The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-03

Colonel William Lamb and Or. R. A.
Wise at kTmory Hall.
THE COLONEL WAS IN FIGHTING TRIM
And Had His Shoi Gun Win Him
FfEurnfivcIy Spcaking-poor Press
Accommodations Cold Democrats
at Lnin1ert's Point Addressed by
local Speakers Of Prominence.

The audience which gathered at the
Armory last night for the purpose of
nearing STATE Republican Chairman. Col.
!I!lam Lamb. and DIR. Il. ~ Wi-c Re
pupIcan candidate for Congress from
inns district, discuss the issue of the
pres Mt campaign. was of compliment
airy size. average enthusiasm, enti ely
masculine, and composed largely OF col
ored people 20 the extent of a ratio of
J. rhaps one III three.
IN addition to the decorations pre-
N!ouslN arranged around and above the
Sped kers' staTe, In front " the same
Nste placed TWO large and doubtless
Standard -bearers-Mesi:rs. Mckinley and
ltopaTt. y feature mos; nCticeably alb
sent was any arrangement whatever for
me convenienc' of the prcss--an over
ght which admirably prevented any
thing Ike a comfortable report of the
proceedings
There was no music of :in-horn ma
ture. and w II. Thorogood and his CO.
Aorts suiked sil ntly in their tents, ngu-
ra;Neiy speaking. Operations were an
nounc&d to begin at O'clock, sharp. but
Il was thirty minutes and tweniy-c:ght
sec nGs after tE3; hour when City lie
publican Chairman Col. j. Il. Wadiy
called IN inpatient audience to order
and briefly presented Col. Lamb.
The Colonel stated that me was very
w.;h him. ana us 4 ii energet.ca,ly in n
manne, no; 4; all lanSuil The first
part OF his remarks was devoted chiefly
70 himself and why Republicans should
icIioW MS leadership whether they liked
IHlnl or no.. saying they should be true
to .he.I leader, ana after the victory they
could fgh; for the spoiis without fear
Of being licked by the enemy.
Ae N y ;al@ed about harl times, say
ing he d!d not think the currency had
a IN - 1,
were due in MS opinion TO this free trpda
bIlSat. Then he compared the fr .
trace days before the war; when the
landlord skinned the tenant and the ten
ant skinned III land, with the state of
affairs after thirty years of Republican
protection. He said in 1890. 1.CO0 men
Wee employed in the Navy Yard here.
Ws!le nov, thank to Mr. Tyler. tn re
Were only iC0,' hu; did not say how AIr.
Tyler had done ii all by himself
lie saii the Democrats in 1890 had
Sown Italian beans. Russian this:lss.
Scotch this and German that. bu; In this
year, w!.h the Lords help. III Repuhli-
cans eNpected 10 plow this crop under
ana tert!lize it with politically dead silver
Demlcajs ana fopulsts. Tho Demo
crars, he said, had said Give US fr e
trade and everything will be cheap"
well, everything is cheap" said col
Lamb" and poor humanity is about :he
cheapest of them all
Col. LAMB then paid a glowing tr:bute
10 Col. W. c. Elan and his splendid
work 70: the Republican party In times
past, and declared that Il Was A source
of sorrow To him that Col Elan should
tCaNc the ralty even for a brief time
lie av rred there was no denying that
there were many free silver Republicans
now. but he had hoped there were none
In tn state OF Virginia. where the party
wat robbed OF its votes. who would
leave the principles OF the party 70. any
thing government for the people. Of
IN" people and by the psople, he said,
had rer!Shei from the soil OF the Old
Dominion. i4e then spoke Of Col E.lam's
patabl. of foundcaks vs.. Ashcakc, say
nG the scene of this parable could never
be laid in The United States. where there
We're II" classes or masses except in the
d!stOted Imagination of the Rov Orator
Of the Platte and his deluded followers"
Tie speaker III proceeded 10 further,
G-Sse2t the SAID parable. after which
he said that there was no discounting
The fact that hree-four,hs Of the Re
publican vote IN this d.Stric, was col
orei, and told why Tn should
vote for Or Wise. to whom he paid n
pretty tribute. ana declared that if The
sound money Democrats could control
the ballot boxes prop rly he would prom
Use a Republican majority in This distrlc.
OF $500. and If the sound money Demo-
Gratis should con;lol the ballot box for
their own purposes, he, as leader Of the
iiepuhl.canS. refused 10 transfer to them
or any other party his magnificent army
OF Republican voters.
Before sitting down Col Lamb said
that some people had said something
about there being blood in the al. on th.s
occasion. 'rh re was no blood in The a;,.
now, he said. but he was going to deliver
a lecture soon on ballot box stuniur in
Virginia. ana then there would be blood
in the air.
DR. Wise on rising ro.,,,ro, -,