Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-09-23

LILY AAEOls dO OAoClUuUlOu plOtluCC uut
the Court of Appeals shall have jurisdi'
ton in all cases of unconstitutionality {
a law and in other cases. You presen
your coupon and the sheriff refuses it fo
taxes, and you get out your mandarin
from the Court of Appeals to make hin
take it, and that ends the matter. II
must take It,
The scheme in the Riddleberger bill t.
break down the receivable coupons is moth
= ing First; in order to do it, it wants t.
double the taxes. Beware of that, it is
fraud. When they double the taxes the
&cannot get rid of the coupons. Even afte
the doubling of the taxes and their receiv
ing them back at one half, the coupon hol
3ders can undersell you. Then what Will
they do? Revolution Hardly; we have
had enough of that. If they then should
&go from the Court of Appeals to the O. S
SSupreme Court where would they be? THAI
court would only repeat its decision In The
same case already made.
This new party brings us to the
Squestion whether the people Of Vir-
I ginia are ready to submit to a "Boss'' OF
not !? A "Boss" in your political affairs
I think can say l know what your an
swer will be-you who have enjoyed the
sfreedom of these blue mountains-to the
{ question whether you will have boss. Dc
syou want onep (Cries of Mol No!) The
apresent seeker after the "Boss-ship' is a
4 man who was in November a red not Han
/ cock man-so red hot that he put up an
ELECTORAL ticket for him, and in March was
found voting with the Republicans in the
8Senate ecery time. Now when you see
that-you Democratic Readjusters who
went into that movement honestly, what
lean you think? 1t reminds me of the mis-
chap that befell MIR. Hansbrough, a Read
juster orator in the Southwest, ''What, u
asaid he, ''does it matter that Gen. Malone
voted with the Republicans. Does that
make him Republican,; does merely 60
ing into stable make man horse ?"
a"No,'' said an old farmer who was listen
hing, 'sbut when 1 see him eating chop
sthink he is horse ~ Great laughter and
aapplause.) This party says it wants to
shave a ''free ballot and fair count. .
sGreat goodness Why the only district in
which the Republicans ever charged that
athere was anything but fair count was
sthe one in which VIM. Malone lived and
l in which he was the Chairman of the
4 Executive Committee. make no charge
against Gen. Malone because 1 know
nothing Of the facts, but it has been charg-
! ed openly by the Republicans of that dis
strict that there we're frauds committed
sthere; that there were tissue ballots used
athere; that three hundred negroes were sent
sout of town on railroad of which
SWIM. Malone had control, to prevent
Sthem voting that when Mr.. Hinton
was running for Congress there we're
frauds perpetrated. These are Republican
charges and they were the only charges of
fraud that have been brought in Virginia.
A sLANDERoUs HANDBILL.
Since coming into this Valley have
sseen on the lamp posts and trees hand
1 bill headed "John Goode-How he got into
sCongress." wish right here to make a
full answer to that slanderous emanation.
In 1874 was nominated by the Conserva-
stive Convention which met at Suffolk, to
run for Congress in that district against
James Fl. Platt, of Vermont. After the
Election, monster meetings were held in
Norfolk and Suffolk urging ne to contest
1.-THE election. [ did so. l went before the
Estate Board of Canvassers composed of
such men as J. L. Kemper, R. M. T. Hun
tier, W. F. Taylor and Raleigh T. Daniel,
and the argument lasted two days. The
board awarded the certificate to me. Be-
fore Congress Mr.. Platt contested my seat.
1 AS for myself said to the Congressional
committee, throw aside Prince George
county, the vote of which had been thrown
sout by the State Board on account of in
sformality; throw out the vote of Nanse-
mond which had also been discarded for
like reason, and then deduct from the
whole vote as remaining, the vote in the
Norfolk navy yard. 1t was shown in
sthe testimony before that committee,
THAT by the order of Secretary Robson of
1.-THE Navy. 1900 men had been put into the
Navy Yard few days before the election.
These men, it was shown, were drawn up
into line in the yard and then told that
there was to be no finching. They were
1 not only drawn up IN line but were made
Ito march from one United States officer,
holding their ballots up in their hands so
5that they could not change their ballots,
Ito another United States officer. This was
sdone because it had gotten out that a
number of these men were for John Goode
land it was determined that having receiv-
Jed the Platt tickets at one end of the line
sthey should not have the chance to substi-
tute for them tickets for the man they
really intended to vote for. Congress voted
s1O5 to 81 to seat me, thirty Democrats being
sabsent. 1t decided then. once for all, that
1 the government navy yards of this coun-
stry should not be used as the rotten Dor
sroughs of England to cheat the will of the
people. And now after this occurrence,
latter Congress has put its foot down on a
fraud and forever stamped it as such. [ am
met by such slanderous circulars as this,
least abroad through this Valley, irrespon.
ssiby without even name to Indicate their
author. Nong and loud cheering and
acries of 'sHurrah for Goode.') The hand
bill is a reprint of speech of Brown of
Kansas. a descendent of Ossowatime Brown
Ia malignant Radical member of the House
sfrom Kansas Those who circulate it do
I not dare to appear in its defence. and Gen.
Malone at Woodstock the other day when
schallenged to a debate didn't think fit to
accept. [ only wish he had.
THE SOLID SOUTH.