The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-21
GREAT FIELD DAY
IN GREENE ZEN COUNTY. \!
Old Fashioned Barbecue
and Political
Speaking.
SWANSON. MAKES
a RINGING ADDRESS
Senator Martin Makes a Few
Remarks After Mr.. George
Perkins Had Spoken.
Over One Thou
sand People
Attend.

II, Especial from staff Correspondent
b STANARDSV1LLE VA.,5 September 90.
(, An old fashioned barbecue. old fashioned
political speeches. a crowd OF the old X
fashioned size and animated by cnthusi-
asm OF the old fashioned kind. made this
an old fashioned day for old-fashioned
Democracy in the od.fashioned county
OF Greene. I should not have limited It
to Greene. Albcnarle and Orange each
sent a goodly contingent. It was said
three fat wlthers dressed whole. a dozen
mountains from the nelghborhood OF Elk
4 ton. In Shenandoah county, to hear DEM
ocratic doctrine preached and incident
ally to partnko OF the barbecued sheep
and swine which chilly" Garth. OF
Charlottesville. had been preparing since
the dawn
Over one thousand people were pres
& cnt. Representative Swanson made a
speech. Nhlch .took'' MS well rs any
have heard In Virginia In n long time.
It dealt with weighty and somewhat dry
matters q, government bit he relieved
It with several good stories. and KEPT
the crowd In good humor with humor-:
GUS aud witty illusions.
.83 Senator Martin had expected to make
2peech, but owing to his having to
catch n train att charlottesville he had
time for but n few remarks.
George Perkins. known as one of the
hest lawyers OF charlottesville rather
than ns n politician did not speak at
. much length, bu, he stirred up the boys.
a In great style. The speeches were deliver.
cd from "a rough platform in the grove
near tho swift ruin Baptist Church and
nearly two miles northwest OF stanards-
K Vile s Il trss5 \, # ID Fl.
! ss The Barbecue. s...s4 5.. s
A hundred fect from, the stand was the
long trench half filled with cnlbers. over
which were cooking two big porkers and
three fat wnthers. dressed whole. a dozen
negroes s,irerintcnded by ''R!lly" Garth.
OF Charlottesville were kept busy turn
ing the meat. Each carcass was faStene'
to two stf,ut poles and then placed trans
versely over the trench,teSwhere they
were roasted to q turn. Some OF me
negroes were kept busy all the time dip,
ping long handled swabs In buckets Of
vinegar sauce and smca ring 1t over
the cooking meat. The heat drove the
sauce In MS one old man explained.
The result was meat favored TO suit
the taste OF the most fastidiouS gourmet
who ever put his legs under Rueaerh
board thought smelt II when 4 was
within mile OF tho place, where the
roasting WIS In progress
Senator Mnroln, Mr.. Swanson. John B.
Moon. George Perkins and two or three
others drove from charlottesville yes
terda afternoon, distance of twenty
nee miles or more, and spent the night
ut Mrs Blakey's Eagle Hotel In Stan
nardsyllc# Az for me. I had to get
oup Of bed iat charlottesville at
three this morning after having
retired Mt midnight and catch q train
which put me In Bnrboursv!lle at hail.
mast fyc this morning. found my way
through tho sweet smelling, dcwy dawn
up 10 hIundy's Hotel, where ] reused q
dlminutive colored boy who shoWcd HE
to the Sitting room where tried to sleep
on a sofa for an hour. A real countr.
breakfast that could make even n sicl,
stomach hungry and then the start on
q that thirteen mile drive IN through the.
hills to the very foot of the Blue Fidse
Miles OF woodland, much OF 1t virgin
forest. smiling bluegrass farms, fields OF
yellow corn shocks, golden pumpkins,
cleaning among them, and always in
the background the dnrk peaks OF the
Blue Ridge, famed in song and story for
It's beauty and by reason OF the mos
mentous events of history with which
II has been associated. It was eleven
o'clock when we turned n curve In the
road through the forest "Dar de place"
said Uncle William Smith, my driver, a
type of tho genuine old Virginia gem
tlemen, though black as the ace OF
spades, II that means the superlntivo Of
blackness
Country Gathering.
Tho large grove was filed with ve-
hlcles and horses and with men and
women, farmers and their wives and
young gallants. paying devoted attention.
to rosy-cheeked maidcns whom they
seemed to be trying to persuade to as
sumo matronly cares and airs ana Dig
nifty
fat man dispensing free lemonade
from big barrels proclaimed the fact
, as persistently and In tones as stentorian
as though he were selling II Mt Ave
cents glass
IIe did thriving business. So did
others who came down from the moun-
tains riding on old fashioned saddle-
bags with sundry wickcd-looklng Jugs
and BOTTLES therein. And the contents
OF The bottles and jugs were us free
as tho lemonade. though the fnct WIS
not SO loudly proclaimed though at-
tested, perhaps. by sundly swaying fig-
ures and recumbent statues beneath the
trees when dinner was served
After ample time had been allowed Mr.
Swanson to shake the hands of the nm
crowned kings, and he Is wonoderfuily
good at It, the crowd moved over to the
platform beneathtth the monster oaks. rang
Ing themselves on the rude oak and pine
slabs arranged for them. There We're
possibly two hundred matrons and maids
in tho audience and until Mr. Swan
son closed they were about his closest
listeners.
The Speaking.
DR., r. p, Pennington chairman OF
the Greene County Democratic Commit
tee, who, with John s, Chapman. candlr.
date FOR the Senate. and NAT" early,