Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-23

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future home, and such a people never
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Virginia PolItlos--The Bitterness
and Humor Of the Lee-Wlse Cam
palgn Described.
Lynchburg Cor. N. Y. sun.
"For the next three weeks look out
for lively times in Virginia" said a
former State official. His prediction
is already being fulfilled, for the can
vass is now as hoC and bitter az the
most ardent could wish. The abuse
flung at each other by men Of both
parties has grown SO strong that a
movem ent has been started by conser-
vative persons of each side to call a
halt. A well-known lady is just out
IN an address urging better feeling,
and while several loud amens have
been heard, the chorus of vituperation
continues to swell. Gen. Fitz Lee,
the Democratic candidate for Cover
nor, told early in the canvass a story 1
on John s. Wise, his Republican COM
petitor, in which the latter figured as
having ridden Gen. Wise's horse off the
field of battle. John A. Wise then hunt
ed up the record of Gen. Fitz Lee at
West Point. and displayed his low
standing i IN the list of graduates. And
now Lees friends have found the
record of Wise at the University of
Virginia, and have published amid
loud plaudits the fact that Wise failed
to stand his preliminary examination.
The air is full of such expressions as
"base slanderer," "groveling cur"
"wretched henchman, =" "Bourbon bull.
dozer," "canting hypocrite," Malone
hireling," etc. Lees cavalry rides
over the country are doing him excel
lent service, but during the excitement
incident to those paroles Malone has
been putting in effective work in the
counties and increasing his chances of
getting the Legislature.
What is known as the Malone social
gathering is a feature upon which
Malone is basing his hopes of success
A Malone man goes quietly to a
county and stops at the house of a
friend. A nice hot supper is given,
and the host invites six or more of his
neighbors to come around. Then he
introduces the visitor, and a pleasant
chat and smoke follow the meal. The
subject of politics is incidentally intro
duced, and then the conversation Is
turned in that direction. and before the
evening is over the Malone emissary
happens to have a few documents
showing the misdeeds of the last Dem
ocratic Legislature. Having left his
impression, he repeats that programme
elsewhere.
While the Fitz Lee cavalry is a
great feature of the fight, a later and
more novel invention is now dividing
public attention. Mr.. Wise impru-
IDENTIFY made fun of r. A. Ayers, the
Democratic nominee for Attorney-Ge
eral. and in doing so called him "a lit
tie cart driver" because Ayres had be-
gun life by driving a cart. And now
the Democrats are driving Ayres
across the country in a cart labeled:
HERE IS THE LITTLE CART DRIVER. 4
In the present cart tour a we'll
known judge acts as driver of the cart
in which Ayers is seated. This feature
has produced such an impression that
the Mahonites have FASTENED to offset
it by bringing out a charge that Ayers,
when intrusted by a client with some
property to sell, bought it from his
client for $1,000, and quietly sold it for
$4,000 the next day. In the southwest
a local dignitary who has been doing
aggressive work for Ayers, has been
forced to defend himself against a
Mahonite allegation to the effect that
he kept out of the Confederate army
by shaving his face, wearing false hair,
and dressing as a woman until the
fighting was over.
The Rev. John E. Massey, the Dem
ocratic candidate for Lieutenant.G Gov.
ernor, having been assailed from everv
Mahonite quarter as a canting hypo.
critic and an abettor of the Granville
massacre" the Democrats have turned
their attention to his competitor, Mai.
H. G. Wood. and a paper, literally sign
ed, is published, in which the signersIj
swear before a notary public that theyV
heard Wood say that "a niger was no
better than a dog, and a poor white
man was no better than a Niger"
And now Wood is in distress, and with
tears in his eyes protests that it is
cruel for any man to be so inhuman as
toimpute any such statement as this
to him. Then, while the effect of his
denial is strong, Parson Massey, his
competitor, proceeds to preach a series
OF powerful, hard.shell Baptist SER
mons, and caps the climax of one of his
best stump speeches by quitting the
platform and marrying an enthusiastic
young man and woman.
r Hanged In Etflgy.
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