The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-10

OF a commissioner of the United States
government, given him by tho Repubi-
can party at Culpeper in 1865. and then
be denounced the signing of an affidavit
b, the Republican candidate for Cover
nor to bring Federal troops to Peters
burg to conduct the election there in 1876.
III he is a regenerated man, who has
come TO cleanse and purify his party IN
this State, I declare to you that he must
lay before the people some convincing
evidence against this unconstitutional
and unauthorized action
II say that Il man who, in 1876, had no
more respect for the law and Constitu-
ton of his State and country. Is not
III to be entrusted with the vast powers
and responsibilities of the govcrnorship
of this State.
Republicans Divided.
"But how about some OF their other
contentious? They have gone to Iowa
In order to bring Secretary Shaw here
In an effort to add decency to their
campaign In Virginia, and am con-
strained to remark that the compliment
has never been returned.
You don't find them inviting Repub-
Leans from Virginia to make speeches
elsewhere or to take places In the Cabi-
net at Washington.
Il had intended to say something In re-
ply to Secretary Shaw on tho tariff, but,
rs l learn President Roosevelt is shortly
to come here, shall leave to him to
make tho argument In favor Of tariff re-
vision against his Secretary of tho Treas
| ury.
II might say that the Republican Gov
| ernor Df Iowa might also come and argue
| for n revision OF the tariff"
Tho speaker said the President had
taken Democratic position on the ques-
tion OF railroad rates as well, but that
| he could not hope to get these measures
through without tho aid of Democratic
| votes.
Republicans Didn't Do It.
"Mr. Shaw says We owe whatever Of
prosperity we have had to Republican
| it has come In spite OF rather than be-
cause of Republican rule.
| III you have had prosperity, You have
| produced it In the sweat Of your own
| faces. and you owe no allegiance to tho
| Republican party on this account"
Mr.. Swanson here declared that 1t was
| important for the Democrats of the South
to preserve control of their State govern
I mcnts, and he invoked as an evidence the
whitening aspect that had met tho human
| eye from Delaware to Texas Just follow
ing the war and which had lasted until
| the Democrats had regalncd control.
| u call upon my Republican friends to
| point out the State In the South they
| have controlled since the war whore
corruption, Disgrace and suffering have
| not followed in their wake,
Horrible Conditions.
| IF Rnpublicanism could succeed any
| where in the South 1t was in kentucky,
and yet the administration they had
| there was ono of defacatIon, disaster and
| ruin, followed by n foul assassination to
| never to be forgiven and never to be for
| gotten.
Mr.. Swanson referred to Maryland,
North Carolina. Delaware and other
Southern states, and said this generation
had never witnessed such series OF
| miserable failures, as had come with
Republican administration within their
borders.
You cannot gather figs from thorns,
nor grapes from thistles," he went on,
''dnd ! tell you that you'll never gather
| the-fruts OF honest government from n
Republican administration in this State"
Mr.. Swanson said he was willing 10
bank his claims to tho Royernorshlp on
t%nnty-one years Of clean and honest
administration giving by the Democratic
party in which 100000 had been col.
| lected and disburssd with only a defal-
Gallon of $1,000.
Mr. Swanson closed his magnificent
address with one of the most eloquent
! peroTatiopS heard IN the Academy Of