Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-10-15
THEY RIDICULE
LAMBS WORK.
Ants Poke Fun at Lynch
burg Ticket.
Captain LUrI RooStS tire Body
Gold Men won't Support
Mccall, Roller and Lyons.

ers of Col. William Lamb has been
the cause of much amusing comment
among the anti convention Repubh
cans here today.
They characterize the ticket as
conspicuously weak. They say that
1t will Of course be supported by a
few who call themselves Republi-
cans, and whose only object in life is,
try for office, then get dissatisfied
and finally conclude by joining in
anything which will give them an
opportunity to throw mud at the
Democratic party.
General Edgar Allen, when seen
this morning, said that he consider
ed the convention to have been one
of the biggest failures he had ever
known of, and with forced soberness
said that he did not think that he
could see his way clear to support
its nominees. He then took UP the
candidates one by one and told how
they were conspicuously unrepre.
sentatives of the party.
He told Of how the representa-.
ton OF many of the districts said to
have been duly represented at Lynch.
burg were mon who did not even
live in the counties for which they
cast the vote and were, as in the
case Of Henrico, two men cast the
entire seventeen votes to which it
was entitled.
He said that Captain Lurty, to
whom he gave the entire credit of
having gotten up the convention,
had been cheated out of it's honors
10y MeCaull, and said that the form
ers speech, which is given below, is
very near the truth of the whole
ma tier.
CAPTAIN LURTY'S SPEECH.
The speech of Captain Lurty,
which followed, was remarkably bit
ter in its tone. lie sarcastically
congratulated the convention upon
saving him vast amount of time
and trouble and expenditure of
money, and broadly limited that
many votes had been cast from
counties where mass meetings To
elect delegates had not been held.
''If any one has cast such votes.v he
exclaimed, Il hope snakes will 90 to
bed with him tonight and the devil
raise with him in the morning" 81"
Then he lndulged in long lecture
on honesty and said that if the Re.
publicans wanted fair elections thev
ought to commence in their own
conventions. He invoked the bless
ing of God upon those who disliked
him, and denounced every maj who
had charged him with writing n
circular letter to the niggers." to
use his own language, ''as an infer.
nal liar. Do you understand that ?"
he asked scornfully, and then, again
thanking the convention for not
nominating him, he announced that
he was too old to wait for the party
to give him the nomination and re
turned TO his seat, without having
said a word in support of his sue
cessful rival. A few minutes later
he left the hall"
SAY THEY WON'T SUPPORT 1T.
II the members of the ticket nom.
in. tied at Lynchburg yesterday rely
on any considerable support from
assistant Republicans they will be
badly disapp, 'nted. A prominent
supporter of the s''ld cause last fall
said today that while l''me few would
vote for the Lynchburg t.'"ket 1t was
his opinion that by far the greater
number oflthose who voted at oil
would cast their ballots for the reg
ular Democratic nominees. He,hOw-
ever, expressed it as his firm belief
that by far the greater majority
would, like himself, refrain from tax
ing any part III the election Had
Lamb Republicans used more ciscre
tion in their choice of candidates
and put up general Walker and Cap
tain Lurty he said the result might
have been different, and he was not
quite sure but that they would have
had quite strong gold following
Richmond State.
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