Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-08-24

pVnts. VI tuo party III power ntt NJ iiit-
inense surplus. revenue, there Is every
reason TO fear that 1t viii use 10 not q
promote public good, but 10 perpetuate
lis own rule. II may be said that the
people would rise up and hurl such q
party from power and that might DO so,
II wc could have free and unframmelled
expression OF The popular will. but that
would be almost impossible II the party
in power had an unlimited control Of
money. The Democratic party would
have had no difficulty in eiecting Mr..
Cleveland in 1888 but for the money fur.
nished by the protected Industries and
the money-kines enriched by the tarlft
policy OF the Republican party. IL would
be almost hopeless undertaking through
the peaceful agency Of the balIot-box TO
overthrow party that had unlimited
control Of money and a vast army OF OH
cials devoted 20 its service and ready to DO
its bidding.
as TO GOVERNMENT LOANS.
This scheme, II practicable. would
furnish no relief at all 20 that class
of our people who are most in
need Of money--yiz., the class who have
neither land nor non-pcrishable personal
property. IL would really furnish no per,
nanent relfef to anybody, while II would
stimulate the vicious habit OF borrowing;
InG VOftTUuit0L NDuiu DhN0 w tOpR w.
TO its security and would have to require
the payment of the interest with inexora,;
bic certainty. The government would
loan to the small farmers much less than
they would require or would think they
required What would be the consequence
The rich men OF the country who have im-
mense holdings of land and plenty OF non
perishable personal property would borrow
money from the government NJ per cent.
a,san farpgere ut II
cent. or 3 per cent, and IN few years tho
small farmers would be sold out and the
rich men would own thor lands.
IL is for such wild theories as these
that the farmers Of Virginia are asked
to desert the party TO which they have
been LOYAL in the past and to which
their fathers gave the allegiance OF lhelr
lives. 1t Is scarcely denied by INC
speakers and advocates of the 1hlrd
party-indeed often admitted-that the
effect of their movement Of IN any mea-
sure successfully will be to turn the. State
over 10 the Republican party. and they
do not DENY that that means negro supre-
macy IN Virginia but they say that negro
supremacy is not worse than Wall-street
supremacy. and that the Democratic party
is under the domination OF wall street.
Nothing could be more untrue than this
charge against the Democratic party. 1t
is the browning glory of our party that it is
and ever has been the party of the people.
The greatest battles that it has fought
and the noblest victories that 1t has won
have been battles fought and victories
won against organized capital; against
monopolies; against the
money-power of the land. Wall-street rule
Is Republican rule. and the Third party IN
giving Virginia Republican rule Will give
Wall-street rule as well.
no Rann hlinan narfy ia tho marty Of fhQ
money kings and monopolists. Its policy
has been and is now dictated by the pro-
tected lndustries-by those whom it's
policy has enriched-bv those who have
found their gam in the burdens which
this party has imposed upon the shoulders
of long-sufering people.
TURNING THE STATE ovFB TO REPUBLICANS.
What do the advocates of the Third
party movement expect TO gain by turning
the State over to Republican rule? Is it
not certain that all their hopes of reform
would perish in the common disaster they
would bring upon us all? No wrongs of
any sort, fanciod or real. could Justify US
in imperilling the supremacy of our race
in Virginia. To lose that IS TO lose every
thing.
If there ever was time in the history
of this country when the white people of
our State should stand together and pre-
sent but one breast to the toe. ii is now
in this presidential campaign. We are
with the force bill-the most
dangerous and atrocious measure ever con-
ceived for throttling the rights and liber-
ties of the people. The leaders of the
with nothing but scorn and indignation
if they attempted TO defend the force bill.
They know that the honest people of VIZ
ginia would repudiate any party that openly
advocated such an inlqultous measure.
and hence, as If by common consent. they
all say: ION the force bill is bugaboo."
We don't hear anything of that sort from
the speakers or from the newspapers of
the Republican party. We know that they
pass the force bill--did pass it in The
lower house of Congress and that it was
defeated III the Senate by the narrOwest
We know that the Republican
party, so far from having abandoned Its
purpose TO pass this measure, hts'made II
an issue III ITS platform and STANDS pledged
10 pass IT If 1t gets control of the. govern
ment. This party has emphasized its Dur-
pose 10 pass this measure by nominating
as Its standard-bearors two men who favor
the force bill to the point of fanaticism.
No one who knows anything of the past
history of the Republican party will ex-
pect 1t to sickle OF anything that may be
necessary to perpetuate its power.
STEADILY LOSING GROUND.
The Republican party for number Of
years has been steadily losing ground in
the West and Northwest and to some ex-
tent also in the East. The leaders OF the
party recognize the fact that the sceptre
OF power must inevitably pass out of
their hands unless they can break
the solid South: The force bill ls a
cunningly-devised scheme to do this. 1t is
q scheme TO surround the polls with thou
sands of Federal Oflicials-with armed
soldiery if necessary-an to manipulate
our elections In the interest of the Re
publican party. With such a measure as
this fixed upon the people, what hope of
relief would there be for Democratic or
Peoples party, either They would both
be involved in a common and iuextricable
rum.
Surely generation that remembers
what Republican rule was III the South III
reconstruction days ought 20 DO very
careful TO do nothing that may bring such
q fearful calamity upon our people again.
tisnot claimed that the Democratic party
has made no mistakes, that il has CON-
united no errors, but it is claimed
that the Democratic party III the years
that are gone has been the jealous
defender of constitutional liberty and the
guardian and protector of the rights of
the people in this great slsterhood Of
States. IL is claimed that the rights, the
Liberties, and all the hopes Of this south
ern land are indissolubly bound up in the
fortunes of the Democratic party. Ever
since the war. in the national legislature
as well as in State affairs, our only bulwsrk
against wrong and injustice has been the
party, and to that party alone
we owe 1t to-day that our beloved South
land Is not the Ireland of America.
1t is not surprising that there 10 q feeling
Of dissatisfaction AID unrest among the
farmers of Virginia. but we believe that
when they take counsel of their calmer
Judgment they will come TO see that the
evils under which they arc suffering are
largely due 20 our unwise and oppressive
tariff legislation. and that whatever may
be the cause there is no hope of relief IN
DESERVING the Democratic party and turn
ing the state over TO party whose rule
has been uniformly disastrous In every
southern State where 1t has had control.
With the force bill and negro supremacy
staring us in the face. We feel that we can
with confidence appeal TO the good sense.
the sterling integrity, and patriotism of
the farmers OF Virginia TO rally To the flag
Of the Democratic party, for they know
that the success of that party means that
there shall be no force bill and no negro
in Virginia; that elections here
shall be decided not by the bayonets of
but by the ballots of freemen.
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