Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1885-09-05
Gen. Fitzhueh Lee in Accomac.


him. The undying laurels which
he had won as Il military chieftain,
had endeared all of us to him "who
are not apoStates Tor the price of our
apoStasy" before we had ever seen
him, and by his speeches he has
shown such thorough knowledge
of the needs and wants Of Virginia,
and such ability to cope with them,
that every one was impressed with
the fact that he is no less worthy
of the civic honorS to be bestowed
upon him. We can only give in
our limited space a brief summary
of his admirable speech delivered
at Accomac G. H., Va, Monday.
After a fl W remarks complimentary
to the thrift, enterprise and loyalty
to Democracy of our people, Gen.
Lee said, that to day he was the
candidate of the Democratic party
for Governor, nominated By the
people Of Virginia in convention
assembled. No boss controlled it
as did the Malone convention. His
candidacy resulted from q choice of
her people. y o one 1had or could
boss him. IT elected he went into
Office untrammeled, was free,to act
for the best interests ofall her peo-
pie. Had been a soldier until the
surrender at AppomattoN, since
then had been a farmer and if elect.
ed would be the first farmer VINO
had been Governor since 1913. In a
briefreview of the Cleveland admin
istration, he approved it-and
said that Cleveland as Chief Exec
utor was bound to go slow to pre-
vent mistakes, but that in the end
all would be well. He expressed
thanks that the government under
Cleveland's administration was
stronger than it had been for many
years. The debt question, free
schools, riot at Danville &C., were
in turn taken mp by General Lee
and handled in q mastery way. In
regard to the debt question which
had been the "Iliad of all our woes
Gen. Lee said that the funding bill,
which was the beginning OF our
troubles in that respect was passed
by votes, the majority of which
were Republican. The Democrats
had sought to remedy the evil,
through what is know as the Nc
Cullough bill, but the issue being
made between the settlement under
it and under what is known as the
Riddlehereer bill and the Demo
cratic party being beaten, true to
its instincts OF allowing the
majority Of the people to rule had
adopted it as their settlement.
That the Democratic party two
years ago at Lynchburg, and last
month in Richmond, avOwed it as
their Interchangeable purposeto and
by the Rlddleberger settle emit.
That Democratic legislator had
not only proclaimed ittheir un ter
able purpose to stand by that set
Element as final nut all the measures
passed by them in regard to the
debt settlement were at the SuggeS-
tion of Governor Cameron and with
the approval of the Republican
members of the Legislature. That
the veXatiouslitigation which arose
out Of the debt question, was due
not by to acts ola Democratic leg
islature to impede its settlement,
but to acts passed by the Republi
cans before they came into power.
That the case Of Poindexter VS..
Greenhow arose before the Demo
cratic amendment of March Is, 49,
Sd, and in that case the act of Janu-
airy 26, 1882, was declared to be un-
constitutional, null and void. 1t WAS
therefore unconstitutional before
and not because OF tile act Of March
13, 1854. General Lee contended
that if, as General Malone asserts
the action of the last General AS
sembly was idle, i'll considered and
vindictive, then General Mahone's
Governor, Cameron, was responsI
able for it.
Gen. Lee said that he originally
had been in favor Of paying the $780,
100000 as the McCulloch bill pro-
vided, but the Democratic party
having been defeated OIL that issue,
he acquiesced in the will of the ma
jolity and favored the settlement
of our debt as provided in the Rid
dleberger bill. He held with the
Democratic latform, that the debt
question had ceased to be Il matter
of dollars and cents and was now a
question Of State Sovereignty, a
question in which every State i'll
the Union is vitality interested. The
remedy in General Lees opinion
was to provide against the bold ju-
dicial usurpatIon OF tile Supreme
court and insist that the eleventh
amendment shall not be violated or
evaded.
General Lee in discussing his OPP
ponent, said Mr. Wise Endorsed
that part OF the Republican platform
which pronounced Virginians as
murderers and assassins, because
of the riot at Danville; that few
days ago he had termed the Dem
ocratic Legislature a lot of seat
stealing and shot gun thieves; that
he had deliberately raked up every
murder which had occurred in Dan
vile for quarter Of a century Tor
the purpose of vilifying and abus
ing her people-2nd that no man