Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-30


make the inquiry: swhy IS this tariff
matter brought up every year2' It wa
not because there was a desire to do any
thing with the tariff. 1t was true men like
Mr.. Morrison had
PECULIAR VIEWS UPON THE SUBJECT,
but they amounts to but little, for the plat
form Of the Democratic party was fully
committed to the tariff system, and
he proved the assertion by point
ing out the tariff measures
of various Democratic administration from
the foundation Of the country down. In
all times the chief revenues of the country
had been raised through the custom house,
and there it ever must be raised. Free
trade could not exist so long as the Gov
eminent was compelled to raise the large
sums of money it had use for. Both parties
recognized this necessity. The platforms
upon the subject of tariff reform were
identical, and the speaker said he stood
with one foot upon Democratic
platform and the other upon
the Republican platform and in that posi-
ton he Gefied General Golf to say he was
wrong. [Cheers. The speaker enumer-
ated the chief objects upon which the
tariff revenues were obtained, and out
lined his policy by saying he would take
the tariff from sugar, an article OF necessl-
ty. from which one fourth OF the revenues
Of the custom house was obtained, and
would spread the deficiency out upon wool
and other articles in which the people Of
this locality were vitality in
terested. Applause. The tariff needed
reformation in some particular, but that
was all, and he arraigned in scathing Ian
guage the statements of Republicans who
tried to make it appear Democrats were
out and out free traders, seeking the de-
struction of the industries of the land.
Turning to
THE LABOR PROBLEM
Judge Brannon referred to the lachrymose
appeals of General Golf for the votes OF the
workmen, and said that it would hardly
be good policy for the workmen to put a
man worth a half n million OF
dollars on guard over their interests.
TApplause. Referring to the record OF
| the Republicans upon the labor questions,
he said that in 1864, at a time when the
Democrats had not enough votes in Con-
gress to demand a call Of the roll, the Re
publicans had, at the demands of corpora
tions, passed a law providing for cheap
foreign labor, to the deep injury OF our
own citizens. That was IN instance of that
party's love for the workingman. Cheers.
| That was hardly the party that ought
to be championed by the laborers OF the
country. Applause. The party which
had brought the Chinese and the paupers
of Bulgaria and Hungary among us to
take the place of native born or natural
lied hborers, could have no regard for the
interests of the workingmen. Applause.
If the speaker was sent to Congress he
would promise that he would leave no
opportunity untouched to combat any
such measures. Applause.
Reverting to
THE TARIFF ISSUE,
the speaker said there was not now, and
never was, a free trade party on American
soil. The nearest approach to it was in
the heresies of certain theoretical political
economists, most of whom lived in the
East and Northeast, and most of whom
were Republicans. [Cheers. The speaker
said he did not come before his audience
beseeching it, as General Golf did, to cast
their votes for him. He simply came, with
all the manhood there was in
him, before the people Of Wheel
ing, having no claims upon the people, and
asked them, if they believed in him, to
cast their ballots for him, and if they did
not, to refrain from doing so. Cheers.
He did think, however, that it was the
duty of every Democrat who admired
and believed IN the grand and glorious adj
ministration of Grover Cleveland, to sup
port that administration by voting for the
Democratic Congressional candi-
date. [Cheers. Every Democrat who
voted for Cleveland should vote for a
Democratic Congress to make Cleveland's
Administration a success. Cheers.
Judge Brannon then turned his atten-
ton to Editor Hart and said he had got
of what was intended to be an embaraass-
ing question. He had asked the speaker
through his paper, the h%teHigencer, what
he would do for a tariff when the public
debt had been paid and the pensioners had
all died of, making the present large eX-
penditureS unnecessary. Mr.. Hart had
inquired whether it would then be posi-
Bile to maintain a tariff. Mr.. speaker re-
piled that he would in that event
keep up the tariff, and cut off the Sl13-
600, 600 of internal revenue tax now laid
directly upon the people. LApplause The
Judge said that was the idier Of EEaTSii
Clay T III the subject, and all Republicans
knew who Henry Clay was.
Judge BrannOn closed with an eloquent
appeal to the Democracy to do its whole
duty at the polls on next Tuesday, and
retired amid a ringing outburst of APP
plause, continuing several minutes.
Chairman Seabright then introduced
NJ. T. FRAME, ESQ,
who was enthusiastically received,
Mr.. Frame made a magniti-
cent address, talking particularly to the
laboring element, before whom, he said,
General Golf appeared wreathed in
his blandest smiles. He held that there
could be no doubt but that the Democratic
held out the only beacon light ahead of
the whole people of the country. He
pointed out that, for thirty years, the Ia
boring men of this country had knocked
in vain at the doors of Congress, asking
for redress, and it was not until the De-
mOcracy came into power that the least
heed was paid TO the complaints of labor.
In the Forty-seventh Congress, for the first
time in its history, there was a standing
committee on labor appointed, and this was
done by Speaker Carlisle, whom Gen. Golf
h~adldenounced as the particular enemy OF
the wage-worker. The Speaker had done
more; he had appointed as members of
that committee men who were mechanics
and workingmen before they were called
to a seat in the National Legislature. Not
only had q Democratic house done this but
it
HAD PASSED SEVEN MEASURES
formulated by the trades unions of the
county. Two of these bills passed the
Senate, and the other five sleep the sleep
which a Republican majority alone can
give.
Mr.. Frame stated it Us his firm convic-
ton that there was more salvation
for the laboring men held out though
well organized and well differed labor or
CARNATIONS, that in all the tariff measures
tbot worn ayar formulated A~nnlouSa