Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-18

York lawyer before the U. S. Supreme
Court during the hearing of the income
/ tax case. That lawyer had said that
even if the court should decide the in
come tax to be constitutional the oppo-
nents of that decision would find a way
to overcome that tax even if it were on
the ruins of courts. He said that but
! few newspapers had reported this
| speech, but the GAZETTE had done so,
and he honored it for SO doing, and
though he might have thought at
times the GAZETTE had not treated
him kindly, yet he honored that paper
for the stand it had taken for the party,
and for true democracy, and for net
imagining itself to be above its party.
After a graceful compliment to the
"old GAZETTE Judge McCabe con-
graduated the First ward for being the
first to fly the Bryan and Sewall flag,
and said their example would be FOL.
lowed and the enthusiasm would spread
throughout the country.
Mr.. A. A. Lipscomb was then intro
duced. He said he had been to the
Chicago convention and it was a
| glorious sight. The States had sent
their best men; the convention was
regular, and had nominated brilliant
man for President, but no congratula-
tory dispatch had been sent the
nominee from the White House.
The man there, who had been elected
by the great democratic party, and all
his cabinet were as silent as the dumb
beggar nominated by the republicans.
He said he understood that the White
House intended to bolt because Mr..
Whitney and other milliopaires had
bolted. For this he thanked God,
| for every rich man who left the party
one hundred honest republicans would
come to it. He had read in 81 New, Y ork
paper the names OF twenty men who
had bolted. Those twenty men owned
| 81 $50, 900, 000-a thirtieth of the whole
wealth of the country, but he had not
seen published the name of single
honest laborer or farmer who had bolt
ed the ticket. He made strong ar
gument in support of the income tax
plank of the democratic platform, and
told how the change of the vote of
single Judge of the Supreme Court had
rendered null and void the income tax
law, which even Mr.. Cleveland at one
time had favored. he then eulogized MIR.
Bryan, and in speaking of the mean
things which had been said of him by
the "cultured" people of the north,
said we would soon have to send our
negroes north to teach them manners.
He said that while in Chicago he had
been told that Virginia was boiling,
but he had denied this and had said
that when the band played Dixie"
the boys would fall in and march to
victory. He closed by telling how
Senators Teller and Stewart had kept
the republicans in the Senate from
passing the force and other obnoxious
bills and said that Mr.. Teller might be
secretary of the treasury and then there
would be no secret bond issue confer
ences. He closed his speech by pre-
dieting great democratic victory.
Mr.. F. E. Anderson was the last
speaker and made an earnest appeal to
his hearers to stand by the nominees Of
the party. He paid a glowing tribute to
Mr.. Bryan and said he would be the
stonewal around which all democrats
would rally and march to victory. He
hurriedly but Interestingly discussed
some of the planks of the democratic
platform and closed by predicting that
Mckinley would be buried so deep in
the dust next November that it would
take magnifying glass to find him.
The meeting closed with q hearty
ratification of The nominations of Bryan
and Sewall by the Chicago convention.