Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-25
QUARLES is HEARD.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE SPOKE IN
FLuvANsA COUNTY MONDAY.
The GREAT QUESTIONS DISCUSSED.
He Was Cordially Received md Pro-
misea strong SUPERINTENDENT
for Fnrmers-some of the Th,nr.
Mckinley Has Done.

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'uuse j. NJ Quaries, Democratic nominee
Tor Congress began his canvass Of this
district with a speech here Monday In
! spite Of the fact that there were many
camp and bush-meetings throughout the
! county there was a good crowd at the
| courthouse to hear the orator. lie made
me impression. Colonel William b.
Petit an old soldier in politics and
polemies, introduced Judge Quares, and
said that while the war was about end
ed there were stil vital questions met
dent thereto which were to be deter
mined and that the Democratic people
should nave part in the settlement OF
these new Issues.
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES.
Judge ouarles, after returning thanks
ior the warm welcome given him by his
audience, launched out into an exposition
% the fundamentally doctrines Of Democ-
Tacy' he declared that government is
essential 10 all peoples deriving its just
| powers not from trusts and combines,
nut by the consent of the governed JEFF
terson, said he, was not afraid of the
people, and after his fight in their in
terest old Andrew Jackson led the next
great political battle when he opposed
rechartering the United States Bank
Then came Oh the great conflict of 1886.
The speaker referred 10 the fact that
much OF the wealth, fashion and wit
was opposed TO the Democratic party
He discussed the fact that the corpora
lions and trusts were opposed TO the
people headed by Bryan.
THE GREAT GT-I-CTrnN-c
Silver. at 16 to l, government by in
junction. and the income tax, were the
great questions TO be settled But above
all, was the question as to whether the
people should or should not rule. II the
people govern they will correct any errors
ana we will not have liberty II any other
power than the people prevails.
Judge Quarles maintained that a coun-
Try without money is barbarous coun-
n.y. and that when money is taken away
from a people they relapse into barbar-
isH' he then went into a philoso-
phieal discussion of the money question.
quoting Walters; Nicholson. of Edinburgh
University, and Ricardo, to the effect
that the volume of primary money de-
termined the level of prices. Not only
authors and academicians but history
as well, was cited 10 prove this fact
INFORMATION FOR FARMERS.
The Democratic candidate discussed
the matter Of improved machinery and
The tariff act. and said II am glad 10
say that political economists do not tell
you that the case of the farmer is hone
less in the face of high tariff and i'm
proved machinery" He quoted the au-
thorities TO show that there was no such
thing as permanent overproduction. Such
a trouble would speedily and automati-
cally correct itself. He showed that both
silver and gold were constitutional money.
and argued that there was no danger
Of a silver deluge as a result Of free
coinage.
THE WAR DISCUSSED.
Touching the new questions resulting
from the Spanish-American war, he
ridicued the Republican resolutions at
the stanton convention in pre-empting
all credit for themselves in conducting
the war. They said nothing of Dewey,
the Democrat Schley. Hobson. Bagley,
or old Joe Wheeler. Judge Quarles said
they claim everything and get most of
the money. The glory of this war be-
longs TO the men at the front and the
men behind the guns.
MKINLEY CRITICISED
They talk 10 you Of the generosity and
magnGnimity of Mckinley He called on
troops from every State. That was not
a matter of magnanimity, but his duty
as the President of the whole country.
How about his acts In times of peace?
Judge Quarles here criticised the Presi-
dents appointment OF negroes TO high
places in Georgia and other Southern
States Said he: IF President is elect
ed by the people he should represent
the whole people and he will do il If the
people, and not classes and special inte-
rests, elect him. Talking of his magnan-
Unity TO the South, Judge Quarles said
that Mr.. Mckinley rode eighty miles to
lift his hat over John Browns grave
John Brown, who in 1859, armed the
negroes with pixies ana guns in insurrec-
ton against the white people.
Judge Quarles closed his speech with
an appeal TO the Democrats TO get to-
gether and perfect their organization, and
to poll the full strength of their
party's gote. He was accorded a fine
reception, and the party leaders of old
Fluvanna assured him of their support
He is spending several days in Bucking-
ham county. Next ourt-day he speaks