Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1881-09-06
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1881.
Telling 6 Facts.
THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN
Great Speech Of Frank s. Blair, Candidate
for Attorney-Genera on the Readjuster
Ticket. Ne Tells Some Truths
Which the BOurbons Should
pEH Heed,

winch tne B0urD0nS Sh0uld
erN Heed.
Special TO the Washington Republican.
LEEsDURG, Va, Aug. 9.--By appoint
ment Of the Readjuste State Committee,
Captain Frank 5. Blair, the Readjuster
nominee for attorney-general, spoke
here yesterday. The crowd being two
large for the courtroom, stand was
improvised In the rotunda of the court
house. The crowd that assembled to
hear him WAS estimated ut three thousand
white and colored. Colonel j. II.
Carter, eX-member of the general as
ssmbly of Virginia, presided, and intro
dnced the speaker who expressed his
mense outporing of the people of
I.oudon and adjoining counties of
Alexandria, Fauquier, Fairfax, and
friedrich, Md, and proceeded to prove
that the Readjnster party was entitled to
the confidence aud respect of both the
State and the Nation.
THE READJUsTERs HAD
had control OF the administration of
Virginia but eighteen months, and the
bencfactions of their policy were APP
parent upon all sides. They found un-
der Bourbon Fuhder rule that in 1879,
The last year Of their authority, there
were but 2,49l free schools in Virginia,
12S graded schools, l08, 900 pupils, $500
teachers, ll5 col0red teachers, only 676
colorcd schools, and 80, 900 colored pupils.
Now, under the benign auspices Of
Rcadjustcr rule, there are 1854 free
schools, 205 graded, 222, 200 pupils, and
1900 tcachcrs; while for the colOred
people there are 1856 colorcd teachers,
1886 colOred schools, and the increased
number sS,eoO colored pupils. He said
surely 2. . MI
THIS FAVORABLE EXHIBIT
must forcibly appeal to and meet the
appreciation Of all persons who would
elevate the two races and dignity them
with the blessings of education. The
mnch-lespised Republican party had
left In the Treasury In 1869, when Bour-
bon Funderism took possession of the
State, u clear surplus of 81 800, 900 and
during Nthe ten years Of Funder NAL
administration they had not only squan-
dcrcd this surplus, but had hcaped up 4
deficit account Of near one million dol
lars annually. Although the constitution
sf Virginia hal sacredly dedicated a
fixed portion Of the revenue for free
school purposes, vet the children Of the
state. while and cOlored, had been rob
he'd ns nv hiphway,ncn of $1,000, 900
nTlGtIm tetm OF the sessions of their
srhnols reduced 10 about three months
,n ,ho vror. Under the reforms of the
Rcadjnstcr party the sessions have been
,.xfe,ydedr 10 about nine months In the
'rthrI Orhr annual school requirements
L.vn beeu fully Maid. teauhers and salN =
rIes s,,bpl.,nen,eNl and tI65. 900 az Fun :
Jrr .rhool nrrcnrapc mid. People can
thercfnrc. h,dy. the Kendjustcrs by their
wnrks tndcr Funder rule more than
S1OO tJ00 were due thc State from default
I'M 'shcriila trtrplrers, clerks, &c.
pnodjustmcut has had the last dollar Of
hi, mid hack into the treasury, The
TnnIey sin,rL aeier OF the pcntentiary
,,"s sbon In ks accounts some tO.O00
H., p.nJ,ust"rs nnt n faithful official In
Wv - onS sorvrsI Tie noyment of
,,i, i pn,a p"s.I, ' T.Ic, Finder rule The
ncm,tcnt tIayv coat thc State n burden of
sGo t,o0 ner nuu,ln. Last wear this M,
s,i,w,ion un,lcr Ren,lIuster superin-
tenJcnt VIVA
A., M sv,r.st.srAIyiNd.
,,ji,, uis GEAR the Trcnsury actually
received t,irtv-threc cents per day for
rnch convict. which under Fuudcr rule
cost the Sintc thIrty-ilye cents per day
RcnJiustcr gain of sixty-cight cents
ncr div or. If one hundred cohvlcts arc
hired out, a gain to the State Of $40, 900
NOR nnuum. As 10 the public debt, the
I{rnJiustcrs proposed 10 pay every dol
lnr ~ tho iusl Indebtedness of the State,
m,viny ali creditors alike. as the holders
aC thp phcl,r bo,nla arc equally mcrIto-
rI,ns luit, those WHO hold the uonsols.
I'm th,. RrndIustor romp,tntIon of Stnte
L.ht t.sy hsye stuek out what h proper
Iv tho debt of Weat VlrRlnlh. This, he
argued. WINS equitable and right, Ns West
Virginia held To-day twcnty-onc thous-
nnd suuarc miles OF VirgInla's territory
mud four hundred and forty thousand Of
her nopulntlon, lIy the late war Vir-
gInia had lost $36, ,0OO, 900 IN internal
Sunrnvcn,enta. much of which IA now
sIiuntrb In West Virginin, \ he other
reduction of tho debt Is by the climina-
,ion Of interest that has been capitalized
aud upon which Virginia
mas bsEN PAfiNd
,om,ound Intnrcat. and then by the de-
Jn'',in,, ~ in,ereat that has nctunlly been
"",,i' n IL n startling fact that although
" ,,,,'l" lain orVirplnin was but
sp, % oon M nno w. III isNo In nineteen years
fs,'IvV'vvy, wy, 400 mn ooD of interest ,lpon
slc nns pa'a ,i,,UyV r", ,v ,vnr rcronstruc.
,,'n. "uo,' so,,J anu su ,ninr,st the debt
lloll nnu VII. uynp". ,,.,,,,a,ion under Tho
nov. ~ ,u',u' Nv, s,',p,apcs vo,"Vga an 600 0o0.~
Nv ull"Vn o.n, ",s ,,,,, so,,,,,iIn,ing Grn.
llc hcNt l''Ilu" y" w ~ '.''.',.s .,,t