The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-15
ATTACKS
SLEMP'S RECORD
Forceful Speech Made by Demo-
cratic Nominee at
Marion.
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RECEIVES GREAT OVATION
Indications Point to Overthrow
OF Republican Majority
in Election.
RECEIVES GREAT OVATION
Especial to The Times-Dispatch.l ]

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Marion. Va. October 14.-Henry G
| Stuart, the Democratic nominee 70,
/ Congress in the Ninth District, spoke
| to- might to the largest audience ever
! assembled in Marion in political
meeting. The large assembly hall OF
| the courthouse was filed to over
/ flowing, the balcony was packed. and
all standing room was taken. Many
| persons who came in late were una BILE
to push their way through the pressing
crowd at the door, and stood In the
large lobby. waiting their chance to
get within nearing distance of the
speaker. 1t was "a glorious outpouring
of Democracy.
People from all sections were there.
Laborers and farmers from the farthest
ends OF the county, men. women and
children in all walks of life. from the
poorest tenant to the richest land
owner. attended. and all were imbued
with the ever-present enthusiasm now
felt in every nook of Smyth county.
in the couse Of Democracy in the Ninth
District.
The crowd was variously estimated
at from 700 to 1000. but on account
of tho press around the doors and
large numbers Of those standing
against the walls and in the lobby.
1t was impossible to correctly form a
fair estimate.
Ovation to Stuart.
Mr.. Stuart was introduced by B. F.
Buchanan. OF Marion. and he was
greeted with applause and cheers. last
ing at least five minutes. His speech
was forceful and logical
he tore Mr.. Slemp's record in Con-
fn 1S ac t,,r~
in his pamphlet distributed by him
throughout the district. he claims to
have secured protection for coal, that
really he voted for a bill putting coal
on the free list After briefly discuss
ing the evils of Cannonisln and the Ini-
squities of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law,
for which Mr.. Slemp stands, Mr.. Stuart
took up his own record In the Consti-
tutional Convention. asserting that he
stood for suffrage for white men only,
and that 1t was to that end that the
Constitutional Convention was called,
and that was the object 1t accomplish
ed. He asserted that no white man
would be disfranchised In Virginia
now but for the fifteenth amendment
to the Federal Constitution passed by
a Republican Congress. and that II
elected he will vote to repeal that
amendment, and then in Virginia the
only qualification OF the voter would
be that he is white and twenty-one
Years. as In the old days Of Democratic
rule before the war.
Mr.. Stuart said that Mr.. Slemp ac-
cused him OF making a solemn pledge
to his party that he would submit the
Constitution to the people. and chal-
lenged him to prove that assertion by
naming the time and the place the
pledge was made The statement made
by Mr.. Slemp in his speech here
week or two ago that the meeting In.
Russell county, which instructor Mr..
Stuart to proclaim the Constitution
consisted OF seven men. and that four
voted for proclamation and three
against, he branded as an utter fabri-
cation and unworthy OF his notice.
Mr., Stuart said that Slemp and his
partlsans had continued to circulate
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