Year: 1870

/ franchised, Numerous instances hav
already occurred. In Doddridge count,
man who served as lieutenant in th'
rebel army is a registered voter to day
becauSe he intimated his willingness t
vote the Radical ticket. His vote wai
refused by an officer Of election who
kaer he was not qualified voter and
that officer had been indicted by q
grand jury for his offense. When any
rebel, no matter what his prominence
in the service Of "the lost cause" may
have been, manifests "a disposition to
do dirty work for the Radical party,
they take him to their arms and send
him around the State preaching politi-
cal duty to the men who stood in arms
for the Union in opposition to him.


Mr.. Davis then spoke of the social
ed Flick Amendment and declared
that it was not endorsed by even the
Radical party: the utmost thev are
willing to say in regard to the enfran-
chisement of the rebels being that they
will do so when the safety OF the loyal
uartv will admit, or, as the platform of
the Radical State Convention de: :lIrcs
they will remove these disabilities "in
the same measure as the disloyalty of
the rebels dies out," which is simply
saying that they will be enfranchised
rs rapidly as they consent to vote the
Radical ticket. The safety Of the
loyal people of the State is not and has
not been jeopardized by these men, else
these disabling statutes would have
been adopted before the close of the
war Possibly the safety of the hopes
of some Radical otfice-seekers might be
endangered by the rebels, but beyond
this, no sane man could anticipate dan
GER to any one. The Flick Amend
ment was designed to compel a Demo
cratic endorsement Of negro suffrage,
under penalty of being accused Of op.
posing the enfranchisement of the
rebels. Every effort was made by the
Democrats in the Legislature to secure
some modification Of the registration
law or that the two questions OF negro
suffrage aud white Acknowledgement
might he submitted separately and
voted upon separately by the people,
but the Radicals would not permit the
one or the other, thus proving
the inSinCeritv OF their boasted promise
to give political rights to the white citi
zrns Of the State.


Mr.. Davis being notified that his time
had nearly expired, concluded his re-
marks by brief re 'erence to the money
making and class-legislation of Con
,re-s, and to the Funding bill.


As soon "a Mr.. Davis had taken his
seat, Governor Stevenson, who had been
sitting in the audience, arose and said:
That he had come there as one of the
candidates to be voted for at the October
ELECTION. and expected to address the
people. Since coming to the Court
House, he had been handed slip OF
paper containing an arrangement OF
time for discussion. He read from
the slip an arrangement similar to that
mentioned above He said he had not
come here for discussion; that he would
not debate with anybody except the can
l:date on the Democratic ticket opposed
TO him. That the people wanted to hear
the candidates 'or Congress, and that
he proposed that they speak during the
afternoon according to any arrange
ment that suited them, and he would
speak at night, but'that he would not
b, limited in time. He observed that
to each of the Republican speakers only
ore hour was allowed, while one of the
Democratic speakers was allowed an
hour and half He was thus to be
placed between "the upper and the
neither mill-stones.' This was not fair,
and he objected to it. All he asked
was fair play.


Mr.. Walker said that at a recent
meeting in Kanawha county at which
Governor Stevenson and he had been
announced among the speakers, the
Governor then, "a now, declared that he
would not take part in any discussion,
but that after he (Walker) had spoken,
the Colernor made a replyin which he
was personally and bitterly assailed, it
hayinr been first stipulated that he
shoull not be permitted to reply. As
the q Governor had then followed him, he
nroposed now to follow the Governor.
lie had proposed to the committee to
have the candidates for Congress con-
duct their discussion in whatever man
Nor suitel them best, after which he
would debate with the Governor in alter
nate half hour speeches as long as the
people would stay to listen, but this the
Radicals would not agree to. This was a
Democratic meeting however, having
been first called to hear Mr.. Davis, but
the division of time was the proposition
of the Republican committee and had
been reluctantly cOncurred in by the
Democrats. 1t was a skunk OF the
Governors own catching and he might
skin it himself,
Mr. White, chairman OF the meeting,
stated that the arrangement for discus
sion was proposed by the Republicans
and accepted 10y the Democrats, and he
was opposed to any change now being
made in il.


General Goff was then called for and
took the stand.


GENERAL GoFFs SPEECH.


He said he came as the candidate o
the Republican party-that party when
| had been so much villifed to-day. ne
came to defend the very measures when
had been so bitterly denounced. Al
though Mr. Davis had spoken so bitter
lv OF the doings of the Republican party
did he find any act of the Democratl'
party to which he could point wltf
pride2 1t is an easy matter to find faul
with and denounce those who are charg
ed with the conduct OF governmental al
fairs, but it is hard to show any goo'
thing in Democracy. The style OF Mr.


Davis argument had consisted in ring


ing charges upon the words "constitu


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