Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-05-12
TREV ELLlCk'S TALK.
the GREENBACk STORY AND NOT
FUSION
The Burden Of His sOng-0Id Argument
in Familiar 0rew-The Traitor Gold
Dollar The Measure Of Value
General Blamsy.

General blarney.
His best friend would scarce he will
ing 10 afiirm that the speech OF Hon
Richard Trevellick, Of Detroit, vas a
success In every sense OF the word. IL
l. true that the Court House was crowd.
ell, and that lac held his audience during
two long hours, hut the general result
MAS not what was expected, u
al the close OF the address n proml,
nent workingman said 1t Tell
short 0t the one delivered here some
years ago. The principal errow into
which Mr.. Trevellick fell was the sacrI-
lice III nearly everything To fine lAn
guage, and lac seemed To delight to soar
into what he considered rhetorical
flights, aud To there linger and reVel iu'
tcminably. HIS
ARGUNENTs WEEK. NOf NEW,
| though clothed IN a yeTbiage peculiarly
| his own, and his grammar Vas, Ia many
I, instances. decidedly faulty. THIS might
/ be excused, under ordinary GiTcun'-
stauces. but when an orator launches
into studied eloquencc. the effect Ii de-
I llIlllN ullIilA aANNlANs bhN w w
At : O'Clock thecOurt q MAS empty
save several small boys, ready to take
! their first lesson In politics, and Que old
| man whose hair had whitehead IN the
time he had sprut In finding how
little lac knew. Hut when the
music struck up, the seats rap
idly filled until many we're
/ r]nuturllrd a. stand. For the most part
thr Wurkmgmen monupollEtd the audi
eucr, there being. ia addition, a slrnk.
ling of law yers aud other professional
men. From the remarks dropped, II
Nas evident snmn fusion talk VAS tx.
| prctcd, a belief rudely dlspelled by the
inst words at the orator Oi the evening.
Ats.l5 u'cluck, Mr.. Hurt called the
mrrt,ug b. order and named Robert
Marshall a. chairman. The honor MAS
evidently not unexpected, IA lac
launched at unce into "A glowing euiogi-
um on the speaker. lie spoke oi his
consistent cnuIse during the last fifteen
years aud characterized il ~ "A jewel ia
/ this degenerate aye. lie concluded 10y
/ sa,ing Mr.. TTryellick stood over the
| hluudy chaSn into which hal bon c"n-
united the bloody enblem ul national
STRIFE. holding ia his hand the paper
/ dollar and would challenge ANY man IL
| dare Ia degrade al take II down.
uR. rRENEIIICN BgGAN
| his speech by thanking Mr.. Marshall
| aud hoping his audience would not he
| disappointed. lie had seen, On enter
, iug the city, that hu had been anuOunc-
eel Ia spcak on fusion ~ an%triusinn,
which was u mistake. lie would TO
guilty ul great %impudcncc Ia thus COM
my aud medjliug Ia state matters which
dd not concern hlm. That advertise
mrnt lAd been sugar to catch llics. Ito
came a. talk money aud Labor, and
would TAX 81 plainly that all might an
| drrstaud What he said aud why lac saId
| II, and il anyone desired 10 argue with
| LIm lac might have halt the time, but he
would keep him there until sunrise
The next hall hour Was spent IA cu'
l~uglzing the hand under the starry ban
nuT.' lie knew at the green shamrock
| ui Ireland, ui the vino clad hills III sun
nv France aud the blue skies ui lOvCly
Itaiy, but at all tho lands klssspi 10y the
sun he would rather live IA America un'
| der the shadow III the stars aud stripes.
Aud he dVclt at great length, upon the
huuulcuus gifts laylshcd 10y nature upon
america. Therefore, II hunger ramc Ia
the American people, az panic chilled
the land. II WAS not because natuIr
hai lailrgi. but Was the result ut a want
| ui kuuA ledge ut government, az
IN ADMINISTERING
that government. II any Democrat or
Rrpublirau present chose, lac might lay
I the unrtluu tn hIs soul that hr Vas Ia
blame. hut II the chariot wheel crushed
h,S yurn, II Was politics made hIs boots.
. To remedy la the future, the wrongs at
We past was every mans duty and Ia
re,d the future, Va must compare the
uaso with the present. aud ihc speaker
bceIL ~ compare. lie went back Ia
GrCcce aud trlcrl the supremacy ui
rumturn' to Venice, To- Portugal, Ia
spain, I" nullaud, aud finally Ia Eng
land, Which Un~ Controlled nearly one
hali III the tonnage "a n,o ocean. Aud
instead ul lrpIsIatIug tu prot',' America
tr,m the Trshu uI Tits supremacy, On
vU,ngir over office aud think u"thitii
uf the srlcu,c al government futsnin.
this point, lac showed Why Amcrir'
could not compete with England II"
uu account at proper labor ~ Europe
but because Ut the difference IA the eos
u( the money invested The averag,
cost ui money IA West Nlrglniai ~ ~ pc
cent, while ia England II eau he got Ia
Ito I per cent. This point Was great,
elaborated.
REPRODUCTION.
When two million Ut men had beer
lille in the land, the great \. !. paper
had been asked Tor the cause, and sat
a vas uycrpruduction, lie believed II
decentralization, not ut hodS bounty
bat a.. political fools To run a '""l'
try. ID Was not "NrTprudu.ll"h' !
Was a base swindie IN make the ~"
plr attribute To- nature What VA
ihr result Ut poor legislation, taught ur
sirurdly that the laborIng man might IN
mon easily robbed. When your bo'
w,ut abouS with his clothes cnNcrv'
With patches, Wa II "Ncrpr"in'''"h
When youT old lants we're cat down u
m him that he might ~ tn the puhlg
srhoul vas Il oyerpruduCtinnF
SIM, men SAY the trouble Was tha
49,, hal not a sound financial basis
sow. when nature builis a mountain
she places Il broad base down. bu
,ome men want ~ take q little gold oi
silver dollar, aud attempt Ia hnil,
no A mountain aud turn the hrna,
end up To- catch the wind q
bu.,nrss. Aud when the brccN,
strikes and upscts Il, Ne call II a panic
don't want o. take gold dollars iron
ynu. We give rings Ia children to Cul
their teeth un-your wisdom teeth az,
not cut aud you may cat them on golJ
dollars When you Say a sptvir basis i,
right I say il is false in practiCc, false Ia
~, aud a robbery IN all.
RErKusrp
The speaker p~ruce,Sied o. review the
financial history ii England from ISIS
to Isl, and demanded to know when ia
the 1000 years oi her history shs was As
.t,.....luI With hultnn ~ u.ttk ,.u.r