The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-11
DEMOCRATIC RALLY IN SALEM.
Hon. J. Randolph Tucker De-
divers an Address.
he Speaks Before IA Large Audience and
ABLY Expounds tho Principles of the
democratic Party-Many Ladies Pres
emit and the Occasion Enlivened with
music by the Salem Silver Cornet
Band

Band.
The town hall at Salem was we'll filed
last night with those who came to hear
Hon. j. Randolph Tucker address the
Cleveland and Stevenson Anti. Force Bill
Club upon the issues OF the day. In the
audience were many ladies, and the
silver cornet band enlivened the ocoa-
sion with several we'll rendered melo-
dies.
AT p. NJ, amid great applause, the
speaker OF the evening, in company with
ex-Congressman Cabell, Captain NJ. M.
Rogers Prof. o. L. Stearnes, Col. A. M.
Bowman, Judge Griffin, and Messrs.
Strouse, Pugh, Moffett and Armstrong.
arrived and took seats upon the stage.
Professor Stearnes, in introducing
Mr. Tucker, stated that this was one Of
the first clubs formed in the State: IL
was also one of the largest, having over
800 members, and that it intended to
rescue Roanoke county permanently
from all future Republican maiorities.
lie considered the club fortunate in
having the campaign opened by one who
Is speaker of national reputation.
FOREMOST amongst lawyers, statesmen
and orators. Hon. j. Randolph Tucker
then came to the front, and after re-
turning thanks for the fiatlering intro
duction, launched straight into his sub
ject. He said that he had travelled
recently in the North and brought this
good news, that If Virginia and the
South stand firm the North will, with
the South, elect Cleveland. He was
sorry to hear that some men in the
l)6mOCrntic W NJ iu1,
parting from the old landmarks and he
felt that the young men need to be in
structed In the principles of the party
of our forefathers.
There has grown up at This day in
this country disposition to use the
power OF appropriating taxes in a way
shat never was intended" continued tho
speaker They have stepped over the
ooundry line. When 1 first began life
as politician the expenses of this Gov
ernment were twenty millions. When
ran as encouragement in 80 I was
hauled over the Goals by my opponents
because Buchanan had spent sixty mill
lions, and now they spend Eve hundred
millions, and it's going to be bigger and
bigger; ten times as much. When
went into Congress in rs the amount of
pensions paid annually was thirty mill
lions, whilst the interest paid on the
public debt was one hundred and five
millions. Now the amount of interest
paid on tho public debt Is twenty-three
millions, whilst pensions have risen to
one hundred and fifty millions, and will
be two hundred and fifty millions before
another year.
I'm 1875 we paid about thirty millions
OF pensions and it seems that the fur
Their we get away from the war the more
we pay, so that If you live ten years
longer, instead OF there Icing one mil
lion and half, there will be twenty
million pensioners who were in the
army. Tho Third party say we want
more money. l say we want less taxes
and we'll have more money" The
speaker then dwelt at considerable
length upon the Ubiquitous tax upon all
imported goods under the Mckinley.
act and upon the oppressive tax upon
whiskey and tobacco, taking much
pains to make it clear that in every case
the consumer paid the tax.
'..You cat tax, you drink tax, you chaw
tax, you wear tax; you are taxed from
the cradle to the grave; the little babe
born to-day Is swaddled In tax, the poor
man dying tonight is shrouded in tag.
and even the screws in his coffin are
taxed Tho South pays about two hum
dred and twenty million dollars in
taxes, and as there are about twenty
millions OF people in the South this
would he ten dollars a head annually.
or fifty dollars for each family, paid as
tax and bounty to the government and
the privileged protected classes, the
aristocracY OF the North.
There is only one way out Of this
b. and that Is to stand by the man who,
four years ago, flung the gauntlet of de-
tiiance into tho arena of prOtnction. tho
man who's got the courage II old An
drew Jackson. He'll tell the truth and
shame the devil though it cost him the
Presidency. No man ever threw away
the great Office so wantonly as he did
when he sent out that memorable mes
sage on tariff reform. But he'll get it
again, with Democratic Congress and
old Paul Edmunds to ba k him, and
then believe the tariff will be so re-
duced that every man and woman will
go to the store and marvel at what has
happened
After paying a glowing tribute to
Adlai r. Stevenson, Mr.. Tucker con-
Guided his speech at 10 o'clock, having
spoken for nearly two hours.
Immediately there wero cries OF
.Cahell," "Cabell," and the stately ex-
Congressman from the Danville district
was forced to come forward and In q
brief but pleasing speech he indorsed all
that tho orator OF the night had said.
The meeting then adjourned.
The Weekly Bank Statement
New YoRK, Sept. 1o.-lSpecialI The
weekly bank statement shows the fol.
lowing changes: Reserve, decrease,
s2,sis,5l5; loans, decrease, s4,os1, 500