Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-09-18
MALONE COUNTY CONVENTION.


The Malone County convention met in the
Courthouse at O'Clock on last Saturday to
nominate candidate for the Senate, and two
candidates for the House of Delegates. W. E.
Craig, county chairman. called the convention
to order and stated the objects of the conVen-
ton. On motion. Joseph Houseman was elect
ed Chairman. and George W. Slower, Thomas
j. Martin and ]. 81. Carter were elected Secre-
| taries. w. E. Craig then arose to make the
nomination for Senator, but before doing SO
made long speech in attempted vindication
OF his remark some weeks since, as reported by
the Vindicator. that Mckinney was so anxious
to hold office that he would do so under the
Republicans if he could not under the Demo-
Gratis; in Misrepresentation of McKinney's
position on the school question, the Blair Bill,
| the Internal Revenue system and other ques-
| tions; assigning false reasons why the Demo-
Gratis are so opposed to Malone and his meth
DDS; protesting to believe that there was
| chance of eecting Malone candidates tor the
Legislature In this county. and that Malone
would be elected by 80 GOO majority; reference
to the county ticket of the Democrats. saying
it consisted of two lawyers and another as good
as lawyer; and finally eulogy of Major Nc
I Mahon, followed by nominating him as can
| didate for the Senate.
| Then Charles A. Curry. Esq arose, and, IN
| the vehement style characteristic of him, made
| a vigorous onslaught on the CountyDemocratic
| Convention and its nominees for the Senate
| and the House of Delegates which in his calm
er moments he will regret. That convention
he said, had not said anything about develop
ing the material resources of State, from
which he argued iucou sequentially that the
Democrats were opposed to it. AS 1t said no.
thing about the decalogue we wonder that he
a Nat,a
sd to the ten comma ndments. His complaint
IfIgainst two ofthe Democratic candidates was
that they are lawyers. las he is himsef.) and
that their fathers are possessed of good share
of worldly gear" If they had known that
this was to be charged offense against
them. and if they had been allowed to choose
they would probably have chosen to be the
children of some other persons, but that was a
matter about which tn ey were not consulted.
He did great injustice to both of these estima-
BILE and worthy gentlemen. in representing
them as being proud and ar istocratic and hav-
ing no friendship or sympathy with the great
masses OF the people who toll for an homes t
living. They are too well and too favorably
known to be injured by such caricature of
their characters. He urged as an objection to
Lightner that he was but little better than a
lawyer, and that he had been a sheriff. He had
good deal to say about enterprise and pro-
gress, and about Republicans who,he said were
sometimes pig and sometimes puppy and then,
after some comp limentary remarks concern
ing the progressive spirit of Mr.. David |
Beard. of New Hope, nominate him as one of
the two candidates for tn House OF Delegates.
The speeches of Craig and Curry had for their
main object the repreh ensible one of arraying |
different classes of the community hostiley |
against each other, and were disingenuous and |
demagogic.
s. Brown Allen, Internal Revenue deputy |
collector then arose, and commenced his re
marks by saying, very solemnly, that the pres
ent struggle is for the full and final supremacy
of one party or the other; and then asked If
there was a Republican present who would
surrender his principles beca use he did not
have his choice on the State ticket? He asked.
"Have we not been harmonized-have not our
difficulties been adjusted?
THE voice, as he well knows of nearly every
prominent and selfrespecting Republican,
would answer. mo. emphatically MOI" includ.
ed among whom are Gov. Cameron, Hon. John
s. WISE Hon. John f. Lewis, Major s. Yost,
Hon. Jacob Yost, Major R. B. Berkeley. Col
W. G. Pendleton, Hon. Lewis Mckenzie, Hon.
B. B. Bolts, Capt. ]. Henry Rives, Messrs. Jas.
a. Frazier. G. "A. Heermans. Yardley 7. Brown,
Major o. E. Hines, Hon. Jacob Eygborn, Hon.
Fl. H. Riddeberger, DR.. Frank King, DR..
George K. Gilmer, Or. J B. Walthall, Hon. G
W. Hansborough, Judge Thomas B. Claiborne.
ex-Congressman Libby. Hon, James B. Sener.
G. B. Hood and Gen. V. D. Groner.
Mr.. Allen then said that Mckinney had
gnored every question except that of the me-
gro question. and that the first thing they-the
Republicaus-had to do, was to remove the
nervous fear OF the Democrats that the negroes
would get away with them. He would like for
the Vindic0to7-as it had asked queations of
McKinney-to ask him, when the fear of the
negro was aroused in his indignant bosom ?"
1t is used, he said. merely a hobby to ride in
to power. He concluded his speech by nomi-
mating Geo. W. MeCutchen, OF Craigsville. as
one of the candidates for the House of Dele
gates.
At this stage of the proceedings, calls were
made upon Mr.. E. F. Vincent of Churchville,
who responded thsreto in a speech that was
sal ger,eris. 1t was spectacle as amusing as 1t
was strange to see man who had been, we
are informed, voting with the Malone party
since It's organization, posing, for effect, before
that convention as a Democrat. He said he
had been born and bred Democrat. but that |
the Democatic party is not now what 1t was
when he was baby-that the Democrats are
the old Whlgs of ante>belluns days.
He said that the Democratic party had sur
rendered Its principles aud measures of policy
one after another, and that the Republican
party had adopted and assumed them. He
claimed that he had not at all changed his
position, but that the Democratic party had
changed THAT is an old chestnut. He said
that he did not acknowledge allegiance to
either party-that he voted 10 suit himself
He told the convention that he would vote for
h,,t NOT fn u1fa fOrl
any one else-that Malone was man of brains
and had given TO the Democratic party in Vir-
ginia all its vitality-that he was maligned, as
had been Thos. Jefferson. jeff. Davis, and 9TH
ers, but he did not believe what his traducers
said. He had been a reader OF the Valley Vir-
gilman from the time 1t was Democratic pa
per, and when 1t changed to tie support of
Grant, and he believed that Yost would not
support Malone because he failed to be ap-
pointed postmaster. This Brutus thrust at
Yost, this "unkindest cut of ALL" was greeted
with much applause and jeer1ng laughter and
seemed to be greatly enjoyed by the members
of the convention.
When Mr.. Vincent concluded, Mr.. Allen
moved that all whose names had been put in
be nominated by exclamation
which was done accordingly, and the conven-
ton adjourned
Though they nominated. as we think, as good
a ticket as their party could select it was not
nominated with any hope of election, but
merely to preserve their organization and to
aid, not in electing, but In increasing votes for
Malone, who is destined to ignominious
defeat on the 5:h ofnext November.
TEACHERS in PUULIc SCHOOLS OF STAUN-
ToN.-The new teachers in the white public
schools of Staunton are Messrs. ]. w. Pond
and r. E. Mckay and Miss Mary Echard max
ing the teachers for this session as follows =
High SCHOOL,. II. Bader, Principal, and
teacher of English and German; w. NJ Black,
teacher of Latin and French ]. w. Pond, Math-
ematics, Chemistry, &c.