Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-08-28

in 1884. The Republicans say we turned
out Is, some say 20 Republican members
Both charges are wilful and deliberate
lies 1t is about time such statements were
stopped. In the cases of Martin, Rue
Stevens and Jones, they were all ineligible
as State Senators. Martin had been elect.
ed Railroad Commissioner and could hold
no other position. and the other three
had been appointed to and were ming
Federal Offices, and were ineligible to hold
State position. Gov. Cameron was
asked to order elections to fill their places.
but replied that he had no official knowl'
edge of the existence of the vacancies
AS time passed on, however. it became
apparent that the Democrats would have
majority in the Senate, and then those
men wanted to ''resign," but the Senate
told them that they we're too late with
their designations. they had nothing to
resign. having lost their seats when they
accepted other positions under the State
| and Federal governments. The election
must go back to the people. Their failure
to resign could only be accounted for by
Mahone's belief that he would have a
majority in the Senate, and all would go
on without interruption. The Senate
seated Petit and Keezle on account of
gross frauds; Bryan, (Dem.) was refused
a seat. Callahan, (Rep.) was seated. He
had been candidate in the Navy YARD
district, and it was shown that the polls
where Callahan would get majority, had
been closed.
In the House of Delegates, in IL con-
tested election cases, were promptly de-
clded by giving the seats to Republicans,
Democrats were seated, and new cleo
tion was ordered in the matter of the two
delegates from Norfolk, lin whose city the
voting was facilitated in the black wards
and impeded in the white wards, the cleo
ton was sent back TO the people. In the
case of r. r. Farr, lRep.), who was elect
ed State Superintendent of Education
after the session commenced, the Com
mittee for Courts of Justice of the Repub-
lican House of Delegates (of 1922 made
the following report:
1.-THE seat occupied by Richard R. Farr, dele
gate from the county of Fairfax. be now declared
vacant. and that the Speaker of the House proceed
under the laws to have the same filled.''
Farr got member named Duck to
make minority report, saying that he
was entitled to retain his seat, and the
Republican House adopted that minority
report and kept bin in. N Nothing like this
was ever done by the Democratic legsla-
ture of 1874.
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
1 want to say word to you about the
Republican platform, the platform STOLEN
from the Democrats. Take their plank
about convict labor on the roads, Why it
was introduced by your own representa-
tive, John N. Opio, (applause), ill the le-
gislature. Opie originated and introduced
it IN the House of Delegates; the Repub
licans there voted solidly against it, and
now steal it and insert it in their plat
form!
The same platform says the Democrat
ic legislature of 1874. passed 70 bills for
the relief Of collecting officers. Sixty
seven of these bills we're to relieve collect
ing officers who had not been able to col
lect their taxes. The Auditor had to make
them settle with him, and in twenty-sev-
en- of these cases the State only gave the
collecting officer year more. In many
of the cases it was only to allow the sure
fiop IF on1loctinrs off fO MOI fhojr in
debtedness in State bonds at par. The
legislature did not release one man from
his indebtedness. There was case, how
ever, which was to have come up had the
legislature been Malone legislature. and
that was the case of John G.. Casey of
Bedford, who being ruined, turned Ma
honeite and ran for the State Senate, on
the arrangement that if he was elected he
would be made the subject of ''relief
BILL" The Republican platform of
this year does not mention that, nor does
it mention the fact that the legislature of
1912 passed 40 relief bills. The biggest re-
lief bill ever passed by Virginia legisla-
ture was that of the Republican body
which QaUe the Richmond & Danville r.
R. $3.50, 900 Of the States money. The
platform left that out, too. How are
these things for campaign issues-s3O,O 900
for the Kendall bonds, $4,000 to a broth
er-in-law for collecting $25, 900, Blair with
$4,000 year, and the Richmond & Dan
vile R. R. presented with quarter of
million? But these things are only be-
ginning of what they would do if return
ed to power to legisiate in '85.
WHAT THESE PEOPLE SAY OF THEIR
STATE.
What do these people say of the Demo-
Gratis of Virginia? Here is what their
leader says Of every Democrat in the
State:
PREMEDITATED MURDER of defenceless, I'M
offending citizens, and monstrous usurpatlon.
that they acquired supreme control over your af-
fairs at the Capitol
Every Democrat charged with being a
murderer! 1t has been charged in the U.
s. Senate, in their conventions, and rat
flied in the kitchen caucus of John s.
Wise, laughter. that we are guilty of de-
liberate murder. Are the people of Vir-
ginia ready to send to the Senate the man
who makes this charge? Are the people
of Virginia ready to elect as Governor
man who echoes this charge? Are they
ready to elect as their legislators men
who repeat this charge against the people
of the state? Who are those that make it?
One is John S. Wise: who by his letter to
Page McCarty, has earned Mr.. Massey's
description of him. "a brave man before