The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-01
INGALLS, SPEECH.
He Talks of Reputation and Other
Things to Large Audience.

Me. ingalls,, the president of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company,
has come, and he has spoken. He ar
rived on No. yesterday afternoon in
special Big A car,-which was evidence of
the fact that Mr.. Ingalls, is not going
around the country in any sort of way to
convince the working man that it is to his
interest to vote for Mckinley this year.
The noted speaker came here under the
auspices of the 'gold' league Of Roam
oke, and the Roanoke Machine Works
Band was employed to help raise crowd
to hear him, and they succeeded right
we'll, rs the city hall was packed. The
speaker was introduced by Capt. Jno. II,
Wright as veteran Democrat, who had
been lighting for the old fashioned Dem
ocracy for years. Mr.. ingalls, is hand
some railroad official and a good talker,
but there wece but few points in his
speech last night that elected much ap.
rlause, except when he mentioned Bry
| ans name, when it WIS much in evidence
that he WAS speaking to many men who
| were not advocates of the "gold'' policy,
| Palmer. tor Mckinley About half his
| audience were colored men, who antici-
| pated the telling points of his speech
bright we'll, rs was shown by the applause
he received from them. His argument
| was the same old stock in trade that
the goldites have hurled from the same
| platform since the opening of the cam
| paign, but they were piled with less force
and finish than usual. he advanced
nothing new, and it is safe TO say that
Nir. ingalls, did not win many BRYAN vot-
ers to his way of thinking. "a
He devoted his talk entirely to the sill
/ yer question and denounced all believers
| of free silver as populists, etc. He went
| into discussion of the situation abroad.
and then sgave his hearers rehash of the
monetary history Of the country, declar-
ing -thatathe nl.-. :, no Chains that the de-
monetiSa ton act of 1878 was passed Sc
| cretly was either a knave or>a fool. He
said that free coinage would drive $780,
| 200 of gold out of circulation, and his
| reference to the gold bearing notes and
| certificates, which the laboring man car
ries in his pockets caused considerable
| laughter and cat-calls, as they are scarce
articles in this section. In his reference,
to the panic of 1893 he. placed the cause
| on the ''populistic'' tariff act of 1894
| He spoke we'll of Grover Cleveland and
approved of his bond issues, declaring
that they had broughtsforth general era
OF prosperity in 1895, which was only
checked by Il Populist Senate thrusting
lts Tree silver reputation ideas upon the
people, which has in the last few months
paralyzed the business interests of the
Ell tire country. His argument doesn't
hold good in Roanoke, as business has
been better in this section since the meet
ing of the last Congress- than it has been
since 1872 up to that time. In order to
show what II splendid thing the gold
standard is he referred to the era of pros
perty between 1880 and 1890, quoting
census statistics to prove his points, but
not a time did he refer to the worst panic
the United States has ever experienced,
being under q gold standard, to show
what good thing it was. He appealed
to the laboring men with the same old
cry that free silver.will cut wages in two
and that the prices of products will in
crease, and then declared that the free sill
yer craze would be death to the railway
interests of America. He declared that
he was Democrat, but the Populists in
Chicago had stolen the living of the Dem
-ocratic party to serve the devil in, and
that he had cut loose from the three leg
-ged ticket they had put in the field and
that he would vote for Mckinley in order
to defeat Bryan, and advised everybody
else to do the same thing,as it was useless
to shoot blank cartridges by voting for
Palmer and Buckner. This was much
approved by the large number of Repub-
Leans in the audience, but was re.t-
lar "stunner" to the gold Democrats who
sat on the platform behind aim. AT the
conclusion of his speech there were loud
cries for Glasgow, s,ut he did not re-
| spond. The-speech was frequently in
terrupted by cheers for Bryan.