Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-08-19

Lewis whose marshals have ridden over
this district and carried eleven hundred
people to prison, of whom only thirty-6ve
were convicted on their trial. (Col. Cam
eron here banded Maj. Daniel pamphlet
on the charges against Marshal Lewis.)
1t matters not to me what whitewash
comes, tapplause.] Coats of whitewash
can be furnished at very little cost, but
1 say now that the man who has dragged
the people from their homes and families
is not the man to lead the Democracy Of
Virginia. (Applause.)
NO BOSS AT THE DEMOCRATIC CONvEN
TON.
I was nominated by Convention,
no agency Of 'sboss," no vote to
be bought, no men to buy. (Great cheer
ing.) No competitor Of mine could say. as
John E. Massey says of a certain Conyen-
ton, that be was offered forty votes at ten
dollars each. Let us have free vote and
an honest count" daughter and ap-
plauss.) Mahone's letter to an Ohio man
is to make an impression on the Northern
people that we are cheats in Virginia.
Read Cameron's name leading the list of
electors on Garfield ticket last fall,
(cheers) and hero he is again at the head
of a mixed ticket. II he fulfills the prom
Use now Of his political life, there Is no tell
ing what he may turn out. Lewis, who
was Union man, made cannon balls to
shoot Union men with.
Ex-senator Lewis (who was in his Office
in front of which the speakers stand was
erected) J. Maj. Daniel. say that is false,
l never made cannon ball in my life
loud cries for Lewis
Mai. Daniel-Mr. Lewis, I'd like to see
YOU here moment.
Here there was great excitement pend
ing the appearance of Mr.. Lewis.
Maj. Daniel-(to the crowd.) Be quiet,
there is nothing to be excited about.
When Mr.. Lewis had arrived on the
platform and taken his seat, Maj. Daniel
who had remained standing and as calm
as statue, turned to the audience and
said that he had seen the statement pub
Iished in the papers that Mr.. Lewis had
furnished cannon balls for the Confederacy f:
he had never heard it's denial before, and
that in his denial Mr.. l.. had used Ian
guage such as no gentleman should use to
another gentleman.
Mr.. Lewis, (rising and coming to Mr..
Daniels side)-I had heard the state
ment aud often contradicted it and I
thought you had heard it contradicted. In
the excitement of the moment said what
l ought not to have said.
Maj. Daniel accept Mr.. Lewis apol-
apology. 1t is worthy of good man as
Mr.. Lewis is. l will now say that Mr..
Lewis, while he had iron at his house,
did not shoot at the invaders ofhis State.
Here there was some commotiop in the
crowd and more cries for Lewis.
Ex-Sen ator Lewis came to the front Of
the platform and asked that the audience
be quiet and be respectful to Mr.. Daniel.
Maj Daniel-A Rockingham audience
needs no one to teach them to behave to
me. l have been treated by them in he
most respectful and gentlemanly manner.
Maj. Daniel then alluded to Frank
Blair's ''Honor never bought breakfast. -
A voice-He says he never said it.
Maj. Danlel-It is well he does. He new
er could have gotten breakfast on credit
with that motto.
SEEKING THE NEGRO VOTE.
The speaker then turned to Col. Came
ron's former utterances which furnished
an unfailing supply of inconsistencies.
He read Cameron's attack. (Oct, 10, 1875, J
on those who were guilty of seeking negro
votes. He read the quotations with
effect and received great cheering from the
Democrats.
Maj. Daniel in concluding paid a marked
tribute to Col. Cameron's courtesy in his
conduct of the discussion and promised
that he CO.. shouldn't out-do him.
Cameron's Rejoinder.
Col. Cameron said that the reason the
Readjuster coon got so ringed in 1880 was
that Daniel and his party played ''pos-
sum-" Loud and continued cheering. ]
We had beat you in everything and then
you plead that Funderism and Readjust-
meut had nothing to do with the fight.
[Great cheering.l You wouldn' have had
your $4,000 votes but for that. [Applause. I
There is but one reason for the campaign OF
1881, and that is Holidays vetoes. We
wouldn't be here to-day but for that. Zap
plause.] You and your party refused to
submit to the decision of the last and
supreme tribunal, the people. Applause.
He quotes what said in Petersburg-that
[ relied on the colored people for my cleo
ton. What I did say was this-I told
them that the Readjuster party had ma
jority OF the white people and that the
colored people had the opportunity to de-
eide the election. Daniel, who now says he
would like to have the colored vote. said
in opposing the submission Of the McCul-
loch bill to the people that he didn't want
the 'sblack hordes'' to vote on it. [Cheers.
Mr.. Paul offered in the Senate the propo-
sition to submit that proposition to the peo-
pie and you opposed it. [Cheers.] He says
that intended to ''carry Africa into the
war;" A voice-"Hurrah for Cameron.
But he is voting against the submission of
the bill to the people, refusing to let yoN vote
on it because perhaps the "black hordes'
may vote. He, co. wrote his editorials
when the officers of the government in
their reports said the State was able to
bear taxation. say still that "Virginia
should pay all she owes" and I add mot
one cent more" [Applause.] That finding
of the debt of the State years ago was
purchased verdict. You addressing Dan
iel) and I sir are nothing, absolutely moth
ing in this campaign except that we are the
exponents of the ideas of the contending
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