Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-19
GOVERNOR FORAKER.
HIS SPEECH OVER AT ABTNAVILLE, LAST
NIGHT.
Most Of the Evening Spent in Considering Ancient
History From a Partisan Standpoint
The Audience Large.

DllCc IlCpuDllNdh SOuhty NNh1AdA -"
mitteeman Sedgwick, of Belmont county,
announced that Governor Foraker would
address the citizens of Bridgeport and
Martins Ferry at Etnaville, men Of both
parties have taken a lively interest in the
matter, and last night a large and very
orderly ~assemblage gathered in the com-
mons between the Etna Mill and Office,
and prepared to stand out in the
night air and risk their health to hear the
Governor speak on the issues Of the State
campaign, as he sees them from
REPUBLICAN STANDPOINT.
At seven o'clock the Union Cornet Band
of Rtnaville, mounted the platform, and
started up a lively air to hold and enter
tain the crowd until Foraker, who, like
Sam Jones, became lost on his way to
Wheeling, and was detained nearly an
hour later than had been his intention, put
in an appearance.
The local committee composed of Robert
Smith, chairman; VIM. J. Howells, David
L. Thomas, Thomas W. Jones, John Dig
gins and Ephrain Brown, had provided
ample accommodations for the Speake rs
and press representatives, and all other
matters looking to the comfort of the
spectators and the success of the meeting
were well cared for.
At eight o'clock Chairman Smith
CALLED THE MEETING TO ORDER,
and announced VIM. j. Howell for Chair
man. After another tune by the band
Chairman Howell introduced Governor
Foraker, who had arrived in company
with w. W.. Holloway and j. f. B. Nc
Donald of Bridgeport. Governor Foraker
started out by announcing that he wished
first to talk a short time about the war.
But he promised TO temper his reference to
hat great struggle and only consider the
causes which led to the war, and then ap-
ply them to the present. What" said
he, lied to the war? Ii was the fact that
we had
TWO DIFFERENT KINDS
of institutions in the country. The
statesmen of the South early saw that the
honest labor of the North would Outstrip
their slave labor, and, at once commenced
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mission of a free Northern State without
the admission of a Slave State so that the
balance of power might be preserved.
After this failed to keep the South even
with the North in power, they brought
out the doctrine of State Rights or Sc
c~eSsiOn, which teaches that the Federation
of the United States was u mere compact
among the States which might be broken
at will by any of them. This brought
about
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY,
which in turn placed Abraham Lincoln at
the head of the government. Then the
statesmen Of the South argued that if the
doctrine of States Rights meant anything
they must now put it into execution, and
one by one, in turn, the States of the South
attempted to secede and form a confedera-
tion OF their own Lincoln at once refus-
ed to allow these States their OWE way and
called -
THE GRAND ARMY
of a million men from the cOrnfields and
workshops, to put down the rebellion
States brought about
Mr.. Foraker then stated that he would
describe the war and the feats which this
great army successfully performed.
Stop to think what would have been
the result had the North been defeated.
There was no trouble, rs it was. Recon-
citation was easy. We were fighting
them only because we loved them so well
we did not van to part with them, and
when Grant and Lee met at Apo
mattOx, Grant only asked his foes
to return home, and behave themselves,
and use their horses TO pillow corn. What
would have been the result had the South
GAINED THE yICToRY9
Robert T.. Lee would have said to Grant,
We were only ayailing ourselves of the
constitutional right to leave you, and you
have laid waste our country, and killed off
our bravest and best, and we will place
the boundary line at the Ohio river and
! now you would have to have q passport to
20 TO Wheeling, and there would be
quite Il time between Pittsburg
and Wheeling about the bridge and steam
boats. And as another natural conse-
quencc of our being conquered, we would
not only have to pay off our own individual
debt but also that OF the CQnfederacy.
Confederate notes would have been worth
something in that event. ! am telling
you all this to try and prove to you how
much we owe to the Republican party and
TIE UNION SOLDIERS
for the grand victory they won over the
rebellious South. The people promised
that the Government would take
care of the widows and or
phans of those WHO surrendered
home and their dear ones. In the same
regiment with me were an old man and
four stalwart sons, who volunteered and
went out to help put down the rebellion,
and left their old mother alone. TIE
neighbors promised that the mother should
be cared for, The old man was injured
at Stone River, and went to the hospital,
but survived to come home with no worse
than a crick in the back. Two of his
sons were killed outright in the field, and
of the other two, one had IN arm shot off
and the other an eye put out. A few
months ago the old man died of
other than injuries sustained in
the war. The pension laws allows
the widow, a m past seventy years
of age and utterly helpless no pensOn with.
out
SPECIAL ACT or CONGRESS.
Her case went up to Congress, this woman
who had given five stalwart soldiers to the
union army, and this body passed a bill
authorizing her TO receive Sl2.00 a month
out of the public treasury. 1t was sent to
the President who wrote across it, 4 for
bid, and stated as a reason that he
thought it might establish a dangerous
precedent. He has established q precedent,
and in case of another wal many will say,
L will stay at home and pillow corn and get
rich, or else 60 out as a sutler.
From the time of Washington to Cleve-
land only one hundred andeleven pensions
had been vetoed, and now Cleveland sends
l02 pension veto messages which are all
sent in for econo ~ sake, and they only
save SPA, 600 a year, or half his salary"
4 man in the audience said at this re-
mark Cleveland wanted TO spend the SEA-
900 for beer, to which remark Foraker an
SWered that he wanted to 90 fishing.