Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-20
Brady and Langston Catch 1t.

The following is copy of circular
Issued from the headquarters OF the republi
can committee ct Petersburg, the author
ship of which is attributed to Gen. Malone:
1--WE see that Mr.. James D. Brady comes
10 the support of Langston 10 his persistent
attempt 10 foist himself on the republicans
Of this district as their nominee for Congress.
"This is eminenLly lifting. Brady him.
self, who has been foisted on the natlona!
committee by fraud, and has no one at his
back of consequence, is just the man 10 back
Langston. Through Langston he would
hope to serve the democratic party precise.
y as he himself did last year, when he was
running around the active agent OF MIR. Bar.
bour, consorting with democratic managers
to defeat republican candidates. But Brady
says in his unveracious pamphlet distributed
at Chicago, that he has never voted any
other that the republican ticket. May be 30 !
but how many times has he failed TO vote
the republican ticket, and thus prompted
the possible success Of the democratic tick
ct? Did he not vote to put the disfranchis'
ing amendment in the constitution, which
practically deprived forty thousand white
people from exercising the great manhood
right of suffrage, and in effect excluded the
colored man from voting? Did he not, In
1856. refuse to como home and vote for the
city republican ticket when the party was
strained to save it, End all because he had
been 'insulted by the party in the place
ment of William w. Evans, g colored man,
on the ticket for city gauger? Did he not
in the same year, frantically exert himself
to defeat the party nominee for Congress
w. Z. Gaines-and all because he could not
get delegation from any county in the dis.
trict, or from the city of Petersburg, where
be lives? Did he not, in the legislative
election of last year, actively consort with
the democratic managers to desert republi-
can candidates, and actually refused to vote
for the republican candidates for the iegisla-
ture from bis own city? He now consorts
with Langston-and when did Langston get
to be such a staunch republican? How
long since has it been since Langston was
pralsing Cleveland and Gov. Lee-com.
mending the nomination OF Cleveland and
urging the placement Of Governor Lee on
the ticket as Vice President? How does he
now come TO inveigh against the color line,
when in his canvass now going on for six
months and more, he and his henchmen
have been demanding his nomination, be-
cause only that he was colored man, when
by the most impudcnt and incehdlary
speeches he has been trying TO array
color against color, all to get to Con.
gress and then the devil may take care of
the colored mao. How is it that Brady,
Mr.. Barbour'a last years active agent,
comes out now for Langston? How is it
that Langston goes to MIR. Barbour to get
Chappell Irby place, and with Mr.. Bar
bour's endorsement, given to Langston, r.
by has place in the government service
Is it not plain that Laugston is Mr.. Bar
bour's candidate for Congress in the Fourth
district, to deceive the unsuspectipg colored
man. and that Brady is Mr.. Barbour's
agent? Why does Lapgston parade Bradys
endorsement, and how is it that Mr.. Bar
bour gets office for Langston's friends? But
Brady, in his esgerness to serve Langston,
tells ns that be did wonders here in the
of 1881. That is not true. Lang
ston never made a speech in the campaign
end Brady had as little to DO with it az the
man in the moon, and every man in the
State knows it. LaDgston did make some
speeches 10 the campaign OF 1882, that is
all u