The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-31


Ward league. Mr. Walter Sharp presided
ana briefly introduced the speakers. the
hrst of whom was Mr.. w. Nj. Whaley,
the gold nominee from the Second Dis
trict
The latter apologlzed for the small
audience as compared with Mr.. Young's
Just across the street, saying he be-
lieHed 1t better to have n few right than
u great many In the wrong. He then
waved few personal compliments
Bryanward. after which he attacked i'm
partially the doctrines taught by the
leaders ana advocates OF the cause OF
free silver. not departing at all from
the usual lines of argument employed by
single standard speakers
Among other things he said that he
came before his audience as a business
man and had nothing to say against
Mr.. Young or DR.. Wise. but he was
opposed to the causes they represented,
because he believed them TO he wrong.
lie dwelt for some time on the proba-
BILE effect. as he saw 1t, of free silver
upon the Industrial world, upon the rev
enues of charitable Institutions. Sent!-
ment, he declared, never carried bread
10 the wife and babies. The decline I'm
the price of silver. he avercd was due
entirely to the increased production of
silver and not to adverse legislation. and
gave the history OF the while metal from
1878 TO the present, and said the world
gigantic silver trust of the Northwest
besides which all other trusts In the
world are as pigmies" In regard Ia
this trusts" Mr.. Wha1cy spent quite
awhile relating the details of the lack of
principle and all of the other virtues.
The idea of this country being in, or
putting itself in. the power of England
Mr.. Whaley declared was absurd, and
treated his audience to historical re-
view of the past history of the country
The speaker concluded his remarks
with numerous arguments in favor of
the yellow metal and sat down amid ap-
plause. The audience by this time was
materially thinned out.
Mr. J. Preston Parr, of Bedford coun-
~, was the second speaker, who was
introduced by Mr.. Sharp as the meteoric
orator from Central Virginia. Mr. Parr
denied this as u slander. saying he was
not an orator. He, nevertheless, spoke
very effectively and received generous
applause.
He complimentcd Norfolk. and espec-
ialiy Brambeton Ward. He then par
alleled l3ryan's campaign with that of
Horace Greedy. He did not expect the
election of the National Democratic
candidates. but expected to vote for
them because he hoped that some time
soon this difference between friends
would be healed and the grand old
Democratic party would once more
Sulher around ITS true sentiments"
He declared that there was no way Ia
separate capital from labor, and ex
plained that in reality the wurkingmen
were the capitalists of the country. The
interests of the business men and work
ingmen are Identical he said. He ac-
cuSed Bryan of inconsistency i'm that he
told people in New York that free coin
age would raise the value of the silver
dollar to that of the gold dollar, while
IN Bloomington, Ills. he completely re-
versed this theory saying the silver
uoiiar would deDreciate and people
would rush to spend their silver.
He showed how silver had gone down
In value from The beginning Of history.
and endeavorcd to impress his hearers
with the idea that n government cannot
stamp value into u coin
He attributed the fact that so MANY
people were out of employment was due
TO the invention of So many labor-say-
ing machines and immigration.