The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-24
a DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS
From the State Executive Com
mittee.

niohMoND, Oct. 93.-lSpecial The
State Democratic committee to-day is
sued an address to the voters of Vir.
glnla signed by Taylor Ellyson, chair
man, from which the following are OK
tracts:
The house of delegates, consisting of
one hundred Nom bers, and twenty.one
out Of forty senators arc to be elected
ny the peorle of Virginia on Tuesday,
the Sd day of November. Between now
ana then the friends of good govern
ment should be up and doing. Tho
election is Of vast and far-reaching i'm
portaIce.
Tho incoming general assembly will
eject county judges, many administra-
tive officers of the State, and Senator
OIL the United States; and before the ex-
plratlon of the four years term of tho
State senators the bench Of five supreme
court judges is to be chosen. Necessary
legislation of great consequence must
be enacted, and apart from that which
comes along in the usual course of
events, the general assembly must re-
apportion the State for the federal
house OF representatives and for the
Two houses OF the general assembly of
Virginia.
Pafoy pOlHCS proudly
to the wise and economic government
1T has given tho people of the State,
and to the grand struggle it HAS made
III Congress for the like Government in
the United Statos. Confident that its
principles and policies arc for the best
interest of all classes Of the people, it
again involzes your suffrages.
In the State 1T has responded to all
just demands. 1t has fixed and pre-
served low rate Of taxation; it has
collected and disbursed the revenues
promptly and honestly; it has sustained
tho public schools with ever increasing
efficiency.
1t has made the best provision prac-
tlcable, with scanty revenues, for our
disabled soldiers, and will farther exert
itself for them; it has attracted vast
sums in investment in the common
wealth; 1t has preserved peace and con-
cord between the races: it has belied
every evil prediction of it's course, and
fulfilled every obligation and promise
to the people; it has won confidence in,
and good will for the State from ali
sections.
The committee would especially
remind you of two facts that are suffi-
clent in themselves to exile tho Repub-
llcan party from power, and to endear
Democracy to all lovers of fair govern
ment and free ms 5itutions.
First The last Congress spent ono
billion of dollars of the public money,
and exhausted treasury which the
Democrats left Overlooking.
Second. The Republicans in the last
Congress attempted to pass force bill
which would have rovolutionizcd the
Government. disorderej tho South. re-
vived sectional and race antagonism,
and placed power in the hands Of few
partisans to control the country.
by the unfailing insti, ct of self
preservation the farmers knew that iC
is through these champions of popular
rights and interests that they will find
relief from needless burdens; and with
shem they will find the merchant whose
business has been confused and tram
meled by veXatious restrictions, and
thousands OF manufacturers who groan
under shc heavy tariff exactions that
cripple their operations and close their
markets.
The Democratic party is the party of
the people. and to the people it appeals
to stand by 1t in its sturdy warfare
sainst all tho monopolics, and
enemies, which first deceive, and then
prey upon them.