving the Republican members
of the convention out) $40 Democratic
Readiusters. Real Readjusters. not like
O,,,oo,ho-ru A Hon and the rasf Won