Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-10-23
1HE LITTLE CART
DRIVER !!

He AND JUDGE STAPLES
SPEAK AT HARRI-
SONBURG.
LARGE DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE.-THE
LITTLE CART DRIVER ENTHUSEs THE
ROCKINGHAM DISQUALIFICATION
POINTS MADEBY JUDGE STAPLES-T TIL
CHANCES IN ROCKINGHAM.
| &C, sc, &C.
Reported for the Staunton VINDIcAToR.]
HARRIsoNBURG, Oct. 10.
AS the court house bell struck Twelve
| to-day. a man came up on the Judges stand
and tackled against the wall two large
photographs of soldier in uniform with
this inscription: "Virginia's Next Gov
ernor, Gen. FitZhugh Lee The likeness
is good one. Away down the crowded
streets, brass band sounded. Soon a
multitude of feet trampled the stairs and
the Democrats poured into the court room.
The we'll known face of Judge Staples
was the first l saw. It wasn't hard to
remember him, though | had not seen him
| for thirteen years. He somehow has the
gift of abiding youth, for he doesn't look
! a day older than he did then. By him
| walked a middle-sizsd. muscular but not
stout man Of about thirty-fve, with a
beardless face and light grey eyes. This
was Rufus A. Ayres, The Little Cart
driver OF the Southwest. With them
came those veterans, John L. Harris aid S.
H. Moffett and behind them still the veter-
an Democratic Readjuster George E. De-
neale. The floor and the gallery were
quickly filled.
AYERS ON THE STUMP.
DR.. Moffett introduced Ayers, as the
''little cart driver" of the Southwest and
the next Attorney General Of Virginia.
1t was bad days work for John Wise
when be let slip, if he did let it slip, that
term of "cart driver" The Democrats
are working it for all 1t is worth and
making it worth good deal. When Moi
| felt named it, the crowd broke into tumul-
tuous applause, and all through Ayers
| speech it was Interrupted by cheers for the
/ ''iittle cart driver.'' The crowd seemed
| to roll it under its tongue as a sweet
| morsel. Ii you hear Ayers this campaign
! you will get surprise Of the first class.
He is simply one of the best Democratic
State. In two minutes he had the crowd,
and from there out, for the rest Of his hour
he went at a rafting pace. Hetraced the
path of the National Democracy from the
close of the war up to this moment, when
| it's flag Is flying in triumph from the dome
of the National Capital, and his voice was
drowned in cheers He spent but few
| minutes in contradicting the charges
brought against the Democracy by the
| Republicans, and then took the offensive.
| He exposed the legislation by which the
Richmond & Danville Z. r., wealthy
corporation, was allowed to pay its debt
| of 1926. 900, in Rlddleberger bonds costing
that company only 1920 000-a loss to the
State of 100000, which at that time
would have purchased half million Of
Riddleberger bonds and cancelled that
much of the debt. lie showed that the So
Republicans of the legislature Of II passed
the obnoxious Funding Bill which brought
on all our trouble, aud that it was Dem
ocratic legislature that repealed it. 1t
| was the Funding Bill that Frustrated the
schools, and he defed anybody to produce
| single act of legislation to set them on
their feet until the Democratic Readjus-
| ter, Henkle, introduced his bill. It was
the Democrats that made biennial sessions
and that introduced the first rigid econo-
omy seen in the State government.
BLAIR BILL.
The Republican party of Virginia ought
never to want to hear the Blair bill men
toned. Its own representative in the u.
S. Senate. VIM. Malone, lodged the vote
/ on it and didn't vote for it at ala bill
that Was to give his own State big lot
/ of money for its schools. 1t was held in
the Republican Senate for four months and
then sent over to the Democratic House
TO go on at the tail end Of the docket
where they knew it could not be reached.
| HARD TIMES.
The Republican speakers we're talking
| about hard times. Well, most of them
have been turned out of the Revenue SER
| vice and it is hard times with them. Gap
plause and laughter). But it is true that
we have hard times, and who made them
They we're made by Republican Admi-
nistration. There hash It been a law yet
passed by a Democratic Congress and
signed by a Democratic President. The
Republican legislation made the hard
times, and when the Democratic legisla-
tion sets in, which it will do after Congress
meets in December, you will see good
times. The Republicans are telling you
what they will do. They have lad the gov
eminent for twenty-four years, let them
tell you what they haze done. They said
'slet US Alone" for twenty four years; but
now that they GnG the Democrats have
the President and the House. and are
about to get the Senate, they say hold on
there; give US another chance and we will
do something. 1t won't do. In 20 years
they have legislated so as to end in hard
times, and now the people are trying
somebody else.
| IN WITH THE ADMINISTRATION.
They have been preaching to Virginia fol
twenty years he importance of being OF
friendly relations with the National Adj
ministration, and now that the National
Administration has gotten on friendly
terms with Virginia they turn around and
want us to drive it off, because then are