Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-11-06

| ~ AAVA@k ~ 0I40t A<t4f YIN W t<&%~@t-~s
thsnked the club for the honor Of being
deeigoatsd TO pre3ide over. the meetine.
The commercial history OF the o1ts for tho
past twenty yesrs. he paid, furnished
Abundant evidence u our prosperity, and
thkt prosperity was due largely. 70 the
commercisl travellers He compiimented
The drummere upon turning aside from
business for . brief space TO give the same
commercial matters, and concluded by
presenting Hon. George ID. Wiso. whose
reelection TO Congress he predicted.
Nh. wIsx's REMARKS.
Mr.. Wise said be was present to speak
the last words be would utter IN the cen,-
paign, The time for argument had passed,
and the time to work bad come. The con-
tending parties were IN close proximity.
and on Tuesday the battle would be
gained. II was q contest between the
people and plutocracy. There were three
| parties in the 6eld. OF the Third party
be deemed il UNNECESSARY to say much.
| the Commonwealth who believed that
Weaver had ghost Of chance. No Demo-
crat could cast vote tor him without
casting vote for Harrison. Either Gro;
yer Cleveland or BENJAMIN Harrison will
bs elected President. Mr.. John s. Wise
had declared in monthly periodical that
Benjamin Harrison was the most narrow,
most vindictive. most bigoted, and the
most sectional Presidens We have had
Grover Cleveland was the choice of the
people. He was not called to the presi-
dency by the politicians, but by the
masses.
Mr.. CLEVELAND AND THE SOUTH.
Mr. Visa ailuded to the manner In which
Mr., Cleveland had treated the South while
he was President, and declared that he
had proved tho Presidedt OF The whole
country. He called the roll of Cleveland's
Cabinet. and of the southern men be had
put in Office. and said Democrats and he
publicans united in the sentiment that he
gave US an honest and economical ana pa.
triotic administration. Mr.. Wsse touched
on the tariff, and defined the difference
between the Republican and the Demo-
cratic parties in the matter OF taxation.
As regards the coming question, he de-
clared there was now in circulation more
money than there had been during any
other year since the war;. The trouble was
not in the ;nsufficiency of the currency, but
grew out OF the direction, IN which the
money was flowing. He exposed the tai
lacy OF the claim that the workingmen's
wages bad been increased by the Mckinley
bill and gave facts and figures to sustain
his position. Next Mr.. Wise took up the
force bill aud riddled that iniquity. show
ing how it would operate and making
it plain that the Republican party
would enact it INTO law II the
power was given them. 1t was PROPOSE.
the right to control elections God grant,
he exclaimed. that he might never live to
see the day when Virginia would be sub
jected to what thesforce bill would entail
In conclusion. be promised TO do his best
to carry TO victory the banner that had
been placed in his hands unsolicited,
and while saving nothing against Mr.
Grant personally he declared that no
Democrat could vote for him with
Mr. Hams Address.
Mr.. II. W. J, Ham, of Georgia. was next
introduced, Mr.. Joseph Wallerstein MAX
ing the introduction. Before presenting
the speaker. however, Mr.. Wallerstein
sa' d the Drummers we're better prepared
to understand the effects of the Mckinley
bill than any other class. Mr.. Ham took
the the crowd by storm from the begin
ming and was received with bursts OF
cheers. He congratulated the people
of Richmond on the magnificent
demonstration. aud the &c club s,n0 on
ivy vi tHc RDOPAc. tAc A1AabV q W. "ostfS 's'-
fusion to the snap" of the drummers
as represented in Mr.. WeAger. the presi:
dent of the club They evidently believed
In hustling, getting there, and getting all:
IApplause.l The time for discussion OF
the great issues of the campaign had. he
said, passed. From time immemorial there
had been two theories OF government: In
this country the one was represented by
Hamilton, and the other by, Jefferson.
rtxy had oIuoua
tended for human right and human liber-
ty. The party would live because it was
founded on right.
THE THIRD PARTY.
The Third party had been. he said. intro
duced by the Republican party to knock
the Democrats In the head. Applause
The Third-partyites claimed to want re-
form, but they never abused the Repubii-
can party. They say the Democratic party
is equally responsible with the Republican
party for the ills that have. overtaken the
country. That reminded him of the story
of the man who after falling into creek
twice and on getting out declared he had
done nothing wrong, but on the third ex-
perience confessed to the Lord that he was
monumental liar. Laughter and ap-
plause.l
THE TARIFF.
The tariff. Mr.. Ham said. was best ex-
planned by the negro who told his hearers
that it resembled long COW that extended
from Georgia way up North. pown South
the people were pouring the brand and
the meal and bay into her mouth and
them id rascals up North were milking
her. Recurring to the abuse Of Democrats
by Third-partyites he said 1T was because
the Democrats had the offices in the
South-they had the bait in their pockets
and the Third want if. but would not get
it.
THE soIID SOUTH.
Mr.. Ham declared that the South would
remain solid as long as the Republicans
tried to rob us. The South was solid for
the protection of our women, solid for the
maintenance of freedom, and would To-
main solid so long as a hand was raised to
menace her.
Dir. Ham paid his respects to Weaver
and Lease in most humorous style, and
was especially severe on the Omaha plat
form. which he describes as the greatest
crazy quilt patch work OF impossibilitles
under the sun. He was also particularly
severe on the woman sufrages and his
picture of that gang" elected
roars of laughter. Weaver had made
great fuss but reminded him of
the story of the little boy who, was
afraid his NANCY yellow dog would bite
the army. Becoming serious, however, his
excoriation of Weaver for his course to-
wards the southern people was something
terrible. The man who cast vote for the
Weaver electors commits, he said, sin
against his mother. He was either not q
patriot or was fool
THE SAME OLD FORCES.
The Democratic party Mr.. Ham was
fighting the same old forces 1t had always
been fighting. 1t had of6ciated at the fu-
neral of twenty-seven parties by name, but
they were all the same party in principle
and object. The explosion on next Tues