Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-10-29
BUSINESS MEN
Speak in the Persons of Col.
Thos. O'Brien and Col.
f. M. Delaplain.

SOl. lnOlldS " bTl'H, lTttsuTtT- etttt
OF West Virginia, is stakeholder and
director of the Belmont mill, and be.
sides being thoroughly conversant with
the bearing OF party legislation on the
iron industry, is withal, a gentleman
well posted in politics and party ques.
tons and ISSUES. He was found by THI
REGISTER seated in his Market street
Office, bnsily pursuing his profession.
The CClUne! is
A Conservative Man
and altogether averse to newspaper no
toriety, but was finally engaged in con-
versaiion. He objected, most strenI-
ously to talk as a Belmont man. as he
said he was but Il small stakeholder.
81 have never studied to any extent
the legislation of the Democratic or Re-
publican parties on the protective prin-
ciple,' he said. sin fact, have ALWAYS
regarded il AS question OF locality and
not Of party. Here, in our manuiactGr-
ing community, We are all for a prutcc.
tive tariff Democrats, Republicans and
Greenbackers alike. In Iowa, Minneso-
Ia, Kansas and such localities, all are
free traders, as a rule. The Republican
Chicago papers are the leading free trade
journals OF the country, while the Dem
ocratic Pittsburgh papers are ardent for
protection
"Do yon regard the Republican howl
on tariff as being sincere"
Radical Insincerity.
"Not at all. How could | so regard
it? Don't know they are Il free trade
party when they find it to their interest
and can get votes by doing so' Ofceurse
do andso does every ON.
"IOu are sure. are you rot. that your
interests will he rs secure uader Demo-
cratic as under Republican rule"
al am Il Democrat. Ii did not feel
assured my interests would he more
secure under the Democracy than under
the opposition, | would no, vote with
them. And am equally certain that
not only my interest, but
The Interest of the Workingman Cen
orally
would be better conserved under
Democratic administration. | believe
General Garfield has no record except
grassl but as a free trader. | think II is
shameful for certain leading Eepubh-
cans oi this city 10 assume and say that
the Democracy here favors free trade.
am satisfied they know they are not
speaking the truth"
"Do You regard Col. Wilson rs sound
on this question
Col. Wilson Sound on Tariff
ayes; think he is sound on every
Wheeling industry. | am sure he is
better protectionist than many OF hIs
assallants and certainly he has a better
record than General Garfield.
"When | hear and know tha, men
like Senator Sharon, and others of lesser
note, boldly assert that millions al
money will be spent and rivers Of blood
will flow before the control Of this Gov.
ernment will be allowed to pass into
Democratic hands. | am amazed and
fear that
Mischief is Intended
by some of the leaders Of the Republl.
can party. am iorcibly reminded "i
the threats oi Messrs. Toombs, lanccy
and others i'm 1860 and 1851. When |
look back to that time and think what
an amiablc, liberty loving, honest party
the Republicans here and elsewhere
were. and how they dcplored the over.
bearing arrogance Of the Slave Lords
and their sympathizers, | wonder they
don't pause moment and behold the
leaders of to-day and scan the utterances
of their organs. WHY Toombs, Hun
ter, Davis, Yancey Il Co. were mild,
commonplace. war-hating Americans
when compared with the l.ogans,
Grants, Conklngs and Camerons OF to.
day! And as for the ante beI',m organs
of the Democracy, they were mildness
itself when compared with some OF our
Radicals to-day. 1t is my deliberate
judgment that
Radicalsm is at an End:
it, threats against the peace OF the coun-
try alone are sufficient to cause It's total