Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1905-10-06
FOR STATE SENATOR.
EDWARD ECHOLS.
REPUBLICAN GRIMES IN VIRGINIA.


terial to aid them in their efforts to
carry the State. If there is anything
at which Virginians balk it is having
lot of outsiders pour in on them and
attempt to direct their political &C
tions. especiallywhen those who come
have always been their actual and
their political enemies. Ever since
poor old man Ely, a Congressman
from the nutmeg State, passed up this
Valley in 1867 advocating the Under
wood constitution, negro equality,
mixed schools and other Internal isms,
which the Republicans then in control,
and Malone who came after them
again attempted, the stomach of the
white man in Virginia turns at the
very mention of Yankee imp0rtatiOns
like Shaw and others now promised
us. 1t Is enough to see Judge Lewis,
and John Acker, and Col. 8. Brown
Allen, and Col. Campbell Slemp, and
those who have officiated with q party
that sought to foist negro equality on
as in the early eighties, get up before
audiences now and hold their love
feasts, shed their tears of repentance,
tell how the race issue has died, and
how repulslve such an issue has been
to them; to hear them preach good
government and honesty, and love for
neighbor and friend.
How beautiful this picture, but how
dark and damnable the one they have
turned to the wall. Judge Lewis is an
original Republican, he did not want
war, he did not believe in accession, he
was always loyal to the United States
government, and glOried, we suppose,
when he heard Of Rebel defeats, our
boys killed, or captured to die in pris
ons of starvatian and neglect. To
have been as loyal as the judge is por-
trayed he should have beheld with glee
the larid sky of this beautiful Valley
where the Judges eyes first saw the
legitimate lurid by torches applied to
the homes Of the Judges old friends
BY Sheridan 3 incendiaries, who at the
time were the Judges new friends. He
should have been glad when he saw his
relatives often, his friends always,
turned out of their homes that those
homes might be burned, and they with
their old men and women and children
left to freeze and starve, because they,
his friends and relatives, had seen
cause TO cOnstrue the constitution one
way and he and bis confreres another.
Again must Judge Lewis, to have been
"trooly loyal" have rejoiced when
Underwood and Chas. H. Porter and
that gang sought to hang Confederates
as traitors, when Lewis Lindsay and
Frank Moss, both as black as ink,
stood in the halls Of the General AS
sembly as representatives of Virginia
and told the people of Virginia ''dat de
bottom rail are on top" and 'de color
line am now drawn" When they de-
clared that the schools should be mixed,
that negro officers should rule, and
negro juries decide the causes of the
white people. These sentiments Judge
Lewis must have applauded if he was
the loyal citizen he has been represent
ed to be. because these were the ap.
proved sentiments and actions of the
Republican party both in the State and
Nation at that time, and no voice in
the party was raised against them.
Did Judge Lewis rejoice over the
efforts of the MOlungeon convention,
and counsel its members as to their
actions and expressed desires with ref
erence to the ballot, the honesty of
their proposed government. and their
enslavery of the white people who had
been Southern sympathizers i? Certain
ly no man can accuse him now of
having been Union man, Northern
sympathizer, and original Republican,
and in the same breath say he was in
sincere in anything which was then
regarded as an evidence of loyalty.
Such would be to discredit him as a |
man, and as a suitable person now for |
governor. We do not assert that Judge |
Lewis was a sympathizer with Under
wood, or that be applauded Lewis
Lindsay or Frank Moss; we only assert
that we never heard that he did not
do 80, or that be did not counsel, aid,
abet or applaud all the indignities