Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-09-28
A JOINT DEBATE IN NELSON.
General Hunton shows the Fallacy OF
Colonel Bob Beverley's Roasonings

Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
LIVINGSTON, Va. September 2e.-Owing
TO the sickness of Judge I. p. Fitzpatrick
there was no court at Lovingston to-day,
and consequently politics had an oppor-
tunity TO run wild among the large crowd
of country people assembled in the town.
There were present Mr.. y. V. Southall, or
Charlottesville, United States Senator Eppa
Hunton, and Colonel Robert Beverley, and
q ioint debate was arranged to be held IN
the courthouse Mr.. Southall Democrat)
led off in an hour.and-a-half speech, in
which Republican principles were scored
in scathing terms.
The speaker showed the folly of Peo-
ple's-partyism and exhorted its adherents
to return to the folds of Democracy.
Colonel Beverley followed Mr.. Southall
in a speech composed of heterogeneous
mass of logic sustaining the most impor-
tant Democratic issues and at the same
time denouncing the election OF the candl-
dates of Democracy. General Huntoh
then took the floor and gave Colonel Bev-
erly such trimming as he will probably
not soon forget. During Mr.. Southalrs
speech the Democrats present had RETAINED
from any loud demonstrations when
the Peoples party was touched up. but
during Colonel Beverley's address some
FIVE or six Third partyites exerted then
lungs so vociferously on such small Occa-
sion that when General Hunton CON-
menced his remarks the large crowd OF
Democrats were just dy to shout, and
plenty of opportunity was afforded them.
INA CORNER.
The speaker showed the fallacy Of Bev-
erley's reasoning throughout, and pushed
the Colonel into a corner by asking him
whether he would rather see Cleveland OF
Harrison elected in November, and then
asking whether Beverley thought Weaver
could obtain the electoral vote OF Viz
gina. Beverley answered that he pre-
ferred Cleyeland TO Harrison, and did not
reply 10 the other question. Hunton then
asked Beverly if he was. not ashamed to
request the people of Nelson to vote FOR
a violent South-hater, who desired to pass
a law giving the Union soldiers of the
North about 1857 000,000 in addition to
the enormous amount of pensions already
going INTO the pockets of the northern
soldiers? This, as my friend knows, ii
what General Weaver and his party are in
favor of doing. The Colonel, SAID Hu H.
ton. "denouuces monopoles and rich men
IN unmeasured terms, and yet he is the
richest man in Fauquier county; IN fact,
about the only rich man there. He tells
YOU that only once has he aspired to office
and that now he never expects to hold
office. In his last assertion agree with
him perfectly. In, the second l must say
that he is mistaken. He aspired 10 the
Office of Secretary OF Agriculture under
Cleveland. and since Cleveland's time tc
the Office of Commissioner of Agriculture.
He now asplres to the Office of elector fol
Virginia, and he is right in saying he vii!
never obtain it. Besides this he desired
the nomination for Governor and since
his failure to secure this he has slid further
and further from Democracy, until he has
finally landed into the Peoples party along
side of Weaver"