Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-08-18
GEN. WALKER At TAzEWELL.
He is Received by a Splendid Crowd
OUR CANDIDATE In FINE TRIM,
And Speaks for Over Two Hours to an
Eager and Enthusiastic Audience

If ever there had been any doubt that
the Republicans of Tazewell county were
resolved to win an old time victory at the
approaching Congressional election, that
doubt was dispelled on Tuesday.
1t had been published that Gen. Wal
ker, the Republican nominee for Congress,
would be here court day to meet his
friends and address the people Of Tazewell
ASounty on the political issues of the day
At an early hour of the day the people
were seen coming in from all sections OF
the county, and by noon the streets were
thronged with men from the Cove, from
Paint Lick, Liberty Hill and Steelesburg,
from Richlands, Cedar Bluff, Pounding
Mill, Maxwells, Bear Wallow, Sinking
Waters, Baptist Valley, Dry Fork, Crock
etts Cove and the Horse Pen. They were
here from Pocahontas, Graham, Tip Top,
Witten's Mill, Unaka, Burke's Garden,
Thompson's Valley, Poor Valley, Little
Valley, and in fact from every section and
corner of the county. They came eager
to meet their faithful representative IN
Congress and to listen to him while he
gave an account of his stewardship and
discussed the issues now before the people
At 1870 p. m. Gen. Walker accompanied
by several friends entered the court
house. Many citizens had already pre-
ceded him to the court room, and he was
followed by crowd that soon packed the
room leaving many in the corridors and
on the outside who desired to hear him
but could not get in. The General was
Introduced to the audience by J. n. Har-
mc.u, county chairman, in brief but
happy speech. General Walker first re-
ferred to his course as the representative
of the people and declared that while his
constituents might have been more ably
represented they could not have been
more honestly and faithfully, as he had
had but one purpose while in Congress,
that of advancing the welfare of his con-
stituents and protecting the interests Of
our common country.
lie then proceeded to discuss the re-
spective merits of the two leading national
parties-the Republican and Democratic.
He painted in glowing but true colors the
wonderful achievements of the Republican
party during the past thirty seven years,
showing what it had accomplished for the
advancement of human freedom, how 1t
had given to the country economic and
financial policies that had brought mar
vellous wealth to the nation and placed
our country in the front as an Industrial
and agricultural people. He told how the
Republican party nad paid of about two
billions of national debt and maintained
all the while vast surplus in the public
treasury. These results had come from
Nthe protective legislation and sound money
policy of the Republican party.
Then he proceeded to unfold the record
of the Democratic party. As he presented
the we'll known picture to his auditors the
disasters portrayed were made more real
istic and those who listened could not but
feel that Democracy and Disaster tare now
SYNONYMS lie showed how four years OF
Democratic administration had bank
rupted the treasury and forced the sale Of
,S263, ,OpU, coo of bonds by President Cleye-
land, to he used IN defraying the neces'
sarv expenses ofthe government how the
tariff reform or tariff for revenue legisla-
ton of a Democratic Congress had brought
ruin to our agricultural and manutactu-
ing industries and entailed misery of the
direst nature upon the workingmen Of the
country. The effort of the Democracy to
escape responsibility fol the ruin 1t had
wrought by introducing new issue, that
of free silver, was most scathingy exposed
bv Gen. Walker. The cheeky proposition
of the destroyers of national prosperity to
be placed in power again to try their ex-
pertinent of cheap money as remedy for
the ills they had brought upon the land
was properly treated by the speaker.
Then came bright and beautiful picture
as Gen. Walker held up before his
= audience the conditions that have followed
the election and Inauguration of William
Mckinley as President of the Unied
States. The magnificent results that have
followed the enactment Of a protective
tariff at a special session Of Congress as
the first act of a Republican administra-
ton were fully demonstrated. Furnaces
and factories, mines and railroads that
had been idle OF upNrosperous had been
put again actively to work and unem'
ployed, suffering labor given steady en-
ployment with living wages. A bankrupt
treasury had been replenished and the
gold reserve swelled to an enormous sum.
The tide of prosperity was shown to have
reached with peculiar force the agrlcultu-
raj interests. Farmers have been recelv-
ing the best prices for their products they
have gotten for many years. In the West
mortgages had been paid off the farms and
substantial bank accounts are held by the
farmers.
Gen. Walker told how the Democrats III
Congress had worked to force the Presi-
dent to declare war against Spain and had
voted against the declaration, because it
did not provide for the recognition OF
Cuban independence and the insurgent
government. The folly of such recognl-
ton was fully demonstrated, as it has been
by the events that attended the war.
Then the bad faith and conduct of the
Democratic members of Congress was
shown, in their refusal to vote for reVe-
nue. bill to provide means for conducting
the war. 1t was shown how they had en-