Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-09-01
THE OPENING RALLY.
r., Thurman CluS's Meeting at Old
~ Market Last Night.
,ro SPLENDID SPEECHES,
ii Gordoa aud Judge fioarnoy
non ''"' -. campaign Issues Before
O'' splendid Audience

N'', ,.r rally Of the campaign 10 h, zen,
'NSS,'.E place at old-Marke' , aal. iss'
ucnG ''' ,'., pc auspices Of the Thurman
p,a' u-. .:. club. and magnificent ana
peno''n" -.l,, +, was. Despite the ram
,n'p.'",' 90 .,ovdcd with representative
'af '... If a.! classes. Among those VINO '.i.
ctz,a' '' ITO the rear Of the platform
oc'ag''. TAYLOR Ellyson. MI. 5 3 r.
st.c ''''' ..tsirman Of the City Commit
P"''...,., NJ. T. Spottswood, Mr. WI
tes. ,,''. ,''..'..,ryvorth, MIR. Z. C. Crump,
,inlers .a Union Clubs assem-
I-.. .s.r respective heAuq"ai' inrl,a
N.I an. Tho hall ~ 6oaIi snu "a
I.,.,1s from all the o''o' 1rosSnt
O. % thr city we're am ~ taes ca ne
t't q music was ID a'tenuauS', and tbe
,l. speeches ,utH ',.'' T~,ae tb,nos
~ L. It-an-Club scouts naue Things
y l.n.'y lively. so.
.,etor Gorton's Speech
81. NV. T. Crump' ,presiden,ss oi c caS
w. l.uh. presided, ana lhtfouuceu
Isa'-'" ...sker Mr.. James L. Gordon,
s. .-s ai. ybo was received with great
c'ta '....r commenced by expressing
Ai' ...'.r M meeting the Democrats
isF .ntle beginning OF this tho
O. h'- ..I most iarTeachlng political
C,st ... been FOUGHT IN America
.e 4, "a. well that the opening
go -tf. fred here IA Richmond by
60 1900, 40 bearing namo that was
4r Democratic principles ana
Sd ,--.t~-tLe name OF the moor
i' .....-,sau and splendid Democrat,
~. thurman, OF ONO
A'.,,r- .,-li wears have come anu gone,
t ..-.e the last gun at AppohattoA
F,.t,L. broken facstah OF dead Coh-
It,.ltt-eight years the hePuo-
-..l.a ruled this people, save Tor
10. ...-. of Cleveland's administrA-
t..- ,.o then thcy held the Senate.
0fareualted republic has kissed
l..,... flr twcntv-eight years; Yet
81 .--. Ie conditions over which II
".,, -.. s.ove an agricultural country
....H4- from northern ice 10 roplc
tL .., every cereal resource that
h- ... ,su quicken or HIS sunlight
u. ..1 ever an agricultural people
.....f under mortgage DEBT OF
s..'-4II. and are smitten with pow
...-. tHa eastern to the western seas;
...e.t,f marvellous cities, splehuid
.,... h,r...lrs u Carthage OF OF home,
-,r f..u-alis OF men ana women
81 s ,t..r streets, gaunt with hunger
Il t.rs-.te with despair. III waves
q .,.,.. ,..ch as the world never saw.
e' mi. hands Of few men, and
Sc. ufu,rl among the people.
r,....r,ra ballot box framed Tor the
.,.-r,.a of citizenship that has
f't.r.sei hy the gold Of plutocracy
~. ,frtsf,n,d 10y the bayonets OF
d. waves over corporate DOd1es
.r.tr.ual necessities of life, and
'l..,.,. y-,e~. the harbors of the repub-
...t-.r-sd with foreign faces-men
I.-..,f. a. compete with our Amerl-
,'et.-. men o. whom our language IS
.-.. ...rg tongue and our institutions
t,silsy4cu So mysteries.
rprE 1nE CONDITIONS.
r....s,s ,la conditions, not the theo-
49,. .,.'--t which the Democratic party,
',I.l,r.1tr Cleveland, IS raging reient-
l.,V.f 80 IL IL
.r.I.bIr. under the rule of the Re
......r u,-fy. have grown to the enor-
-. .gr q ~lj0.OgU,O00 in round num-
49,. I.rtbeueXt two years II will reach
sreuuOr.r annum, OF which SZsl ,OOO,-
...,-I.rr g. Congressman fuckers
..-.t.. t1,.l on the Pension-Commls-
s-s-.. report. VIII be paid Tor Federal
IN. money ~ meet this scandslous ex-
rs....rr. is raised principally by an indl-
~, ts1 called ataria, and through II
,.a Great mass AZ the PLAIN people are
,uI for government expenses that ex-
o.Ii Le CON t.uod expenses OF the great
Gfmsu and Austrian empires.
