Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-13

time or Aaron Burr as compared with
the political corruption of to-day. 1t
is our duty to check that.
Another duty is to support the stand
ard bearer of this district for Con-
gress. 1t was an outrage. as everybody
knows. to seat DIR. Wise. who was ne
yer elected. We ought to send man
who Will properly represent us in Con-
greSs.
HON. H. L. MAYNARD.
He then introduced Hon. Henry l..
Maynard. of Portsmouth, as the candi-
date for this district.
Mr.. Maynard said in part: There is
no shame in his heart for the record of
the Democratic party" He spoke in
praise of the candidate. Bryan, and the
platform on which he ran in 1896. He
referred to the false prosperity which
has not brought more wages to the
workingmen or better prices to the
farm.
He said that the flag and the Con-
Stitution should go together. The Dem
ocrats are not opposed to expansion.
They are opposed 10 the forciblc an
neXation of a lot of far-away islands
with a people who are not similar to
our people.
A BAD BARGAIN.
The Philippine Islands are not worth
the blood of our soldiers. The Republi-
can plea is that the trade is worth the
should have to keep them subdued.
The war is profitable only to contrac-
tors and carpet baggers. 1t means
taxation without reward. 1t will as
sist the party to continue in power.
Mckinley will become the dictator.
We believe in the government OF the
free. We have volunteer soldiers; we
don't need n standing army. He re-
ferred to their valorous feats of Gettys-
burg, OF New Orleans and of Bunker
Hill.
IMPERIALISM.
The Republican party supports I'm
perialism because 1t pays. 1t does not
pay the people who pay for it, The
plea of carrying religion to the Philip
pine Islands is not the plea of fair or
honest men. He quoted Bryan'S plan
for protectorute over the people of
the Philippine Islands, and commended
II.
class against class. 1t tries TO bring
them close together. He referred to
the blighting power of monopolies
They make 1t hard for working men to
lind places. There were $500 men
thrown out of employment in Chicago
by the formation OF one trust They
Kill the hopes of the employees when
they make man thing that needs
only TO be fed to he happy That is
not true of the workingman.
He condemned the tariff as the cause
of the trusts There are no good
trusts. They are only seeming to be
good. VIII You crush the trusts or let
the trusts crush you. (Great applause
at $40 Capt. w. w. Old introduced
Hon. y. j. Montague with. n clever
anecdote about his father. Robert Mon
tague. who was called the Red Fox of
Virginia" because he could not be run
down.
Is GRAND SpEEcIJ
Mr.. Montague said. in part. he did
not expect to be so commended He
is sensitive about his red hair. He he
iieved In the red fox, however. because
he did not double.
He compimented the ladies and
.hanked them for their presence. We
need their help. not their votes. They
nave more influence without the vote.
This campaign stirs the people
lhroughou' the world. 1t is the para
mount question in this country. We
are at the parting OF the WAYS. MS
Roosevelt says. / don't place much
credence in what Roosevelt says.
HANNA IS MUD.
He said to speak plainly of Hanna.
one cannot handle mud with a silver
lndle. He says there are no trusts
Ihey have combined SO that they CON
troi the products of the country. Han
ma SAID there are good and bad trusts.
The good trusts are the ones he is in
terested in.
He compared the trusts here with the
monopolies of Great Britain The man
who controlled salt in England couId
ask what he pleased. They saw trusts
give us cheaper goods. Take, for ex-
ample. Kerosene oil. We pay more
than we ought TO pay. Mr. Rice. of
ohio, says that the Standard Oil Com
pany could sell oil at / :. to cents IL
gallon. We pay IL cents. Is the oil
we use to-day as pure as 1t was years
ago? Is not there some of it at the
bottom of the lamp that did not burn
and will not burn?
The man who has the control of a
product will increase the price or de-
base the quality.
DESPOTISM OF TRUSTS.
y trust is n business despotism-
cold, horrible. The Anglo Saxon peo-
pie believe in every man working, In
his own WHY. ITS OWL saTVaIi0n. we
are not expecting to marry rich wo-
man To take care of us.
There is nothing to be said against
the English people. but 1 teach that
we have not descended. but assembled
from the English people.
He said nobody could oppose clean
honest money making. but ii must not
degrade some other man. Bryan is
admirable because he believes in Civ
ing every man Il chance.
The trust Is a scheme to get control
OF some service or product. He re-
ferred to the tobacco trade. If the
trusts have % per cent. of business
can man compete with them? To
stop competition the trust gives things
away.
THE MORAL SIDE.
There is a moral side to trusts. They
are not honest. They are able even 10
sway the judiciary.
He referred to Carnegie, who sells
armor plate at 5000 n ton TO this gov
eminent ana for $500 to Russia.
lie referred to the debate in the SEN