Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-09-10


crat ?' He told me he looked her in the
| face and said, 81 can't tell-it seems that
everything want the Republican party is
in favor of. and what 1 don't want the
Democratic party is in favor Of" Capt
Bumgardner will only say that he stands
on the State platform as to the Blair bill
Well, that platform says, the Blair bill OF
some better MEASURE and the author of
that platform is John W. Daniel who, in
the Labor Committee found some better
measure and stabbed the Blair bill to the
heart. (Applause.) If am sent to con.
gress shall stand ready to fight any man
who fights the Blair bill, great applause),
no matter whether it is Hiscock or Reid
Or any other man. (Applause.)
CAPT. BUMaARDNER CLOSES.
Capt. Bumgardner used his fifteen mi
nutes for closing with great rapidity of
speech. He said, was asked two questions
by Mr.. Y ost; I answered tEem fairly and
squarely. I said that my views Oh the
tariff were fully expressed by the Chicago
platform. That platform says the Demo-
cratic party is pledged to revise the tariff
| in a spirit of fairness to all interests and
regardful of the labor and capital that is
involved. I am the servant and slave of
| DO man and take my stand on the Nation
al and State platforms. (Applause.)
Mr.. Yost.-Are you in favor of that
clause of the National Democratic plat
form which takes duty off raw material !?
| Capt. Bumgardner There is no such
clause in the National Democratic plat
| form.
Mr.. Yost.-I can show it
Capt. Bumgardner declined further in
terruption On this point, saying again
that there was no such provision in the
National Democratic platform. and went
on with his argum snt. Abiding to Mr..
Yost's mention of the fact that he was one
| of the counsel for the B. u .. railroad,
| Capt. B. said that in the matter OF the
Valley Railroad he had been enabled to
do more for the county of Rockbridge
about her bonds than in any other single
act Of his profession. You have claimed
that the hard times of rs attended the con-
traction incident to the resumption of
specie payment. Were the hard times
brought on in Germany by that-Germany
who had just gotten $500. 100000 indemni-
ty from France2 You say the Republicans
of today do not call on the people to look
backward but forward. You are afraid
to ask them to look backward, because
| the past discloses party record on which
you can never ask the people of the South
or North to trust you again What a
beneicent veil that would be that would
hide the past of the Republican party in
Virginia A veil that would hide the
Underwood convention that would have
disfranchised the whole white population
of Virginia (Great applause); that would
hide the history of carpet-bagism with its
corruption, oppression and taxation in the
Southern States, (applause); that would
hide the Civil Rights bill and the outrages
under it. What a veil it would be thai
would hide the fate Of that worthy ole
man, Matt Doom, of Stanton! The ole
man was watchman at the Chesapeake
& Ohio depot and for turning colored
prostitute out of the ladies' waiting room
was carried before Federal Judge, con-
victed under the Civil Rights bill and SEN
fenced to one year Imprisonment and g
fine of 81 900. The old man died of it and
the fine consumed his estate. And this
was done under law passed by Repub.
lican Congress and pronounced by Re.
publican Supreme Court of Appeals IN
constitutional. A veil that would hide
that record of the Republican party would
be beyond price. loud and long ap
plause).
at the close of Capt. Bumgardner' re-
marks there were loud cries for Hon. J
R. Tucker. Mr.. Tucker said it would moi
be fair in fight between two gentlemen
and especially in one IN which he though,
If it was not invidious to say so-tha al
his friend had gotten the best of it, fol
him to interfere. He would only thank
his Rockbridge friends present, for theil
kind remembrance of him and assure them
that while he had retired from public life
he had not lost interest in public affairs;
on the contrary, that interest deepened
and broadened every day of his life. Zap
plause.)
The meeting then dispersed.
The Augusta Alumni Association of
Washington & Lee University.
ELECTION TO THE ASSOCIATION IS UNI
vERsITY SCHOLARSHIP.
This Association met at the court
house Saturday at II A. M, there being
more than an average attendance of mem
bers.
The meeting was called to order by the
President, and the following officers found
present-President T. g. Morton, Vice
Presidents ]. FL. McCue and J. A. Wad
dell, Secretary c. E. Kemper, Treasurer
VIM. j. Nelson, Elk. Committee VIM. Pat
rick and A. G.. Christian. There was
considerable competition over the schol.
arship at W. &c L. University to be filed By
the Association, and after full and free
canvass of the merits and claims of the
several candidates, Mr.. Rhodes Nelson Of
Staunton was elected, and his election
afterwards made unanimo us.
A reunion and banquet. sometime dur
ing the coming winter, was discussed ant
generally favored, the further development
of that feature being, by motion, left to
| the President
The following officers were reelected
President, T. q. Morton; Vice-Presldents
J. a. McCue. A. FL. Fultz, J. A. Waddell
John A. Preston; Secretary, Chas. E
Kemper; Treasurer, VIM. J. Nelson
Executive Committee, I'll. st. G. Tucker
VIM. Patrick, W. B. Patterson, A. G
Christian, W. W. Sproul, T, D. Ransom
A. Ell. Hamilton and w. b. Kayser.
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