Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-08-17
MR. LOUCKS SPEAKS.
ALLIANCES NATIONAL PRESIDENT
ADDRESSES RICHMOND AUDIENCE.
says ITO Is for Certain Principles ~ II
Breaks Up n Dozen Parties
National Issues.

About 400 persons assembled in Old
Market Hall last night in response TO an
announcement signed by the State Central
Committee of the Peoples party that Hon.
III. L. Loucks. president Of the National
Farmers Alliance and Industrial mon.
would make an address. About half the
crowd were Alliance men aud tue re-
mainder citizens of Richmond.
Major Mann Page. president of the Vir;
.ginia Alliance, presided and introduced
Mr.. Loucks.
Major Page said he took pleasure in pre-
senting to the audience n man from the
far West. who came to tell them that the
war was over. Tho farmers, he said. dis
liked to thrust themselves forward. but
they were compelled TO do so. because
they couli not get men to represent
them. They did not propose 10 De
able TO cope with the statesmen. but they
were capable or discussing the truth. ne
thanked God that the bloody SHIRT was
buried, and characterized the force Dili as
the nightmare of what was past anc gone.
VIII en- the force bill was q live issue hr.
Loucks had said. Thus far shalt thou GO
and no farther" and senators had obeyed
him. BE reureseuted the Farmers Alliance
all over the Union, and the Alliance was
the Union.
Mr.. LopcKs's ADDRESS.
Mr. Loucks ia one-legged man and
speaks rapidly and with great ease. He
has a mass of statistics at his tongues end
and illustrated his remarks with maps snow
ing the centres of population, wealth, &c,
in the country. He opened his speech by
expressing pleasure 81 seeing so large an
audience. and said the Northwest was alive
10 the movement no represented. Indeed,
the people were red-hot. Twonty-three
organizations, he declared. had sand that
reform was needed, and unless these could
be convinced by argument that they were
wrong, they would stand by their prlnci,
pals If they broke up dozen political
parties. He preferred, he said, to discuss
partisan standpoint, and promised
TO make every man IN the house
so Disconnected with tho present
condition Of things that he would 90 out
and vote for himself, his home: ana ms
family. He advocated the control or the
railroads by the General Government.
touched on the tariff and the currency
question, and maintained that tor every
condition Of misery in Russia parallel
could be shown in Pennsylvania. The
great evil. he coutended, was the concen-
tratiOu Of capital III the hands OF a Few
aud asserted that every time man thank,
ed God for millionaire he thanked God
for thousand tramps and paupers.
AN EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN.
There was talk. he said. Of On educa-
tional campaign. This meant IN some
quarters abuse, villiGcation, aud Islander of
such men as Brother Page, who dared TO
stand up FOR the truth and their prlnci-
piles. Three Yeas ago at st. Louis those
he represented had wiped ont Mason x
DiXon's line. but there would still
be sectional line upon which
the issues would be fought out.
1t would be- between the North Atlantic
States and the rest of the country. lie
paid his respects TO the Wall-street gam
blers." and told his audience If they were
equal to those gamblers they must stand
up for their rights and vote against
Wall street. Mr. LCucks rung the
changes on the necessity of heu;
bic volume of currency, and SAID
that in securing this the businessman was
as much interested as the farmer.
The conclusion of his speech was an ap-
peal for the Third party. He spoke an
hour and three quarters, and during that
time hls audience dwindled down to about
one half the original number.
At the conclusion of his speech Mr.. Null
len made few remarks.