Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-11

corporations and m~onopolies, they
saw the necessity of finding
and Immediately the old country
ransacked for men to settle upon 1t.
Immense inducements were offered ; re-
ports of cheap land, easy terms, long
credit, low taxes, every emigrant a Sena-
tor or member of Congress- and. such
promises were scattered broadcast over
Europe. Is it any wonder that the ships
were filled with the very scum OF the
country, who were flocking to
THE NEW Ell DORADO?
SIS it any wonderthat to-day the United
States is filled with communism, socialism
and anarchy? Applause.
And now the result of Republican policy
seen. On these lands crops are grown
in direct competition with the farmers oil
the Ohio valley. The farmer now raising
his fifteen bushels of wheat per acre finds
impossible TO compete with the capital
lists who raise thirty bushels to the
acre, and the union of capital
has reduced the freight rates
to such an extent that competition Is
hopeless. Here is the result of the noble
government of the Republican party. They
have given way your lands and best
property to q foreign population and have
Furnished them with opportunities to de-
stroy your trade. They have glutted the
market and
CRIPPLED HOME LABOR
and now they say to the men they have
beggared: Well protect YOU" lap
plause. He then spoke of the hopeless
ness of the competition of West Virginia
cattle men with Western stock raisers, and
then continued:
"And now it is anything but a national
calamity that this should at last be re-
versed. / am glad that we have men in
Congress who will stand up and demand
the return of these lands and think that
if there is anything ola national calam-
ity' in the administration OF Grover
Cleveland, tits in his reluctance or inabil-
ity to purge the land ofthese Republicans.
When the people placed him in the Execu-
tive seat they were prepared tosee genuine,
Jacksonian, hickory jacket, steel riveted,
copper bottOmed Democrats. Applause.
Grover Cleveland has made many political
removals but he has also left some Repub-
licau Ofice-holders as monuments OF
mercy"
Then after speaking of the difficulties IN
Cleveland course on account OF civil Ser
vice laws and a hostile Senate, he reviewed
the various measures IN
THE INTEREST OF LABOR
and the laboring classes, passed by the
Democratic House of Representatives, and
demonstrated the utter tallacy OF the
claim of the Republican leaders and the
Republican papers that their party Is the
earnest friend of the American working
man.
Mr.. Walker paid his respects to General
Golf, of whom he spoke as a gentleman who
had declined the Republican nomination to
Congress in advance, who had announced
that he could not accept if nominated or
serve if elected, and yet who would have
been almost as badly disappointed had the
Republican Convention at Weston failed
to nominate him, as he will when your
Uncle John Brannon SENDS him to the. rear
ON the Goth day of November.
WEST NlRGlNlA MAllEho'
Turning from national to home matters
Walker said:
| wish to call your attention to some OF
the practical results of Democratic and he
publican rule in this State. They are I'M
portant and pertinent in view of the claim
set up when the Republicans were in pow
er here, that to give the Democracy control
of West Virginia would result in the de-
population and ruin OF the State. When
the Republicans ruled your State had no
hope for the future, your people were
starving, business was at a stand-stlll,
high taxes oppressed your citizens and the
development Of your material resources
mad" no progress.
POPULATION AND VOTES.
In 1870 you had in the State, under Re-
publican rule, q population of 4l2, 1000. In
1886 you have, under Democratic rule, q
population of 80, 600. At the last PreSl-
Dental election, under Republican rule,
YOU count in the entire State As, $40 votes.
The assessors returns for 1885 show for
that year a voting population OF l39, l29.
Partial returns at the Auditors office for
1856 indicate q voting population for the
present year of 1l5, 600.
In 1858 you cast in the county OF Ohio,
1926 votes. In 1885 you had in the county
of Ohio 3, 96S persons entitled to the cleo
tive franchise. In 1868 there were cast in
Wetzel county 1885. Now you have3, 100
voters in that county. In 1868 there were
cast in Harrison county 2,5OS votes. You
had in that county last year 4,509 voters.
In 1S6S there were cast in Marion 1000
votes. In 1885 Marion had 4,Ol3 voters.
In 1868 there were cast in Hardy 29l
votes. That county had last year l,i9e
voters. In '6S Jefferson cast 3?3 votes.
Last year she had $3.50 voters. In IS
Fayctte cast 500 votes. Last year she had
3,SOi voters. In '6S Cabell east 800 votes.
Last year she had 3,7l4 votes. In
1863 Mcdowell cast Al votes. Last year
she had 604 voters. In 1868 Logan cast 12i
votes. Last year she hand | 1913 voters, and
so a comparison by counties throughout
the entire State, shows q steady and enor-
NOUS increase of population and voting
strength under Democratic as compared
with Republican rule.
PROPERTY AND REVENUE.
In 1870 you had in real estate, under
Republican rule, 4 valuation of$93, 0l3, GAO.
In West Virginia in 1886, your real estate
was $l19, 9S2, 1856. In 1870 you had in
personal property in West Virginia, $780,
1893, 663. In 1885, SAG, 6SS, 05i.
In 1868 your total treasury receipts were
S76i, 1897 !. In 1870 they were but 1861
32l.l II, showing a decreasein two years of
y per cent. on receipts and indicating n
deminution of p per cent. in the tax-pay-
ing capacity and the value of property in
the State during those two years of Repub-
lican rule. In 1856 the receipts into your
treasury, with no higher rate of taxation,
have reached the inormous sum of 81, 1G7,-
5l4.46
RAILROAD TAXATION.
When the Republicans were in power
you had 3s2 miles OF railroads. The tax
eS upon this property were paid as a rule,
at the close of tedious litigation, or rs q
matter of compromise, yielding but little
to the support Of local government. In
1886 you have twenty-four railroad COM
panies operating 1000 miles ofailway and
having taxes upOn an assessment valuation