Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-09-27
THE SPEAKING.

VI" '''iS S''i' oty oi IueSuuy ltSt'
when r.. Taylor Scott, Richard Il
Beirne and j. Hampton Hoge, made
speeches i'll the Court House.
Until introduced by Major II. II.
Henry, Hon. r.. Taylor Scott, the
nominee of the party for Attorney
General, was personally IL stranger to
Tazewcll audience and much eager
hess to see and hear him was mani
tested by his party friends, and not
few Republicans gave close attcn,
tion to his magnificent speech. As
attorney for his party he made out
his case to the utmost satisfaction OF
his clients, and gave earnest of the
spirit and vigor with which, when
elected Attorney General, he would
protect tho treasury of lis Stale from
the cut worm and the rapacious bond.
holder. He had not supported tho
settlement OF the public debt made
under the Riddlebergcr Bill, but he
VAS n Democrat, and when major
lily of Virginians declared it to be
their ultimatum, he surrendered To
'their vote, and had since used and
would hereafter use his efforts To
: maintain tue States position. lie is
OF the same stock as is his uncle.
who, with Attorney General Ayers,
went to Jail rather than mako one
concession to Virsinia's oppressors.
Believing, MS everybody does, that
Mahoneisin is not Republcanism nor
Democracy nor anything else that is
broad and national, he had no hest
fancy in dwelling at length on Ma
hone, the man himself, giving his I'M
vanished history from the close of
the war. He insisted that this case
was one solely between Virginia and
Mnhoneisn, and his principal wit.
nessos were Republicans whose Re.
publlcanism was unquestioned. They
all testified to the unscrupulousness
of the political trickstcr, the soul and
body OF that ''un-democratic, un re.
publican thing called NInhoneism."
A full report of Mr.. SCOTS speech
would make first class literature if
space would permit. His coming
put new life and determination into
the Democracy and will tend TO pre-.
vent against the only danger of dc.
feat-the neglect of Democrats to
vote.
Col. r. +. BORNE, Of the Richmond
State, was introduced by Judge j.
2. Kelly and was greeted with II
storm of applause as mark of the
popularity of tho man and in antici-
patton OF what was to come. And
right royaliy did he meet the expec.
tation of his audience. lie drew an
ugly picture of the state of affairs to
Oe expected should Muhoneism ever
get its grip on the old State. He
spoke of the attempt made by that
party once before to tic the people
hand and foot when the ''big four
checked Mahone's disreputable
schemes. He refuted NIahone's
charges dgainst the Democratic
party for extravagant expenditures
and showed how the Democrats put
million and n half into the sinking
fund where Mahones party never
put dollar.
Beirne is the man who will wear
McKinney's slippers after the next
Gubernatorial term.
Col. j. Hampton Hoge followed
Col. Belrne i'll an eloquent speech,
full OF patriotism and hard sense.
The Col was remembered by the
crowd as the man who so unmerci.
fully logged Hubbard on the same
~~AO
stand some four Or five years ago.
One of the speakers predicted, as
others have done, that Tazewell
county would yet become again
Democratic. If considered dispas.
sionately this statement need not
create surprise. The day will come
when our people will remember to
compare the policy of Cleyeland's
party toward the South with that OF
Mr.. Harrison. The great body OF
the people will not always antaeon.
ize their friends and their best inter.
est simply to bolster up few office
seekers.
gET|s FORTII,i isI.OOD,
s,,,s. Weakness, Malaria, Indigestion and
nRoWN,s IRON BrTTEns.