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

Capt. Paul says the ''people" put the 7th
of July ticket into the field! What sort Of
people? Conservative people ? A mixture
of people who, while they were in the July
convention are now stumping the State for
Garfield. (Great cheering and cries Of s'Hlt
him again.'') Some of them were DR..
Norton, Littleton Owen and Joe Gregory.
colored statesmen, who represented three
counties in that convention. Let us see
about the Simon-Pure Democracy of these
Slmon-Pure Democrats that Nominated
Hancock" DR.. Norton was last Wednes-
day sitting as secretary of the Republican
Congressional Convention, held at Hamp-
ton. (Great cheering from the Demo-
Gratis Joe Gregory, who was one of the
Vice Presidents Of the Malone convention,
is stumping for Garfield. (cheers.) Little
ton Owens is at it too. And these are a
part of the people that the bourbon Fun
ders' were afraid to admit to Demo-
cratic primary. (great cheering), and who
went into your 18th of July convention,
and helped to nominate your electoral
ticket, and are now stumping the State
for Garfield.
A voice-That's the way they were
pledged" [Laughter.]
CAPT. PAUL's RECORD.
Col. Skinner, continuing-Capt. Paul
says he and his party were read out on the
18th of August, 1879. I want to refresh
his memory. I recollect that he made
speech on the 18th Of July, 1873. at time
when he was looking for the same Office he
is now in quest of laughter in which he
read the Conservative party out. He said
in that speech, delivered at Harrisonburg,
that 1.-THE Conservative party has fulfilled
its mission" Long and loud cheering.l
A voice-Wh-e-w! Croton oil
The Conservative party he said was
dead. He was there to preach its funeral
sermon thirteen months before he had been
read out [Cheers. sits mission" Capt.
Paul in that speech said, was to fill the
Offices with Conservatives. All did you
think that was its mission when you voted
in the last legislature to turn out that VEN
cradle Conservative, Asa Rogers, and re-
place him with Dyson, a Republican. [great
cheering Did you think that was its
mission when you voted for five Republic
can judges. Did you think of it when you
put Democrats out of Office without a
shadow of charge against them save that
they were Democrats. And that, fellow
citizens of Augusta, is has Simon Pure
Democracy. Great cheering.l He says
the Conservatives call for all to join in
their primaries in the State Convention
was the same as the plan proposed by the
Readjusters at the Compromise Confer
ence-then why didn't the Readjusters
accept it? [Great cheer1ng.] Why didn't
you come in with your faithful allies"
then and crush out the Democracy ?
[Cheers.l Fellow citizens, it was because
they HADN'T made up their minds then who
they would support for President-Repub
lican or Democrat. [Applause.] He wants
to know why we were in hurry to put up
our ticket 1t was because we Demo-
Gratis k,,eao who we were going to support.
[Cheers.] The free born Democrats of
Virginia knew who they were going to
support! (Cheers.) Repent you Paul of
your sins. Come back into the fold of the
Democratic party and leave your allies
out in the cold. daughter and applause.)
A voice-Clear the mourners bench,
[great laughter].
He thinks, said Col. s., we ought to
have submitted the question of compro-
mise to the 'people' Of Virginia. You
know who he means!
A voice.-Niggers.
''Yes," said Col. s., 1--WE wouldn't let
them decide. They would have decided
on the ticket that was easiest to beat. If
you had a majority why couldn't you let
the Democrats settle it? Are you Ito the
negroes in the gallery going to vote for
Hancock and English?
The negroes. no; we amt!
Then sir Ito Capt. Paul) you can't as a
follower of Gen. Malone desert your
faithful allies,'' you must go and vote
with them for Garfield, tremendous cheer
ing.] Are you going to vote for Hancock
while they vote for Garheld2 If you do
you desert those you are pledged not to
abandon, [great applause.
Col. Skinner then related with much
effect the fable of the fox and the crow
that dropped the cheese after many COM
pliments on the beauty of it's voice, and
said to the colored people that if they
opened their mouths to cry paul" they
would drop the cheese.
In concluding he read from Capt. Paul's
speech at Harrisonburg in July, 1878, in
which he said ''If the Republican enemy
is in the field again we will close up
ranks" Col. S. said 1.-THE Republican en-
envy IS in the field again, and I call upon
you to disregard all your personal ambi-
lions and to close up ranks.'" [Great
cheeringl.
Capt. Paul
then spoke half hour in concluding. He
said Col Skinner had read a garbled &C.
count of his speech at HarrisOnburg in
1878, from some Funder paper that always
misrepresented him.
Col. S.-Here is the report sir, made by
Mr.. Tinsley in the INDICATOR.
Capt. Paul.-Mr. Tinsley ought to have
given the whole of that speech, 1 said IN
that speech that the Richmond Estate"
and Funder paper in Harrisonburg had
declared in the last few weeks that they
would not support any Read lister, wheth-
or nominated or not, and I said if that
was the kind of war to be waged on Read
justers the Conservative party had filed
it's mission. Through their newspapers
they had declared this thirteen months be-
fore their committee read us out. Jap