The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-21

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CHARLES T. o'FERRALL
and Pence? Silver mining attorneys,
both of them, and number of silver
mine owners, coming here to teach Vir-
ginians politics. There is James b.
Weaver, OF Tennessee and Oklahoma
fame, standing godfather to the party.
GENERAL FIELDS CANDIDACY.
"There is General Field when we come
to Virginia. He ran against me for
Congress in his district and didn't get
delegate. There is Captain Cooke, he
has no record and there is no record to
attack. For lieutenant governor j.
Brad Beverly, the son of his father, who
charged Confederate soldiers for sleep
ing in his barn, and Gravely."
This last named gentleman, Colonel
O'Ferrall said, always reminded him OF
in feeling the bumps of the audience.
The fell 'ow complained that he had been
overlooked and the lecturer replied,
It's too dark for me to read fno print.
Colonel O'Ferrall took up the tariff
question and gave a lucid explanation
of the intricate details and in this con.
nection praised the Farmers Alliance,
which he said was all right only lot OF
broken down politicians had gotten into
it like beggars on horseback, trying to
ride the Alliance to the devil
THINGS ON TIE FREE LIST.
In his discussion of the Republican
tariff Colonel O'Ferrall read over the
following extracts from the free list,
interspersed with witty remarks and
explanations: Acorns, ashes, balm OF
Gilead' teeswax, Bologna sausage, dan.
delion root, charcoal, fish skins, soap
h0rqa hair ippk lanphnc Load
stone, mama, musk, nux vomica, olives,
rags and saurkraut.
This" said he, sis the cause of the
trouble, not free silver, which we have
practically had for three years."
The speaker then came back to Vir-
GINA politics and reviewed the progress
OF the State government under Demo
cratic rL,o The party had settled the
great State deou quests :. it had founded
and maintained a flourishlng free school
system; it had provided for it's old
soldiers. "When l am governor OF Vir-
ginia," continued he, 81 intend to see,
as far as am able. that no Confederate
soldier or the widow of one shall ever
darken the door of an almshouse. see
no necessity for q change of administra.
ton. The trouble arises from dis.
grunlted offlceseekers, There are more
shoppers than there are bottles.
DUTY TO ELECT THE TICKET.
~ have no fear of the result. l have
visited different parts of the old State
and found the camp fires burning
brightly and the voters keeping step to
the march of Democratic music. I trust
1t will be so here. You have selected
your ticket Watts, Thomas and Logan,
and 1t is your duty to elect it.
"No nan can truthfully charge the
Democratic party with the ills from
which we now suffer. The Democratic
party has been out OF power for thirty
years AMI defy any man, be he who he
may, Jew or GENTLE, dog or devil, who
can produce single law that was not
passed by Republican Congress and
signed by a Republican President"
Colonel O'Ferrall's perorstion was
eloquent in the extreme and was an
admonition to the men of Virginia not
to forsake the Democratic party now
that the land was in view and the dawn
OF better time was approaching, but
to preserve their mani God and dis
charge their duty.
THE COLONEL RECEIVES A BOQUET.
A large boquet OF beautiful flowers
from some ladies in the audience was
sent up to the next governor at the con-
clusion of his address, which were
delivered to Colonel O'Ferrall by w. o.
Hardaway.
AS the last eloquent words Of Democ-
racy and patriotism fell from the lips of
Colonel O'Ferrall, the band struck up
that air so dear to all :...ginians, and
for fully five minutes the applause OF a
thousand people was blended with tho
strains Of "Dixie" in an enthusiastic
ovation to the Plumed Knight OF the
Valley, the next Governor Of Virginia.
GOES TO wYTHEvILLE TO-DAY.
Colonel O'Ferrall will leave here on
the early morning train to-day for
Wytheville to continue the canvass in
Southwest Virginia.
Big Failure In Minneapolis.
MINNEApoLIs. Mimi, Oct. 2O.-C. II.
Pratt, a real estate dealer, has assigned.