The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-04
FIELD DAY
IN VIRGINIA
POLITICS
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Great Crowd GreetS Mon,
tague, Willard and
Maynard.
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GOVERNOR SPEAKS
FOR HOUR AND HALF
He Would IDisfranchise All
Who Sell Their Votes-Wil-
lard Gives Thoughtful Talk
and Maynard Closes With
Few Cheering Words
to Constituents.
Especial to The Times- Dlspa,ch.)

SUFFOLK, VA, October 3-This was a
great day for the Democracy or Isle OF
Wight county. ! large crowd assembled
at tho courthouse to hear campaign
speeches from Governor Montague, Lieu
tcnant-Governor Willard and Congress-
man Maynard. The speech of Montague
was particularly acceptable. and is con-
sldercd one OF tho best he ever delivered
In this section. It was argumcntativc
us well Is eloquent. For. an hour and a
4 half he held tho crowd wcll-nigh spell.
bound with his scathing denuncations OF
Republican msrtlc and his brilliant
flights of orutory.
Willard made a dlspassionate and
thoughtful talk Of forty mInutes, and
Maynard closed. briefly, telling funny
q stories and inviting the audience to meet
& him lii Washington at Parker's Inaugural
ton Montague made a general contrast
In the political and financial conditions
for the sixty years prior to the Civil.
q War and the forty years since the war
s During the period prior 10 1861 the Demo-
crats had administered the affairs OF
government. the South had furnished the
Il Democrats, and many had come from
syVirginia. s$ y
Prosperity Unmovable.
The government, he said does not make
nor unmake prosperity. The people only
wanted the government to keep off a re-
5s.rainng hand andsle Individuals make
their own prosperity. Thomas Jefferson
James Madison and associates had done
moro to make he country prosperous
than ali the congresses ever did or ever
will do. In discussing the tariff. the
speaker said: ITO tax Is to take The
Democrats stood for equal rights to all,
special privileges A to none."s3sHc made
some apt Illustrations about the working
Z OF the tariff and Its Injustice to the con-
sumer, and made It 80 plain that even a
way faring man, though a Republican,.
can read Its meaning" Men are sent TO
jail. lics said. for watering milk, while
a those who water stocks are allowed to
ride and walk on golden streets. Honesty.
4 ought to be honesty. and theft ought 7 Q
be theft, from the highest to&the lowest
The orator dwelt while on trusts, and
g told Of the action In the case Of the North
ern Securities Company. He said Cortel-
d ygi had been made Secretary of Com
ncrce and Labor to learn.6for one thing.
! the inside workings of the great corpora
tons and trusts, and then had been
placed at the head Of the Republican
Campaign Committee to levy tribute from
these same trusts. whose workings and
+ weaknesses he had learned of In his Off
4 cial capacity. Republicans were @ra ising
a great fund. and there was evidence of
an attempt to dcbauch another. election.
Disfranchise Vote Sellers.
II would to God" he declared, that
could make and enforce law which
would dlsfranchise forever those who sell
their votes. In discussing the flop Of
the New York Sun he said It's editor. in
his yltuperations OF Roosevelt, had said
he was possessed OF progressive insan-
ity,,, and later had rendered to the, same
man, and had called us Democrats
Huns and yandals.'' The speaker dwelt
on the postal and army frauds, and deprc-
Gated the condition which permitted those
guilty in high offices to escape punish
ment
Roosevelt, he said, kept one foot on the
Constitution, with 4 hand on sword,
while Parker had his foot on the sword,
his hand on the Constitution.
E Roosevelt had been mighty glad to see
some negro soldiers during the Cuban
4 campaign, and his gratitude explained
B certain lunch on Boston baked beans he
had with q distinguished Southern clti-
zen. .
In war, except In self-deffnse; that the
divine Being did not intend that men
4 should destroy each other under any other
,royocatlon. Roosevelt was II man who
walked softly with q big stick. who had
IN iron hand in a glove of velvet. He
said the money question was fixed, but
fiat tho. Republicans should not claim
Il he glory, for two Democrats, Justice
e 4 ,amar and Ben Hill, were the only great
statesmen who had always stood for the