M. Gordon here went somewhat INTO
tr4ls0u the tariff, and continued:
I1-y call u protection "a labor. and
d.. lte American wages as being higher
rsriu what they call trec-trade England,
l-t thew dl not tell the wOrkingman,
v they TX him, that wages are higher
ID .w.tar.a England than In high-tarlh
l-.r.e. Switzerland. and Netherlands.
Its.. have b,tn strikes on 800 protected
ll.,,ues since the passage OF the Nc
Lley 300 ty worHngmen against re-
C.ct-1 1l thor wages. and the falSeness
a d. lection q labor has been written IN
q, blood OF the w0rkngmen butchered
lctl shadow Of Carnegie's mills at Home
S,si On uakea protection holiday.
lH W. aye asked IN this year OF saliva
ta'' throw our votes away on Weaver
OBJ Field, divide the Democratic party
~ Sighting these monstrous. wrongs,
f-,ec' benjamin Harrison, and let the
r-l.e Of death go on.
IHE THIRD PARTY.
+ say Democrat IN Richmond, said Mr..
'o'iol illas, az taking the fatal step OF
N'Lc toI tbe Third party, ask him, not
D. ..f out % sorrow, not as my enemy,
t-tasmy fellow NHglnian aud my friend,
Z it.LE a-alu and refuse 10 do II.
u mp.a.l- tina. silver has been de-
= le'.I-l i,t NE remind him that the Re-
i.'.'l1 party, headed by John Sherman,
o. -,.. lJld-bug OF America, did that
te,l .. shame aud that Grover Cleveland
t44t- t.-lay ou a platform that fayors
% '-uu.,tzauon Of the white metal on
aiat'y with gold. Ii i not 50 much the
1-~i'l ~ Tie amount of money In
aa.f.a That concerns Us. IL Is the Ques-
10 vl4 l1- gotten our share of what Is
.3r Az Mckinley says, II the tariff doe:
L. W. t-.Aag.'
be-, over aud above all other reasons
til WITH Grover Cleveland against the
'ie .il o., lygdiiest blow yet struck
= liberty 300 America, which. in tho
az .A-e 90 irye. Of Maine. If necessary
BIO garry "a hayOnet behind every
.'.s, hli which Senator Teller said wa:
' Most vicious and damnable piece Of
4.,'i...u tiat ever crossed the threshold
-r Senate Mr.. Gordon explained
-, ,ittN.a, ~ the bill, and said.
a. lifi-p4riF leaders and Republi
g, So % l- u1 worse than the Anderson
.,.'Aita t.i We heard no denuncla-
20 lA" Virginia law from these viz
'---s gentlemen when IN 1856 the Repub
as '.-,lrd si1 ont OF the nine congress
.-.- OIL carried the State 10y nearly 1900,
- ''. These fearless leaders, one oi
- reported 10 this mornings DIS
a' N.o1'ouing bullets next year il
ID, Nll with ballots. say they ara no.
500 P. 'At force bll-that the Republi
a." 81. t'' pass II. Not pass II Z? Nearly
49, Republican State platform de
---' ' and out Of the national plat
-' D..'ni aforementioned " south
-, - va. 10 bristlts IN lurid hor
~, ~, s., Poe, ~ Why, then. did the,
-, Gown Nco-President Morton, wn,
80 % apply tue eag-law IN the Senai
'-'l q, through as Tom Reed had don
~. Ho-,. tLd nominate in his plao
49,, "a" L.id rs ardent advocate AM
b. .'.. s' Sluth-hater who ever fiaunte'
~. .@l i.S ~ ,ectionalism in the teetl
q, --. 10 tle SOuthY Not pass IL
~ hta.rf iaft means more million
49, f zee people for the benefit o
a. ~. .'a's. aud the force bill mean
a. oI'lalco VI the high tariff.
Il, "eiablcau party intends 10 hol'
+, "eI w tins government il necessar
i..'1g t1e ballot boxes of the peopl
''sf4i bayouets. Now. gentlemen
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