Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-08-12

ADDRESS FROM CHAIRMAN GORDON
Ringing Words to the Democratic Mem
bers of the Third Party.

Hon. Basil B. Gordon, chairman of the
Democratic State Central Committee. has
issued the following address to the Demo
cratic members of the Third party:
SANDY, RAPPAHANSocK COUNTY,
August 8. 1892.
To the Democratic Members Of The Third
PdrtV:
Three years ago / was honored with the
leadership of an undivided party. what
ever claims may have possessed 70 your
confidence, am not conscious OF having
forfeited them, and it Is in their name,
rather than as the representative OF rival
organization. that | ask leave to call your
attention TO some features IN the coming
campaign which seem to me vltahy 10 al
feet the welfare of our people.
However opinions may differ as to the
measures Won advocate, no sane man can
doubt existence of the evils you seek 10
>remedy.
The widespread depression among farm
era their virtual exclusion by law or prac.
tice from banking facilities, the nerce ana
orowInp competition of the West, more
than Justify the formation OF a party
whose single object shall be the correction
Of these grievances.
Were il in your power to secure the sue
cess of your ticket it would be idle TO sug'
oest a surrender of your position, or even
the concession of any material point. As
IL is the most enthusiastic member OF your
marty cannot hope to carry the State TINS
| fall. At most you could only accomplish
the defeat of the Democracy and the sue
cess of the Republican party.
FOR THEM TO DECIDE.
II il for you TO decide whether that
success would further your cause. and
| how much YOU will gain by abandoning
those principles you have so long sup
norted and those comrades by whose side
Won have fought for so many years. -,
The Democratic party offers you by thu
repeal of the State bank tax an increase OF
currency estimated by many as even larger
| than would have resulted from the free
coinage Of silver.
II promises you relief from those taxes
upon the necessaries of life whose only
| justification is the plea that they have al
vanced wages.
II is not necessary TO go to Pennsy lvanii
to refute this claim, for no body OF mei
| are in better position than yourselves K
know that it is false.
Republican supremacy, on the othel
hand. will mean a contracted currency
IL will mean increased taxation whose
nroceeds will be squandered in the further
decentralization of the Union soldier
Above all, II will mean the passage OF the
force bill.
The silence of their speakers, the faint
hearted denials of their local leaders, can
not make you forget the supreme enor
| thew made to pass IL two years ago ana tn'
solemn pledee renewed TO their follower
| an Minneapolis scarcely two months since
| The men who voted tor IL are stu IN tn'
| senate. the President who urged 1T 10 stu
| the candidate of his party, the press ina
| advocated it has never retracted syria
| BILE of its praise.
THE NEGRO HAS SET BIS HEART UPON IT.
The negro has set his heart upon It, an(
| demands il as the price OF his vote.
human experience sheds any light upoi
| the future, and human language IS capaol
| of expressing thought, their first act vii
| be to entrench themselves in power by tn
passage of such a bill.
| A measure described by one Of its forme
| advocates as 1.-THE most infamous that eve
| crossed the threshold of the Senate" need
| little condemnation at the hands OF IT
| proposed victims.
| In the very words of its author, " i
means a bayonet behind every ballot.
Rather than describe the horrors of sucl
| a condition will trust 10 your patriotism
to avert them. However you may cas-
| YOUR vote |, for one, shall not doubt tina
| Won have done so with full sense OF tn
| responsibility involved, and actueted bl
rs sincere love of our common state
any class of her citizens.
Very respectfully,
BASIL b. GORDON.