Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-11-03


suppose bill should pass prohibiting
the use Of corn for food who do YOU
| think would be responsible. anyone else
but those who have the wheat. Who
struck down silver but those who held
the bonds? Who is Keeping silver
down but those who hold the bonds?"
The money power of America intends
To control the money of America. and
, the less there is the better then they can
control it,
Mr.. Montague touched briefly on the
labor problem. concluding his remarks,
saying: The mos, dangerous foe that
labor has is the man out of a job. All
! wages are paid out of the product of
, the laborins man. If there are no pro-
ducts how are you going To pay the la
boring man. II the products are not
worth We, they should be worth how
are we going to pay the laboring man
| waht he is WORTH
The speaker finished his address
/ W. ~ Oh is considered one of the best
.ss%.ss 4 here in recent campaigns. with a
ing injunction to the voters to come
asSst on election day and work for the
party.
You hear talk of a new Democracy"
he said in conclusion There is no such
thing as new Democracy. We are
coming back-thank God-to the old
Democracy. the Democracy of Thomas
Jefferson. the Democracy of equal rights
to all
HON. w. a. YOUNG
In introducing Mr.. Young, Chairman
Jones spoke of the Importance of every
Democrat in the district and in New
port News going to the polls election
day and voting the ticket. He said that
there was no man in the State who had
done harder work for the party than
Mr.. Young. who was an old fashioned
Democrat who had sense enough to
praise the Lord. hate the Devil and vote
the straight Democratic ticket whatever
betde.
Mr. Young was greeted by generous
applause when he arose to speak His
address WIS brief and devoted To- /, large.
extent to his experience in Congress and
the necessity of rcbuking the treatment
that was accorded him He plunged AT
once into his subject. saying:
II am the representative of the pe,p.e
of the Second district ana was unscated
by fraud which disfranchised over 49,
500 voters. The committee which UNI
seated me was headed by General Walk
or. who is running for Congress in the
Ninth district--a man who was once
such 81 partisan that the State commit
tee was afraid to put him on the stump
for fear he would say something too
offensive for the more conservative ele-
ment. Yet this man has changed his
politics, he says. from principle / leave
you to judge of thar. He is 4 man with
more venom in his nature than is in the
body of any poisonous reptile that
crawls. and hates anything Democratic
in Virginia.
General Walker dominated the com
mittee. which was composed of five
members besides himself and I venture
to say that they never read hundred
pages of evidence which | submitted.
but took General Walkers word for it.
But there is a different situation in
the Second district today. There are
men We're formerly Democrats, but like
General Walker. they have changed
their politics from-prnciple."
NATIONAL ISSUES.
Mr. Young then talked interestingly
for half an hour an national issues. dis
cussing ably the status of the money
question. the conduc, of the war and
the administrations foreign policy
He thanked the w. a. Young Club for
the honor it had done in naming its or
ganizaton for him and also thanked
both this organization and the Aneri
Gus Club for the good work they We're
doing He spoke impresSively upon the
necessity of organizing; in order to OBJ
tain the best results ON election day. ad-
visins all Democrats not already in
some club to ger into one.
In closing. Mr. Young referred to his
own candidacy. saying that he stood
there he would stand until the Demo-
cratic party in national convention
convention adopted another platform.
When lie was unseated. Mr.. Young said.
an insult was put upon the Democratic
voters as we'll as upon himself ana il
remained for the Democratic voters to
rebukc that insult. ".-+