Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-06

-06 p.m.~
WEATHER PRoBAR1LIT1Es.-For this
SION cloudiness will probably be fol-
5owsd by clear weather Tuesday :;
.U% shifting to southerly; slightly
warmer on Tuesday.
PoprLIsT 1IEETING.-Between one
lnndred and one hundred and fifty
a sa1o gathered in the Opera House on
t!o'Irlay night-some through curiosi-
=, others to escape the powers ele-
.ss,ral which at that time were rather
~. tive without in the shape Of wind,
AZ. -,in and cold: and a few through in
tsrest in the populist movement, the
sdyocates of which are trying TO find
"rnngsnial soil in Virginia for their Kan
"a. Dlant. 1t was tame affair, taken
III In all-General Rosser and Mr..
Rad. Beverly, who had been adver-
t;sed as speakers, did not put in an APP
nsarance, the former by reason of more
Pressing engagements, and the latter
ram the fact that he had been thrown
from carriage and injured.
About eight o'clock Mr.. Frank Har-
nor recent convert from the repub!i-
can TO the populist faith, introduced
Tobn L. Davis. Congressman from
Kansas, who spoke for about an hour.
He started out by saying he felt at
home in the Old Dominion. He was
NOT. however, a Virginian by birth, but
some of his ancestors were. He soon
became warmed up in the expression of
his feelings against the present order of
things. Mr.. Davis said he stood before
his audience as the representative of
orpaDZed labor of all sorts. He was
the champion Of every workman, and
every legitimate banker, too. Mr.. Da-
Wis, however, soon proceeded TO make
an onslaught on capitalists, money,
bankers, bondholders, stockholders
and some other species of legitimate
or healthy commerce. As Nym Grim
kle said recently of Senator Peifer, he
seemed to think sin entered the world
through Wall street, and when the
final trump shall sound the rank and
tile of the army led by Antichrist TO
the field of Armageddon will be
composed of bankers aud bondhoIders.
He gave examples of how the ancient
Romans. Brtons and others had eyre
,aously erred by not having the populist
star to guide them through the mazes
5t political economy when finances be-
came an issue. He was emphatic in
proclaiming that money was powerful,
= propoSition which has been Glaring-
ly apparent long before CrTsus or Dives
were born, and truth which Dickens
tells Us flashed through the mind of
Ralph Nickleby when he loaned pen
MES on interest to his schoolmates. He
next quoted aud adopted something
from William Goblet. How true the
reflection. A prophet is not without
honor save in his own country and
among his own kim" Goblet was q
great reformer, voluminous writer, an
icoroclast, a chronic director 10 every
thing, and though the stubborn and
blind British House of Lords failed to
appreciate his merits or to adopt his
suggestions. his shade will experience
some consolation in knowing that some
thing he said while in the flesh is in
spring a third party movement in
North America. The speaker then
spoke of silver history from the time
Abraham weighed the metal and pur-
chased the field of Machpelah, to the
present time, and said the great desld-
eratum now was to blipgthat metal back
TO the standard of lS73. Bankers, he pro-
claimed, apart from laying traps to get
dollars out of people, knew vely little.
Money, mortgages, stocks and bonds,
he said, forged shackles upon Amerl-
can citizens and instituted a species OF
slavery before which the bondage OF
the colored race in this country paled
into insignificance. The British capital
lists. according to Mr.. Davis, who went to
Egypt and loaned the khedive money
with which to build canals and rail-
roads and to resuscitate the land of the
Pharaohs had plunged that people into
a slavery more grievous than that
which the Hebrews suffered in the same
land $500 years ago. He appealed to
MS hearers to save themselves from the
tyranny of the purse. The Jews, who
had often been conqueredby the sword,
being naturally sagacious, had retail
lated by subduing the world by the
purse. There were really but two pow
ers in the world-one was the sword,
the other the purse. (The pen, there
fore, is no longer mighty.) The speak
er closed by reciting statistics, giving q
history of the workings of the CONT
mental railways which run through
Kansas, and expatiated freely on many
issues peculiarly western in and which
the people of this part of the world
have not the slightest concern. He
dwelt much upon figures which showed
the comparatively small cost drumming
railroad trains in his part Of the world
if no interest on money invested was
paid and no dividends declared. Prob.
ably travelling would be cheap every
where else if railroad magnates would
adopt the hint.
Representative Pence, of Colorado
followed Mr.. Davis. Mr.. Pence spoke
in this city two weeks ago, and hi
arguments in the main were about tn,
same as on the first occasion. Mr.
Pence is a rapid speaker, is well
informed, and while his conclusion
can, of course, be successfully contro
verted, his manner in addressing al
audience is easy and his logic forcble
while his language is devoid of any
thing personal or offensive. He wa
interrupted on one or two occasion
and read planks from the Chicago plat
form to substantiate his assertions.
1t was nearly half-past ten o'clocl
when Mr.. Pence closed, and peopl