The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-08-12
frederick COUNTY.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch
WINCHESTER, VA, August &, 1SS:

| WINCHESTER, VA, August g, 1882.
Yesterday seventeen white and one col
ored Mahoneites gathered themselves to-
getber in the courthouse hall to select two
delegates and two alternatcs to the Con-
pressional Convention for this district
| This meeting was in response to three TO
four-weeks' notice by posters distributed
all over the county. or the eighteen Ma
honeitcs the one colorcd and about seven OF
the white were citizens OF the city, and had
no right in the county meeting. a. NJ.
Pierce called the meeting 10 order in a
windy and acrobatic farce. in which he
vainlv beat the air, stamped the floor, and
shook his capacious nav in his futile cndca-
yor to obtain an approving response from
his companions in bondage, but cold despair
and certain death seemed stamped upon
every Mahoneites face, and like AFFECT
serfs, who labor for an abhored and mcrci-
less taskmastcr, they formally did the work
their Boss" had ordered. a. VI. Pierce
was elected chairman Of the meeting.
When a Committee on Resolutions was
appointed, he handed TO the committee n
batch OF resolutions for them to read and
hand back to him, for the " Boss had or
dered their adoption. When put to the
house not Il voice was raised, but 4 death
| like stiffness prevailed for about q minute,
when voice rs from the tomb said Aye
and two or three fecbly and reluctantly
responded in obedience 10 the order OF
" Malone, Va" % the delegates and alter
mates two were "What do you call them p
the other two were Stalwat Republicans.
| This meeting was even more llfecSs than
the one held for the city, OF which an &C.
( count was given in the DiSpGtch of several
DAYS ago. The only one who seemed 70
take any interest in this formal ratification
meeting was the chairman, who had every
thing cut and dried 10 hand. and asked
these few in to 20 through the formal OF
saying "as the Boss plcaScs." The chair
mans interest may DC attributed to the lit
! tie official bee that buZzes in his diilpid1-
ted bonnet. Passion and prejudice has
| been the stock in trade OF their leaders
here. but is now a drcS upon the market.
| for the people are no longer influenced
by them. Passion has subsidized, pref udicc
has worn of, and Democrats are Demo
Gratis in old Frederick Is in days gone by,
and with 40 uncertain soundWill her Voice
he heard in NoyembeT's election. Not only
will we get The entire vote OF 1880, but
many earnest and honest men who were
then deceived into voting the July ticket
now openly declare that they intend TO vote
for Massey and the Democratic nominees.
They say that Reimbursement is thing
adjusted, and they cannot now be taught 10
desert and forget their FIRST love, however
ingeniously traitors may cover their old
enemy with a chameleon mantle or many
faced visor.
"M.," the Wings correspondent from
this place, is endowed "Wiih Il very fruit
full Imagination" and cursed with "a very
poor memory" Ife is consistent. for
there is just rs much and no more truth in
his statement that Mahone'S appointed can
didate "wll get Il larger vote in this county
than the RoadiuSters did last fall " as that
Ex-Governor Holiday declares and vows
that he will not vote for Massey" No one
would make statements so foreign to facts
except a deluded and uncertain dreamer.
who has not passed a casual GOod-day"
with Governor Holiday since his return,
and who instead OF mingling with and
finding out the sentiment OF the people,
has confined himself to the Improbable
game Of "solitaire" with his own
thoughts.
Our cause is steadily growing stronger
every day in this county. Our people are
thinking OF the future, and upon what it
depends, and are talking TO their friends.
When Nirginans do this there is no cause
to doubt the yindication OF truth and the
success OF Democracy. Very respectfully.
DEMOCRAT.