Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-29
ANOTHER GRAND DEMONSTRATION.

E. Massey at the Upera house Last NlSat.
The Opera House was again well filled
last night TO hear speeches from Hon. Charles
E. Stuart, democratic candidate for reelec-
ton to the House of Delegates from this
city and county, and Hon. John &. Massey,
democratic candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor.
At eight o'clock Mr. Leonard Marbury,
chairman of the City Democratic Committee,
introduced Mr.. Stuart to the audience, amid
| loud and continued cheering.
Mr.. Stuart began his address by saying
be surely needed no introduction to an
| Alexandria audience, but as he desired to
give an account of his stewardship, he sub
| mitted to the formality. Four years ago the
people of this city and county had chosen
him by handsome majority to be their rep
rcscntative in the Legislature OF Virginia,
and sixty.six of the democratic members of
that body had subsequently endorsed his
course by choosing him to preside over the
deliberations of the House of Delegates.
He now appeared before the good people
of his native place the third time for re-
election as their Delegate, and he humbly
asked the patience Of the audience while he
endeavored to give his reasons for so doing.
lie appealed to his past career as an earnest
of his future work and purposes; showed
how he had fought Mahoneism ever since
its inception exposed the injustice Of the
measures Matched in the Legislature when
that party was in power; how it had en-
deavored to deprive the people of Alexan-
dra of their rights of suffrage by vesting in
Mahoneite Judge the power to appoint
policemen and firemen how that party tried
to consolidate the Virginia Midland and
Richmond & Danville Railroads, and thereby
take the shops Of the former road from this
city and with them 100000 year which
| is spent here, and how by the speakers ex-
ertions, in conjunction with thirty eight
, democrats and one republican, these unjust
purposes of Malone and his horde had been
defeated Mr.. S. then spoke ofthe local issues
which are now before the people of the city,
and called attention to the legislative Ca
reer of Mr. Il. G.. Harmon, the Mahoneite
candidate for the House of Delegates. Mr..
) Harmon, the speaker said, had never been
5 a member of but one legislative body-the
! City Council Of Alexandria during war
times-a body which levied and collected
: taxes and left the city more hampered with
+ debts than ever. Personally he had moth
, ing 10 say about Mr.. H., but he had de-
, scribcd his legislative career. That gentle
man now appears before the people Of Alex
|
' is Mckenzie and backed by Malone. Mr..
2 stuart then showed up Mahones jackman
2 in Alexandria UIewis MckenZie) in TO en-
5 yiable light referred his audience to the
9 court records for the latter's career and d.
g rected special attention TO the cases of the
| w. & O. r. r. and the Farmers and Nc
c chauics' Savings Bank, and said Mckenzie
Q would bankrupt Malone sooner or later, as
5 lie had the institutions named. He showed
: how either Mckenzie or Malone had lied
about the distribution Of money for cam.
pagu purposes hereabouts and in regard to
D MckenZie's promise to deliver the vote OF
| he city. The speaker concluded his re-
5 marks by saying that he could not profess
; ufallbility in his legislative or any other
| course; we all made mistakes and he had
doubtless made some, but they were errors
e Of the head, not of the heart, and he prom
iscd if re elected to use all his powers for
: the advancement of the interests of Alexan-
: dria and the State generally.
E Mr.. Stuart's speech was interesting and
t logical, and during its delivery he was
c loudly applauded.
: AZ its conclusion he introduced Mr.. Mas,
: scy, who was received with thuuGcrs OF
| applause After its subsistence that gentle
man began his remarks by saying he duly
appreciated the greeting with which he was
received by an Alexandria audience, and
hoped to be able to rcciprocate the same
He regretted to say, however, that the con-
dtion Of his health was such that he was
: not certain whether he should be in his bed,
or at least in his chamber instead of en-
dcavoring to address an audience. He had
come to Alexandria to address her citizens
against the solemn protest Of his physician;
but he wanted to talk TO Alexandrians, as
he had many things to say to them. The
speaker then proceeded to speak eulogis.
tcally of Mr.. Stuart, saying he hoped the
good people of this city and county would
unhesitatingly return that gentleman to the
, Legislature, there to resume his gavel in
one end Of the capitol building, as he, the
speaker, hoped to assume one in the other
end. He said he had no doubt of General
Lees election to the Governorship of the
) State nor of Ayers to the Attorney General
ship, and hoped between the two he would
show up somcwhcrc. II was however, Of
the most vital Importance TO see that a
democratic Legislature was elected. There
had been much talk OF burying Malone,
politically, that he may no more disgrace
Virginia, and the most eflectual way TO do
it was to send democratic majority to the
Legislature. Mr.. Massey proceeded to ex
pose and denounce the holowness, hypoc-
ricy and fraud of the hordes now lead on
by General Malone, the harm they have
done the State, and the adherence in which
they should be held by all lovers of honest,
equitable government; spoke of the improve.
ment in national matters by the Inaugural.
ton Of a democratic President; counselled
his hearers to moderation in their criticisms
ofthe apparent slowness which character
ICES the Executive in making changes in
federal Offices; exposed the fraudulent pre-
tensions of the republican party; showed
how that party, having no issues to join at
present with the democrats, were striving
to keep their expiring party alive by preach
ing sectionalism and endeavoring to per-
petuate race anmosities and disinter the
defilnct issues of the late civil war;
showed how that arrogant clan had
kept the South for years in subsection and
were striving still to keep her down, and
said the Southern people were as truly loyal
| now TO the old flag as any other people in |