Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-30
CANDIDATE TAYLOR
Addsesses a Small Gathering OF RepublI
cans at Martins Ferry,

Addsesses Small Gathering of Repubn-
cans at Martins Ferry,
Col. J. ID. Taylor, Republican candidate
for Congress in the Eighteenth district,
addressed small gathering of Republ-
cans in Lafayette Hall, in Martins Ferry,
last night Col. Taylor was in Martins
Ferry on Thursday and called on number
of Republicans who prevailed on him to
forego the fulfillment of his previously ar
ranged programme and make an address
to the people of Martins Ferry last night.
At o'clock very small audience, con-
sidering the prominence of the speaker,
had assembled in the hall. and at 2:30
two hundred and fifty people, the largest
number present at any time during
the address. were seated in front
of the rostrum, where J. C.. Gray. S. G.. W.
Morrison, j. W. Buckingham, Samuel
Strain, DR.. l. Werlich, Benz. Exley, Jr,
A. NJ. Shipman and the speaker, Col.
Taylor, We're seated. The orator Of the
evening opened up with discussion Of
the Morrison tariff bills, both horizontal
and oblique, and told of one to be cut bias
and another to be perpendicular. He
then devoted long time in the explana-
tion of how much superior Ohio, wool was
to Texas or California wool, and therefore
how much more important the wool tariff
is to Ohio and the Eighteenth district
particularly. A discussion of the differ
ence between the condition Of labor at the
present time and ut the time when
slave labor was in vogue in the
South consumed considerable time lie
tried to blame the importation of Chinese
on the Democratic party, aud made refer
ence to letters he had received from the
South, when he was in Congress, and one
particularly which informed him that the
writer would lick him every day for fifty
years.
Duling the discussion Of an address
made by Powderly at the recent conven-
vention of the Knights Of Labor, he was
disturbed several times by calls Of 'How
much do they spend for beer?" How
much does the saloon keeper get?" and
similar cries, till he had to give them at
tention, .and say that this is n free coun-
try and every man has right to do rs he
pleases in such matters" He explained
now people worked for 12l cents in 1850,
and received reply from an old man in
audience that he had more
money then than he has
now. Said he, "It is a mystery to me
why people still stick to the party which
has for the past twenty years opposed
every measure proposed by the Repubii-
cans, while all those measures were good
ones, and for the benefit of the country"
He then spent considerable time in joking
about President Cleveland goigg fishing,
and Hoadley turning the chaplain out Of
the penitentiary and other supposed to be
funny things done by the Democrats in
Ohio and elsewhere.
He explained, in manner very plausible
to Republicans, the way in which elections
are held in Hamilton county, Ohio, and
how many Democrats are serving terms in
the Ohio Penitentiary for forgery and other
manners of defrauding an honest ballot
and fair count. The Colonel told funny
story about an old veteran, who served
through three severe engagements during
the late war, and with several more pa
thetic illustrations brought before the peo-
pie the fact that there WIS once a war in
this country, in which some few Of our
bravest and best laid down their lives. He
did not mention his own war record, no
doubt feeling that it is safer in the mouths
of his friends than in his own.
He referred at considerable length to
numerous special pension acts Of Congress-,
vetoed by President Cleveland, and es-
pecially to the case Of Sally Ann Brady,
a strange circumstance in the matter be-
ing that he used almost precisely the same
language used few weeks ago by Gov
ernor Foraker in his Ktnavile speech.
Sally Ann Brady has become very popu-
lar character among Ohio Republican speak
ers during the last campaign, who seem to
think that she is drawing card, destined
to draw victory 10 the Republican banner
TO perch. Col. Taylor did not, however,
explain who was TO blame for the fact that
the pension Jaws are so loosely constructed
that many deserviLSAk ass cut out
of their Just dues from tIe - salept
He blamed all the bad acts done since the
war on Democrats, and credited all the
good things to the Republicans. He ex-
planned that the only way TO make young
men patriotic WAS 10 repay their fathers
for their patriotism and drew such sad
picture of their fathers lives, that every
young man in the house felt sorry for his
father. After an urgent appeal TO the
voter, and an explanation that he had three
more speeches to make before the cam
paign was over, the Colonel closed, and
Chairman J. C.. Gray called for three
cheers, which were given with animation.
The Prohibitionists 10 the number OF
fifty were addressed by Hon. II. =. Clark,
OF Morristown, o., former Democrat, In
Cottrell's room on Fourth street, last night,
Mr.. Clark stuck TO his subject, and gave q
very creditable speech to an appreciatiye
audience.