Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-01
TARIFF HOWLERS
IN CONVENTION AT HARRISBURG NOMINATE
BEAVER FOR GOVERNOR, -
And Make g Platform Declaring That high
Protection Alone Makes the Sun
Shine and the Crops Grow and
Keeps Away the Drouth.


restless faces met the eye OF Chairman =.
Cooper, of the Republican State Commit SIS
tee, nj 10 o'clock. whei he mounted the u /.
stage of the Opera House TO call the State a =
Convention TO order. Such a gathering al !.
q Republican State Convention has not
been seerfhere in recent years The house = =
WAS packed fnm the orchestra To the back ne a
doors of the gallery, and pushing throng AZ. s
darkened the open spaces leading shoa,
To the daylight beyond. Upon n, !
the platform, which was almost sun
painfully crowded, plush and gold ham .,;,,
ner bearing the legend, Beaver and Mem is;l'
tooth, T" was the only fac,ional emblem 10,
he seen In the building, showing that the anat
''NIontooth BOOM did not give up until h. &c
the last moment.
THE TARIFF ADDRESS } and
adopted by the convention reviews the, vim
tariff since lS:2 10 show that the Ienp,- "'e"
cratic party ''has for the last fifty years c,os
Icgislatet against the best inttrsts of the ea a
American people in the direction of Ere,
TStdc To the great det'iment of American at.
industry" Reference is made 10 thc re-,
peal of the "Dcmocatic Free Trade
Law by the Republican Congress in
1861, when the M,nill tariff act was''
passed and for the tirSi time In the history ~.
OF the country, says the address, I'VE :,
hay e had twenty years Of uninterrupted w"
protection TO the American labor and cap
itll. Figures are quoted to show that IN .n
1850 the total value of property IN this
country was Sii OO, Do0. .DGi, in lsS't the sun
total value wis Il, ,N0, coo OOO or more
than double the accumulated property
from 1907 Ia lS6O. !"
During the ten years of Free Trade cndcl sun
ia 1861 our imports eNcc~lcd our exports
SiO3. .6T9, "a; under the operation oi ten h''
y,ars Of uro,ccton ended June - ls-0, ling
our exports have exccc,lcd our imports -
~, ,;D1 ,5i3, 2ts or an annual average of
Sl:.n, ,6Ii ,:il5, n ne; gain oi slso,UO,OWa
year. i~S
Reference is made to the Een Eer
ATTEMPTED TARIFF LEGISLATION ose'
hy the Democrats sincr lS1J, when they -
obtained control of the House, each Uf
which is denounced "a dangerous, attempts Ar.
to overthrow the great system which his,a,.
, built up ihr industries Of the country. In :.
closing, attention is called o the fact that's is
the Democrats are still determined to in \ 3,
sist upon reduction of the duties and Ia, !. :
abolish the tariff on raw materials, thus N
further mcnhcng the prosperity a thcf; n
country Col. d. III. Hastings, of Belle :, y
fonte, placed the name of Jas \. Beaver s
before the convention ~ the party candi- .
date for Governor. lie made an elolneg. = !. y
address which was frequently interrupted
by applause No other candidates were 0
named for Go,ernor When Mr. McEsoy,
of Philadelphia, moved that the noniina- =, !.
| ton of General Eea,cr he made by aecla- oa,.
nation, il WAS clITied with shouts aud -
cheers The next nomination in61llnnms n
| that for Lieutenant Governor 4
Davies was nominated for Ii =
on the first ballot @X4 ,.s
The ticket was completed n.
For Auditor General, A. vi q,
Secretary of Internal Affairs, E& IL
a. ..,.-as,s..,fi- -,'-t sr,Ss- ''4n 4,
| borne. 4<x<x u1
The committee on rcsOlut \ n
platform demanding Of CongrS "a
of the limitations of the pen-ld
IS iiug Senatorial dciesitsi g
conycntiGns; approving a
,er-Stato GhmIVeree
calling for like MEASURE with
dcprccating the importation ~ yS :.
criminal and contract labor, and desnaht3s
ing the passage of national laws prohibits
ing such importation; advocating protes- o
ton 10 farm and dairy products from adui-' =
taritians or countcricits; indicting theinne
present administration for Inconsistency fst
Indifference and incfiicicncy; demanding bows
that protection be maintained. 10 tho
platform was added resolution Ivy Mf M,
Quay providing for the subpi,sion 10 a'p
vote Of the people of constitutional n.
amendment DrohihitiDp the manufacture \ 0t
and sale of into, icating liauors a. n heyer- ~