Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-08-28
4 PRACTICAL DEMOCRATIC
TALK
SPEAKER CHAS. E. STUART AD-
DRESSES THE AUGUSTA
DEMOCRACY.

THE PLAIN TALK OF w1TNEss-FALsR
STATEMENTS OF THE REPUBLICAN
PLATFORM ExPOsED-STATE sUPERIN.
TENDENT OF EDUCATION FARR-Ex-
AUDITOR ALLEN-ATTORNEY GENE
RAJ BLAIR-THE COURT OF APPEALS
IN 1912.
&C.. &C., sc.
Monday was what is called big court
day. The thermometer stood at SO in the
shade, the sun was broiling hot and the
streets around the courthouse lawn were
crowded with people roasting in Its rays.
It had been announced that Hon. Chas.
E. Stuart, Speaker of the House of Dele
gates, was to address the Democracy of
Augusta, and it had been announced
from the other side that Mr.. Robert b.
Berkeley, of Prince Edward, would ad-
dress the Republicans. 1t was the desire
of the people to have joint discussion,
but the local Democratic Committee
deemed it wise to use the plenary power
delegated to il by the Democratic State
Central Committee in such matters, and
decline it. The sequel showed that the
local committee lost an admirable oppor-
tunity for confronting a Republican
speaker with strong array of facts, forci-
bly, and unanswerablY stated from the re-
cord.
Capt. James Bumgardrer, Jr., in intro
ducing Speaker Stuart, said that we are
approaching the final contest for suprem-
acy in the State. 1t is not contest over
new issues, but one on the same line and
with the same national issues with which
we triumphed last November; and in
State matters on the same issue, and with
the same enemy to good State government
that we vanquished in 1888. 1t is not
new ground to be conquered, but the same
old ground that we then conquered and
are now to hold. It is not to be cam
paign of discussion. music and display
but one of hard work; one of individual
forces exercised in our own neighbor-
hoods. Capt. b. then introduced Mr..
Stuart.
WHERE COL. BERKELEY WAS TWO
YEARS AGO.
Mr.. Stuart opened by reference to
Col. R. B. Berkeley, who could be heard
addressing a meeting of Republicans on
the courthouse lawn. AS he came into
the courthouse, he said, he saw gentle
man delivering an address from its steps
who, two years ago. was going from one
end of the State to the other, speaking in
behalf of the Democratic party, and who
only eighteen months ago. was actively
electioneering for the post of Secretary Of
the Commonwealth in the gift of that par
ty. Had only remembered his speeches,
when his eloquent voice rang through the
Commonwealth two years ago In behalf of
the principles Of the white men, should
have inferred that he was again address
ing the Democracy, but when I saw his
audience inst now, I saw that he had no
claim to be Democrat, if he had ever had
the right to that claim, (applause.)
THE CHANGE IN THE NATIONAL PoL1TI-
CAL SITUATION.
Eight years ago stood in the room of
the U. S. Supreme Court at Washington,
when the people were robbed of Presl-
dent elected by them, (applause). There
stood chat great American iurist who told
the Electoral Commission that he knew
well enough that their work of infamy
was already accomplished, and that he
could not induce them to change it; but
he stood there to record prOphecy-walt,
he said, but little while and the waters
of truth rising slowly but surely will
sweep the refuge of lies away. ''Justice
travels with leaden heel but strikes with
an iron hand" AS that grand old man
stood there then, it seemed as if the spirit
of prophecy had descended upon him, and
as look back at it now know it had.
AS see President Cleveland, a Democrat
pure and indebted, (applause). as 1 see
Vice President Hendricks, as 1 see the
South getting fair play, as see that nest
of spies and informers of the Revenue De-
partment being cleared, as l see good DEM
ocrats and Efficient men being put in the
post offices, as see good men being put in
official trust everywhere, l thank God that
though Justice has a leaden heel she
strikes with an iron hand. (Applause).
And [ feel it the more as see that most
Infamous creature that ever blackened
the Commonwealth of Virginia, the au-
thor of the most corrupt bargain that ever
was made, (applause), now in retirement
with nothing to do but to denounce the
white men of Virginia as assasslns. Some
saw that the Administration moves slowly,
but let us remember also that the mills OF
the gods grind that way too-but they
grind exceedingly fine. (Applause). In
five months thirty thousand postmasters
have been removed and honest men put
in Office. Seventy thousand more are to
60, for just as certain as you live,the poll
CIV of this Administration is to turn tn
rascals OUT" (Applause).
REVIEW OF MALONE LEGISLATION
OF 1872
I was a member of the legislature OF
1Ssl-'2. Those were sad days for those
who loved their State. as they saw gathered
together in a temple hitherto indebted,
the men who assembled there to make
laws for the people of Virginia. What
did they do2 l don't propose to permit
the Democratic party to be put On the de-
fence in this campaign, it needs no de-
fence; but the party WHICH filled the capl'