Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-16
A Republican Meeting III Loudoun.


Mr.. Park Aguew, republican candidate
for Congress of the 9Th Virginia district; ]
L. Thomas, Of Baltimore; Hon. l.. McKen
zie, of Alexsndrs. and Cbas. P. McCabe, Of
Leesburg, arrived at Hamilton on the up
mail last Saturday and were received By
the editor of the Telephone. whose guests
they were during their stay, aud by brass
band, which escorted them to the town.
These gentlemen came to address tie PEG
ple OF this section Of Loudoun county upon
the issues OF the campaign. Every effort
had been made by republican leaders tc
make this meeting great success and the
| Leesburg brass band was employed to draw
The colored voters. Only q moderate crowd
however, rewarded their efforts, and by .
o'clock Bakers Hall was fairly we'll flied,
the white voters on one side Of toe hail. the
colored people on the other side. The lat
ter predominated as usual. MIR. Hugh K.
Holmes was chosen Chairman, and intro
dueed the speakers who spoke IN the order
here given.
Sir. Park ASpew, after giving the reasons
for ncce ting the nomination., said that he
WIS 90 speechmaker but only business
man, and that the republican party had done
we'll to recognize the business element OF
the community in making their nomination.
Mr.. ] l.. Thomas was then introduced.
His sneeah consisted in series Of misstate.
ments and boastful predictions OF republican
SUCCESS. / give here his leading stnle-
mente.
He did not, he said, come here TO abuse
the democrats because they were democrats,
but he proposed to show how very wro:g
IVES the position Of tho democratic party OIL
The tariff issue he wss not bloody shirt
republican. There are no differences be.
| tween the parties except the tariff issue.
! That this issne involved change OF policy
in our dealings amoog ourselves aud in ref
erence to other nations. He displayed a
! Harrison and Tyler badge that had been
worn ia 1870 Virginia WAS for protection
| then Henry Clay was % honestly elected
over Polk 81 James G. Blaine was il 1854.
This created much merriment among
the few democrats present, who heartily
| agreed with the speal,er.)
After tia tariff reduction Of 1913 there
WAS widespread desolatOn all ever the land.
The reason England tried to help the South
during the war was her desire to have com
mereia in ercourse with section that was
IN favor Of free trade. Here the speak r
forgot to enumera!e the. southern States
which had voted for protection and Harii.
SON.
The duty was put upon forsgn goods 10
get revenue for the government. This was
a bad slip it Was an unfortunate nc
nowledgmeni) The great cry of the re-
pubicans during this campaign bad baen
shat all this tariff had been imposed, not for
revenue, not for tho bsneft of the manufac-
facturer, bu! soiely TO benefit The laborlng
man.
There was great crg about this surplus.
The eurplus in the Treasury does not come
out of the pockets Of the people but cut oil
| The custom houses.
After firing off this shot the speaker hap
pened to look in the direction OF Mr.. Agnsw,
whose face bore the impress OF calm incred
ulity. This stimulated him TO make an ex-
PLANTATION by saying that England, France
and Germany. in fact the whole world, paid
this money for the privilege OF selling TO
Americans goods which they did not want
as he, himself, as we'll as every other good
republican, was perfectly satisfied Win
American goods even If they cost him 81 90
or SO more than the foreign. The demo
Gratis left the tariff on sugsr untouched, Ia
false asserlion) while the republicans made
a heavy reduction. But he did not tell his
hearers that free, unprotected sugar was OF
thu republican programme, and if IT had
not been for the interpretation Of republican
Senators from some western States, where
SORGHUM sugar is raised, that part Of the
programme would have been carried out.
The speaker then launched into torrent OF
prophecies. Harrison and Morton would be
elected. Nearly every congressional district
in Maryland shoWsd clear Indications
of going republican, West Virginia
was safely republican, and if the re
pubIicans OF the Sth district of Vir-
g;nia 90 TO work, if they stop their work
in the fields on election day, and bitch up
their teams and bring to the polls the lame,
the blind, the crippled, the sick, and got
them 10 vote the republican ticket, Park
Aenew would also be elected. This isst
prediction seemed 10 exhaust the speaker
CON petely, and lie excused himself But
muat not forget TO say that Mr.. Thomas, in
the course of hia speech, quoted President
Buchanan from his message in 1859, and
that from this quotation he proved most
conclusiveis to all the republicans present
that before the war this country was rapidly
going to the dogs, that in spite OF the isct
that kind Providence had given us free
country, free institutions, cheap and fertile
lands aud abundant cropa and everything
that nation could wish for, ruin WAS star
ing US ip the face when the republican party
stepped in in the nick Of time and took the
management OF this country out Of the hands
of the Almighty and did what He could not
do before and probably never thought Of
gave this country all the blessings of re
publican protective tariil-hencs all our
prosperity.
Mr.. Lewis Mckenzie spoke next. he
said he wanted to tell about the Old Tippe-
canoe times. He WAS all old Tippecanoe
wing, he wss He read statistics showing
the votes cast in southern congressional dig
tricts. In one congressional district in Ala
bama not a solitary republican vote was
cast. The came thing may be said of others
in the South. Ia some congressional dis
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