Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-23
LIE r1nEs AYp COERCION.


he Tines continues 20 poco-pooa ire
Suggestion that tire measures certain N-r-
GIN corpo.at.o1s are taxing % morn
TIER voters are c'ercvs. BIT tie per
Esns most affected are @ 2 d-,-sreat mind.
an TIRE virginia public fully Uo9s-ataI-s
TIE situation.
l., ire corporations really wished % "ir-
form" TIER employees. We should fu-
them buying an1 distributing literature
o. both s.des cf th.s question Instead
o. this they are Grove ding thelr public
rooms and workshops with partisan news
papers ald otaer publications. which
present. only ous sl1s q tbs question,
kn6 Co rot present that fairly.
We doubt not that sons o. these en-
ployers wL s5on bs sending forth thou
sand5 o. copies ot Bourke Cochran
speech. Thls Is = speech IN which Mr.
Cochran. speaking as betting Demo
Graf. charac.erize1 the Bryan men in the
Eouth as 'urrecolcIlec s-aye1cl-er3. Do
ar. Cochran undoubtedly voiced the sen
ti1nent CO the Wal street w-ng q the
Democracy. but ws tell him that he has
given great ohsnce % many o. TIE dis
srecte1 Democrats O. Richmond.
Dissatiseed as these are with our plat
form, they ere not ready % believe tina,
the free silver farmers Of Virginia are
thleylsa persons. who are craving de-
prec.zted currency 50 that they may use
Il 70 rob the.r negro hants q their Just
6ues.
The Tines has done SIS best % explain
Bolr<e Cockran's speech, but It's eIpla-
nation s. 20 very feeble and unsatis-
factory. Alr. Cochran himself cannot but
regret that the Times made Il.
In connection with the Times's defence
o. the method adopted BY certain oorpo-
rauons % cause their employees 20 aid
In the election Of Mckinley. We see IN
IT'S last issue a sneer at the Dispatch,
because the Dispatch has always insisted
ths, elections IN Virginia have been as
honest and fair az elections IN any other
state o. this Union. The Times suggests
that The Dlspstcl may now come 70 the
conclusion that "a real secret ballot ana
q fair count" ase not such terrible evils
after al.
But We ere forced 70 ask the Times
o. what avail Will the booth be II either
party chooses 70 adopt the bulldozlng
policy heretofore urged BY the Times? Il
a. accordance with the Tlmes's preach
ing, tie shotgun ard tie biudgson may
Be- use1 70 keep voters from the polls
SHAT good viii the secret ballot DO those
sotersg
IL the Tines las forgotten what II said
D. tbs sabisct. and wishes TO havs It's
r.n1 refreshed. We should take pleasure
B. repub.ishlnx some O. is utterances on
ghis pont OF all the papers In this
sosntry. q, ought TO be the most modest
IN talking about honest elections: but
30 f4r from showing a becoming reticsnee
tn t1is resyec;. IL has headed the process
sion o. Hose who have sought TO have
the vcrlt believe that our election On
refs are without honor or shame.
While rejoicing that Virginia has the
siection Law that It has. We have to re-
Efet that or lava cannst reach such cor
porztson employers as are now scheminE
20 drive thsls men into the support OF
NcKiniey. TIE trainers o; the Virginia
tw. when they were Grating their biii.
never once thought th4t such methods
IS We row hear OF f.r coercing the de-
pendent voter would 30 introduced into
fhis STATE. they knew that such methods
Ess&1sd In TIE North sze West bat IL