Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-09-05
po1I7IchI SPEAKING 1T BRENTsvILLE q


The rain storm Of Sunday night, declared
by the association of oldest inhabitants Of
Prince William county to be the heaviest
known in that section since the food mot
the Biblical deluge, but the flood of 1871
had the effect of transforming all the streams
surrounding Brentsville, in that county, in
to mad rushing rivers and consequently pre-
venting the expected large attendance of
voters upon the political speaking ADVERT
sed to take place at that little county seat
Yesterday. Cedar Run was not f6rdable and
hundreds from the lower portion oithe coun-
ty, after getting within quarter Of 4 mile
of1hc place they so much desired TO reach
had to turn back disappointed greatly dis
appointed because Of the impossibility of
reaching the feast that was within sight.
Notwithstanding the impossible condition
of the streams good crowd was present in
the town. many parties, fearing that some
thing might happen to keep them
away from the speaking, having left
their homes Sunday afternoon. a short
session of the County Court was held with
Judge Weldon on the bench, after which, ut
= o'clock in the afternoon, Major w. w.
Thornton called the meeting to order in the
Court House, and stated that it had been
arranged that each speaker Judge Geo. Y.
Garrison, Col. Il. NJ. Mayo. and Col. John
w. Volt, who occupied seats on the stand)
should have one hour, and then fifteen
minutes in which to make their rcionders.
He then introduced Judge Garrison, the
regular democratic candidate for Congress
from the lst district.
The Court House was filled with people,
among them being many colored men, and
the appearance Of Judge Garrison excited
much enthusiasm. The Judge thanked the
!. audience for the reception accorded him.
, which, he said, showed that bossism had few
sympathiZers in old Prince William. Cries Of
you are right; d-n Malone and his gang, &c. J
, The speaker then gave an account OF his
Congressional career, and said he had Sc
cured for his district appropriations to the
, amount of 100000, and that through his
, efforts Congress had passed a fish bill that
! would prove great benefit to the Potomac
fisheries, in which the 1st district, bordering
+ ON the Potomac, was Interested. In reply
, to colorcd man named Pinn, the Judge
: stated that he had not secured the passage
: Of the Garfield Memorial Hospital bill,
!, which he had introduced onlyat the request
g. of the Chairman Of the Committee on the
= District Of Columbia, because the rcpubli.
- cans, to whom Garfield belonged, had re.
4 fused to vote forit He did not care anything
y about the bill. The republicans in this
h matter had acted with characteristic mean,
# ness 4 live dog with them is always o
:. more use than dead lion. Turning to Col
,s Mayo, Judge Garrison said, You are no
# the man, Col. Mayo, to wear the collar of ;
Or tyrannical boss; in days gone by you have
+ proved yourselfa man, and it is Il shame 70
you now to submit to the degradation tha
MlaA9hs WqHa i, Joy u III SSi5Te ia
:" could secure the nomination for Congress
Yes fellow citizens while I was in Congress
es dolngall lcould for thcState and district will
Malone opposing every move made, Col
N Mayo. following the dictates of Malone. wa
j. endeavorlng TO bring about an unholy ALI
y ance for the destruction of eycrythin5 thn
=, good people held dear, and the crushing OIL
~ of everybody who would not bow the kne,
'e to this little would be despot' Col. MAYO
too, according to his own statement, since
~ his connection with Malone and his crew
a had been sailing under false coors. Not
withstanding he was on the readuster Han
al cock electoral ticket he voted for the demo
v cratic Hancock ticket. and notwthstaudin,
e, he had been republican for three years IL
had never cast republican vote. II,
s. voted for him, Judge Garrison, against
Is Volt, the regular republican candidate
& and Judge Critcher the readiuster candi
4 date. He did not object to Mayo voting
h for hlm, Garrison, for he did Il good thing
IS but such acts showed to what a condition
# COL Mayo had come--a republican who had
never cast republican vote, a readiustel
:, who had never cast Il readiustcr vote q
:, candidate for Congress without a party
- and Il man without record save an
e unsavory one; candidate for Con.
- gress simply ut the dic;ation of one man
w and that man-Billy Malone Hcwas very
% much afraid Col. Mayo was like Malone,
- hard to locate. Col. Mayo's only idea was
to use the readjnster party to build up the
republican party i'll the STATE: he had de-
clared, after his defeat Tor office that the
'eadiuSter party was the L. -,lcst and most cor
IS rupt party in the world; that anything could
IL be gotten through the readuSler Legislature
=. Witl'money, and that enough money had
been spent in securing the passage of meas
:, urcs to purchase the Cnited States Govern
II ment; that Notwithstanding this declaration.
Il and Notwithstanding there were plenty of
q genuine readjusters and republicans in the
, district, Malone had given Mayo the nomi-
: nation to keep him from kicking Disposing
OF Mayo, the speaker turned his attention to
other matters. He said. Ito prove how kind
l the Administration had been TO the South
e as declared by the Mahonefes, Arthur had
vetoed the river and harbor bill simply be-
;; cause the South by the bill, received a few
| millions of dollars more than the North ::
!. the whole policy Of the republican party was
to build up the rich monopolists of the
North and keep>down the poor of the
South the policyof the republican party
was in favor Of the rich against the poor.
because that party had departed from the
advaorem and taken up the Specific sys-
, tenn; after paying all the expenses of gov
eminent, the interest on thedebt and every
, thing else, including pensions, which all
, went to the North, there remained in the
United States Treasury, which a republi-
can administration could not spend or steal
$50, 100000, and this is the tariff that Col
Mayo sustains. appeal to youmen, demo-
Gratis and republicans, white men and color