The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-20

W
ried. they returned to Salem Sunday
night. 1t seems that the young couple
were under age, and as the match was
objected to, they took this means of be.
ing married.
The Salem Cornet Band discoursed
sweet music yesterday for the Republic
cans at the town hail. Salem is very
proud OF this band, yet they never honor
the city with any music excepting on rare
occasions There is plenty of room now
In the courthouse yard for these gentle
men to give us an occasional serenade.
Miss Anna Wells, the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Nathaniel Wells, and sister of
Gordon Wells, of the Roanoke Street
railway Company, died at her home on
Cralg avenue, mt O'Clock yesterday af-
ternoon. Her funeral will be preached ut
the Methodist Church to-day (Tuesday)
at o'clock in the afternoon, after which
she will be laid to rest in East Hill Gem
etery. Consumption was the cause of her
premature death, and The Times tenders
It's sympathy to the bereaved family in
their sorrow and loss
CAMPAIGN SPEAKING.
Yesterday was the first day of the Octo-
Der county court term One of the
largest crowds ever seen here assembled
from all over the county, presumably to
hear the political orators, billed by the
respective county chairmen for the date.
The courthouse square, resembled. with
animated lie, the corner of Goth street
and Cottage Grove avenue, Chicago, dur
ing the Worlds Fair The snack man
and the lemonade vendor were in evil
dence, also the monograph man, and over
all the stentorian voice of NJ T.. Huff,
the auctioneer, could be heard disposing
OF ianily bric-a- brac, now so common
under the benefcient reign of the gold
standard. At II O'Clock the Republican
cohorts. headed by the Salem band,
marched to the town hall, to bessregaled
by speeches by the Hon. w. c. Piummcr,
of North Dakota, the Hon. Jacob Yost
and j. b. Stovall. The back of the stage
was hung with portraits of Mckinley and
Hobart, and dead legends were hung on
the walls, the most prominent of which
was with Mckinley and protection we
will have more employment, more work
and higher wages. 1.-The hall was crowded.
MIR. GREENS SPEECH.
The unterrifed supporters of Bryan
and Sewall went to the courthouse to
hear the Hon. Mr.. Green, of Charlotte.
skin the money sharks and bondholders,
and to pay his respects to the Republi-
can aid society who met in st. Louis to
defeat Bryan, nominated for the presi-
dency and c-Presidency AIethusalem
Palmer and Noah Buckncr Mr. Green
is Nirginian of the old type, and if it is
true that wisdom is common sense, in an
uncommon degree then Mr. Green is II
very wise man. His speech Che spoke for
more than two hours alternated with
wit and logic, his wit was keen and his
logic innumerable He went over the
entire political iicld-proved from their
own speeches that Sherman, Carlisle,
Harrison, Palmer and the whole ships
crew were insincere in their later day ut
terances concerning the benefits OF an
English gold standard of money He
damned them out of their own mouths
with their own words He said Mark
Hanna kept Mckinley chained like a
bulldog in his own yard for fear some
one would ask him how he stood on the
silver question in 1890.
He took up every goldbug argument by
which the millionaires and bondholders
and money sharks and few people in
their employ would try to fasten IA sys-
tenn of slavery on the American people
and tore them into shreds He said that
the time was fast coming under the
present system of money when the men
who had to work would be the slaves of
their employers. The college boys gave
him an old-fashioned college yell, and his
speech was the very best delivered here
during the campaign.