The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-29
BR.tNNON IN TYLER.
He speaks to a small Audience and Begsfor
h- Tt Their Votes,

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He speaks to n Small Audience and Begsfor
5a Their Votes.
sP,tial Correspondence Of the rn.eligencer.
hl1DDLnDouaSE, W. Va, Oct. o7.-Judge
Brannon spoke to eighty persons in the
Court House OF Tyler county yesterday
afternoon. The. scarcity OF persons was
attributable largely to the scarcity OF Dem
ocrats in Tyler county, and still more
largely to the forbidding weather. The
Judge was introduced by James Stealey.
He apologRed for the weather and for his
own neglect In giving hotee OF his an
Wpneh. The first intimasion of the meet
ing had been given last Friday. He said.
81 am before you candidate for seat in
Congress from this district. My nomna.
ton, OF course, wGsgpot without the con-
curretee,0t the Uemocrdtt OF this district
in convention assembled. ! have always
been Democrat. claim consistency OF
action. ! claim to5have an abiding DO
iitioal faith. I have neyerbeen partisan
in an extreme sense. I regard myself rs
conservative in my whole nature. |, how
ever, when called upon to act on matters
OF principle, stick 10 the faith. possess
ac attitude Of fconseryatisnh that has yui,.-
ed me IN respect to all OF my relations with
the public. Sos
l now ask you,. shall the party that has
been in power for twcnty-three years con-
time to control this gove-nmrnt2 1t is a
most unusual thing In ltepahlcan form
ct government to continue .oue nlrty in
power so long. IT is to the considerate,
intelligent thinking people Of the COUNTRY
that We appeal to make this answer. Ii
t. ere is no cause for reform or change
then We are in the wrong. We claim no,
Only one but many causes for change.
We make demand upon the patriots,
upon the public duty, upon the voter To
direct his nelyhhor in the line OF reform.
THE nEFuScr STATES RIGHTS.
The Republican party feared to 20 be-
fore the country this time justifying its
bad acts eitherof administration or policy
without assertingccause for reform.
therefore charge that the Republican
party is and has been hostile to the prin-
ciples OF liberty, do not arrai.u indi-
viduals but tile party1as an organization.
Look at 5the Fourteenth Amendment.
Whyit is nothing -more than prohibi-
ton Of therights Of the States. They have
assailed ;and:S invaded the guaranteed
liberties of citizens by hundreds and
hundreds. It's true that they have not
assailed ua, but in other years they have
manaclad AMI iucarceratel. people BY the
hundreds and hundreds under the provi-
sions OF this ztourteenth Amendment,
which is simply n denhti of the rights Of
States. Are you willing to trust party
thus indifferent to the great chartered,
fundamental rights of citizens? Why the
principle is as plain as the primer OF a
child. We;have not said much about it as
the wolf has never Been At our own door.
II YOU do trust It, it will not be long till
every principle is gone, every right gone.
THE OLD, OLD STORY. IL h
| will now take up seriatim the chargca
against the Republican party" The Judge
then scriatimed after the manner OF his
Weston speech. First, .prohigacy in the
matter Of public expenditures" Internal
revenue collectors, district attorneys,
United States marshals, gilded palaces,
Federal olliIeholders, were the topics dis
cussel undesth head. The Hendricks
"diskivery' 'otth tthesubterranean wealth was
played upon by.eyery system OF permuta-
ton that the versatility OF 4 Lewis county
man could invent, but the MILLIONS failed
to cause u look OF surprise on tht face OF
the most. impecunious mossback among
the iourscore. "This excess OF necessities
is used for gilded purposes u, n means OF
corruption" thunderel the Judge, as he
turned to the consideration Of his most
fruitful theme,n the waste OF the public
domain Public domain ia something
the Judge assumes to know something
about. He has sequestrated a young town.
ship or two in Lewis md the back coun.
ties Of the domain Of West Virginia.
j Tariff IA illustrsted by the Judges Jack
knife WAS the next picture Of the pano.
rama. This knife, according to the illus
tration cost the judge ifty-thrce and two,
third cents more than it would have. cost
under free trade, and he g!ares at It iero-
ciously and shuts it tsavagely as il twere
contraband.. .E"TariH is right, but it is not
right to tax to death. Tariff comes out of
us in everything. We pay for it all, high
or low Protection to laEor tai new theme
in politics. In the days of Clay, Calhoun
and Webster, tariff was meant. to foster
our infant industries. | say that labor
owns the Democratic party. Where can
you look to q party that will do more to
advance your interests? pretend to know
what labor; is myself. ! don't have Q
horny hand now, hutI know what labor
Ia. They call the Democratic party free
trade party. They call me free trader.
I can't keep them from lying but chonsa
to tell the people that it ii story, be-
lieYe in taxing Injuries and lowering the
duty on neoessaries, AZ .5 ~
75.It \ LONG FELT WANT. s.+.
"liyou wantyour interests protected you
want to send lid to Congress and you will
have a Democratic Congressman. II you
do not want al Democratic Congressman
send General Coil, 9Ii YOU send inc you
will not have q man who will build up
monopoly and tax youior the purpose, !
stand,with IN abiding faith on the Demo
cratic platform committed as it is to the
atleouate protection of every interest in