Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-13

! later IN the DAY. NOt"lJusIhHuluB A"o
mud. steady downpour OF water, and
thick blackness OF the night an audience
of nearly 500 gathered in the court
house at 8 p. NJ, as it bad been an
nounced the speaker would address the
Cleveland, Thurman, and Lester Club.
COLONEL BEIBYB INTRODUCED.
The speaker was introduced by the
chairman. Mr.. A. d. Stultz, AMI WAS
| greeted with loud cheers as he mounted
I the stage and in clear and distinct tones,
splendid English, and words OF BeTn1ng
eloquence said among other good things
"My Countrymen.- greet you We
meet under more favorable auspices than
ever before. We have an administration
! both State and Federal without blot or
blemish, and challenge successful con
tradiction. The question for you to de-
eide is which party is most likely to do
| the most good for the people in general
and the people OF Virginia in particular.
After the terrible effects OF the
civil war gallant northern Demo
| Gratis came forward with outstretched
arms and said Let us have peace; come
! back into the Union, and let Us be TEL
| low-citizens but the Republican party
said No. and appealed to the hatred,
spite. and all the bsser principles that
make mp mems characters. Who ever
heard of Thurman. Bayard, Hendricks,
and Others casting a slur at the South !
RRPuB1IcAH PLUNDEEREs.
When Wade Hampton was asked
/ 4 IL
rious to the South he nswered-upon
the testimony Of Republicans before an
investigating committee that 335O,OOu
| had been spent in South Carolina in one
wear by the Republicans and charged to
/ legislative expenses, aud of this Sl2j, OJJ
was spent for wines, liquors, and
cigars, and the rest spent for private
uses Of members in velvet carpets, &c,
| for their homes, and that 100000 had
been used for public printing, while IN
| the same gear four Of the largest states
in the Union only spent Sl22, OOOl IN pub
| lie printing Why, my countrymen,
/ the Republicans lost and squandered IN
| Virginia nearly $500, 0OJ Of our money,
hut the Democratic administrations nj
/ Richmond and Washington can account
/ for eyery cent under Democratic rule
| When the Republicans were IN power
they handed over to the Pacific railroad
| $4,000, 600 acres Of lsnd. The railroad
| began to sell tins land, and
only built about one fourth Of
| the road they contracted to build
/ The Democrats took hold Of this
| On accounting the road owed tins Gov
eminent $4,000, 900 borrowed money.
/ Cleveland, that grand, bold, and coura-
geous Democrat, instructed Congress to
/ take hold Of this Pacific railroad bust
ness. and 100000. 900 acres Of land have
/ been restored TO this Government. Ii
/ berius GRACIOUS. in returning from the
wars in Spain, said that public lands IN
/ Tuscany had been seized by arrogant
/ lords, ana in ten years 10000 people
we're settled on these lands, holding
%. 600. 900 acres but Grover Cleveland
/ has restored five times tuis much to the
people Of this country.
THEY STOLE MILLIONS
Continuing, Colonel Berne said Dor
sew and Bradv. Of star-routc fame, had,
/ under Republican rule, stolen from this
/ Government 100000 Since the war
! $40. OOO, GOO had been squaPdered 10y Re
publicans under a preteXt to build a
/ navy, but we have no navy.
Thomas A. Hendricks said :" When
we get in We will open the books and will
see what the rascals have been doing,
but instead Of finding only a two-cent
piece missing, as the Republicans re-
| ported and would have you believe,
| 3l3. 0O0. 400 Of tho peoples money IS
gone and not accounted for. The
/ speaker then read j. j. Ingalls, pen pic
ture of the Republican party, and his
comments on that brought down the
| house.
His tribute to Samuel J. Tilden and
denunciatory Of the fraud OF 1876 was
simply grand, and produced loud APP
plause. Although we elected Tilden,
vet the Democrats said for the sake Of
peace we Will let that pass. We failed
with Hancock. but that grand, noble,
courageous. and bold Democrat, Grover
/ Cleveland, routed them horse, foot, and
dragons. Loud applause
/ ABOUT PENSIONS.
/ The Republicans want to reduce the
surplus 10y paying pensions. He honored
southern Democrats forvoting pensionsto
Federal soldiers, but $50 600, 900 year is
enough and he did not believe III pen
sioninga fellow who had never smelt gun
powder; and Cleveland, in the face OF
a dangerous political element, refused to
sign the dependentpension bill.
Again, my follow citizens the inter
state commerce bill had been crippled
and its force broken by Republican
Senate who we're under the control Of
railroad menopolists.
In the Post Office Department under
Republican rule Sl,O00,O00 WAS lost.
Postmaster General Villas saved $1,000
600 the first year.
The speaker, continuing, said tho tariff
is no longer dry but live issue. The
greatest political evil is the war tariff.
The Republicans see they made a mis-
take in their Chicago platform. and now
the Senate is trying TO patch 1t up, but
they can't come together.
The purpose of protection is to in
crease our domestics by sum equal to
foreign articles OF like kind. This in
crease goes 10 tlio ADltIlNhu OlOpOllalH.
Last year we paid S2i7, 900, coo in taxes to
the Federal Government, and domestics
brought 1868, 600, 900, or in both about
1000, 900, 600, of which one fifth went
to the Government and four fifths to
protected capitalists. Men engaged in
protected industries are 1900, 900, of
which number 100000 capitalists get all
the benefit.
THE CAPITALIST PROTECTED.
The farmer, mechanic, and laboring
man is not protected. But they say
protection gives you home market.
You have tried this for twenty five years,
and where is Your market Under the
low tariff the farmer got 80 cents for his
corn, but recently under high tariff he
got only GU cents per bushel. he got
Sl.S4 for wheat under low tariff, but
recently under high tariff he gets 81
cents per busheL Our taxation makes
rich men richer and poor men poorer.
The worst fruits Of protective tariff is
the crust" and thereupon Colonel