Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-09-11

CLEAN OF SOm6Nihg as inc orator
went along, but the mind of the
nearer had to beat all former rec
Ords to discover il before the shad-
ow vanished.
For instance, he claimed read
iustment to be of bourbon origin,
citing the election of Holiday in
1877 in proof, forgetting that Holi-
day vetoed everything that sug
gested readjustment except the
| fraudulent McCulloch bill.
lie said the last Legislature had
passed five or six bills to perfect
readjustment, because Gov. Gam
erOn recommended them, seeming
ly not knowing that Cameron rec
commended a bill to compel the
funding Of the coupons maturing
January, 1882, while the other bills
covered the licenses and helped get
the whole question of the debt set
Element back to the L. S. courts,
and were purely of bourbon con-
ception for that very purpose. In
this connection he abused Bond and
Hughes, without stint, as republi'
can readjusters, though the latter
signed the iunder address of I" 80 )
to help thatparty sustain the fraud
of 1S77-S. Just here the young
acrobat left the field of state poll
tics TO drown himself in the deep
waters of national affairs. He
murdered Sherman and tore the
sinews from Blaine as mercilessly
as a turkey buzzard. Another such
attack as this, and both these men
will scarcely have the temerity to
remain in American politics.
Cameron and the "nigger
school trustee got fits. The speak
er said his people were frightened
out of their wits when they heard
of this outrage. When Kemper APP
pointed a "nigger" trustee for the
city of Petersburg and three or four
of the counties, and Holiday did
the same thing, it was all light.
But after the readjusters had in
creased the schools and Cameron
appointed one "nigger" in Rich
mond, where there were 5G colored
schools, it was enough to frighten
a ghost.
Here again the orator from the
county of J. Horace Lacey rushed
out of the state to cudgel Malone
for his vote in the Senate on the
Chinese bill. He said he wanted
protection for our people against
these Celestial idol wOrshippers.
He wanted to war on people doing
the mental labor of the Pacific
coast, but Malone votes for protec-
ton to American labor, American
products of all kinds against the
cheap labor of England. This kind
of protection the vision of the ora
tor could not take in.
Except the grand perOratiOn on
the name of Lee, this ended the
speech. The tickets of course had
to be anallzed. Wise, Wood and
Blair, he said, were all lawyers,
while his party presented two
farmers-Lee and Massey. Here
the boy orator lost his book. Wood
never was, and never will be, a law
yer. He has a brother who is a
lawyer and good enough to have
been a judge for years past. Blair
is a lawyer, and should be, to be
Attorney.General, but he owns a
farm in Wythe county, on which
his family resides, worth about half
the farms in the county where Lee
domiciles. Wise is lawyer. We
do not suppose he knows any more
about farming than General Lee.
Either of them would be put to /
their trumps to tell a modern cult |
vatOr from a McGinnis harrow
Massey was first a minister, then
practiced law in Fluvanna and adj |
joining counties; failing in this,
he again took to the pulpit and in
turn came up smiling as a senator
from his district in favor of a ten
million debt settlement. He lives
on a farm which he lost, conveyed
to his brother in Massachusetts,
and which his brother gave back
to him. So much for lawyers and
farmers. IL is we'll to note, how
ever, that every canvasser bourbon
ism has upon the hustings is law
yer, and that nine.tenths Of the
lawyers are bOurbons. Why, then,
should Mr.. GOOlrick bounce them
OF DIR. Rice the speaker had a
few words to say. lie mildly oh.
served that "the" party needs a
doctor. We presume he meant to
elect Rice to doctor the patient
that called him in. We really think
Goodrich misunderstood the situa.
ton, and thought for the moment
that Rice was our candidate and
Haun theirs. Otherwise he would
not have sailed into the professions
so boldly and Landed the farmers
so loudly. Haun is the farmer
Somebody ought to have told Cool.
rick about these local matters be-
fore be was put forward Of Harris.
For Massey, the speaker had a
great many apologies and excuses,
which are all answered in an arti-
Gle elsewhere under the head of
9 Massauis DemonracuN Lot him