Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-02

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SouTH BosToN. October l, 1885.
IN my last letter I promised to finish
up The record Of the great Democratic
meeting At the courthouse by giving
you . synopsis Of Colonel Cabell's
speech. The speaker Was introduced
BY Mr.. N. T. Green In . few earnest
and feeling remarks.
COLONEL cABELL.
Colonel cabell, after paying high
compliment TO the true and tried DEM
ocrats Of old Halifax, said {:
With every succeeding election we
are accustomed 70 think and say II is
the most important Of any that has pre-
csded il. We always cry "wolf,
wolf,'' but. believe me, never could this
be said with more truth than now, and
II nv voice and advice were ever worth
anything to you, say to you that this
IL the most important contest we have
ever had before us. And what is the
contestS Malone! Nothing but Ma
hone. Can anything be worse than
that? IL in moment Of great misfor-
tune to the State John $. Wise be
elected its Governor, would not
Malone virtually be Governor and not
Wiser Did not the caucus control the
Legislature and Malone the caucusT
Let me tell you, and let II be sacred
and burned into your consciences, that
II Wise is elected Governor and Ma
hone Is sent back TO the United States
Senate. all that devilish malignity, that
miserable spite, that contemplate
meanness bound up in the little body
called Billy Malone would scorch and
blssken and burn and humiliatc the peo-
pie Of Virginia opposed to him beyond
recognition and recovery! Why, he
hates the class Of Yirginisns who war
against him and his methods--he hates
them as the devil hates holy water and
the sweetest kilograms that could be
sent him would be those which told
him that Virginia had forgotten her
principles, had broken away from her
moorings, and had placed his hench-
men In Office.
When last / stoed before you we
were upon the eve Of a great national
contest. We were fighting for Demo-
cratic supremacy in the high seats of
this nation. We have come out Of
that fight yictors. We have hurled
corruptionists from power and installed
over this people big-necked, big
Isaded, big-hearted, big-stomacbed
man who will stay and stand by the
people for years. lApplause.l
With this brief allusion to national
politics, the speaker, coming nearer
nome, paid q tribute to those con-
'cientious Readjusters who could not
DO dragged nor driven into the Repub-
lean camp, and with scsthiug irony
nd sarcasm spoke of "We, the Repub-
lean party" as their n'... form puts it. /
Thools AVE.? A few years they
vere hootiDg Democrats. but now that
he Riddleberger bill had been agreed
O, some other tack must be taken to
trengthen their waning fortunes; hence
10 longer Readjuster-Democrats, but
We, the Republican party. Has
be time ever been Of late years when
William Malone failed to throw bone
4 contention into Virginia politics, d.
idipg and embittering her people! Is
70 not chronic malcontent?
And what pretensions do these =" We
put up! They are now
n favor Of the abolition OF the internal
eyenue system and want to stamp it
ut. When? When the sccptre has
allen from Judah. when the gauger's
cd has been broken! prolonged APP
'lausc.l They are in favor of free
,allot and fair count. Malone, the
ODDLY, godly, elegant Malone, who
irst invented the tissue ballot and
stuffed ballot-boxes They now
svor the payment Of s2l 200, 900 of
be public debt, when at Mozart Hall
32. 100000 was the amount Malone
ettled on /; but finding that Mr.. Massey,
he real father of readjustment, and
,tber leaders had gotten ahead of him
,e comes in now, claiming. as usual, all
he credit! The Republicans want no
settlement Of the debt. Tbsy DOM
are whether il Is sal .0fn 49, ,ooo |
)00, 1000 II 49, s,ooo or s-Vo',
-. ley only can control, aud
...erefore they strive with all their
might to keep this rotten bone Of con-
tention ever between the jaws OF the
people by getting their courts to render
decisions adverse to the interests OF the
State, and in the teeth of her leglsla-
tive enactments.
The Republican platform was ham
died with terrific force and at the same
time in Colonel Cabell's most humorous
vein. 1t claims that General Malone
and his afiliators reduced the tax on
tobacco. Well, ! have heard of the
imper,inence Of town COW aud the
impudsnce Of an army mule, but never
anything to equal this piece of monu-
mental cheek. The history of the re-
duction of the tobacco tax is well
known, and certainly it is not for me to
tell who was instrumental in having
that done; but Malone is not. If he
ever did moro than cast one vote for
its reduction have never heard OF
the action. They "resolute against
contract labor Of conyicts, when they
were the first TO make contracts with
manufacturers for convict labor in OPP
position TO the free, Legitimate labor Of
the State. They claim they should be
thanked and voted for on account o
their efforts towards securing public
buildings in Virginia at Lynchburg
Danville, and Richmond. The histor,
of these matters was related, and thu
treatment Of Hon. j. r. fuckers bill
especially noted. That bill appropria
ted 100000 to . public building i
Luxembourg, and in accordance wit
congratulated custom and secmin
propriety, it was supposed that th
VIRGINIA Senator would see that it pas:
cd the Senate, but Malone, on the Con
nittee Of Public Buildings, endeavore
70 cut il down to $4,000.
Quite a sensation was caused whe
Colonel Cabell delivered the followin
piece OF invective. He told Of eel,