Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-10-18
Speeches at the Comservative.DemO
Ocratic Club OF Stanton.

The meeting of the Conservative-D Democratic
Club Of staunton on last Tuesday night was
well attended, and the audience was enter
tanned by three able speeches delivered, re-
spectively. by Marshall Mccormick Of Clarke.
and by Major Holmes Conrad and R. T. Barton,
ESQ.,, Of Winchester. The Club, In the absence
Of Its President, n. st. Geo. Tucker, was pre-
sided over by Major Marshall Hanger, who in
troduced the speakers in an appropriate man
ner.
Mr.. Mccormick devoted the greater portion
Of his remarks to an exposition of the Riddle
berger Bill, the accepted platform of the
Malone party, and the infamous purpose OF
that party to pack the Supreme Court of Vir-
ginia. He demonstrated that the Riddleberger
Bill must necessarily increase the taxes Of the
State, or else the Public Schools would be de-
stroyed for the want Of support-that it re-
pealed the Henkel Bill, which kept the Public
Schools in existence. That the loan certificate
feature Of that Bill must necessitate the doub-
ling OF the Indebtedness of the State.
Major Conrad exposed the treason of Malone
in O forcible manner, and showed that his
course demonstrated that he was not Iaboring
to secure q settlement Of the State debt, but
the success of the Republican party-that he
had, in the United States Senate, voted all the
time with the Republicans-thath he had gained
the confidence Of the negroes, and that instead
Of showing them that it was their interest and
duty to act with the people with whom they
lived and upon whom they depended for en-
ployment and support, he had arraigned them
in hostility to them, thus proving q traitor to
his own race and to the interest OF the negro.
He also showed that 1t was the avowed pur-
pose Of the Malone party to commit the infa-
my Of packing the Supreme Court OF Virginia.
an enormity At which the civilized world
would stand aghast.
Il. T. Barton, ESQ.,. delivered an able, humor-
GUS. and witty speech, full OF happy hits.
He did not hesitate to apply the argunaentuns
ad hon'insn, and, In the course of his speech.
he alluded to the fact that the Malone party
had threatened to decapitate all Postmasters
and other Federal ofice-holders who failed to
bow the knee to Malone, and that this had
had the effect of changing the course Of the
Valley Tirginian, whose Senior Editor was
Postmaster Of Staunton, He also mentioned
the fact that citizen of his own county, who
was charged with having sold q half gallon Of
spirits at a camp-meeting without license was
under the directions of Deputy United States
Marshal. brutality shot down by q policeman
of his town. and that that Deputy Marshal was
now candidate Of the Malone party to rep
| resent the county Of Augusta in the Senate OF
Virginia. and that he was too much OF Turk
to suit him. He ridiculed the estimates OF the
leaders Of the Malone party In reference to the
amount Of the State debt. saying that 1t ranged
from sixty down to twelve millions. When II
was to the interest Of their party, as they con'
ceived. they would magnify or minify the debt
as they thought would best subserve their pur-
pose and delude the people He maintained
that the Malone party was a snare and q delu-
sion, and relied for success upon deceiving the
honest, but ignorant masses. The people will
be wise enough to put their seal of condemna-
ton on the Malone party.