The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-10-14
SANE OLD SPEECH,
SAME JUDGE, SAME CHESTNUT,
Judge Brannon Holds Forth in Hancock
County-Hs DIlntes on Subjects that
He Knows Very Little AbPut-FOr.
sakes'ths JaGk.KnIfe Story,
Social Correspondence Of fNs IRlellgmor,

sOeciag Correspondence OIL IRiellgaer.
NEw CUMBERLAND, Oct, lS.-Judge
Brannon addressed the Democracy in the
Town Hall last evening, After having
been extensively billed, and being favored
with full moon and a splendid night
his audience just numbered one hundred
men and boys, ope-third at least Of whom
were Republicans,
The Judge seemed to be pleased over
his large audience and branched out upon
the sea oil politics, claiming kindred, as q
matter OF course, with Thomas Jefferson
down in ordinary generations to the good
days Of Father Buchanan when the
sCeptre departed from the Democracy and
for twenty,four years they had been wan.
dsrers in the wilderness, Now Grover
Cleveland had come to the helm and the
ship Of state sailed sersnely on.
my friends, you heard the Rspubli-
cans say before the election that II the
Democracy got control ofthe country, the
negro would be returned to slavery, the
Tebel debt would be paid, the Confederate
soldier would be pensloned, Union soldlels
pensions would DO stopped, and the coun-
try would be ruined. Hpve any OF these
things come 10 pass2" triumpAantly ex-
claimed the Judge,
Well, no Judge, they have not, but
the prophecies were all in the judges
brain, for no Republican had any fears
upon these points. The Republican
party took good care to provide in amend.
meRts to the Constitution for just such
state OF affairs as now exist. They put up
the fences 80 high that had JET Davis
been placed In the presidential chair, aud |
the Democracy had control Of both
Houses OF Congress these questions were
all safe.
THE SLY JUDGE.
The Judge knew we had soldiers milan.
cock who would be interested in the ques.
ton Of pensions, and 80 promised that II
elected he would vote to pension ovsry
soldier that no believed entitled to one.
The Judge has been upon the Judicial
bench, aud knows how TO exactly express |
his thoughts, and should he be called upon |
to vote upon this question in Congress, he |
has not said one word here In Hancock
that would stop him from voting pensions
to every Confederate soldier. He only
promised tn pengion such soldiers as he be.
lieyed entitled toone. And u history has not
been sAtisfsd in the Judges case, he used TO
think w much Of u Confederate soldier as
he did OF one who fought for the Union.
Well, should the Judge be elected, and
should he not come up 10 the expectations
Of the Union soldiers, he can truthiully
say never promised to vote pensions to |
any but those l believed entitled to one.
Our boys would like to know Just where
the Judge stood duringthe war. What he
oleGus by his promises now. Whether 1t
Ia 10 be unilrstoGd by the boys 10 blue
here In Hancock ono way and Ia another
way by the boys In gray In Lewis county
In another. What do you mean Judge7
THE TARlFF-A CHESTNUT.
Well, the Judge Is all right on tho tariff, |
AT any rate, so he says. He would, il |
elected, vote to protect every American
industry. We mead 1Sl millions Of
revenue from imports, and that canuot
help but give oil needed protection.
luGIB Bio tAfCgLhlNl bbuh
whose coat cost So 10 per yard In England
and he pays 80 BIO per cent duty on his
coat, while his friend on the right has a
coat only worth half az much, aud
he has TO- pay 1850 per cent
duty. That 10 discriminating against
the poor man. The ex-senator could
have told the Judge that the cloth in his
coat was made at home from American
wool, and the whole garment mover cost
what the Judge estimated the value OF the
cloth before the tailor had laid the shears
upon 1t.
He said we paid one.iourth OF all our
import duties on sugar, molagses and
tropical fruits, when they should be free.
Does the Judge not remember that while
the brick maker asks for protection, while
the iron man, and the wool man does the
same, that these sugar men are also citl-
zens Of this great republic, and want
place also under the broad shield OF
American law wheny you are discriminating
for protection. -
Several Of our good Democrats after the
meeting was over, rather doubted whether
the Judge knew very much about the
tariff question.
RING THE DkLLl
He said the Republicans had spent two
hundred and sixty millions upon a navy,
and where Is III We have absolutely
none to protect our merchant ships, and
80 we were, as nation, without COM
merCe. Does not the Judge remember
that when he and his friends, for take II
he, at least, sympathiEod with the States
rights secession movement, and that
while the Contederacy was doing their
best to disrupt the Union, the jealousy Of
Great Britain practically drove from the
ocean all our merchant service and Grip.
pled our navy. But what have the Dem.
ocracy done TO build up o navy2 Where
"a poor John Roach? Ruined In his ship.
building because he was Republican.
The Judge grew eloquent and said that
God new all things, knew When even
sparrow fell to the ground, but II there is
ANYTHING which God does not know II is
what the Republicans did with that same
twu hundred millions expended for q
navy. Here came In the only laugh and
applause Of the evening
Seriously, can II be possible that tho
voters OF this district would trust tho
rriSoh bill put wool upon The free iISt, aud
II Is essentially free trade bill al nearly
a one can be made. We hnd Snyder and
Wilson and Gibson, Democrats from
this State, voting for II and General Golf
voting against Il. DosS any man believe
that had Brannon been our Congressman,
he would not have voted with his three
Democratic brethren. 0ne hundred and
iorty.ssvsn Democrats favored that FREQ
trade bill, whilo thlrty.ave Democrats
were opposed one hundred and thirty
three Republicans voted Against the bill,
while only four were lot. lt. The Demo: