Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-10-31
THE CONSPIRACY EXPOSED.
Colonel Lamb Gives the Whole Thing
AWay.

From the first the Dispatch has
charged that the whole Democratic
bolt in Virginia was organized by
Mr.. NJ. E. ingalls, in the interest OF
Mex inley, but we never expected 70
be able to produce confession OF
the fact until We read the card OF
Colonel William Lamb. Chairman Of
the republican party, published in
the Petersburg IndeX-Appeal of yes.
terdav, addressed ito the sound
monev Democrats OF the Second Con
grasSional District" 1t is most eX-
traordinary document, and will he
very instructive reading to the regu
lar democrats, as well as to those
democrats who, without reflection,
have been led into the Palmer move
ment. Colonel Lamb begins his corr
munication to the sound money
democrats by saying, Il take il for
granted that you are DESTROYS OF car
ry;ng the State of Virginia against
BRYAN and of defeating for Congress
in the Second District Mr.. Young, :"
the democratic nominee. The Colo
mel having correctly stated the de-
sires Of his allies, goes On TO show
that the Second District has tive
thousand more voting colored popu-
lation than any other district the
State now has" which five thousand
form reserve to draw 10 defeat
Bryan in Virginia. And then the
Chairman OF the republican party
gives the whole thing away, and
shows who is furnishing the money
al. q ~
by this statement:
Ia, chairman Of the National Re
publican Executive Committee,
promised me that all opposition TO
the regular nominee should be with
drawn. Mr.. ingalls, promised me that
there should be no sound money can
didate put up in this district, which,
beyond all others, belonged to the
republican party.
Here we have Ingalls, and Hanna,
of Ohio, undertaking tic direct the
politics Of the Second Virginia Dis
trict
The dullest sound money Demo
craft must now see to whom and BY
whom he has been sold out, and who
it is that is really running the cam
paign of his faction in the State and
directing it's movements. 1t Viii be
noticed that in this puttiDg up aud
taking down of candidates Gen. Z. III.
Logan, chairman Of the Palmer decoy
forces, is not so much as named.
And then Chairman Lamb goes on
to expose who they are that have
given numerical strength to the meet
ings of ''sound money democrats. >
He says;
The fact that republicans have
Joined sound money leagues, and, as
rule, attend in force sound money
meetings. has created the impression
that there is a large sound money
vote in this district. Very nearly all
Of the most distinguished men in the
democratic party are with the sound
money party; but the rank and file,
as a rule, have stuck to what they
consider the regular organization.
1t would be ungrateful to an oppo
nent who has furnished the demo
Gratis such valuable campaign mater
ial not to furnish him some in return.
So we may inform Colonel Lamb
that, among the distinguished men"
WHO are III LlIo SOliLU IuOuSS pau
there are but two who ever had d
State reputation-General Logan, the
the chairman, who made disastrous
State reputation by leading the
democratic party in 1879 to defeat;
aud Governor O'Ferrall, who, the
Richmond Times says, owes his high
place to vicious convention meth
DDS" packed ward meetings, anu
courthouse rings. The reputation OF
the other distinguished men" is in
all cases local or confined to their
districts, and in some cases it is
ludicrous.
1t will be interesting to the Sound
money democrats TO know that
Colonel Lamb thinks it will be easier
for them to vote for Wise, the re-
publican candidate, than to get go
900 colored voters, q large majority
OF whom can neither read nor write,
to vote for sound money democrat,
whom they very justly consider as
particeps criminis in defrauding them
of their right Of franchise in former
elections
And now the democrats OF Virginia
know what they had long suspected,
that N. Z. ingalls, is the real head OF
the Palmer movement III Virginia; |
that Mark Hanna is in financial con-