Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-10-09
n sPECTAToR AND GENERAL ADVERTISERS

account given below, as published in the
next issue of the State, does not state that
he went to Washington with the protest,
but that others, whose names are given,
did, and carried the protest gotten up by
Judge Quarles.]
ADDITIONAL.
From the State of the 4th we copy the fol-
lowing
''Mr. John Huff, whose interesting expose
of some of the villainies of Mahoneism in
Augusta county appeared in yesterdays
State, called at the Office to add some fur
Their facts aud corrections which were over
looked in the conversation of yesterday.
SIN the first place. said Mr.. Huff, 81
would like to have it distinctly understood
that | will not, and could not, publish any
thing to initiate against Lieutenant-G Gov
ernor Lewis. He is fine gentleman and
has always been my warm personal and
political friend. 1t was at the first meeting
of the Readjuster County Committee that
the effort was made to put W. B. Kurtz in
as postmaster. As to the false record of
the meeting representing that Kurtz had
been recommended by it for the place of
postmaster at Waynesboro', Noon never ac-
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of the committee when appealed to denied
that the committee had endorsed Kurtz.
Noon was the secretary, and his record was
that the meeting had endorsed Kurtz. Fhe
second meeting of the committee may have
been early in December. A friend of mine,
a gentleman whose veracity is beyond dis
pute, told me that Noon told him that the
meeting had not endorsed KurtZ. When
Kurtz said to the subcommittee that Meth
er [ nor my son had voted in the Governors
election, the subcommittee sent over to the
clerks office of Waynesboro' and found
that both of US had voted. There are very
few respectable white men III Waynesboro'
who are Mahoneites, and do not know that
any Mahoneite signed the petition, against
my removal. a number of the most promi-
nent citizens of Waynesboro' got up the
protest, which was numerously signed, and
employed Mayor Patterson to take it to
Washington. The occurrence which Sena-
tor Lewis related to me was at the Lynch
burg convention Of 1881. Senator Lewis
was presiding, and found the several bal
lots with the name of John A. Noon in the
same handwriting. When Noon acknowl-
edged that he himself had written them
Mr.. Lewis tore the tickets up before his
face and threw them on the floor. Mr..
Lewis said to me, Noon is regarded as
first-rate worker, but he is conceded to be
great rascal 1t was when Senator Lewis
was III Richmond attending the meeting of
the Medical College Board that he saw
Craig, but not Malone, and spoke to him
in my behalf, and Craig promised that he
would see abont the matter.
"Craig' letter to Malone was that IS per
cent. of the testimony taken at Waynes-
boro' was in Kurtz's favor. As to the visit
to Washington Mr.. A. F. Mosby, DR.. R. S.
Hamilton, and Mayor Patterson all saw
Malone in my behalf and carried the pro-
test gotten up by Judge Quarles. Mr.. W.
M. Caldwell testified about Kurtz, when the
committee was considering his application
for the place of postmaster, that his gen
eral reputation is id bad"
Mr.. Huff requested us to add these facts
to the interview of yesterday. He is very
anxious that his account of nefarious trans
actions of the Malone Ring shall be alb
solutely correct in all it's details"