Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-10-27
SPEAKS TO NEGROES.
JUDGE LEWIS ADDRESSES AN AU-
DIENCE or BLACKS.
ONLY THREE WHITES WERE THERE.
The Candidate. the city Chairman,
and n Observation-Disclosures and
Campaign.
Campaign.

three or four negro speakers, and about
200 bowling negroes with negro brass
band and bonfire were the elements thai
went TO make up a Republican meeting
which was held last night over a bar
room on the corner of Thirteenth and
Leigh streets.
Judge Lewis, Mr.. Smith, the negro
speakers, and the Times reporter occu-
pied seats on the balcony over the en-
trance to the bar, and the bowling mob
the band (when its members were not on
the inside liquoring up, and the bonfire
were on the street below. A very obese
negro with a mouth which had the ap-
pearance of having been stretched by
eating excessively Of pie, presided over
the gathering, and in blatant tones in
troduced Judge Lewis, who, with as much
dignity as he could maintain at such
meeting. made a speech. He was inter-
rupted frequently by the howls of the
mob. and while he may have made
good speech, no one in the mob below ap-
preciated II.
The Judge took his seat after having
given his lungs about fifteen minutes eN-
ercise, and the negro speakers got IN
their work. They INDUCED in all kinds or
sophistries with reference to John Mitch
ell. and this caught the crowd far better
than did their illusions to Mckinley. The
meeting finally broke up about 1880
o'clock, and the bar-room, after having
done thriving business, closed up too.
PEACE PATCHED UP.
About 100 negroes assembled last night
in front of Bahen's Hall, on the corner
of First and Charity streets. to hear John
Mitchell preach dissension TO them. John
was. however, otherwise engaged, ana
they RECALLED themselves with witnessing
a fght between two dusky Amazons, VINO
fell out over the husband of one OF then'
Mitchell and Bahen were closeted with
AUanites in a portion of the Planet Office
and il was said that truce between the
two factions was patched up. All eHorls
to locate either Mitchell or his irish CO.
hort proved futile, and the result or the
conference icould not be definitely as
certained. 1t was generally understood,
though, that peace had been restored
among the warning factions, and as
token of friendship the negro band tnat
played at the Lewis meeting went by the
planet Office and serenaded John.
The Republicans of Clay Ward assem-
bled at Rineharts Hall last night and
held a business meeting. No speeches
were made and nothing Of importance
was done.
DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS HELD.
The Democrats of Fulton turned out IN
large numbers and more than filed Boltz's
Hall last night II was a regular
meeting of the Fulton Bryan, SewaH
and Lamb Club. a great many persons
were not able 70 get inside the house az
all The enthusiasm Of the crowd was
unbounded and the speakers were heart
uv applauded every time they mace
a home thrust into the camp Of the l'e-
publican party and It's Aid Society Those
Who addressed the assemblage were
Messrs. d. c. Richardson, r. d. trayser,
Is. 4. Catlin. and j. ". Rawley. and they
expounded straightout Democratic doc
trine i'm plain and convincing way
which strengthened the faith Of their
hearers.
Powhatan Club held a meeting last
rtgbt President jefferson Wallace nlled
the chair and the attendance was uh~
usually large. a number Of matters per-
taining to the work Of the club in the
coming election were decided upon ana
some routine business was TRANSACTED
At Shoemakers Precinct, III Hehrlco,
last night an enthusiastic meeting oI
Democrats was held and addresses "ele
made nv CAPTAIN John Lamb, Mr. Ih0inas
Iorus and esquire" S. i. CHM. IheIe
were over 100 people present anu 'ne
sneakers were literally cheerd.
4 MAJORITY FOR BRYAN.
In it's issue of last Saturday the llihes
asserted that a poll Of the mehiDers u
the Richmond Tobacco TRADE hau zen zen
r,ode and that a majority of them were
raj members of the trade were seen Wy
a Disnatch man yesterday, ana they salu
if any such poll had been made they hau
beon slighted. They assert positlVely
mat the Tobacco Trade does not contain
majority of McKinleyites but, on the
contrary is largely in favor OF Bryan
ord the straightout Democratic ticket
NJanv members of the trade are quite
irdignant over the statement made Dy
the Boltocrauc paper, and VIII proDaoiS
nublish a card denying its autnehuclly'
II would appear that the topacconlst9
are not the only class OF cltizehs Oh n,0n
mond who favor Mr.. Bryan. "A poli oi
The LAWYERS OF the city was taken on
eaturday nv two reputable gentlemen,
and II was ascertained that Of ninety-nlne
seen seventy were for Bryan, as against
twenty-nine for Mckinley or Palmer.
EVIDENCES or COERCION.
ono ~ the best evidences Of how coer-
cion is working on the boomerang oIue,
In This CITY was incidentally obtained by
Disnatch man. who stood waiting Tor
car on Second and Broad streets last
night Near him. in earnest conversa-
ton stood a. group Of young men, ana
they engaged i'm quite a heated argument
Another gentleman joined them, and was
asked who he proposed to vote for. 'shn,
he bissed. as he leaned over 10 them; L
am working for gold-bug concern, but
/ am going to vote for Bryan
"Weu I'm working for goId-bugs, too"
calculated another. 'and | was going 10
vote for Mckinley, until l found my
bosses were trying 20 force me 10 DO so,
ard now am for Bryan-first, last, and
all the time" His remark was received
with signs Of approval from all present.
A LANDSLIDE FOR BRYAN.
renresentative Of one Of the largest
snool-cotton manufactures in this coun-
trv was In the city yesterday, and said
not he has travelled all over the North
and West during this campaign. and
everything points to great landslide
for Bryan. Said he: MY people en-
nloy about 1850 hands, and some time
ago they presented each man a circular
as ne went 10 NoTh, NhlcH ooi1 t'o
names of Mckinley and Bryan at the
top. and informed the workmen that
thew voted for Mckinley they would have
steady work. and II for Bryan they
would have none. They were told TO
make a cross mark opposite the names
of the candidate they purpose support
ting in order that the concern might
know it's friends and to leave the
circulars at the office as they went out
i'm the evening.
"At lunch hour a general rush was made
for labor headquarters, and all were
there instructed to make the mark OPP
posite McKinley's name. but to vote for
whomsoeyer they pleased Tuesday. The