Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-10-08
GRAFTON.
4 Large Crowd and Considerable Em-
thusiusm- Bluine's speech.

\ Large Crowd and Considerable Em-
thusiusm -Bluine's speech.
PAKkFESHrR, W. Va, October 6.--
At Grafton there was very large and Ell
husias,ic meeting. The little mountain
town was packed tull Of people from the
surrounding country Mr. Blaine was
escorted 10 the stand, where the Hon John
W Mason Introduced him to the people.
When the demonstrations with which he
was received had subsided, he sad
Blaine's Speech.
"CIriIul> UF WESr NlmrNIN-As your
distinguished Chairman has intimutcd am
not a stranger to your State. have known
it personally for more than forty years, and
| have known this section of it well. ! was
born on the banks of vonder river, few
miles aelow the point where it enters Penn
sylyuuia. and YOU DO not need to be told by
me tia, there was always unity OF
.aelinr among the inhabitants
f the Monongahela Valley. Cheers.
But DO not Sce before me the West Nlr-
.inia which | knew in my boyhood. The
West Virginia of forty years ago was com
parutiyely wilderness: the Vest Virginia
Of to day Is a prosperous industrial center IN
he United States Applause West
Virginia a. an independent commonwealth
bcgan her existence during the civil war
and at that day the most liberal
estimate of the total property according 10
he enumeration of the United States census
iid no. exceed one hundred dollars. In
i--Uthr c.usu, .a,e YOU an aggregate OF one
hundred and rinety millions and in 1850 1t
showed r'at YOU possessed Capitalized
wealth to the amount OF three hundred
md ffy millions Of dollars. From
L. rlOse uf the war to the year lSSO
Wcs, Virginia had therefore gained in
wealth the enormous sum Of two numbered
and G,:y millions. You have Iarei pretty
well therefore under Republican adminiStra'
lion Laughter and cheers. Probably
some poli'ical orr onent does me honor to
ten 70 me and would ask him rs "A can,
did man what agency was It that
Nrr,rd the Arm
of industry to smite the mountain and
create this wealth. in West Virginia Ii was
The protective tariff Great cheering.
and a financial system that gave you good
money. .ErurHed cheering. Before the
war You never had circulating in your
midst. Il bank hill that would pass current
a hundred miles from home. That's So
and cheers ! on do not to-day have Il
single piece of paper money circulating IN
West virginia that is not COOL all around
the Globe cheers Not ii bill that will
not pass as certainly in the money markets
of Eurore as in New York or Baltimore,
50 that the man who works for days wages
knows when Saturday night comes that he IS
tobe paiiin GOOD money Renewed cheers !
l.ndgr a protective tariff vOur coal indus
tr.rs and your iron Industries and the
wealth of vour forests have been brought
out and it is for YOU, voters OF West !r-
,;u;a 10 say whether you want this to con
tinuc or whether you want to try free trade
| no We DON'T | make bold to say with
| all respect that there is not Democratic
statesman on the stump in West Virginia
ccnsp;,rors enough TO be knoSn to
the nation Il speak only
/ of hose know who advocates a
protective taIiff. not one. tNot one, not
oncl | 90 further. do not know a
democratic statesman who will acknowl
edge that tariff for protection is unconstl-
; ,rt;onal and therefore rs honest men, they
are hound to oppose it. The Morrison
tariff bill. I'VE wont have iU the Morrison
tnrit; bill would have struck at the interest
n West Virginia in many vital points, and
il is an
Amazing Fact
,ba, representatives in Congress from West
V;roInia voted for that bill. There IS
GOOD old adage which | wish to recall t1
Tonr minds that Col ipS those who help
themselves, andif West Virginia is not VII
linz TO sustain protective tariff by hel
yctr and her influence. she must not expect
il to bc sustained for her by others. /! she
wants the benefit OF a protective tas'h SnS M;
must i've 20 protective tar's
;hr IrI.efit of hcs support. 'H'erS
am glad that an
addressing southern people, a community
that were slave holders community maa'
up Of those who weye masters, and those
who we're slaves. Bat am addressing
slave State no longer. Grea; cheering
am appealing TO the new South, H'newe' We
cheering and TN appealing TO West II
ciria lot TO vote upon tradition ora pre-
iud;cc. not 20 keep her eyrs to the .,,r r'3 =
Iu, look to the front ard 70 the future, we
d. i. we'll do il. and wild cheering ana
. | ,ouid be heard would make the sam