The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-22

Jones and Hannah Also Spoke.
Y Yesterday was court day at Salem and
many OF the citizens of the county were
out to hear the various issues discus :ed.
1t was gala day for the Citizens ticket,
notwithstanding the fact that Captain
Berkeley, Hon. j. Allen Watts and
Judge j. w. Marshall of Craig, held
the boards in the courthouse for the on.
position. They made speeches. ench of
them, and Capt. Berkeley made COM
plete flop from the position he occupied
in his speech at the opening OF tho cam
paign in this city.
Instead of advocating a free, secret,
untrammelled and honest election law
as he did then, he declared in favor OF
the viva voce method of voting.
Mr.. Watts stated that he believed
majority OF the white Republicans in
Roanoke would support him. Major
Mccartney was present but did not
| speak. Judge Marshall made good
Democratic speech, such as he ALWAYS
makes.
The crowd in the courthouse was less
| than hundred, while on the court
green Col j. Hampton Hoge made a
telling speech to three times thai
number.
The colonel said he was not fighting
the Democratic party, but was against
the machine part of it. He WAS for an
honest election law, free ballot and
fair count, while the machine Demo-
cracy WAS in favor Of fair ballot and q
free count. He referred to the fact that
/ an honest Democrat who was in the
house OF representatives had stated that
theWalton law was passed It the instance
OF the politicians of tho black belt OF
Virginia, and told the colored people
that II thoy accepted q dollar for their
votes to put it away as token of their
liberty and tho liberty of their families,
as It would DO blood money purchased
with the blood OF 1900, 600 brave men.
| In his reference 70 tho Walton cleo.
lion law, Colonel Hoge said:
"a more dnmnable, moro corrupt,
more disgracefui, moro unrigbt eous or
more unholy Statute was never con-
celVed in the dens Of sin, or ever brought
| forth, emblszone1 with the fumes of
lniquity' than the Walton amendment.
which was born of q Democratic ma
| chine-made promise of honesty, and by
| this standard we must weigh their
future promises. When hell, in it's
darkness, shall, with the breez,s OF
virtue, blow out it's fires, we may ex-
pect, and will receive, an honest cleo
tion law from the hands of machine
Democracy. The people of the State of
Virginia are fighting for principle
more precious than golden jewels-that
OF personal lib,rty and purity at the
ballot box"
In his reference to the methods pur-
| hU a nlt
ing strong language with telling effect:
Tho last Legislature was dominated
by corporations. Eighteen thousand
dollars was by them Invested and the
child was baptized before its birth, and
at the altar OF our country the CORPORA
tlon combine stood So godfather, and at
| ltS bidding an unknown man emerged
from the shades of darknese-a man,
who was not known, 10 you land he
would pay reward to the man who had
ever seen or heard of him), vet when
they commanded, Gen. Filzhugh Lee,
thatgallant soldier, that apotless states
man, and undaunted hero OF the lost
cause whose white plume had waved on
every battlefield, whose shrlll voice had
led in many charge, that chosen and
beloved son, honored and reverenced
from tho Potomac to the Rio Gfande;
tor whom every heart that beat beneath
the Confederate gray, hoped and prayed
would be honored and exalted by his
STATE to one of the highest positions
within the gift Of his people, was
doomed. Behold him riding 10 tho cap.
itsl city OF tho cause he loved.
| See him as he rides beneath tho
shadow of tho monument of Rob.. e.
Lee, and zee him as he falls st the
capitol OF people he loved, with tho
KNIFE OF the Democratic machine in hia
PACK, and from the ashes of the dead
liberties and hopes OF his people rise
the sph1nx-like form of Thos. S. Martin
to the high position OF United States
! Senator"
A. Jones. the Citizsne nominee for
the house OF delegates, made straight.
lorwaro speech. setting forth the prin-
ciples which he advocates. Jno. l..
Hannah, his colleague, also made an in
teresting talk.
! Negro Day at Atlanta.
ATLANTA. Ga Oct Of No.. l.