The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-20
on Republican votes. What mixture:
what an incongruity. Like an inscrip-

what an incongruity. Like an inscrip-
ton once put on the Mammoth Cave:
"Oh, mammoth cave, what pot,
In summer cold, in winter hot,
Mortal man, pause and wonder,
General jackson, He'll and Thunder"
SIN South Carolina the Populist gov
ernor is playing such tricks before hie b
Heaven that would make the angels
weep. They are turning the sale of
liquor over to the State; Colorado is an
other instance and the State of Kansas
from where all these people come is in
the worst condition of any State in the
Un:on.'
Judge Staples then reviewed the
Populist platform of last year which
contained the subtreasury scheme, by
which farmers could haul In oats, po.
tatoes, hay, etc., and get al; the money
they wanted, and also the plank to put
all railroads, telegraphs, telephones.
etc., in government control that would
entail legacy Of debt on the people of
So 200, 900, 900.
He then showed that the Republican
party alone was responsible for the ex-
listing bad condition of affairs; that
Cleveland went out OF office leaving 8
large surplus in the Treasury which the
Republican administration squandered;
Harrison would not have been elected
but for the fact that Wannamaker raised
fund OF S500,00 and currupted the
doubtful States. Then the Republicans
opened the Treasury doors and exposed
to eager hands and eXpectant eyes the
shining gold and silver. A similar case
was when an immoral woman wrote
about Bolinbrooke HE gets salary OF
10000 and it all belongs TO US" They
Toasted. sang and danced over the feast
u a
and opened the flood gates OF the
treasury.
The speaker next took up the eXtrav-
agant pension legislation of the Repub.
licrs when every camp follower who
had corns on his feet could get bounty.
He explained that all through the his
tory OF the country great men had diff
sfered on financial questions. which
could not be settled in an hour.
He, himself, was for the free and un-
limited coinage OF silver, but If he was
in the Senate would vote for the repe al
OF the Sherman act. Other men thought
different, yet these people jump in
"where angels fear to tread" Tho
Democratic doctrine on silver was that
silver dollar should have the equal
purchasing power of gold dollar.
The Democratic party" he said,
was founded by Jefferson and has boon
a power from that day to this. 1t is
the party Of tho people and in favor Of a
strict construction of the constitution.
In its forty years of power before the
war tho country had degree of pros
perity never witnessed before in the
word"
The Judge concluded his able address
with an eloquent tribute to old Virginia,
her past traditions and glories and her
present conditions and possibilities, and
made an earnest appeal TO the people to
support the Democratic ticket as the
only means of safety.
GALL FOR COLONEL o'FERRALL.
The music of the orchestra was
drowned in deafeniug cries for OFer-
rail-. and when that gallant leader walked
down the stage it was several minutes
before his voice could be heard.
Colonel O'Ferrall said:-"You must
excuse me from making speech to-
night. l want you take home and di-
gest what you have heard. expect to
speak to you tomorrow night at the
Academy of Music and I want to see
you ali there. I am going to speak De-
mocracy to you. | am Democrat, l
was born Democrat and by the help of
God except to die a Democrat"
j. Allen Watts, who was present at
the meeting, was asked by reporter
what he bad to say in regard to his op-
ponents for the senate. Mr.. Watts said
he was not disposed to believe he would
have an opponent, that no one had an
nounced himself and he didn't believe
any one would
The meeting at the Academy of Music
TO night will be called promptly at S
o'clock and everybody is invited to be
present. Special arrangements have
been made for the ladies.