Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-09-23
The Campaign at Hafrisonburg.
Reported for the Staunton VINDIoAToR.l
HARR1soNBURG, Sept. goth

q HARR1sONBURG, Sept. Goth.
"a Sitting in the verandah of the Revere
"a House-''prone to wander" I have fail
ding of going to the best hotel everywhere
ssfor instance at Woodstock go to Geary's
III Readjuster) and here come to the Revere
al (Democratic)- sitting I say in the long
saverandah at the Revere, which commands
VA view of the whole Of the main street, /
Ahave many things TO think about before I
saday's proceedings. 1t is not 6 O'Clock Il
gam an early riserl and yet men come up
ESto me and speak to me without introduc-
.Ation. without even having seen me before.
"a They, like 1, have heard that President
aGarfield is dead. They, like I, know that
1.-THE eyes that saw the sun set yesterday
aevening cannot see it rise this morning
acannot see this sun rise that we are all
blocking at 1t is cheap exhibition to US
5but to him it was above all price. We do
3anot say much; there had gotten to be such
ga friendly feeling between us and aim who
chad seen; there had come to be such a
family letter feeling about the daily bulle-
satins; there had lowered in these long
q eighty days of suffering such a beautiful
saplant of common humanity and brother
Ahood and nationality that even the coars-
saest grained of us could see its tender pet
gals and recognize it. There is that. mark
sSyou, between men of the same birth and
country that no man can explain or set
ssaaside; there is this great secret that we
5aaall hold in common and of which we can
ss5nly see glimpses at the edge Of grave
sallke, this-that we all belong to brother
AhOod and that as for ourselves, dead or
saalive, we are Americans 1t is to me a
EAhappy thought in looking into this grave
THAT the blood of the nation has circulated
$50 thoroughly in every part of our country
s. that loss like this makes all our hearts
s3st5p beating at the same moment. Perhaps
ain the words of One it was ''expedent'
aaGhat he should go away from US, in as much
Gas his departure has shown new and diff
333ferent life to his people.
a There came to me yesterday evening a
4sgentlemen with statement which every
q friend of the schools in the state should
Hread with interest. I copy it, 1.-THE Hen
Jkel school bill as approved on Mach Sd,
& 1879, and from that time until January
s 1st, 1880, (less then ten naonths) under a
q Democratic Auditor the schools received
Il $3.50 ,44l.2O. Since the 1st of January
= 1880, nearly twenty-one months, the
a cohon1c ha vo roooiuod exec 0do on or opJ1
Szs$7 ,602.60 more than the Democrats gave
sthem in the ten months after the passage
8s!of the Henkel bill.' l send this from my
ainformant who is familiar with the figures
GOT the school pportionments, just to show
B you what utter tom fooIery tn is stuff about
81 the Malone men being the peculi ar friends
Sof the schools is. [ don't suppose that.
Il since the Knownothing campaign in Vir-
ssginia, quarter of century ago, there
Il has been as great political fraud at
y tempted in the state, as the claim that the
y Malone party set the schools on their feet.
d I was disappointed here like I was in
81 Woodstock, about the object OF my trip;
8 there was no joint discussion. And here
4 the Democrats missed it badly. l am not
I talking about the ''last tag" in politics
Switch county committees indulge In, as to
s. who spoke last this time or who spoke last
3 that time-that is child s play. But when
ga Democratic speaker like John Goode is
Con the ground a Readjuster speaker like
4 John Wise ought to be given the opening
Z closing and then on to ten o'clock at night
sif he wants it. John Goode would have
q made one hundred Democratic votes out
4of the audience that saw sitting in 'front.'
Siof John Wise.
q Of the speeches, of course, can say butt
sslittle as there was no joint discussion. The
4 two audiences seemed to be great mat
q ter of contention among the local politics.
4 ians, as is always the case; but as far as Il
#could see, and 1 watched both as carefully
Gas I could, the difference between the twoS
& was not greater than, say thirty az any
5tlme Sometimes the Democratic meetings
ywas the fullest; then again its neighbours
@ the Readjuster. was the favOrite. Most
@of my time | spent at Capt. Wise's meet /
q ing. AS usual John, while he held bis au-
5dience admirably was utterly indiscreet-E
& perhaps it was his many indiscretions thatS
sprovoked his audience to applause. Dr.I
aCurry who is, think, among the foremostE
q Baptist in the State, was spoken of as fol-
lows: And here comes, DR.. Curry, singings
Gas sweet as cat bird on polk-berry bush.
\ He is the President of a college that holds i
gssome Virginia bonds aud he comesE
8around like turkey buzzard on fenceE
Isthe day after rain" Such an unprovok- \
Ned assault on d distinguished minister of
Gan influential denomination was, 1 SUPP
|pose, never before made by a POLITICAL
saspeaker who had time to think of what he
59said.
q Much of Capt. Wise s speech was admir-
Gable; for instance his illustration of thez
8ship of State (Virglnia) coming into port
S:after the wal, could not be excelled though
Git seemed to me his audience did not appre- i
3ciate it as they should. lie has many goodS
3things in his speeches which any MANI
4 might appreciate even though an oppo-}
snent. Some of his statements as to mat
3 ters of fact will doubtless be heard from
5agaln one of them, on subject which is /
ssalive al present on which he said as that
g.. We have letters of Wilson in our posses
asion in which he spells fall, fagl." His
aStatement Of
q GEN. MAHONE's POSITION IN WASH
u INGTON.
q was genuine surprise and so I took his
Swords down carefully. He said, "Whene
SGen. Malone got to Washington the Ad
ADMINISTRATION said to him, Look here! i'll
Ayour section is not pig -headed and obsti- /