Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-09-30
A GREAT field DAY,
ORATORS OF BOTH PARTIES ADDRESS
The PEOPLE.

ORATORS OF BOTH PARTIES ADDRESS
The PEOPLE.
A Great Day for Speech Making
A LARGE COURT DAY CROWD-TWO Pc
LITICAL MEETINGs-MEssRs. WOOD
AND MEREDITH FOR THE DEMOCRATS
COL. CHEvEs FOR THE PROHIBITION
IsTs-MR. BLoXToN APPEARS FOR TIL
THIRD PARTY, BUT DOES NOT SPEAK.
&C., &C., &C.
Monday was fine court day and man.
Of the county people were in attendance
Politics and business mingled freely an(
there was lively scene about the court
green all day. For those who preferre;
politics rare treat was provided, both a.
to 5he personnel of the speakers and the va
riety Of party creeds they PROFOUND
First on the programme came the Prohi
bition meeting, which was held in the cour
room at II o'clock and addressed by Col. r
S. Cheves of Kentucky; next came Capt
Macajah Woods of Albemarle, and Mr.. G
V. Meredith of Richmond, who spoke fol
the Democrats in the court room at one
O'Clock, and outside an open air meeting
was to have been conducted simultaneous
ly bv MI. Bloxton for the Third party.
But the members of that political perSua-
sion were not in sufficient numbers, and
the speaker was unwilling to risk dividing
crowds with the Democrats, so he held no
open air meeting but applied for division
of time with the Democratic speakers in
the court room. Capt. Opie, the Chairman
of the County Committee, after consider
ing the matter, declined joint discussion
on the ground that the Democracy and the
Third party had no quarrel and were not
opposed.
THE DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
Capt. Jno. n. Opie, Chairman of the
County Committee, called the meeting to
order and in few brief remarks introduced
Capt. Micajah Woods of Albemarle.
CAPT. WOODS SPEECH.
After happy reference to Augusta s po-
sition in the history of the country, the
speaker showed the Importance Of the IS
sues that were imperiling our very iber-
ties. The Republican party was section
al one, they raised the tariff tax to meet
the expenses of the war to 35 per cent,
they did more-they laid a tax On all wealth,
railroads, banks. telegraphs and incomes
obi a6 Inf
the war has been over 81 years, yet they still
collect the IS per cent. tax. The manufac-
turers formed trusts to maintain
prices, and as a consequence grew
very rich. Up to 1861, this was
the happieSt and most prosperous cOun-
try in the world; 80 years ago there were
not IL men who owned or controlled a mil
zion, to-day there are thousands of them.
The Republican party should have continued
this tax on wealth; they did not do it, but
struck out tax on railroads and telegraphs,
and increased that OH the poor by continu-
ally increasing that on incomes. The Tariff
Barons laid their hands on the Senate and
the house, they got the ear of the Republic
can party and ruled it and though it ruled
the country. Instead of using the public
lands to educate and prepare the negroes
for the franchise they had given, they gave
what would have covered over 3 OIL
States like Virginia to corporations, who
returned this favor by pouring out their ill
gotten gains to aid the party in fastening
the chains upon the South.
The Third party people. say they want
more money, that the farming interest of
the country has gone to wreck. This is
true all over the country and we must get
relief. Who was it that caused this state
of things? The Republican party. The
Democratic party has never passed law
for the simple reason they have never had
CONTROL Of the government, but they have
INSTRUCTED some legislation led by Randall
and others. The fight is between Cleveland
and Harrison and all other parties and plat
forms are side issues. We have no quarrel
with the Prohibition party, but that ques-
tion is stale one. There is a higher and
holier relationship you are called
on to perform, that is to strike
for liberty and to kill the force bill
that now threatens us. John [. Davenport
of New York, whose name stinks in the
nostrils of all that is honest, this chief OF
Williams and friend Of scoundrels, is the au-
thor of it. The malice of ingalls, and the
hatred Of Hoar was not equal to it. Its
intention is by its iniquities and atrocities
to force us to resistance and then they will
raise the cryof rebellion and raise the coun-
try against us and strike out State bounda-
ries and remand us to reconstruction. Pass
it and nothing but revolution is left to re-
store peace. Fifteen hundred members of
the protective league met in New Y ork the
other day and each promised to furnish
ST. 900 for partizan purposes. You see what
we have to face.
SPEECH OF C. V. MEREDITH.
have always been a democrat hereto
fore, [ had mo choice, but now there is
another party whose supporters are honest,
thoughtful and patriotic people, and 1 earn
estly and carefully examined it's purposes
and platform, and [ ask you to listen.
to me While [ explain its platform
The party has no history OF past by which
to judge it, and we are confined to its plat
form.
THE THIRD PARTY.
1t says the people must soon own the
railroads OF the railroads will own the peo-
pie, and it is in favor Of the government
owning the railroads, and in favor Of a CIV
il service examination of its employees, OIL
100000 new offices to fill. Why, if they
were afraid of railroad influence did they
not declare for an amendment to the Con-
stitution prohibiting the railroad employ
ees from voting. 1t was because they were
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