Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-10-10


Norfolk Pilot. Oct ober Sid, $685.
A large audience assembled last night
at Armory Hall TO listen to addresses
by State Republican Chairman Col
William Lamb and DIR. Il. A. Wise, Re-
publican candidate for Congress. from
the Second District There were
many colored voters present
Large portraits of the Republican
national candidates were placed in
front of the spea. ers' stand, At $3.50
O'Clock City Chairman Waddy called
the meeting TO order and introduced
Colonel Lamb, who in the course of his
address. spoke as follows:
"There is no one in the State OF Vir-
ginia for whom have as an individual,
a greater admiration than the editor of
the Norfolk Pilot, Col. w g. Elan,
He is indeed a man without fear or re-
proach, and what draws me closer to |
him than anything else is because he
shed his blood in defense of Repubi-
can principles in Virginia. and was a
devoted friend of that great Republic
can chieftain, who did more for the |
Republican party of these United /
States, than any one man ever had the |
opportunity of doing; for he gave that
party the control of the Government |
of this great country for three years
mean that brilliant confederate sol
der, Gen. William Malone. Colonel
Elan has been power in the Repub-
Icon party, and that he should leave
us for even one brief campaign has
been a great sorrow TO me, although it
may have remained unnoticed by some
scallawags and carpet baggers in our
party
OUR LEADERS POSITION.
There is no denying that very many
OF our leading Republicans were free
silver men-Walker of-the Ninth Die
trict, and Thorn OF he Fourth District,
ran on free silver platforms two years
ago and many other white members
of our party are advocates of the white
metal. But had hoped that they
would feel that there were greater is
sues at stake in the country and in the
commonwealth, than the mere matter
of the character of the currency in
circulation, that the Republican par
~ stood for honest money and chance
TO earn il: for silver might fill to re-
pletion the vaults OF every bank and
banker, in the land, and unless the
common people had the work TO earn it
it would only be greater aggravation
to them to know that in the midst of
such q redundancy of wealth. they
and those they love must starve or
commit crime for to obtain money
without an equivalent in exchange is
simply theft and then / did think that
drawing inspiration from our forefa-
theirs of the past, who suffered hunger.
cold and even death for their sacred
rights we Republicans in Virginia no
were robbed of the sacred right to vote
and to have have our vote counted
could never be diverted from that great
issue, for all that gold and silver in the
universe And | stand here tonight
the aocred tied head of the Repu blican
party in the State Of Virginia TO de-
clare that there can be no issue of Sc
momentous Importance to the Virgin
ia people as the right TO have our votes
recorded in the management of the
government under which we live. Sc
far as we Republicans in Virginia are
concerned. the government of the peo-
pile, by the people. for the peaple, has
persisted from the face of the earth
THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
And where is the freedom OF the
press in the Old Dominion? That righl
granted TO Phillip Langton and the
Barons by King John at RI my medt
nearly 700 years ago and reattirmed by
the Virginia Bill of Rights? Can my
friend, Col. Elam affirm that this ines
timable right has not been denied hin
ia? And is il not living, burning is
sue until we regain this priceless heri.
tage. bequeathed us by our fathers by
the overthrow of our oppressors?
MY distinguished friend, Col clam
has recently written very interesting
parable entitled Pound Cake VS.. Ash
Cake" He locates it in the land o.
Felicia, which land is ruled by king
and all countries that are ruled by
AZ al and
the people are not free and equal. He
makes a contest in that kingdom be
tween the consumer of pound cake anC
ash cake, and winds up by saying tina
the best assurance to obtain wheat 70
pound cake, is in the free and unlimit
ed supply of corn for ash cake, and b.
exclaims, "He that hath ears to hear
let him hear u
TO HEAR.
Now, with all due respect to my dis
tinguished friend, Felicia can not b
located in the free and Independent
States of America. There are n,
classes and masses in this country, ex
cept in the disordered imagination o
the .'Boy Orator of the Platte and hi
deluded followers. This is land o
equal rights. once confined to Anglo
Saxon, but now embracing al excep
the heather Chinee and the vanishing
Indian. The poor boy Of to-day VIII
sells his papers on the street to ear
an honest penny to help the mother a
home. if he has genius in him, may be
come the President of the Unite
States. And IN this great country Q
ours, where we have no king, no EN-
peror, no car, but all the people ar
sovereigns, nearly ali who have attain
ed the high office of President. espec
ally in these latter days. have CON
menced life as poor boys with thei
own fortunes to make. and who weT
bright exemplars of that peculia
American product, "the self mad
man."
IL the story of the pound cake an
ash cake was written in free Americ
it would be written thus:
A HUMOROUS ALLUsIoN
The sovereign people of the Unite
States, by their representatives in Go
gress duly chosen, have repeatedly d.
cided that pound cake was not tC
good for any of the people, and that
prevent any Inconvenience from I'll
scarcity of it, they would use equ
supplies of ash cake, that the govern
ment would buy the corn to make I'll
ash cake with Tor the benefit of IL
whole people, and would always ket
on hand enough pound cake so tn
even the humblest inhabitant OF FRI
America could change his ash cal
for pound cake if he wanted to, bl
the people knowing that they could &
the pound cake for the ash cake wht
they wished it. liked the variety b
most OF them preferred to the ash cal
or the pound cake, an order on pap
from the government which the own
could exchange at any time for eth
pound cake or ash cake.
Now, when this great government
ours was founded this great land
the man who had an oun'
pound cake could always get 10
l. l.. a IL. "A.