Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-01
BRARNoN AT BENMoOD.
A Fair and Forcibls Presentation
of Live Issues.
Some Hot Shot for General Golf on Tariff.
Republican hypocrisy and the Dem
ocratic ldsa--kew Matters in
the Campaign.

Judge Brannon Was met here yesterday
BIZ a committee and escorted to Benwood,
where, after spending the afternoon, he de-
hvered a speech last night to a large audi
ence, composed almost entirely Of workers
in the mill and mine. His speech vas
largely devoted to showing how the Repub-
lican party, in having taxing the people
had piled up an immense surplus, dedicated
to the protection and benefit Of labor, vet
hundreds Of mills, furnaces and factories
are closed down and thousands Of men are
ont of work On this, he had an ad.
mirable opportunity to give Gen.
Golf a good turning over for his
remarkable statement on Thursday
night. This was that it was true there was
great depression of industries and thousands
of idle workmen and he would meet the evil
and remedy it by increasing the tariff
building up the protective wall, as he called
it. This statement showed clearly that
General Golf talked tariff BY rote, simply as
a pleasing platitude ard not understanding
Iy. For his plan would be a prohibitory
tariff aud the plain effect would be to either
further build up the giant m%onopOlies al
ready fostered by the Republicans or to
bring about a state of o~verproductiOn that
would paralyze the industries of the coun-
try. The large crowd evidently appreciated
this destruction of COTS famous table
| spread with the brown bread of industry,
from Tie enthusiastic cheering INDUCED in.
THE DEMOCRATIC IDEA.
Judge Brannon ably showed how supreme.
" ridiculous is all this talk of Democratic
free trade by the following statement: The
Democrats have already outlined their poll
cy of cutting down and doing away with the
internal revenue system of TAXATION. They
began this By reducing the tax on tobacco,
and striking II off of matches, and when
they get in power they will abolish the
system and drive out the hordes of
revenue collectors. This will make
the entire revenue of the country depend
on the tariff. 1t requires nearly S30O,00O,-
coo annually for the current expenses Of
the government, and this vast sum must be
raised alone by tariff duties. How absurd,
then, to talk Of any party being for free
trade. There could be no such thing as
rec trade, if every man, woman and child
in America wanted il. The raising OF this
vast sum of $500, 600, 600 will require a
tariff that will amply protect every industry
in the nation.
RErU8LICAS ~HNrUCRi<Y.
The hypocrisy of the Republican claim of
protection. Judge Brannon showed in a
iorcihle way. A Republican Congress, act
ny on the report of the tariff commission,
changed the tariff of 1851 so as to reduce
the duty on wool, thus making it yield les,
% the wool grower. Then, at the request
Of the great wOollen manufacturing monOp-
olists, they increased the duty on woollcn
goods, thus making the consumer pay a
higher price. To use Judge Bran
mons language: The Republican party
has cheapeued the coat of wool on the back
Of the sheep, and increased the cost of the
woollen coat on the back of the laboring
man There is a fair sample of Republi-
can legislation in behalf of labor.
Judge Brannon made an excellent speech
one that pleased his audience and that
General Gof can neither controvert nor
misrepreSent. The Judge left on the night
train for Clarksburg, where he has an en-.
gagement to spcak to-day.