The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-10-29
HraHI.ANn COUNTY.
MoxrrnRy. Va. October IS, 1881.

.EdlfOrS DtSDdtCh' AtCOIuiiS 70 pc'-
Gus announcement, II. 81. George Tucker,
Esq, addressed large and enthusiastic
meeting OF the Highland Democracy here
to-day. Upon his arrival this morning i
was announced that the Mahoneitcs had
transported Colonel :. Brown Allen Tor the
express purpose Ito anticipate the Malone.
tie letters and telegrams) OF "chawing up,
"annihiIating,v demolishing,' &c, any
anwary Democrat who might venture IN
his way. The Colonel seemed TO snuil the
danger from ufar off, and could only he
gotten into discussion by giving him his
own time and terms, to which Mr.. Tucker
readily assented, himself to lead oil IN
speech OF an hour and n half, the Colonel
10 follow In one of equal length, each hay
Ing twenty minutes TO reply.
Mr.. TUCKER's SPEECH
was the best we ever hesrd from so young
n man. Perfectly at ease, with ready
flow OF language and ideas, quick rs light
ming with an answer or brilliant criticisms,
and tells an anecdOte with oil the effect and
perfection Of old Ran. himself, and we ven
ture TO say that he has not an equal OF the
same years and experience in Virginia.
Dir. Tucker first gave q lucid and con-
yineing statement OF the States indebted
ness and its obligation to pay IT, next he
dissected with consummate skill that hid
eous deiormity OF legislation the Riddle
bargain hill. and then pitched into the re-
cord of Allen and the 1lahOneites with
such fIerceness and power that poor Allen
blusbed and squirned in his seat, and his
followers felt like the poor boy at irolic,
while the large crowd chcered and yelled
NJ
moor Colonel and his African regiment.
One thing Harry told us with perfect 'at-
Isfaction and splendid effect was where
Brown got his Colonel" from. Not IN
the army, said Harry, but away up in the
Wkig building he was dubbed the proud
title OF "Colonel" and placed at the head
of an African regiment to lead It against
the white Democrats OF Virgins. The
house fairly shook with applause at tins
revelation and description Of Browns
He next dared the "Colo-
mel" TO tell whether be was Democrat or
Republican; which the "Colonel" de-
clined to do then, for the reason, rs we
understood him, that he knew so much
about Democracy that he couldn't tell
whether he was 4 Democrat or not.
Mr.. Tucker closed in very eloquent ap-
peal TO the people of Virginia to stand by
the great mother OF the Union, pcrora-
ton which has never been equallod on this
hastings.
"CoLONEL" ALLEN
was then introduced by Mr.. j. X. Camp
bell, who made the first human attempt we
have ever known TO make something out OF
nothing by trying to explain what great
and glorious somebody the Colonel" was,
but the crowd not seeming to be very
credulOus one, Mr.. Campbell cut his re-
marks short by saying it was only Mr.
Brown Allen.
The "Colonel" made many boasts Of
what he knew and what he was. His cX-
PLANTATION Of the Riddle-5argain lii was
ludicr0ua, and we felt convinced that Brown
couldn't tell the difference between man.
dqrnus and a writ Of hdbeGS corpus. After
abusing the Democratic party in Virginia
until he wore his time ont the Colonel"
closed, and Mr.. Tucker came on to him
LIKE A THUNDERBOLT,
and such an excoriation was never wit
messed - Allen got. Indeed, Harry could
scarcely speak for the continuous cheering
which greeted him as he poured shot after
shot into the Colonel" and his regiment.
Referring to Aliens twittinghim about his
youth, Harry quoted with rare grace and
eloquence Pitts reply to WalpOe on =
similar occasion. lie then read the Colo
ners" speech in Augusta several yesrs
ago, in which he claimed the debt was
iorty-one millions, Chen his letter endors
ing the McCulloch bill in 1879, but now the
8. Colonel" sYcars the debt is only nine
teen million and the McCulloch bill
was the greatest curse that ever
threatened Virginia. You FAY, said
Harry, that readiustment Is the only issue
in this canvass, and you have preached and
rantcd about it for IN hour here, but only
a week ago You sat In convention Of Re-
adiusters which nominated a Debt-Paying
Republican for the Legislature who spit
upon your nomination, and then you nomi-
mated another Debt-Paying Republican.
who accepted your empty honor. You, sir,
ought TO talk about the fickelness Of Bar
bOur and Ficklen, when your own record
is the worst of any man in Virginia. Then
Harry told him OF his associates and con-
ireres Fernald, Ccphas Davis, Dungee,
&C., and the cheering that greeted these
thrIlsts il Undesirable. The courthouse
was a perfect bedlam of applause during
bis twenty minutes, and when he closed /
The crowd yelled 600 on! 20 on!" and /
some OF them asked Allen to allow ten
minutes longer for Harry, and FOR himself
70 take the same, but he declared he
wouldn't do it, so Harry sat down with !
cries Of "GO on !" and the widest cheers
md enthusiasm.
"COLONRL ALLEN
got up to reply, but his defeat and mortifl- /
,atiOn were visible. He rantcd about |
Wickham, Echols, and Mosely; tore his |
lsir and tossed his arms as though in the /
Igony Of desperation; said anything he /
'ould think Of, no matter what, and sat 1
Town by telling a stale anecdote, which I
ell like a wet blanket on his followers. /
Too much praise cannot DC given to young .
Fucker for his victory, and he was warmly /
ly all who met him, the first /
me to grasp his hand and compliment him .
icing an out-and-out Mahoneitc. Tonight /
ne speaks at Mcdowell, and he invited .
Allen TO meet him, upon which the 4" Colo /
lcl" took severe attack OF Grlpsack /
'olic, aud said he could get no further to-
lay. Fortunate man For had he gone /
Fucker would have torn him into shreds
nd buried him and his regiment on Stone .
vail Jackson's old battlefield. We have /
he Mahoneites on the run here, and will .
riumph on the Sth Of November.
HIGHLAND.