Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-10-16
GEN. FITzHUGH LEE,
Bourhon-Funder Candidate For Governor.

At the Court house Of his own
county Of Stafford, in March, 1879,
the aforesaid General Lee not our
General Robert f.. Lee-called a
meeting Of the people to endorse
the McCulloch Or Brokers Bill, and
10y resolution, which he himself Of
at that meeting, proposed to expel
all Conservatives from the party
who opposed that infamous meas.
ure.
The people of Virginia condemn
ed the Brokers Bill. The people of
Stafford county, where General Lee
lived, condemned him severely and
cOnspicuously at the election which
followed. They beat General Lee
by a majority Of 622, for the Legis-
lature, with that Readjuster of Re
adjusters, that man Of the people !;
that man among men; that man
who had the courage to resist the
attempt Of a bankrupt aristocracy
to erect here in Virginia, upon the
ruins of the people, the destruction
of their Free Schools and the very
confscation of their labor and their
liberties-the late lamented Duff
Green, OF Stafford.
The Brokers Bill which General
Lee, Major Daniel, and their pOlit-
zeal associates, sought to make the
crucial test of loyalty 10 the Con-
servative party of that day, would
have saddled upon the taxpayers
of the State the debt as computed
by the fraudulent Funding Bill of
1871. and it would have preserved
and tostered the hated tax.receiva-
BILE coupon. 1t wOnld have i'm.
posed the payment of thirteen mil
lions OF principal-that the people
do not owe. 1t would have taxed
them for the payment of thlrty-hve
aud half millions of interest more
than they have under the Read
jusIer- r-RepublicaD Debt Settlement.
ID all, it would have taxed the peo.
pie to pay fOrty-eight millions more
than they pay under that-Our Re-
adiuster Debt Settlement-eQual
to a mortgage upon the head Of
every man, woman and child
white and black-of fhe STATE, for
thirty dollars each. This is the
tax which the Brokers Bill would
have imposed In excess of the Re.
adjuster. Republican Debt Settle
ment, and this is the bill-the
Debt Settlement. which General
Fitzhugh Lee aud Major John w.
Daniel and their associate political
leaders would have fastened upon
this sorely stricken State and i'm
pOverished oeople.
General Fitzhugh Lee Is Major
Daniels candidate for Governor,
ant Major Daniel is General Fitz-
hugh Lees candidate tor tue Uoited
States Senate-as everybody be-
lieves.
General Fitz lugh Lee and Ma
or Daniel must be supposed TO 0e
of one mind upon the debt, and in
respect 40 popular education.
What friend to Onr ReadjusteI
Debt settlement aud to the Free
Schools, to the Blair Educational
Bill, can safely trusC ;ne care, the
keeping, and the fortunes Of these
great measures of immediate in.
terests TO The taxpayers and chill
dren of the Commonwealth to
either OF these gentlemen? If you
vote for Lee you vote for Daniel.
The people Of Virginia, at the
ballot. box in November 1881, put
their seal o; condem nation Oh Ma
jor john w. Daniel, the ,beu Bour-
bon.F .Funder candidate for Cover
nor, because he too supported the
McOulloch or Brokers Bill.
When that bill was before the
Senate, Major Daniel, along with
Grimsley, of Cnlpeper, and Mar
shall, of Craig, voted to retain the
hated tax.receivable coupon.
The Richmond Dispatch, when
Major Daniel was nominated for
Governor, iU 1881, said 'he had a
record which the people would not
enlorse'
Is his record any better nOwl
THE HOUR AND NAN HAVE NET.
Gu 1881 the Democratic. Readju just
er Club, OF Alexandria, Of which
James Barbour. Samue' IL. Motfett,
James V. Brooke, Baker p. Lee,
and mauy others Of like standing,
are announced as members, de.
clared IN a public address, as fol-
lows
"ID our judgment the present
unsettled condition OF affairs, and
OF the public debt, is a great wrong
upon our people.
Where is our remedy? Not in
the extreme Funders-and old par
ty leaders-who were badly beaten
in 1879. Any extreme Funder, no |
matter how personally popular he !
may be, or what promises he may
give, would go down into the dust !
with vast majority against him,
for the people would feel certain
that, were he elected Governor, he
would stand a warning menace that |
no settlement could be made Of the |
debt-iD justice to the people shall |