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

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number of influential and intelligent Dem
ocrats from the county, thus furnishin
to the speakers who addressed it, an ex
cellent medium for the transmission o
their views to the county at large; for W.
have never met more efficient and judic
ious reporter of public speeches than you
quiet, level headed farmer who does littl
applauding. good deal of listening ant
keeps up all the while good deal NOR
thinking. Such man is the best vehicle
we have yet met with to carry the news tx
his nelghbors. Besides Democrats of this
class who were present Saturday we saw
several Readjusters of the same sort which
was all the better.
COLORED LISTENERS.
The meeting was the most remarkable
one we have seen in the Valley in one re
spect, and that was that though Demo
cratic gathering, to listen only to Demo
number Of colored men there. There must
have been some two hundred of them and
what was even still more to be noted, at
the close of the four hours addresses the
number was but little less. They had pa.
tiently sat it out.
THE NEW SPEAKER OF THE OCCASION.
The new orator who was to speak was
the Hon. John Goode, of Norfolk, who
made his appearance before an Augusta
audience for the first time. He is very
remarkable public speaker and we are not
surprised that the people were SO enthusi-
astically carried away with him, or, that
after the close, his name was upon every
lip. He is man of fine presence and i'm
mediately reminds you Of Judge VIM. Nc
Laughlin, though not SO largea man. He
has gray hair, no beard, regular features
and an imperturbable manner which moth
ing shakes-as one who, if the roof Of the
court house fell in, would say to the per-
sons who had escaped, my fellow citizens
let not these trifes, which are merely ma
chinations OF the enemy, disturb us, but
let US continue with our deliberations on
&C., &C., AS relator of good stories he
is immitable and has to an extraordinary
degree the faculty of telling them without
the slightest sacrifice of his dignity. Even
so old story as "Save the red haired
man, which has been on the Virginia
hustings for thirty years, he told so well
as TO interest one who has heard it fully
hundred times. His oratory is all clean,
no profanity, no trif1iDg with anything
held in reverence by anybody, nothing that
might not form part of parlor converse
tion, and yet as genial and full of humor
as if it were being delivered to a party of
''good fellows" after dinner. His speech
had that best evidence Of ability in
the speaker, clearness, and the whole ar
gument was full of power. The effect of
his speech may best be judged from the
fact that at its close the crowd cheered for
some time, and that when Mr.. Tucker at
his opening mentioned Goode's name, the
cheering was kept up for even a longer
time. 1t is not matter of surprise that
the Readjuster Committee at Woodstock
when Gen. Malone spoke fatty declined
any joint discussion with Goode.
THE SPEAKING.
The meeting was presided over by Capt
James Bumgardner, Jr., and sitting in a
chair at the side of the Judges bench was
Hon. A. H. H. Stuart. who looked in ex-
cellent health. Capt. B. introduced Mr..
Goode as one who though personally a
stranger to us was known and loved
throughout Virginia and the Union as an
able and fearless defender of the rights of
the people.
Mr.. Goode said that while it was the
first time in his life that he had stood face
to face with an audience in Augusta, yet
he was Virginian and as such felt that
he was among his own people-a people
who had the same interests, the same
hopes. the same aspirations as himself.
The coming election Was the most imror-
tant ever held as affecting these interests
and these hopes. The people are to elect
a Governor, a 1t. Governor and an Attor-
ney General. They are also to elect leg
islature which is to make a new appor-
tionment for members of Congress. choose
a Fist and Second Auditor and Treasurer
of the State, Superintendent of Public
Instruction, an U. s. Senator and last,
and most important of all, five Judges of
the Supreme Court of Appeals. The
POINTS AT ISSUE
are the preservation of the public credit;
the preservation Of Anglo-Saxon civiliza-
tion against African domination, lap
plause); the supremacy of Virginia Democ-
racy over Malone Republicans (cheers).
AS to the first point,
THE DEBT,
the Democracy are pledged to settle the
debt honorably with the creditor, without
an increase of taxation. This debt has
been at various times fixed at various sums
by various leaders of the Malone party.
Col Cameron once had it at fifty million.
Gen. Malone, the Ajax Telemon of the
party; of whom it is said that when hs
takes snuff a number of people sneeze. fixed
Ii at thirty-two million. some hundred
Thousand and tao cents. Mr.. Massey fixed
it at $l2,O0O,OOO and Fayette McMullen
when he was alive used to say that we
didn't owe one red cent. The Democratic
party fixes it at Just the figures given by
Il. H. Dyson, -Readjuster, I'd
Auditor of Virginia in bis official report
$2s. e5s. goo with 81, 100000 of accrued in
terest. There can be but one reason for not
paying this debt and this is inability. Real
inability, not that sort of inability which
is given by the groaners and grunters who
never see any hope in anything. Now we
shall take for ner ability the report Of the
Readiuster Auditor Massey. He says
officially that the revenue of the state for
the year is 80, 853, 900. Thanks to the Dem
oeratic party the expenses of the State can
now be set down as follow:-for support
ez0A 000. fo, the