The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-09-10

rJoyfsTs AND THE REPUBI.IcANS-'oh' %
wIsr,s EFFORT Colby RECEIVED GOOD
e'o''' srssrx COURTHOUSE, VA.,}
t.. September 7, 1882. !
To the Editor Of the Dispatch;
Mabone,s candidate for congressman Mt
! large John s. Wise, and his deputies,
Iibby. Wilson, Harris, and Van Auken,
had Int one antagonist to confront them
On the rostrum here to-day with an OPPOSE
ton speech.
Nv noon the meeting was called to order
Inv s. q. Uarrison's Congo ncighbor and
lieutenant. Meade by name, and then the
second edition OF Mahone's candidate for
Congress I'm this district and this cam
yoss' fibby. was with African nstheticism
act nm before the people Of Sussex county
for them to "run to" two months hence,
provided his bouncing Boss does not ere
that time "lay him down to sleep" to be
supplanted by newer il not tougher
stick.
Libbv's words, acknowledging the pre-
sentation and pressing his candidaturc,
were few, feeble, and fawning. They
numbered not two dozen, but, like Stanley,
he stood in the midst OF the Africans with
far more foes than friends around him. TO
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he appeared as unprepossesSing and I'M
comfortable Ms "Libby prison" did to the
northern prisoners therein confined during
the late civil conflict. Nothing but brides
and brow beating ever casts such an oyster
up to the surface OF any congressional sea:
Ills race rs against Dezendorf is considered
hopeless.
The next speaker was Wilson, OF Nor
foil, custom-house notorcty. But those
who have seen him need not to be told
whence he draws his sustenance; his fat
form furnishes that information. At much
length he eXtoled the red rcpublcanism
Of Malone, and portrayed the good that
had and would come from Mahone's negro
iZing b0ssism.
At the termination OF Wilson's torturous
TRADE. j. J. Smallwood, one OF Dezendorrs
canyassers, obtained twenty minutes in
which to reply to the Malone speakers,
and effectively did he use it. Negro he is,
and his words OF warning, and his wallop-
ing OF Malone and his pacemen aroused
the greater part Of the applaus given by
the negroes during the discussion here to-
dav. He carried two-thirds OF them over
and not under Libby and Wise.
Smallwood was succeeded by n. W.
Harris. Mahone's colored lawyer and legis-
lator, in a splenitic speech. He labored
much to show why the negroes and the
white MahoneiteS should work shoulder to
shoulder in upholding Malone in his lend
ish efforts to blacken and blast Virginia,
and poured out the vials OF his wrath on
all the recalcitrantS OF his race. Like
Wise in politics, he differed not in his adj
yocacy OF men and measures from him
whose tagging fortunes he struggled hard
TO take from the down and put on the up
grade.
The closing of Harris's forerunnine,
forensic display was quickly followed by
the vacation of the stand by the faithful
allies" and its occupation by the Hon.
John s. Wise and Chairman No. ., white
Republican. Wise, on being introduced,
"went TO the bit" and remained there
throughout his tenure OF time. One hour
and half was sufficient for him to range
from Malone to Massey and from Mclchse-
dck to mud machines. lie tarued not at
Jericho to let his beard grow, but raced
promptly of to Scott and Wise, cdat-ered
around through Southwestern aud North
ern Virginia on the tracks Of moonshiners
and local-opti0nists, ran into the good
feeding establishment OF King Arthur at
WASHINGTON, hurried away. plump and
South America, and soon came rat
Ting like coast ranger up on the
"home quarter" lie preached up
into prodigious prominence cupidity,
one Of the basest attributes OF human M
ture His principal argument, in briei,
correctly interpreted. was, do rs | have
donc-help to tyrannize and rcpublicanizc
Virginia and the South generally and re-
ceive a little office As Il reward for the
same.
The Big Four. together with the V OF
the Malone problem, he figured at on the
political slate until his pencil and his per-
plexity exchanged dimensions-the first
from a big something to an almost nothing,
and the last from an almost nothing 10 4
bic something; and then he tried to Grub
OUT these figures, which denote disas-
trous decline in Malone stock, but
the harder he rubbed the brighter
and the more indelible they were.
He instituted a comparison between Judas
Iscariot and Mr.. Massey and the Apostle
Paul and himself: but the only tbin"s at
all alike in phraseolOgy, however entirely
contrary in application in the character or
career of st. Paul and that OF Mr. JOHN :.
Wise, Of which we have any record or
knowledge, are the splendid, triumphant
words OF the former III closing up his te;-
timony to his labors in the Church mill
tant, My race is rum" &c, and Mr..
Wises present political condition, Of which
it may truly be said "his race is rum
with the appendix, Away from him.
Mr. Wise related well many anec-
dotes, which provoked general langh-
ter, and he made, | suppose, az
many points in his speech rs any
one in his party could have scored in
the time he occupied the stand but the
bulk Of the negroes distrulst him, and the
whites, with few ofice-seekers excepted,
are not Republicans. The Democrats were
surprised at the close Of his speech not to
hear him or his remarks applauded. Not
one cheer greeted him on taking his hat to
quit the platform. The suppostion as to
is cause is that his supporters were afraid
by applauding him they would make
known their weakness with the people.
The Democrats through this whole cOun-
try are solidly for Massey. The white Re-
adiusters OH every hand are coming back
to the onservatiye-Democratic party.
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