Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-09-29

West Virginia, who has lately purchased
farm in Rockingham. A very neatly
uniformed band from Mill Creek, Rock
! ingham, furnished the music of the occa-
| sion.
The speaking was arranged in this order:
Attorney General Blair to whoop them up
| and get them into line in half an hour,
John S. Wise followed in two bours, and
after recess John Paul spoke an hour
and three-quarteEs, Col. Browning q half
an hour and Gen. Malone closed in about
five minutes.
The speeches were of that appal ling
sameness that reuders nearly all the
speeches Of the campaign so tires ONE to a
newspaper man. The burden of the
speeches of all IF them was the free ballot
that is the abolition of the prepaid
poll tax, and the reduction of taxation as
benefits given by the Malone party. Mr.
Wise m ode II specially of abusing Auditor
Massey, hut you may he sure John Paul
did not John knows the Massey feeling
in his district too we'll for that, even If he
didn't have kindly feeling for the Par
son. The Only rev speaker to our people
was Col. Browning, who is a handsome
young fellow and not bad speaker. The
man that went to hear and that you
want to hear about was Malone. He
didn t speak FIVE minutes. When he rose
there was cheering for minute or more,
before he could begin. The General stood
waiting holding his hat in his hand. and
" hen the racket concluded made his brie
talk.
He begged the audience to be assured
that he would ever remember this recep-
tion with grateful appreciation. He would
not tresspass on their patience with an ut
terance of his political views. He was
here to testify his high appreciation of this
people and to bear testimony to the faith
full and efficient service rendered them in
congress by their representative. John
Paul. (Cheers.) He then went on to pay
high compliment to Mr.. Paul and
another to John Wise. For himself. he
said, with f our years behind him spent in
the liberation of the people of Virginia,
he pledged the balance of his life to the
same object. He had no other mission
He prophesied that the 18th of November
next would see this freedom completed
and Virginia restored to her old time re-
lations to the Union, and show that while
we are Virginians. we are yet Americans.
After some lntroductious to and hand
hob iy,rc tho nia- N IN
closed, and the speakers made rush for
their travelling bags which were piled up
on the end of the platform, and took flight
in different directions, Manone for Wash
ington, Paul for Page where Henry Allen
met him, Wise and Browning for the
Southwest, and Blair for, I didn't
know where.
THE ARRANGEMENTS.
While this picnic was a disappointment,
If not modification to the Malone men
attractions are considered. yet it had some
features that we Democrats must see that
we duplicate at our picnic. There was
not drop of liquor on or near the ground.
not drunken man, and no disorder. And
the hospitality of those who were proml-
pent in it. was liberal and searching. They
hunted up, should think, every man and
woman on the ground and saw that they
were fed. In these two points. SO impor-
tant at political gatherings of this sort,
our people must see that the enemy does
not excel them.
H. II.