The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-25

speaker. The question before US cow Is
this, can those men who are Democrats
by instinct allow this opportunity to slip
by and put Harrison in the White House
II Is sapping the life blood
of the country. injuring its best
interest and calculated 20 corrupt Con-
eress to keep on piline up the surplus In
the United States Treasury. What Gro
yer Cleveland wants j. TO reduce the sur
plus by plan which will still protect
the honest working man and keep pau
per labor away from here, so that every
man should have have his children fed,
clothed aud educated and have house
to live in. 4 man who wants
this should vote for Cleveland, Thurman
and reform; if not. vote for Malone,
Waddill and that gang. The very foun-
daiion Of ihi: Government was laid Dy
d mOcrais. ard up 10 1850, when we
were foolish enough to divide. we gov
erned the country nearly all the time to
the satisfaction OF all our opponents ex-
cent the few who had an to grind.
want you men 10 understand tha'
when God created rs he put as much
brains into our heads as he put in an
Englishman's head. II Is an insult TO
you to be told what the English are
thinking OF you. Mr.. Blaine went all
through England on the outside OF a
coach with a spy glass, the guest OF one
Carnegie, who made 81 800 600 last year
out Of taxes on you, and came back
TO tel us sensible people what
the English people want us 10 do. A
dude got a telegram from England telling
him that II was raining there. The An
glo maniac, though cool, clear day,
walked in the streets with his umbrella
up because the English were doing so.
That is just what Blaine wants us all 20
do-ape the English, as If we had no
sense OF our own.
He explained how, when you pay for
a hat, you get sixty cents worth Of hat
and forty cents worth Of protection. You
don't care about the protection.
You bug the hat TO cover your head,
And there are three hundred necessaries
Of life that you men have TO buy during
year on which you have TO pay tax.
When the time comes when we can re-
duce the price Of the food and clothes
llflt VIII w. oul ruAts nb Nht WHN
will object to paying less price unless
il be n Republican. When Blaine found
that Cleveland was surely to be the Demo
cratic candidate again the Republican
leader stopped long enough on his Eng
lsh tour TO write letter TO his friends
saving, | don't want you to put me in
nomination. Who did the Republicans
nominate? They nominated a man
named Harrison whom you never heard
Of before, and whom you will not hear OF
again after the 9Th day OF November He
may think he is going to be elected, but
if so he is the only man in the United
States who really believes II. He is run
ming, but | think he is only running for
exercise After the sixth, the Chinese
will take him up. He is called "Chinese
Ben" and the Chinese paupers, brought
here to compete with honest Americans,
are his best friends.
What we want to do in Congress ia TO
allow man TO eat, have clothes and a
house to live in without tax on the
food, clothing or lumber; but the Repub.
licans say you shan't have either food,
clothes or lumber unless you pay Repub-
lican mOnop0lists lagge tax in order to
enrich them They offer you free whisky
instead CT food, free scorns, bristles and
beeswax instead Of salt and wool. Are
YOU willing TO eat acornsy He closed
with brilliant perOratiOn eulOgislic OF
Senator Barbour and George ID. Wise,
representatives Of that grand old State,
Virginia, whose history positively will
never be allow to die.
Governor Lee next introduced
HON. JOHN T. HARRIS.
He said he saw before him the sterling
sons OF Virginia. He had seen on the
stand the wife OF Governor Lee and the
relict OF man who had made history,
President John Tyler. Who among you
can vote for such man IS Hsrrisong Each
man in the audience, when a youth comes
courting your daughter, make 1t poi nj
to ask him: "Are you Demo
ocrst or a Republican ?" II the lat
ter, tell him, You can't marry my
daughter" Cleveland Is a man of desti-
ny, born of God to lead US Southern peo-
pie out Of the slough In which the Re-
publlcans have kept US. lie and his
father are Presbyterians, and he is fore
ordained and predestined to put final
end 10 the worst party that ever held the
Ieins of Government In this Republic.
At the close of Mr.. Harris speech Ma
ior Patton announced that the meeting
had closed. and invited all 10 hear Hon.
John w. Daniel at the Old Market at
$50 o'clock.
THE INVITED GUESTS
next began to fill the platform. Among
them were Hon. X. G. Marshall, candidate
for Congress from the Second Tor Norfolk
district; Mayor j. Taylor Ellyson; n.
Ezekiel, chairman Of the United Clubs I;
Director General Curtis, Messrs. John N
Higgins, +. G.. Rufiin, John NJ Hudgin,
A. l.. Bumgardner, Charles f. Workman,
Senator William Lovenstein, Major
James ID. Patton, G. Il. Sands, John Bell
Bigger, George A. Ainslie, John B. Cary,
]. Taylor Stratton, W. X. Meredith, A,
NJ. Bowman, l.. Il. Watts, John ID. I'm
boden, d. 5. Gates, William Ryan, Joseph
w. Carter, Professor Puryear, Judge
Watts of Portsmouth, Delegate Ander-
son of Rockbridge, Elector Tazewell FL
lett and others.
THE VIRGINIA DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION
OF WASHINGTON
was represented on the stand by Judge
II. w. &. Nowlin OF Richmond, George