The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-17
ENTHUSIASTIC MASS MEETING.
The Democratic Campaign For
mally Opened in the City.
Hon. j. Allen Watts Starts the Ball a
Rolling bv n ytyorons s,.oo,, o.,
Logan and Hon. M. C. Thomas Keen
1t Agoing-W. a. Glasgow Again Pours
OIL on the Troubled Waters.

rally at the Opera House.
After few spirited airs by the Roa-
noke Machine Works Band in the pres
ence of large and enthusiastic audi
ence OF the voters Of the city, It. w.
Miller called the meeting to order and
nominated w. p Dupuy as chairman,
VINO was elected by reclamation. W.
e. Thomas was chosen secretary, and
w. T. Dupuy, in few well-chosen
words, introduced the first speaker, j.
ALLEN Watts, the Democratic nominee
4 tor State Senator from this district.
W Mr.. Watts in an able, diRnified and
speech, replete with
sound sense and good Democracy, re-
TERED to Judge Kerr's recent Populist
speech in wnich he depicted the country
IN such deplorable state, laborers
without labor and merchants without
customers, and said this condition of the
country was only too truly described.
but there were voters present who had
seen the old commonwealth 90 through
greater trials.
From 1860, when the Democratic
party was defeated, until Grover Cleye.
land was elected, there had not been q
single Democratic administration. He
agreed that misfortune had come upon
the country, but realized that something
else must be done except to buy silver
from Colorado Silver alone was not
the cause OF all this trouble. 1t was the
most prepostcrous thing that had ever
been submitted to a free people, that
after the Republicans had been in
power for thirty years they quarreled
with Cleveland because he did not re-
peal their bad legislation in thirty DAYS.
When he looked over this district he
did not know who were the competitors
of the Democrats, but they would come
as sure as night follows day. Judge
Kerr had said the Virginians were
whipped. They were never whipped
They had been through the bloody
trials of civil war, they had brayed
the disastrous panic of 1873 and come
up victorious with renewed hope and
courage. They had bravely tided over
the panic Of 1884 and now again they
would march shoulder to shoulder on to
prosperity.
Col. Robert II. Logan. of Salem, the
Democratic nominee for the legislature,
was next introduced, and in an eloquent
and stirring speech he appealed to the
Democrats OF the city to remain true to
the old party in the hour of peril. He
was not personally acquainted with
great many OF those present, but asked
them to go to Salem, where he was born
and raised and ask anybody, rich or poor,
black or white, wet or dry what
mis- record was.
Then amid applansS. Hon. M. C.
Thomas, Roanoke's acsO present as we'll
as future preventative, came forward
and thanked the people for their kind
ness in the past. He reviewed the good
work of the last Democratic legislature
in settling the State debt question by
the questions and various minor sub.
1ects Important in themselves. He
spoke OF the next important work to be
done by the next legislature, and
thought the criminal laws and road laws
should be amended.
He reminded the voters that the next
legislature would elect United States
Senator and judges of the supreme court
of the State. Mr.. Thomas closed his
address by paying an eloquent tribute to
Colonel O'Ferrall, the standard bearer
of the party.
Capt. w. w. Berkeley, in response to
LOUD calls, came to the front, and said he
did not like to deliver his own funeral
Grafton and he had hoped the two gen.
tlemen VINO preceded him would make
the speech he was called on last night
to make. Captain Berkeley's speech
was eloquent, able, brilliant and attrac.
tive and we'll received by the audience.
At the close of Captain Berkeley's
remarks t. w. Miller moved that the
chairman of the meeting appoint a com.
mittee Of five, one from each ward, to
consult and arrange the plan of the
campaign. This brought Mr.. Poca
HUFF, OF the executive committee. to his
feet in the twinkling Of an eye, who,
in behalf of the said executive com
nlttaa. nOun0 tn hpn nd
this committee of five confer with the
said executive committee as it was the
prerogative OF the said executive com
mittee and in the province of the said
executive committee alone TO map out
campaigns.
WIN. A. Glasgow. Jr, arose ard for
the second time in this cam paign, when
breach in the ranks was imminent.
poured oil upon the troubled waters.
He asked Mr. Miller to accept the
amendment and stated that he knew it
was not the intention OF any one TO
wound the feelings of the executive
committee. The motion as amended
was carried and the announcement OF
the committee of five will be made
through the press of the city.
Capt. James II. II. Figgats, OF Bote-
tourt county, then responded to hearty
calls and made a brief but eloquent
and forcible speech in which he paid
glowing tribute 10 tho ticket OF OFFER
rail-. Watts, Logan and Thomas He
referred in humorous way to the Poou.
lists and paid his respects to Mrs. Lease
r'Mary Yellin,'D OF bleeding Kansas,
who would soon lead the Third party
people Of Virginia to advocate woman
suffrage.
Col. John E. Penn was the last