Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-14


/ have been returned to us in exchange
| for our products, and we now not only
have the bonds but also the interest:
| Since August, S34,OOO,OOO OF gold
| have been sent 10 our shores.
| These things are what have
made resumption possible and
given us our prosperity. Coupled with
these levers is the Democratic policy OF
Congress which has been transmitted
to the State Legislatures all over
the country. Keep up this policy and
we will prosper abundantly. Look at
our crops cereals, tobacco, coal, iron
ore. timber and Oil-take from the
bowels of the earth the annual product
of $50, ,OOO, 900 of silver, and no powers
of single policy can stay the onward
march of resistess prosperity. The
statements have made are beyond con-
tradiction and challenge refutatiOn.
For the first time in my life ! have
discovered since | came to Ohio that
Ewing and Rice are disloyal-traitors !.
III it makes a man disloyal who goes to
the front, and the man loyal who
stands behind his counter selling goods
to the soldiers wives and orphans,
then submit that Ewing and Rice are
traitors. But | didn't know this until
came to Ohio. [Cheers.l 4 party
that has Rebel in its cabinet, and Mos
by, rs foreign minister, hardly has a
right TO say that man who has gone
to the front is traitor. Noice-"HOw
did the Democrats show their love for
Union soldiers?"l They voted General
Shields pension and the Republicans
defeated 1t. Vociferous cheers. Mr..
Ewing voted for the pension. Deafen-
inc cheers. Who did most toward JUS
tice to the Union soldier? That brave,
gallant patriot, Americus Y. Rice. His
efforts for their arrearage OF pensions
was the labor of a patriot and soldier.
Everybody cheered.l l speak what |
know.
am asked by somebody to say some
thing on the tariff. You have nothing
to fear from Democrats on the tariff.
Tariff is a necessity that no party can
dodge, because the demand on us for
revenue to carry on the government Is
so great that we could in no other way
meet our taxes. We are bound, in the
nature of things, TO meet our expenses,
and without tariff it is impossible. 1t
is on the principle OF sell-preservatiOn,
and no man is going back on hisllile. |
come from Pennsylvania, and am sup
posed TO know what our people de-
mand, | know that every PROPOSE
ton made by the iron and steel
workers-the manner and rate OF the
tariff in every instance-was acceded to
L.. 4. oY,l tha snnNnnlttnn that
had the matter in charge. | have heard
no complaint from them, and l know
they are satisfied.
When Mr.. Foster talks OF economy,
hepiaces himself in the position OF the
man who rows skih; he looks one way
and pulls another. The Democrats
made an appropriation OF S3O,OOO,OOO,
and Mr.. Foster voted to increase 1t to
S4O,OOO,0O0. Sherman accepted the in
crease and said the country could stand
a still further increase of Sll, 100000
Our record Of public expenditures dur
ing the four years OF the Forty-fourth
and Forty-fifth Congress, shows a reduc-
ton of S90,000,OOO.
The best interests OF the country de-
mand that the Capitalization OF power
be stopped. When Louis Napoleon was
fashioning opinion in France, he was
getting his bayOnets ready. History
teaches that the army cannot be safely
used at the polls. 1t was taken into
Kentucky. and that State, which every
one knows is Democratic, gave a Re-
publican majority. 1t went to Mary
land and dsbanded a legislature; in
Delaware il was authorized 10 prevent
votes that antagOnized the opposition.
The original intent of the Force Bill was
to send soldiers into any State in the
Union and carry out the wishes of the
too often unsCrupulOus commander.
We ask that you avert this danger.
The main incentive TO our separation
from the parent country was that the
military be made subservient To the
civil power; that the hordes of officers,
who were eating up the substance OF
the country, be removed. How
does Hayes civil service policy conform
to the early teachings of our country?
lie appointed iifty-siX persons who
were implicated i'm the Southern frauds
to high offices,
In conclusion, ! would counsel you,
VIII NttpCSl dlNlCNN' w N'NO vi H"Ii'S
tomorrow; for | sincerely believe that
through his election you will bave
given such encouragement to the De-
mocracv that the next President Will bc
assured; and when you do elect your
President, 10y the gods, see that he Is
inaugurated,
Enthusiastic applause closed the
speakers remarks, and Mr. John K.
Cow was loudly called fOr. Mr.. Cow
made brief reply, and retired amid a
storm OF applause.
The meeting was 4 success in every
respect, fully 1000 people surrounding
the stand.
After the speaking Speaker Randall
was driven to Wheeling in barouche,
accompanied by r. NJ. Delaplaine and
George G.. Hannen, of your city.