Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-30

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could obtain a patient hearing, he would
explain his position on the great and living
tonic of the tariff. But before approaching
that subject be desired to make some refer
ence to the rather remarkable speech OF
General Gof, lately delivered in the hall
in which he spoke. He alluded to Captain
Doyeper's speech introducing General
Golf. in which he said the speaker would
he buried so deep by the ballots Of the
people that he would never be resurrected,
and said that in his opinion
THE PREDICTION WAS A BAD ONE,
The .Judge desired to make a return pre-
diction in regard to General Gof. he
yentured to predict that when the sun
descended upon the second Of November
the political death of General Gof would
have occurred, Great cheering and around
his coffin there would stand as chief mour-
ners, the boodlers who are his ablest pOliti-
cal l~ieutenants.
The Judge said that General Golf had
took occasion, in his late speech In this
CITY, to ask his audience why they wanted
TO substitute Judge BrannOn
for him, when the Judge had said
the General had voted right and
that if he had been in Washington ne
would have voted just as Golf did. The
speaker said this was true, but that the
votes were upon only two questions, one
of which was in opposition to the Morri-
son bill. He would have voted in oppo-
sition to that measure. lCheers. But
there were many other matters in which
he would not have voted as GOtf did.
Cheers.
The speaker called the attention of the
Knights of Labor to
THE RECORD OF GENERAL GOFF
upon certain measures favorable to them,
and said he had voted in Congress to pre-
vent the consideration of those measures.
The General Executive Board Of the
knights. of Labor had appointed a COM
mittee to 90 to Washington and secure the
passage of resolution providing for the
reduction of the Treasury surplus. The
measure was actlVely sup
ported by the Democracy, but the
Republicans, foremost among whom was
General Golf, referred the matter to a COM
mittee with the purpose of smotherlng IT,
and their purpose was fully accomplished:
Judge John Brannon would not nave voted
rs General Golf did in this matter. This
measure was supported by the Knights OF
Labor all over the country, and yet, after
practically killing it, General Gott came
here to Wheeling and asked for the votes OF
the men he injured. He desired to point his
Republican and Democratic friends alike
to what occurred two years ago, during the
Presidential conflict. 1t was freely pre-
dicted by the opponents of President
Cleveland that if he wa elected
AWFUL THINGS WOULD HAPPEN.
That the Confederate debt would be
paid: that the Confederate soldiers would
be pensioned; that desolation would be
broadcast; that our manufacture would
be Frustrated, and want and woe be stalk
ing up and down our land. President
Cleveland had been elected, and n
had come 10 pass? Not one Of the grim pre-
dictions had been realized. On the con-
trary the country was prospecting as II mad
not prospered for ten years past. No man
who wanted work was unable to lind 1t,
capital was fully employed, and our IN
dustries were at work to their fullest ca
pacrty. General Golf had said the country
was in q bad way, but observation did not
carry out his statements. On the contra
nv, the workshops were ringing with the
clash of machinery in every city, N
labor was never so well off as now.
The Republican party is loudly demand
ing that it be returned to power. And
this, not from any thing which they
promise or through any fault or mistake
of the Democracy, but the cry for restora-
ton to the affairs and the control of the
Government arose solely from what the
Republicans called their GLORIOUS record
of
DEEDS DONE IN THE PAST
a record, by the way, which they had re-
pudiated two years ago. There was no
necessity for a change. The glorious adj
ministution of President Cleveland was a
guarantee that the Democratic party was
fully able to control the affairs of this
country, and the people would see to 1t that
no further change should he made. Look
at the record of Mr.. Cleveland. Last
wear his administration had collected
$40, 600, 900 more than at any time
during Arthur's administration, while the
national expenditure during the same pur-
pose was Sl3, DOC, 900 less. That was a
record to be proud of. LCheers.
m Judge referred TO the policy " he
administration in regard to the public
domain. setting forth how it had been
squandered, millions of acres at a time, by
the Republicans, and said the studied
purpose of President Cleveland and the
Democracy was to reclaim the land thus
traudulently given away. Already some
30 OOO. 600 of acres had been reclaimed,
and as much more would be restored to
the people as it was possible to
obtain. lie referred to the American
navy, which, under Democratic rule, had
disputed with England the control OF the
seas, but under Republican rule 1t had
disappeared. Under Democratic rule our
merchant marine was an object of pride to
every American. To-day, after twenty
five years OF Republican rule, it
HAD BEEN SWEPT AWAY.
The people were told that the Demo
cratic party was a free trade party, and
that the candidate before them was a free
trader. Two years ago an itinerant re-
porter for the IRteltigenccr, a man who had
now left his country for his cOuntry's good,
had published the statement that he had
heard John BrannOn talk free trade. He
ventured the assertion that this man, and
others like him, did not know what free
trade was. They know no more about 1t
than a chimpanzee in the jungles of
Africa. Applause. The speaker
was not q free trader. lGreat cheering. J
He would be a truant to his early training
and to his common sense, if he would ever
do aught to smbarraSs or injure the indus
tries Of this great country. [Cheers, He had
been grossly misrepresented upon this
great public question, as upon Others,
and General Golf had a very handy way of
doing that sort of thing. Golf was sharp
and adroit, and an adept at inuendo, but
he would not dare to directly make an &C
cusation of free tradeism in the presence
of the speaker. [Cheers. He desired to
say here, in the presence of all, that be
was in favor of protection. [Cheers.
He was in favor of protecting the iron
in the mills, the coal in the
hills, the timber In the forests, and the