The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-08-23
From Peaks OF otter.

| A POLITICAL VIEW fKoh iniS ho' -,
NENcE--How HIS FORMER FOLLOWERS ARE
THROWING BRICKS" AT THE Boss-
FATHER MASSEY BUSY AT WORK, EIC'
| ICorrespondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.I
PEAKS OF OTTER, VA.,
August II, 1882.
Jnosmuch as this point affords an outlook
over n considerable portion OF the political
field which Is just now a subject OF spe-
cial interest to our Virginia people, | pro-
nose TO give you the benefit Of such dis
coyeries as have been able to make.
The Republican delegates have just re-.
turned from the Lynchburg Congressional
Convention, and are quite iubilant over
the nomination OF Rives and the discom-
future Of the Malone wing OF their party:
The leaders OF the Republican party OF
Bedford are not friends OF Senator Malone.
They make an outward show OF co0pera-
ton with him, but are really doing all they
can to defeat his plans. They put up loD
on jim Frazier in 1880, and enabled Ran.
Tucker to carry the county OF Bedford by
2,100 majority ; and yet poor, lnsuspectinS
Jcems was cooperating most fraternally III
the Lynchburg Convention with the same
parties who sQuelched shiS political asplra-
lions In the canvass OF 1880, and gave MS
hearty assent TO the nomination OF the very
man who was the prime mover and instl-
gator OF the job.
The chairman OF the Coalition Readiuster
Executive Committee OF this county is one
Tankcrslcv, pcrapcrtitic vendor OF Ii
zard Liniment. This medicine man is
nominally the Biz Iniin' OF the party,
but George V. Case and Mercer Gray are
running the machine, and they will not
=. Al. D..
cxigencies of the situation absolutely re-
quire. or course neither RiycS nor his
Republican friends entertain any hope OF
sending him to Congress. but the whole
movement is intended to fortify Riycs in
his present position.
Sam Yost, Of the Valley Tirginidn. is
another OF these gentlemen who is just
now giving the Boss a seemingly hearty
support. But Sans heart isn't in it. sam
knows the Boss is yindictiye, and has Il
very keen recollection Of past dclin-
qucncics; that he carries in his private
book OF accounts very black circle oppo-
site the name OF Sam IOSt, Is one to be
guillOtincd when favorable opportunity
presents itself. The Boss knows that
when he stood most in need OF Sans SER
vices sam was pulling in the opposite di-
rcctlon; that when an effort was being
made to capture the Staunton Convention
and the Lynchburg Convention Sam
was bitterly opposing all his schemes,
and when. in spite Of Sans opposition.
he succeeded in capturing the Republican
party in Virginia. and the recalcltrant sam
was whipped into the traces OF the Malone
chariot by the lash OF the Federal aulhOri-
ties. that the StauntOn mustang required
watching and would bolt il ne got an
opportunity. And then the Boss is kept
so busy lodging the brickbats Of Father
Massey and Frank Ruilin, and John Volt
and LOWS Mckenzie, how can he Keep a
sharp eye on sun: rather suspect COrbin
Reynolds Is throwing bricks too. ! am
very well satisfied il he didn't throw them
lie put them in Frank Rufiin'> hat.
| hear Father Massey is making a clean
sweep on the North Carolina line. Demo-
Gratis, RcidiusterS. and Republicans are
all being gohhlcd up. He i L mighty
lcycl-hcaded old man. He goc, Waiting
in and out among these people, with that
pious, injured air, and that heavenly smile,
and he bags them all-mcn, women, and
children. They say That the old women
over there have knitted him more than
five hundred pairs Of yarn >Ock> and gloves.
They have been told 81 that treachcrou,
Washington climate; that the old mnn
suffers with cold feet and hands, and that
he don't fortify himself with internal
" pizcn." The children over there are all
crying for his photograph. The battcring
OF the old mans stOvc-pipc at Rocky
Mount will cost Malone 10000 votes.
LITTLE OTTER"