Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-07
AHous1ss MEETING.
the geoa Demenstre tion An the Eight

the Coed Demonstration I'm the Eighth
Ward.
The meeting in the Eighth ward, last
night, was one Of the largest that was ever
held In that locality. The Democracy and
large sprinkling of Republicans turned
out 10 bear the issues Of the campaien dis'
cussed at the hands Of able and intelligent
speakers, and the political food given them
was more strong and nourishing than the
husks that were given the populace on
Monday night last.
Tha first speech was that Of John o. Pen
dletQn, who, In a very eloquent and forci
BILE manner, discussed the main points IN
the tariff speech Of Gen. Golf at the Capito
ON Monday night. The speech was cleal
and ineisiYe, and, IN the language OF Re
publican who was present, carried conyie
ton with il.
On being introduce Mr.. Pendleton wa
received with applause, and after speaking
of the enthusiasm OF the Democracy, the
immense audience in attendance, and his
pleasure in seeing so many earnest faces
before him, Republicans as well as Demo
crats. he discussed very deliberately the re-
suits of the election, and indicated his coz.
yictiop that ]. II. Good would undoubted.
ly be elected by very large majority. vi
General Golf, as gentleman, o man OF the
most unimpeachable integrity and unblem.
ished honor, he had as high an opinion as
language could express he regretted that
that the Republicans had offered up such q
man as the General for sacrifice, and be-
lieyed that though his defeat wasineyitaole,
yet this very respectable and accomplished
-,1,,fI oonf;nna in nnr rnida at
and remain in the future, as in the past,
fine specimen of the West Virginia lawyer
and gentleman. OF Mr.. Good he spoke IN
the most eulogistic terms; traced his career
as a LAWYER and statesman for many years
back: showed how he had always been the
staunch friend of Wheeling people and
Wheeling interests, and demonstrated in
the most fiattering language Mr.. Goods EN-.
inent fitness to make q first-class ropresen-
tatiye in the coming Congress. On all
leading questions Of the day Good was
right and IGoff wrong or mistaken. To rep
resent the interests OF this county
we needed q man who knew oui
wants, who lived with us, paid as every
in our daily life. Gen. Golf was compare.
lively stranger, lived $50 miles away and
could not be so easily reached as Mr.. Good
Coed and Golf we're both for tariff, but
Good would understand and take more in
terest in the needs of his home city Of
Wheeling than the amiable Statesman
from the distant county of Harrison, could
possibly be expected to do. Golf was
wrong on Capitalization, wrong on
prohibition and wrong. on sec
tional paci6cation, while Coco
was right on all these questions anG
could be relied upon to defend the interests
of local self-gosernment against corporate
power, monopoly and centralism. The
election would send the Harrison States
man home stripped of his political feathers
| Just as the parrot was robbed OF his plum
age by the monkey, and when the granger!
there asked What's the matterW the Gen
erals sole reply could only be, "Pye had 8
hi of a time in Ohio county," while oul
fayorite and eloquent son would ornament
Col. Wilson's seat. Mr.. P. then spoke a
great length upon the tariff
and dissected the Republican. thun
der upon this question without
gloves. The tariff bill passed in Washing
toms administration was one for revenue
only, and no one at that time dreamed of {
protective tariff. He said that this coun'
try had never seen but one protective bill
that was really intended at the time of its
its passage to be a protective measure, anG
that was passed by Democratic Congress:
and signed by James Madison, Demo
cratic President of the United States. The
war of 1912 drove American commerce
tation of British goods for three years. Al
the end of the war vast man
ufacturing industry had sprung up
in America, brought about by the
demand for articles which that war pre-
vented us from obtaining from abroad
When the war ended England had the &C.
cumulated supplies of three years on her
hands and was prepared to ship them to
this country at the smallest prices, and
thus swamp and obliterate our infant IN
dustrieS at q single blow. The Democratic
party understood the situation, and with
its President and Congress, just after that
war, passed the only bill that this country
has ever had passed that was Intended as a
distinctively protective measure. This
saved the manufacturers and their EN-.
ployes against foreign competition. This
law remained in force until about 1882,
when new measure was intro
duced, reducing the tariff on
a sliding scale bridging over period of
many years. This was a compromise bill,
and became q law with the assent of all
existing parties at that time. During the
administration of the Wing President
Tyler, and while the Wing party held the
Congress q still further reduction in the
tariff was made, which remained practical
ly in force until the Republican party
laws on this subject were enacted
These laws were passed, not fol
protection, by the votes of both Republic
cans and Democrats, but for revenue only.
A civil war was on our hands, an i'm.
mense revenue was needed, and heavy
tariH was recognized as the best way to gel
it, and il was gotten. The Republican party
had never made law which it claimed al
the time OF the making was for protection
or which il held out TO the world as a dis
tinctively protective measure. Their talk
on this subject was clap-trap, moonshine,
and intended to throw a little campaign
dust in the ewes OF the voters, but lac be-
lieved q reading and thinking people
would correct this arrant nonsense. II
would be very beneficial to General COT
should his defeat in this campaign cause
him to resume his school studies in the DO.
litical history OF his own government, and
after the election be would have plenty Of
time TO dissect the bad results Of raising 6
man of straw for the purpose of knocking
il down. No party in this country pro.
posed TO do away with the tariff, and he
wanted no better authority on that subject
the Hon. A. w. Campbell, which he read
IN the audience. From March 4th, 1875, 10
March 4th, 1881, the Democrats had an
overwhelming majority in the House, and
during nine-tenths OF that time they
had for their speaker the lead
ing tariff man in the country
the Hon. Sam Randall. During these six
years when they could have easily done SC
bad desired, the Democratic party had
passed no free trade measures. The
most prominent free trade papers in
which we know as the New York Times
New York Erening Post, Chicago Tribune
Cincinnati Commercial, Springfield Repabli
can, Boston Herald, and many others. Tariff