Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-08-26
REPUBLICAN MEETING.
ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO CONGRESS
SIGNAL CONVENTION.

SPEECHES BY HON. JOHN B. FORAKER, OF oHio
AND HON. NATHAN GoFF, OF WEST VIRGINIA
On yesterday the meeting which it had been
promised would number ten thousand, was
held in the Opera House, and did not contain
more than one tenth of that number, 1nciud'
ing all the Democrats who attended as specta-
tors, and had no difficulty in finding room IN
that Hall.
Though the number was not near great as
promised. yet it was quite respectable in num-
bers, and the speeches able and plausible, and
delivered in good style
MEETING TO ELECT DELEGATES
AT a quarter to IL o'clock, VIM. E. Craig
Chairman of the Republican County Commit
tee called the meeting to order and announced
that the object of the meeting to elect ii
delegates and alternates to te Republican
Congressional Convention.
On motion Col. Saml A, East was elected
Chairman, and Jacob Yost, Secretary.
On motion offs Brown Allen a committee OF
two from each magisteral district was appoint
ed by the chair 10 recommend the delegates
and alternates. The committee thus appoint
ed reported the following which was adopted
BEVERLY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, b. C. Smith,
James Henderson. Alternate, j. A. w. Smith
(colored)
RIvERHEADs.-Oeegate w H. Shields. Al
ternate, John B. Fauber.
MIDDLE RIvER.-Deegates, Geo McCTary,
Layton Sampson, Jos. S. Beard.
SOUTH RIvER.-Delegates w. Il. McComb,
John r. Tay lor (coored) Alternate. L. w. II.
Davis (colored)
PAsTUREs.-Delegate, $. Brown Allen. Al
ternate, w. Bailey Dunlap.
NORTH RIvER.-Delegates, Michael Holler,
G. A. D. Curry. Alternate; A. J. 81 Kenmore.
The 'Stonewall Brigade Band favored the
meeting with music to the tune Of fifty dollars.
After the meeting which appointed delegates
adjourned, the audience was addressed by Hon.
John B. Foraker Of Ohio. who was defeated for
Governor OF that state by Judge Hoad!ey, the
present Governor. He spoke for two hours and
twenty minutes. He was succeeded by Hon.
Nathan Gof, of West Virginia, who spoke for
an hour. Want of space prevents US from no.
ticing their arg uments in detail, which were
more plausible, than sound, would have been
shown, If they had been replied to by Tucker
or some other man OF equal, or even of less,
ability. The chief argument or both speakers
was, that the progress and prosperity OF our
country waa due TO the policy of the Republic
can party and especially to the tariff They
presented in an eloquent manner the progress
which our country had made in the past quar-
ter of a century, and they assumed that because
there was tariff, that the progress of the
country was the result of the tariff. That is
precisely the argument that was used in Eng
land forty years ago by the protectlonists when
they opposed the adoption of the free trade
policy by that country. They, like these gen.
tlemen, spoke of the progress and prorperity OF
England, and attributed it to the protective tar
it, and, like them, predicted that ruin would fol-
low the abolition of the tariff. The ftee-traders
maintained that the prosperity of England was
not due to the tariff, but that it was prosperous
in spite OF it; and the result has shown that
they were right; for the high protective policy
was abandoned, and England has been more
prosperous ever since. The progress and ad-
vancement of this country Is not due to the
high protective tariff which robs Peter for the
benefit of Paul, but 1t progresses in spite of it,
The argument of the English protectionsts,
which is the same as that these speakers used.
has been proven by absolute results to have
beer false. This country will progress wheth-
er we have high or low tariff and it will pro-
gress more rapidly If the present high tariff be
reduced and be so adjustel3s to bear equally
upon all. instead of bur ling the many for
the benefit of the few.
After these gentlemen had spoken, Hon. j.
F. Dezendorf, who had occupied seat on the
stage, made o few remarks, in which he said
that the divisions in tn Republican party in
this State would be healed, and that the solid
South would be broken and would not be
known any more forever.
Though the speeches were good of their kind,
the meeting would have been life;ess, had IL
not been for the exuberant spirits of the ne
groes in the gallery. They did most of the
cheering