Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-10-16

course during their whole intercourse IN tn'
Senate.
He said Malone claimed to be tie hero O.
the Crater and that he surrendered more mus
kets at Appomattox than any other General
of Division, and paraded his love for the South
which Is in poor contrast to his efforts, since
and now, to tesr down the good name of his
} state and her people, and to assist them In
their poverty.
lie followed Malone through all the ramif-
: cations of his cratic course, for he Enew it
well and said that it was an impossibility to be
in association with him unless 10 absolute
submission to his dctatoriat and tyrannical
} methods.
The meeting then adjourned after three
hours session, with three rousipg cheers for
Mckinney.
REPUBLICAN MEETING.
The Rink, which is spacious hall, was, at
the beginning of the meeting, pretty well filed,
with probably thousand persons, the major
ity being colored, and the other portion divid
ed between the white followers of Malone, and
| Democrats who attended through curiosity TO
| see and hear Malone. pretty much al they
| would to see a on-descript animal which had
! been extensively advertised as great curios-
| ity. On the entrance of the hall by the speak
ers. and their approach to the stand, they were
greeted with much cheering. When order was
restored. ". E. Craig, U. s. District Attorney.
took the stand and announced that another re
publican meeting would be held that night
which would be addressed by Hon. ]. c. Bur-
rows. of Michigan, and Others He then nomi-
mated Maj Edward Mcmahon president OF
the meeting, which was greeted with applause.
Mai Mcmahon expressed his thanks to the au
dience for their manifestation OF approval and
| kindness and said he hoped the meeting would
give patient and respectful hearing to the
speakers. He then introduced Hon. j. C. Bur
rows as one of the most stalwart Republicans
OF the West.
HON. JULIUS CAESAR BURROWS.
Mr.. Burrows commenced to speak at half
past O'Clock and spoke for about 40 minutes.
He commenced by saying that he was conscious
that this vast outpouring of the people was to
do honor to Malone, the next Governor OF V1r-
ginia. AS he expected to speak to the me-
ohanics at night on the theory and practical
workings of the tariff. he was now restricted to
80 minutes. SO he would not bore the audience
long. Some question of more than ordinary
interest had touched the hearts of the people,
who living in the present and not in the
past, and who appreciate the crisis in which
they live. Those who think this ia a contest
between men m erely Go not understand
the ISSUE for it Is an issue between
the Republican and Democratic parties
on an industrial problem. The two par
ties, he said, are arrayed against each 9TH
er-the one for protection and the other for free
trade. lie knows, as every man of intelligence
does that such is not the issue. even between
the parties, in national con test, as there is no
free-trade party; and that there can properly
be no such issue in simple State election, as
this is, in which no federal question is involv-
ed, even If there were such thing as
free trade party. He ascrib es to the Democrats
a position they do not occ upy and then makes
valiant warfare upon that position. He spoke
of the action of the Democrats in Congress in
defeating the tariff legislation of the Republi-
cans, and whilst he knew that they only aimed
to reduce and equalize the burdens of the war
tariff, he assumed and SO asserted that they
were for free-trade.] He said the Democrats
would not hear the farmers and laboreTs at the
capital and that the Republicans now appealed
to the people. The Democrats. he said. never
lean nor forget anything. Twenty-slx years
ago he had invaded the South with arms. Ma
hone, he said, can forget the past.
mfr. Burrows will learn beforeihe stays in
the State long that our pc ople have learned
some things that he will wish they had forgot
ten. They have learned from bis record in
congress that his hostility to the South did not
cease when the war ceased. and that he wished
to inf1ct upon the South greater evils after
the war than enemies could do with arms in
their hands-that he favored the infamous
Force Bill, and that he desired TO force mixed
schools upon the people whether they wanted
them not, and said that he could in no event
vote for that proviso in the Civil Rights Bill
which allowed.of separate schools where,the
local authorities would SO determine. These
views and wishes of his he has not retracted.]
He said that this contest cannot be separated
from the National contest. If you vote for Ma
hone you declare for protection, and no power
this side of hell can defeat the Republican par
ty. The parties ere now fighting for position
in the battle of 1892, and he wants Vir-
ginia TO lead the column on the heights of
protection. He then INDUCED in the usual
sophistry about the tariff and home market,
with good deal of absurdity aud demagogism
that was an insult to the Intelligence of the
farmers whom he claimed specially to address
He made the usual com parison of Pennsylvania
with Virginia to the prejudice of Virginia, and
attributed the fact that the land was higher In
Pennsylvania than in Virginia to the tariff
when he knows, as everybody.else OF inteli
genee does, that all the States have the same
tariff-that there is not one tariff for one State
| and another tariff for a different State He
J
| ton to American Industries. The fact is. that
| the people have had, nolens Uolens. to stand as
| best they could, high tariff, or protection"
| as he calls it. for twenty odd years, and they
| find it, the farmers especially, the kind of pro-
| lection the wolf gives the lamb. He said the
l Democrats prevented the removal of the tax
| from tobacco, and that If they would put Vir-
| ginia sin the Republican column in 80 days
the tax tobacco would be removed. Stop
| being partiZans, and be American citi-
| zens. The most dangerous men never change.
He then referred to the Blair BILL obllvious.
not ignorant of the fact that Malone, whose
| election he Is advocating, positively refused to
vote for 1t. when begged by Riddleberger to do
| so. swearing that it might go to hell so far as
he was concerned. and having himself record
| vote being taken.
| He closed by saying that down here the peo-
pie don't cheer. but yell, and that he wanted
| them to give magnificent yell for Mahone.'
whereupon part of the crowd accommodated
him to the best oftheir yelling ability.
| GEN. VIM MALONE.
Msj. McMahon then introduced Gen. Malone
| who was greeted with great cheering-or yell
| ing as Burrows calls it-and waving of bats.
Gen. Malone then commenced his speech
1
is needless to report 1t, as it was in substance
with nothing new-the same that he deliver
ed at Abingdon and which has been published
| in full in the papers of the State, and was in
| print before 1t was delivered. He spoke with
| elaboration and much seeming earnestness,
| and held very well the attention of his audi
ence To those unacquainted with his charac-
ter and the facts. might be deceived by his
professions of sincerity and his. protestat1ons OF
patriotism, but those who are properly inform
ed could not but be convinced OF his reckless
audacity and utter want of sincerity when they
heard him repeat. with affected sincerity and
seeming earnestness. charges against Captain
Mckinney and the Democratic party which are
wholly untrue and which have been refuted
time and again, and his attributing to the
. ! Democratic party the wrongs of which he is
himself guilty, and of which the Democrats
!, are innocent. He knowingly and unblushing.
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