The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-10-24
THE CANVASS IN THE STATE.
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CoNNAJLY TRIGG's CANVAss-IhE phso'
cp,rs WAKING up--A LITTLE PIECE OF CO.
AlITloN MEANNESs.
Icorrcspondencc OF the Richmond D'spstch.l
RUSSELL COUNTY, october 20, 1888.
your CORRESPONDENT has been IN this
county for the last three days with Hon.
Connally +. Trigg, and he finds the out
looL most encouraging. Mr.. Trigg and
Mr. Cow.n Gose, the Malone nominee for
,bc Legislature, spoke at Temple Hill on
Thursday. Mr.. Gose made very COM
mon.placc speech about the funding bill.
establishment. and few other obsolete Is
sues.
MIR. Trigg made one OF the finest
,peeches OF bis life. He did not attempt
TO answer ,iose's speech. lie said be had
nothing personal 10 say Of Mr.. Gose; that
be came to appeal to Democrats who were
about 10 be led into the sislwart wing OF the
Radical party by sophism and deception.
among them Mr.. Gose himself, who bad
for so many years been Democrat, and
whom Bill Dickinson and other Repuhii-
cans We're now laughing at in their sleeves
because they had caught bin. This talk
rather sickened MIR. Gosc and made the
old strsightoutS terribly mad. Mr.. Trigg
covered every issue in the canvass. ana
ms speech he'd a splendid effect. He car
ried q majority OF the large audience with
him.
ON Friday night Mr.. Trigg went TO Zion
church 10 address the people. Upon ar
irving. o. Z. kiser, school-tescher, made
objections TO his speaking in the school,
building He said he did so upon the au-
thority OF one John Smith, a schooi-trus-
tee. and Mr.. Bickly, ono OF the church
trustees. A majority OF the ehurch-trus-
toes. upon whose authority Mr.. kiser
teaches in the building, were willing Tor
MIR. Trigg 10 speak there; but he said ne
would not compromise the dignity OF The
Marty he represcnted by speaking In build
inc where there was objection from any
quarter. He also said that he had canvass
ed All over this district and out OF the dis-
trict. and never before had any one wished
10 refuse him building 10 speak In.
This sfront to the Democratic party on
the part Of Riser. Smith & Co. was evident
ly "A piece OF partisan meanness, because, rs
/ arn creditably informed, certain Ma.
honeite once addressed crowd, composed
mostly OF negroes, In the same buildinB,
and the very fellows who objected 10 Ar.
Trigg speaking there drummed up bis
crowd for him. This refusal received the
condemnation Of sll respectable men. IL
will make greatly more votes for the Dem
ocrais than a speech would have done. MT.
Trlgg intended TO address the anxious
crowd that had gathered TO hear him out
OF doors, but rain prevented.
To-day Mr.. Trigg spoke to large crowd
at Wilisms's store, and produced equally
AZ eflectual an impression as he dld at Tenn.
ple Hill on Thursday. Mr.. Trigg VIII
make other speeches in this county next
week.
The revolution that Is going on here Is
wonderful The Democrats are in high
spirits, while the Mshoueites are disheart-
ened. Malone, learn, will mood the
county with money in the attempt to carry
it; but am persuaded it Will be all IN
vain. II Fuller OemOcraD is elected over
Gose, MS he is almost certain TO be, II VIII
no due more TO the strenuous eXertion OF
Connally +. Trigg than any other one man
FLOYD.