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

damn mefOr doing what they themselvesul 0
[Cheers.1 BY consenting to the exemption
the state got a concession from the bond
holders of far greater importance than the
tax would have been. [Applause.l He
:! (D.) voted against submitting the Riddle
berger bill to the people and so he had
| against the submission of the McCulloch
bill. Talk about submitting it to the peo-
ple-all the action of legislature is sub
mitted to the people," The people are the
highest power; they can do and undo. The
whole debt question is before the people
now. Why didn't you tel; this audience
that John Paul and Fulkerson and all the
] rest refused to let the McCulloch bill go
before the people, [Cheers.l
CAMERON RECORD.
Cameron g record next received attention,
his anxiety to pay the whole fifty millions
Of the debt, his desire to shed the last drop
of blood, &C., and to talk then about years
of servitude under the McCulloch BILL!
CHEERS What ''inferIor race was the
olonel writing of in those days? Was it
The Indians, [grea: laughter or the
leather Chinee? laughter Or could
it have been the new object of his political
affections. And he called those who didn't
ant to pay the whole debt thieves. How
many "thieves'' are there here to-day who
ace gong to vote for him. But the Colo
mel pleads the infancy act on all this. 1t
WAS fourteen years ago. It reminds me OF
John Randolph's apologize inscription for
his dog Fido who had mutilated valuable
book. He wrote in the book. Done by
Fido sohen q puppu." [Great cheering
And Col. Cameron now says he lie sorry
for it. Bnt he is not correlatively puppy
in age. He was a big dog in the Conser-
vative yard when be said all this. But
when did Col. Cameron change? When
the Funding Bill of 1871 was being advo-
Gated by his political friends including
Frank Moss of Buckingham, I was oppos-
ing it in the legislature. l never heard Of
my competitor then. The Funding bill
became law in spite of nay tfforts.
believed and urged that if we would wait
we could get a more favorable settlement
After it became law submitted. Now
he wants Court Of Appeals to oyerturn
it. Fellow-citiZens there isn't man in
Rockingham that believes in packed juries
or packed courts; none of us could feel
safe; rot ole of you would want to carry
his suit into court where he knew the
| judge had been elected to decide certain
way. While Col. Cameron is talking about
Democratic principles he loses sight of
| that great Virginia characteristic princi-
| pie that justice shall be free and untram-
meled. [Great appIause.]
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
In one of your county papers, and
am sure that the editor published it in
ignorance of the real facts, I find it pub
lished that John W. Daniel is an enemy of
| the free schools. 1t is said a lie can trav-
! ell ten leagues before Truth can put on its
boots to follow. But Truth has got on
its boots now, and III kick this lie out of
| the Commonwealth. If was opposed to
the public schools 1 would say so. [Cheers
and cries of $50 you would.''] And 1 say
| that any man who says I am opposed to
| them utters a perjury. and whoever says it
brand perjurer. said that rather than
have the pending bill passed, l would be
willing to see the torch applied to every
school house in the State and to my own
house, [Cheers] and I would start life again
as went home from the battle fields of
this Valley with ragged gray jacket, but
| with an honest heart under it. Wild
cheering.] said it [cheers] and stick to t
[great cheering] and any man that has not
| this sentiment in his heart is not fit to be
| the Governor of Virginia. prolonged
cheering.] COL Cameron said he intended
| to ask me question. 1 will answer any
question. 1 don't intend to go to the cap
ital city of Virginia concealing anything.
| [Applause.] AS questions are in order, I
| will ask Col. Cameron one. "Are you a
Democrat or Republican," [Great cheers
and cries of 'bging him OUT make him
come out. u.
CAMERON DEFINES HIS POSITION
| Col Cameron-In answer to my friend.
| | tell him first that as to the organization,
[derislve laughter las to che organiza ton,
/ L
committee said we shouldn't be Demo-
Gratis. (Mingled cheers and derisive laugh :
ter.) But I claim to be Democrat in
| principle and maintaining those time
honored principles of the party which you
and your friends are attacking. (Cheers
and jeers.)
| Maj. Daniel-I expect 1t would be more
convenient if the question could be post
poned until after the election. Laughter. j
Col. Cameron has very chameleon like
way on public questions First a fifty
million man, then thirty.two million
man and now a nineteen million man.
Debtpayer first, then Readjuster; a Re-
publican-DemOcrat and just now not a
Democrat in organization, [laughter] and
a kind of a Republican in the future. He
is in the position Of the man who put the
saddle on the mule backwards and who
being questioned about it said How do
know which way the mule is going.''
[Great laughter.] Cameron has got the
Democratic saddle on the Republican
mule, backwards. Laughter and voice
| wen ride MIN tnrOugl.w
VIM. MALONE.
My competitor says he endorses VIM.
Malone. In 1870 Cameron informed the
people of Virginia that there was somebo-
I dy meddling in everybody's business
| Col. Csmeron-It was 1871.
| Maj. Danlel-(Looking at him} You
must have been a mighty bad boy to have
to plead the infancy act so often. When
Malone went to the U. S. Senate with a
Democratic vote did he cast it with The