Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-26
WISE'S SPEECH.
Hon. John S. Wise, of New York,
Heard Last Night at Armory Hall.
breaking benches Start Scenes of Disorder
Police Called to Eject Youthful Dis
turbers of tho Meeting But Little En-
thusiasm Croated.

New York. formerly OF Virginia, spoke
In Armory Hall last night to a crowd
nuctuating between 500 and $500 peo-
pie. OF these possibly 500 were white.
mostly Democrats, present out OF GU
riosity. The Excelsior Brass Band. COL
ored. supplied music for the event.
Postmaster j. r. Waddy called the
gathering to order and MIR. John r.
Doles presided and introduced the
speaker There We're present on the
stage the following:
Hon. r. y. Wise, Alvah H. Martin,
Norfolk county Harry Z. Brooks. Suf
folk: II. w. Bunting. Portsmouth; Rev.
4. w. Webb, Norfolk; H. T.. Butt,
portsmouth; MIR. Byrd, Isle of Wight
county; MIR. d. u. Hitchings. Norfolk:
J.. j.. Maury. southampton; S. Il. Car
ney. assistant postmaster: Harry Arm
strong. Norfolk; DR.. Gibson, Suffolk;
MI M Whitehead, Suffolk. Mr.: Barney.
Jamestown; Mr.. Frank w. Rose,
southampton county; Harry Lamb,
Norfolk
MIR. WISE's SPEECH.
Mr.. Wise is rotund and rosy per-
son. looking 80 years. with {; gift OF
language and Il bitter tongue He
spoke, what time the benches were not
breaking and the band playing. from s
O'Clock TO n quarter past 10. The first
three-quarters OF an hour there was u
rough house that would have pleased
Teddy Roosevelt Tho benches began
the ball. MIR. Wise had begun II am
glad when n whole section came
down with a resounding crash. being of
weak pine planks. This ticlSlcd the
crowd. which cheered and imbued it
with the idea that it was at a circus
EOur wears thorN dictin
revolution" continued the speaker
Another section of benches fell and the
cullud gemmen' stood on those left to
see what had happened. When this
had gone on for about fifteen minutes
a small boy in the rear of the hall
yelled three cheers for Bryan" and
nalf dozen other small boys hollered.
rms was too much for Mr.. Wise. You
little blackguardS back there" he cried
somebody ought to turn the hose on
YOU The boys sized it up as an easy
thing and repeated the dose. You
dirty cowards.' screamed the orator.
you hide in n crowd and do what you
wouldn't dare come up here and do"
The brothers in black cheered and
yelled. put 1t on 'em." The small boy
repeated his call for cheers and the
orator of the evening Informed the
crowd that the little idiot back there
was not Is years old" which was true.
BY this time the police had been noti-
fled. and on their arrival promptly
elected the youthful disturbers and re-
stored order
Mr. Wise discussed the money uues-
ton, trusts, Imperialism, and the sit
uatfon in this district. He declared
that there was never n time when the
people were so happy and the dollar
went so far. His most significant ut
terance was on trusts. 'Tne Demo-
Gratis" he said. charge that all the
trusts are In the Republican party. To
a certain extent 1T is so. 1t takes
money to organize n trust and get in
the game. AS soon as n man gets
money he grows conservative and
won't trust 1T to such wildcat thing
as the modern Democracy. Because
the men in the trusts are also in the
Republican party is no sign 1t is bad ="
The speaker declared that all n Legis-
lature can do is to make the opcra-
tons of trusts public. He worked off
the regulation references to the ice
trust and cotton bale" trust and de-
clared that Mr.. Bryan was "the pro-
duct of the silver trust" He wound
up his argument as to trusts by de-
claring, IF the seed Mr. BRYAN is
sowing takes root this country will
be turned into n den of snakes hiss
ing. hatred and throwing venom the
one at the other" This was figure
to the taste Of the brother in black,
and he proceeded to make dents in
the floor and the welkin.
Passing TO Imperialism. Mr.. Wise de-
clared no man 81 years old believed i'm
| it, that Mr.. Bryan was responsible for
| the troops in the Philippines, and that
Roosevelt was responsible for the VIC
tory of Manila Bay. up to this time
| the Republican party has made no
mistake" he declared: "it has no pol
icy as TO the Philippines" He de-
clared his belief that Americans would
never settle in the Philippines "be-
cause they have too much sense to
leave country like this and go there"
bryan" he said. "inspres every shot
| fired at our flag" Having thus dis
posed of imperialism. he took up the
last election in this city and said the
poll-holders We're perjurers. "If the
books are padded in this election we
will see that the penitentiary opens for
the scoundrels who do it," The word
| penltentiary appealed to the 1000
dusky suffragists present. and they let
out the first whole souied howl of the
evening.
DIR. Wise closed with really elo-
| uuent apostrophe to the South and 10
| Virginia. and was heartily applnuded.
| Mr.. Wise made an adroit but not
very effective speech, and. considering
| the size of the crowd and it's compo-
| sition. there was very little enthusi-
assn. So far as the applause was con-
| cerned. the breaking benches. the small
! boy, and the policemen decidedly car
ried off the honors OF the evening.
Junior Epworth League.