Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-20
ELLETT'S GRACEFUL SPEECH.
Though Defeated lie is Ready to Work as
Hard as II Nom mated.

Colonel Elicit was next presented and
made a ten-minutes speech that was tho
roughly in keeping with the elegant gen
tleman that he Is. He spoke with becoming
grace and won the plaudlts OF all presen..
In part be SAID:
MIR. Chairman and Fellow-Democrats
Fellow White Men of the Third Congress
sional District, i come before you today
in the light OF a defeated candidate for
your nomination for Congress IN this dis
trict, but at the same time come as life
long. living Democrat and white man, and
| come to tell YOU that the same vigorous
fight that have made seeking your nomi-
nation intend TO make until the 9Th day
of November. This. as your nominee has
stated. has been friendly fight, and II he
will excuse me for saying so, IT has been
very active fght-sO much so that we have
made him much more active than he ever
was before. Ii shows this, that the spirit
of Democracy is still as alive and pugna-
cious as it has ever been before.
HOW DEMOCRATS FIGHT.
| remember on one occasion when was
in Norfolk and the late Henry Heaton
thau whom there was no truer and more
tried Democrat came around to my quar-
ters. and speaking OF the Elgnth-dlstrlct
DELEGATION. said: "The convention Is as
sembed. but | don't think there is any
possibility of their being in there an hour.
They are fighting in there like cats and
dogs And told him that the Third dis
trict was doing the same thing. lApplause
and laughter
say. fellow-citizens. that this has been
family difficulty, and that We have d.
vided brother and father, father and son,
but also want 10 say for the men who
opposed mo and opposed me rightly and
conscientiously that have not
one feeling of repugnance or unfrlendll-
ness towards you. You did 1t as Demo
Gratis and had right to do 1t. but it would
who made such a gallant fight for me
didn't turn and say Boys. will remem-
Der you to my dying day" Mark You,
have love for them and heart overflow
ing, and have no untriendllness for the
other men. | want to say only one word
more, for know you are tired.
CONDUCTED on HIGH PLANE.
Ny contest has been conducted by both
my friends and myself upon plane that
enables them without the least bitterness
TO accept your decision here to-day as men.
They have fought like men they have de-
termined that all their blows should be
struck from the shoulder. and that no foul
| blows should be dealt below the belt in the
Democratic party. | hope we will be
now even better friends than We have
been IN the past. One thing more and /
am done: | want TO impress upon
every Democrat here present, ard would
/ Just as soon and little rather that the
| Democratic party down South should be
/ called the white mans party. Therefore.
10 every white man here present. whatever
| his past party affiliations NAV have been.
| have this TO say Remember the force
bill remember the Republican party has
tried to stamp IT upon you and your peo-
| pie. Remember that in the fight you have
| made here you nave selected as your stand
ard-bearer Hon. George ID. Wise, of Rich
| mond. Also. remember that his first and
| second lieutenants in this fight. through
| courtesy, ought TO be Hon. II. III. Card
well. of Hanover, and Tazewell Elicit,
of Richmond. IApplause.I Remember
that We as those lieutenants expect
our friends to rally around that
standard that we have placed in his hand,
and that on the 9th of November the old
democratic cohorts will 90 up with as
large or larger majority than we have ever
had in the past.
Colonel Elicit closed by returning thanks
for the patient attention given him.