The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-15
A S hton Stark Raps
Candidates Who Seek
Highest Honor.
UNFIT TO SERVE
ON NEW BOARD
Eloquent Plea for Wise Selcc-
ton Warmly Cheered by 500
Members at Chamber Smoker.
Laughlin Speaks on the
Urgent Need of Cur
rency Reform.

IS now aspiring for public position in
oui midst. you and / know that men
ie unit themselves and presume to cali
upon our suffrage whom nothing less
IMAM the apathy of the people would
ever have emboldcned with such ef-
Hontery," spoke Ashton Starke last
hiSht TO 800 members of the Chamber
! OF Commerce who crowded the Jeffer-
son Hotel auditorium upon the occas-
ION of the Chambers third general
meeting this year.
The pronouncemcnt came as the eli
max of stirring address calling the
s,aiwaS-t men of Richmond TO the help
! or the city in critical period Of her
! municipal existence, cXhortinc all fair
| minded voters to lay aside motives
| OF friendship or political eXpediency
| liz the selection of the five men who
| are 10 form Il new governmental boar ri
! invested with wide power to make CT
| mar. The speaker laid bare in UNI
| spar:rg words what in his opinion con-
stituted the city's most fragrant po-
| iiticai sores, and issued call for y
new order OF municipal patriotism to
usher in broader and better era
| vigorous applause greeted MIR.
! Starke's ho!3cly portrayal OF particu-
liar municipal ills. The pictures he
drew were at times blunt to the point
! OF caricature, but the audience seem
eo to find ample justice in their ap-
tested us approval by long continued
hand clapp!ng.
Urges CURLING OF Money Trust.
Professor J. Lawrence I.aughlin. OF
/ the University Of Chicago. opened the
/ speaking program after an introduce
ton by President r. NJ. Darlington, OF
! the Chamber of Commerce.. with an
able analysis OF the present banking
/ situation which he stiGmatizsd as
Outrageous, backward and antiquat-
| ed and with an earnest advocacy OF
National Reserve Association TO
remedy inequalities and abuses.
The founding of such institution,
he urged. instead of being in the in
terest of banks and bankers. would
benefit directly every merchant. bust
ness man and laborer by insurlng an
elastic currency in periods Of inan-
cial stress with a corresponding sta
hlity in the employing industries upon
the operation or cessation OF which
the general prosperity so a<eauy de-
pcnds.
! national reserve association. said
Professor LauEhiin, would break the
tnralldon OF the country bank ana
its feudal dependence upon the central
reserve cities. 1t would prevent the
Determinations that are now widely
praciiced by those in control OF the
money market in favor OF companies
:
tcrested and make impossible the ar
bitrary concentration of enormous
cap!tal in one section of the country
to the Inconvenience aud disaster CT
another.
Pays Respects TO Poscrs.
| Mr.. Starke opened fire early IN his
address against candidates for Office
who pose as friends of the working
! man only SO long as 1t furthers their
ii. i,n a
| can be more depended upon TO act
| from an earnest conception Of ndepen-
dence and duty than that class which
work at the wheels of Industry for
! their daily bread. He was one az that
class himself ne said, referring 10 the
days OF his youth. when he learned 10
ram the mc!der's flask.
! II thought then that I was labor
/ ting man and looked at life from a
( laboring mans standpoint" said Mr.
I S.arke. but to-day, when the political
1 mountehsnk and ward SINISTER, who
Knows not the difference between the
| iack-plane and the iackass. assumed
10 be the workingman's best Fri nd. |
with tina rank and file OF the WORKING.
people repud!ate such an alliance"
The speaker told az IN APRIL dav in
1868. when ho stood on Candles Hin
ana looked upon settling furnace
Of destruction which stretched from
Capitol square to tha James River.
'rhe world ne said know no greater
heroism than tho lives and acts Of
those men and Won who took upon
,hem.e.ves the staggering tasl. Of re-
Eahilltatns the "i.y to TIE mour-'u!
| >tra:rs Of \. weird requiem.
The P7ofes.irsnI Pcnsicucr.
VII you aot defend her" demanded
ar Starke against the political trick
e:;r. the pensioner, the men who ri
wara everywhere ana every timA ne
candidates for I'll ci:v nursery. vul-
lures that sit continuallv watching for
tine n-s' piece OF meat thrown ont TAFT
ICY me" ncnncn uior &: and. 7hov"
all from those men who ar';7o~.'sGrr
/ that ;hoir votes arc controlled -. 49,
| sonal obligations and nrvats 'i--i-
s,'@. There arA men In or r,dyt
who have net the host in.r-ns.s r 49,
! CITY NJ heart. and IT Is time We were
/ telling them SO"
r!rs, among tho influences .hatI
:tou,d volunteer 10 hal7 in n better
ing NJ condition. sHi, NJ Starke. arr
| the newspapers. As an individual IS
| Judged by his utterances So the rav-s
narer 10 'ehcn BY the outside World
| % he an index ~ the community Th4v
| -hould take, the init!1tivn. he Thought
| N nn,ealtnG TO the higher attributes
| % men and in moidlng a h!gA sense
- civic responsibilities.
another mouthpl: &c Of the PEOPLE"
sa'd the speaker, '?s found IN the
|ailot With 1t we say what we want
cid how W. want it. I hold that evcrv
| man in this CITY should he comnellsG
10 pay his POLL tax when 10 gets h.
| license No man should he allow d
| 10 do business and cniov the benefit.
and protection of this community
| (Contipuad Eron, Seyontb po~aN