Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-26
ON THE TARIFF.
THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE ADDRESSES
A WHEELING AUDIENCE.
He DshnesH His Position in a Very AdrOit Way, and
Leaves HIS Party Platform Far Out Of
Sight in Hs Zeal.
General n. GOff arrived in the city about

five o'clock last evening, from Cameron,
where he addressed a Republican meeting
yesterday afternoon. The General was IN
rather bad shape, as regards his voice.
from speaking in the open air, and upon
arriving at his hotel-the Mcclure House
he at once retired to his room. A great
many ofthe leading Republicans Of the city
called upon him, but he was inaccessible
to all but a very few. A couple Of hours
rest, however, made a great improvement
in the Generals condition, and after sup
uer he met quite a number of the leading
local supporters of his cause, from whom
it is fair to presume, he heard
R~osE-CoLoRED AND GLOWING ACCOUNTS
of the progress of the campaign. About
half past seven o'clock the General entered
q carriage at the Market street entrance
to the hotel and was taken in charge by the
Lincoln Club and the old Plumed Knights,
which organizations, headed by Mayors
hand and followed by u drum corps, took
M the line of march for the Alhambra
rink, in the Eighth ward, where the mass
meeting was to be held. The column rs
it passed down Market street, presented q
CAV and festive appearance, and the specta-
Gle was possibly worth to the Republican
cause all the money it cost the County tx
ecutiye Committee.
The General and the escorting column
reached the rink in a blaze of red fire
- - IN ..I.r. T,lIy fNrp fhnnGnn1 nnp-
pie had gathered, awaiting the advent OF
the orator. His appearance was the sig
nal for great applause. The interior OF
the building had beer put in the best pos
sible order for the meeting, and the m
mense room was comfortable and
eozy at first, although it grew
colder inside late in the evening.
A large but somewhat frail platform had
been erected on the west side, Immediate
ly below the music stand, upon which the
General, the Chairman of the meeting, and
Others Obliged to mount upon it, moved
about with q tenderness suggestive Of egg
shells. At the slightest movement the
boards rocked up and down like the deck
of a frail bark in q chOppy sea, and
HEREPoRTERSw WERE sEASICK
before the evening was half spent. BY
the time General GOifhad made his way
tothe stand and taken his seat upon 1T, the
audience had increased in size very ma
t~erially, and when he rose TO begin his
speech there were probably three thousand
spectators in the rink, ne9rly half of whom
were Democrats, while quite n number OF
ladies were TO be seen scattered about the
floor. Many prominent citizens, both
Democrats and Republicans, were OBJ
served in the crowd, conspicuous among
them being Squire Shuttle, in whose
bailiwick the disturbance took place,
Capt. Dovener, Hon. y. Il. Scott, Receiver
Ed. Dunaway, p. b. DObbinS, Augustus
POllack, Hon. George Il. Caldwell, w. j.
W. COwden, y. G.. Seolield, c. Il. Tracy,
Y. c. Whitaker, A. b. Caldw ell, Ralph
Whitehead, chairman Of the county COM
mittees, City Clerk Bswers and others.
After an air by the band, the meeting
was, at sis O'Clock, called to order by
Chairman Whitehead, who introduced
Capt. DOyener as
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE EVENING.
The captain was greeted with applause.
He said the meeting was al indication
OF the great popularity of the candidate
who was present, and he took it, from the
ovation which had been extended General
Golf, that the Democratic boast that he
was to be defeated was an idle one. This
was greeted with cheers.
The speaker alluded to the Capitol Rink
meeting, at which Senator Davis and Sec.
rotary Walker spoke, in deprecatory terms,
\ and thought there was no comparison be-
tween it and the gathering over which he
presided. He criticised Senator Kenna's
remarks at the Opera House, and said he
had been notified before the meeting that
he must say very little on the subject OF
tariff, and the Senator had needed the or
der. General Golf, he promised,
would talk a great deal upon the
subject. Abiding to Judge John Bran
non, Capt. DOyener ~anXiOuSly enquired
when he had become converted to the doc
trine OF a protective tariff. From this he
dropped with history, reviewed the
tariff policies of the two parties briefly,
and said the General, who was to follow
him, was an able exponent of the protec-
tive tariff idea of the Republican party.
The Captain next drew a pathetic picture
of General Golf ina cell Mt Libby prison,
during the war, and said he Judged, from
the Generals conduct upon that occasion,
| that he was a man who could be trusted
upon any occasion, 4 sentiment which
seemed to meet the approval of a portion
of the audience. The speaker said this
was q contest between the champions
favorable to labor aud the free traders,
and General Golf would see to it that pro,
| tective ideas should succeed. He then in
troduced General Golf rs n man who would
be elected rs sure rs the sun must dawn
on the I'd of November. On that day
John BrannOn would be buried so deeI
by the ballots of the people that the pick
axe of time would never dig him Out
again. Applause.
GENERAL GOFF'S REMARKS.