The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-10-05

Talk DEMOCRACY TO A LARGE
AND ENTHUSIASTIC CAIHEh-
ING WEDNESDAY,.
Cravely Had the Courage to Face
Them, But Hunton Old Hin Up
Badly.

Wednesday was great day fol
democracy, and will long be rcmem-
bcrcd in Big Stone Gap. General
HINTON and Mr.. Kent arrived in the
city or the early morning train over
the S. 4. & @, and spent yesterday
and Wednesday in the Gap, looking
over the town. Tuesday they dincd
with Dir. Kunle aud on Wednesday
with General Ayers 1t was not
known until General Iiupton arrived
in the city that he would be here, bnt
a GREAT number Of posters had been
sent out in the country adjoining
Big Stons Gap announcing that Mr.
Kent would speak Ga Wednesday
there was good crowd. and at >
o'clock the speaking commenced.
Mr.. Kent and General !Iunton agreed
to divide time with Mr. Gravcly, the
PopuliSt candidate for Attorney Cen
cral. Mr.. Kent was introduced to
the crowd by Mr. Il. T. Irvine in a
few appropriate remarks. Mr.. Kent
spoke first. lie said: "You have two
parties from which to choose, the Dcnl-
ocratc and the Populist. The Demo
cratic party is the party that has been
in power for thrcc-quartcrs OF a cen
fury. 1t is the party that bnilt up
the government Of the United States;
that acquired our immense territory,
except Alaska, and the party that
has always been in favor of the
masses against the classes He
said this is a State canvas and he
would discuss State issues, that the
Democratic party had three able
standard bearers, men who had been
tried, and had had experience in leg
islation, and that the 'opulists can
didates were men of inexperienced who
were seeking to make capital, by APP
pcolins to the prcdindiccs of the
people, He paid a glowing tribute
to Coy. Mckinley and complmentcd
his administration He showed how
the vcXcd debt question had been set
tied by Democrats; low they had
supported The public schools, both
black and white. How they had
provided for the insane. the pension
ing of disabled soldiers, DC.
He said that the cause of
the present hard times was
not due to the Democrats,
but was the result OF 81 years OF he
publican misruc; that the Mckinley
Robbcr Tariff was the cause Of the
trouble, together with other iniam-
GUS laws placed on the statute hooks
by tho Republican party, and which
the Democrats had not had time to
repeal.
In regard to silver, he said II
want an honest dollar. ! am oppoS-
Ell to debased currency He said,
"whcrevcr there is a debascd cur
rcncy there is an unstable govern
mcnt." He referred to Mexico as a
country that had dcbaSod currency,
and showed the effects of it. He
said in regard to the middle class of
our citizenship, the yeomanry OF the
land, that their interest were his own,
that whenever they we're swept
away, everything was swept away.
He was followed by Mr.. Gravely,
of Henry county, pupulist candidate
for Attorney General.
He said that he was glad to be in
Big Stone Gap, to see this great city
AMI our mineral resources. That he
had heard OF Big Stone Gap as being
great place and he was glad to be
among the citizens Of Wise. lie
spoke for one hour and was accord
ed a respectable hearing by the Dem
ocrat> present.
Next came Senator IIunton, He
was greeted with tremendous ap:
plausc as no >tcppel forward. lie
said that he would confinc himself to
the discussion Of State issues; that
this was State canvass and not a
national one. He cited the record OF
the Democratic party from beginning
TO end, and showed how they had or
ganizcd, foStcrcd and supported the
school system, how the debt had
been settled alike honorable to both
debtor and crcditor,bv the Democrats,