The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-10-21
you, tool And Judge Brspnou respond.
ed as he always doesi he always has bis
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He told me at Glenvills, that the VCl
President was very much mistaken when
he made that declaration, An old ger
tlemRn In the audience remarked that
It seemed TO him they ought to have
known that two years ago. II seems to
me, that when made that explanation
two years ago, that ! did In your county,
and In your pleasant city, that l should
not have been Contradicted; as now the
declaration is made that l then was
right. That money was not In the treas
uryi but o considerable sum was in the
treasury, While there was money In the
treasury and previous to that time, the
Republican ADMINISTRATION had been
paying out day by day and month after
month, millions oi dollars, on an average
$3.50 000. 900 q year, II went into the
channels Of trade, 1t came into your own
midst; 1t circulated In Lewis. II made
times easy, Aud, men OF Lswis, you
know you had better times under the last
administration than you have under this.
[Crles of "yes" You had two dollars
then to one now, You got better prices
then than now, Now, this, gentlemen, is
one Of the fret reasons for the hard times;
After President Cleveland was elected,
aud for the frat eleven months Of his Rd,
ministEatlon, he ceased TO pay out the
surplus, He ceased TO pay out dollar OF
money on the reduction oi the national
debt Times became hard, Money be.
came close, Prices fell, Labor found no
employment, And the wolf Of hard times
was tapping, tapping, roughly tapping at
your cabin doors. Cries OF That's &C" VI
How long did that thing oontinusT
AN ORDER REQUIRED.
Why, gentlemen, alter the Congress Of
the United States met in December, still
this state Of affairs existed, The Dem.
oCrAtic party in Congress- held q caucus.
They said tothemSelves-Mr. Carlisle, the
speaker, Mr.. Morrison, the chairman Of
the Committee OF Ways and Means, among
the numbsr-they said, "This President
over at the White House Ia not doing what
no promised the people. He Is not pay.
ing out the money, as we said In
Chicago, 1t should be done. There is 70.
ing 10 be an election pretty soon. live
can't gets change, we will hear some.
thing drop then. And they passed an or
der in Congress, that the President should
pay this money out. No man ever hgd
before to be made To do 1t. The Repub-
liCRn President was glad to do 1t, and did
50 without being made do II. Mr.. Morrl-
son, d gentleman Of distinction, offered
this resolution. II was passed by q large
majority. ! voted for It, [Cheers I
was determined that so far as my vote
should 90, that money should come out
ol the treasury, and you should have the
benefit OF II, II was passed by tho
House and Senate aud went TO the Presi-
dent; and he looked at II, and he read It.;
and he commuued with himself: This
places mo In an awkward position; II
endorse II, am condemning the Demo.
cratic party In Oongress-hls own friends,
Now, what did he do? He put 1t down In
his great big presidential pocket and left
IL there. II was q pocket veto. Laugh.
ter and cheers. He didn't intend TO ap.
prove resolution that condemned bis
own Wall street Secretary OF the Treas.
ury. They used to say that the Rspubl.
pan Secretary OF the Treasury acted IN the
interest OF Wall street. But We never
had the money locked up In the Treasury,
kept from the people until we had
. Democratic Secretary. There
they kept 1t until this resolu.
tion was introduced. Brannon: ~ will
catch you on on all thAt."1 asked the
gentleman Judge Brannon) how he
would have voted had he been there, and
he confessed that he would have voted
lust as l did. Now, gentlemen, you see,
Ihen, you can't made anything by voting
Ior the Judge. [Cheers and laughter1 He
d only going 10 do there what l have
lone. lie confesseS, also, that the Dsmo.
,ratic Vice President was wrong, and that
| was right. [Cheers. Then, don't you
zee, that get Democratic support Us well
is Republican support then how In the
leuce are you going to beat me? Laugh.
.er and cheers.