Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-09-30

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but just here Mr.. Allen was interrupted
with whats Billy Malone get to do with the
case?'' and~a hundred other expressions
coming thick and fast Mr. Allen ceased
talking and with his notes in hand, stood
serenely waiting for an abatement of the
| tumult. Again he started. with Il repeat
what l was saying" and again the mob
howled and hooted, and told him to shut up,
| and talk about the case. Again Mr.. Allen
began with II repeat what was saying"
| and for the third time he was hooted and the
| crowd yelled and stormed so that he could
not proceed. He was called to order by
some. and some yelled for vote. The Rev
Williams local political head light, got in
front of The speaker and tried to say some
| thing. Mr.. Allen then succeeded in saying
that if the audience had only let him alone
he would have been through long ago.
When the audience heard there was chance
OF his ending his speech soon. they subsidized,
and Mr.. Allen wiped the perspiration from
his blow and subsidized. Mr.. Yost in this
tangle got in few words, but Mr.. Hack
man took the burden and heat of the day on
shoulders. He got the floor again and an
nounced that he wanted to see the great re-
publican party of which he was an humble
member carried on to glory, and it could
not be done by committee of five or ten or
forty throttling the voice of thu people, he
reminded the convention that it cut pretty
figure in talking about honest election laws,
| when few men had defrauded the whole
republican party of the State out of its right
to vote. He said it was the bosses against
the people. and informed Mr.. Allen that
the committee who had robbed the people
were out for pap they were all Office seek
ers. Charly Hall, the colored politician,
| aforesaid had by this time gotten nearly on
| top the wood work in front of the bench or
judges seat when he yelled at the top of his
| voice, "all the Yost's wanted was the post
Office" another cOl0red gentleman, yelled
'yes an wont let a niger come inside Nv
it" Then things did warm up, crowds surg
| ed this way and that. Some delegates had
| returned who had vOcated momentarily for
refreshments, and they displayed renewed
enthusiasm. Somebody nearly knocked Mr..
Hackman dead by asking him at this juno
ture, if he did not have in an application for
Office. He admitted that he had but that
when he was stamping this county last fall
in the interest of the party. and prosperity
| and sound money, &C., he had not any appli-
cation in mind, and If his action to-day
would end his prospects, as he had been told
it would. he said let the Office 60. He want
ed fair play but the other side didn't do any
thing fair. How useless he said to ask
Il 4 10 fOy Frn II.
DDS when the republicans themselves shut
the mouths Of their own people. He was
talking to the people.
At the conclusion of his speech, Col S.
Brown Allen again got the floor. and this
time made a remarkable speech, and let out
many party secrets. He reviewed how all
along since Cameron was Governor the re-
publicans had been counted out, of course
| electing their man every time, until they had
grown sick and sore. There was no chance
| to succeed unless there should be a split in
the democratic ranks, and this they had
prayerfully and anxiously awaited At last
it had come, the speaker said. Last year
the democratic party was split on the money
question and by the aid of those who had left
the main body of the enemy, the republicans
had been given two Congressman in Va. and |
a republican president. If then there had |
been nomination of State republican tick
et these persons who had aided them last |
fall, would either have been driven back into |
the democratic party, or they would have been |
Obliged to announce themselves republicans. |
Such policy would have been fatal, and to |
hold those who had left the democratic pa rty |
on the money question and whom he and tn Q |
committee believed would aid the republicans |
in restoring the purity of the ballot he and
the committee had striven. Mr.. Allen had |
poured his whole soul into this great achieve |
ment and he could not see why others did
not see it, as he and the committee at Lynch
burg had seen it.
The party was standing on the very brink |
of volcano THAT same old volcano that used
to threaten eruption all through the Malone
campaign when Mr.. Allen first saw the light
of republican day.
These said Mr.. Allen were briefly the reasons
why no convention had been held and they
should bind all true and loyal republicans.
But said he, here is a reason why there should
be no dissension. 1 have a paper here
Voices, Hanna's letter-"Shall 1 read this
paper" No, No, NO. Shouted one side,
and Yes Yes, YES, the other and then such
got to do with US shouted one. BY this time
Mr.. Allen had begun to read, Cleveland
Ohio, Sept. =, 1877 When delegate with
a long flowing moustache rose and shouted at
the top of his voice, ITO h with Mark Han
ma. G. d-n Mark Hanna" There was a
rush toward the delegate, prominent figures
in politics became numerous around the
shouting gentleman with the flowing NOUS
tache, fists were shaken in each others faces,
the colored delegates got thick too as if they
were spelling for trouble. Somebody shout
ed "Kill the d. nigger.' Just which one
nobody knows. Charley Hall, colored, got
up on the marble slab in front of the bar and
his face worked like he had cramps, and he
shouted as if he would burst his lungs. The
delegate who had so cruelty spoken of Mr..
Hanna wouldpnot be quiet. He showed grit,
and would not subside. Mr.. Hickman from
the side yelled to NJ. Allen, Eyes, Hanna's
your boss, read your bosses letter." Others
had something to say like this: Hanna
don't own u.s." "Let him attend to his own
business and we'll attend to ours" All
through somebody would every now and
then yell, "Put the democrats out" But Mr.
Allen read the letter. During Mr. Aliens
speech local heeIers had been out gathering
forces, and the side on which Mr.. Aliens
forces stood grew dark as he was speaking"
The colored minister Williams who was
spelling and had been spelling to speak, and
who had been only able to say that 1.-The
niggers does the work and you gifts the Off
ces," now got the floor and after while spoke
1t was nip and tuck between him and Charlie
Hall which should speak. Hall was on a
high point believing like bull, and Will
iams had gotten on chair and was trying to
waive and talk him down. "Heah me, Heah