Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-12
CLOSE OF THE BUsH-MeETlNGs.
A spirited Anti-Tariff Speech by E1'
Governor st. John. OF Kansas.

| Governor st. John. OF Kansas.
| Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.I
LErsBURG. Va, August Q. 1890.
! The big three days bush-meeting OF
| Loudoun, at Purcellyille. closed Thursday
/ afternoon. The attendance was oil the
way from FIVE 10 eight thousand people,
| this gathering doubtless being larger. the
attention greater, and the enthusiasm
| higher than at any OF the twelve annual
meetings held in this county heretofore.
Excellent order prevailed. the weather was
delightful and the addresses delivered
were able and interesting.
| Among those who entertained the vast
| concourse was Ex-Governor st. John. OF
| Kansas. who delivered two stirring and In
/ cisye speeches upon the tariff end upon
| the attitude of the Administration TO tenn
! perance and morality. He stated that the
| common people--the bone and muscle OF
the country-knew less of the tariff than
any thing else. He declared that all tarin
under our system is wrong in principie
and robs the people in the interests OF O
| few favored ones. II levies its burdens
upon what we consume. the necessarles OF
| life. instead of what we possess. DICK
| Turpin held men up and robbed them
against the law Congress holds them up
and robs them by the law. If there was
anything the farmer had been humbugged
about it is this system; The whole iegisla-
| ton of Congress had been in the interests
| of monopolists and against the common
people, releasing the rich of the income tax,
| taking of the tax from the railroad cor
porations and claiming to legislate tor the
people.
| GIGANTIC ROBBERY.
He ventilated the Mckinley bill as gi-
| gantic robbery as was ever perpetrated
upon the common people. This was hardly
q palatable dose to be administered In the
Republican stronghold Of Loudoun. HIS
remarks upon temperance and the import
ance of political prohibition action was
very strong and pointed. In his second
address he handled the present Admins
tration without gloves-not appealing TO
sympathy. but to the judgment of men.
, The Democrats gave us prohibition IN
Maine before the Republican party was
born. Thirteen States were under pro
hibition before the Republican party
| came into existence. aud the Republl-
can party repealed the law IN ten out OF
the thirteen. At Harrison's inaugural
thousands of saloons were WIDE open, but
he did not condemn them IN his In
augural address. One thousand saloon
keepers were in the inaugural PROCESSION
because they were in sympathy with the
party. At the presidential election. when
Blaine was candidate. the cry was that
he would defeat Blaine. when Blaine had
defeated him; it was said that votes were
thrown away on him; 10000 votes were
thrown away on HIM and 100000 were
thrown away on Blame.
| THE O. o. p.
He was q Republican for twenty-elght
wears, and STAYED with the party until the
4th day of June, 1884, and never knew
what it was to be politically happy until
he had come out from the Republican
party He was now in party that had no
saloon-keepers in their procession. The
Democrats of Londoun have no fault to
| find with Governor st. Johns able nd-
dresser. Among the results of this meet
ing was that two former chairmen of the
Republican County Committee of Lou
doun publicly before this vast assemblage
renounced Republicanism and declared
| fealty to the Prohibition party.
CAToCTIN.