Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1881-09-13

conferred, and then pitched into the
/ poor negro in real Funder style, His
| Bourbonistic hatred to the negro, had
no bounds. Little did his hearers
! think that this same man had time
and again fawned upon the negroes OF
! this Town, for their votes to elect him
to the Insignificant Office of Town
! Councilman.
General j. d. Imboden, D. P, OF
Narrow Guage fame, was next speak
er. He carried the war into africa.
/ His entire harrangue was directed at
the poor helpless negro.
He said THAT II had had control
of the power in Virginia after the
war, we would not be troubled with
negro suffrage now-,tbat the enfran-
chisement of the negro was the great
est outrage ever perpetrated in any
age"
He said he had been an old line
whig. He has fought Democracy all
his life,
He Is a debt Payer" now, and is
over anxious that other people shall
pay every farlhing OF the Public De BIT,
rs the Bondholders have fxed il, no
matter If 1t Is unjust, no matter il it
BRnkrupts the people who will have
to foot the bill by increased taxes.
General Imboden IL new conner In
our midst-came as the agent of
Northern capitalists. His first promise
to this beople. was that he would begin
laying rails on the Marrow Gusge by
the 4th OF July, and that he would
! furnish coal from Big Stone Gap to
the people OF Bristol, al Sl.S0 per ton
by the lst Of November 1881. A this
writing not q rail has been laid, and
the promise has turned out to be a
mere Funderlsm, and the General
seems to be fooling away his time To-
eating rev routes, and digging new
bitches through the peoples farms,
! with squad Of oonvicis fed and
clothed at the peoples expense.
Is the narrow guage another paper
road, and Is Gensral Imboden here
only to play the role Of G, Il. Smith
the railroad politician?
The club was next addressed by the
Rev. Five Per Cent, its founder and
leader.
He advised his chosen followers to
stand by the Funder ticket, to vote for
each and ever one of the ticket (includ-
ing HamiltOn) no matter what their
past records We're. Said the Rev. speak
er, "no matter whether they have paid
lheir debts or not, no matter whether
they nsyd naidheir Hotel bills or not,
vote fort hem" The sentiment
was worthy of its author aud
worthy OF the club he leads, and
the chosen few applauded il Justify,
No reference was made by the Rev.
Five Per Cent, nor any of his followers
to the great issues in this canvass.
Not word was said about readjusting
the public debt, with its coupon infamy,
and its exemption from taxation of
$50, 900, 900 of bonds.
Not word was said about applying
the money the people pay for school
purposes to the support Of the schools,
instead of paying it to the bondholders,
as the Funders have done for the last
ten years.
Nota word was said about the Infamous
poll-tax law, which makes free man pay
81 90 for the privilege Of voting, priv
ilege guaranteed to him by the Consti-
tutional amcndment-the law that
deprives the poor man of his vote, and
places Office beyond his reach, however
worthy he may be-the law that cor
rupts the ballot box and the candidate.
These and other issues involving the
best interests of the people were entirely
ignored by the Rev. Five Per Cent and
his followers, and the whole effort Of
the "Young Democracy, of GoodSOn,
seemed to be to stir mp bad blood be-
tween the races, and to inaugurate n
policy that would prescribe and Cypress
the weak and helpless classes.
The policy inaugurated by Five Per
cent. and his club, is the Bourbon poll
cy, which has kept the South under the
heel Of the North these fifteen years
Does this political paraon and his fol-
lowers think the people are fools! DO
they think they cab deceive the people
and carry them ito Fuuderjsm, aud
higher taxes for the benefit Of the bond-
holderby the cry OF young Democracy,
and the negro, the negro."Y The peo-
pie know that no true Democrat can be
Fundcr. The people know that all
Jllls UllusT lulh dDVut heS'o o"I"S' ~
bosh.
Wickham, the stalwart Republican, Is
Fundcr. He is in full accord with the
Rev. Five Per Cent. and his club. This
same WirklHm il the man who tried to
disrranchise the white people Of Virgin
In IN 1860. Yet because he isa Fundcr
he Is respected and applauded by the
Fundcrs, while Lewis and the negroes
who came to the rescue of the whites In
1869, are dcrded aud denounced because
they prefer the Readjusters, and won't
aid the Fundcrs in expressing both
white and black, for the benefit of the
Bondholdcrs aud Money Rings.
This Five Per Centum per Fundum
Clubum stripped their cause by their
own hands Of the false glamour which
49,. "a thrnw upnup1 II