Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-05-18
EDITOR WATTERSON.
A housing speech ut the Kentucky Dem
oCratiG Convention.

A Housing speech ut the Kentucky Dem
oCratie Convention.
LEXINGTON, Ky, May l7-Mr. Henry
Watterson, in his speech yesterday at the
Democratic Convention, said
~ wish that we could look upon the
national campaign which we are about to
enter with the earnest but tranquil sensi-
bilities of men who feel that, no matter
how it ends, the grace of God and the glory
Of his works shall be fulfilled 1t il, un-
happily, otherwise. In certain contin-
geGcy we can expect nothing but disaster,
the undOiDg of all the good which twenty
years OF peace have brought to a land once
divided against ITSELF and drenched in
irateTnal blood, and in no contingency can
We escape the disgrace OF raucOrOus
party battle to he fought on sec
tional hnes, tearing away the bandsgss
applied by time to wounds that were we'll
nigh healed, and exposing all that IL basest
in our nature and all that is weakest in
our system once more TO the sCOrn and de-
risiou OF mankind had hoped for better
things. had hoped that there was some
virtue left in the party of war which
might still be turned to the uses of state
of peace.
81 had hoped that the leaders of this
party of war, even il they lacked the viz
tue, hal borrowed yetu little wistOm from
the school OF experience to which the peO-
pie sent them tOur years ago, and that,
Chastened by adversely and adnonished
by the defeat Of their prophecies they
had acquired the capacity to address
themselves to the needs Of the time
and to deal with the wants of the
country. WAS induced to hope this,
the more trusttully because they have been
for years so loud and 40 constant in the
declaration that what they really sought
was q square issue upon the tariff. | did
not believe, for ny part, that they would
find this square issue to be what they
claimed lur 1t, and 50, often at the cost OF
much uueasiuess and occasionally Of some
rcproach from my party associates, / did
my best to give them their desires. Well,
at last they have il; they have it square
and they have it fair; they have it plain in
the message of the President, and they
have it dressed in the measure OF the Ways
and Means Committee And now what
do we SEE
"Flrst let me tell you what we DO not
see. We do not see any picnic parties Of
gay and sleek prOtcctiOnlSls dancing to the
muse Of the Fishers Houpipe, aud sing
ing with every bumper, Here's Ia Good
O.d Bounty, Drink it Down. We do not
see any Joyful professions of Jolly kspub-
licans splitting their sides with laughter
a. they march under banners on which ere
emblazoued such mirth provoking insCTip-
tions "a THE war taxes are a national
blessing and Death to the star eyed god
d,ss Of reform, Hut what do We see? We
see the robber tantl driven once again be-
hind the mud heaps of obstruction, thrown
up, and 80 often successfully thrown
mp, to keep out the waters Of reform. We
: the rOhber baron, sullen and dismayCd,
withdrawn to hi7Caslle, from whose turrets
dangerous signals appear, making but an
iudllcrcut light and no warmth for the
thousands OF striking and starving woIK
people whom he Is hravcly protecting
against the pauper labor Of Europe by the
help Of patriotic and valiant detachment
OF PrnkrrtOn's detectives
And finally what 90 we see Last of all
and worst0fall, that ends this dreadful pee
taCle Of hypucracy and cant, Of corruption
and rupaci'y, we see the tiig Of the re-
public hauled down from it's place above
great political party and in its stead run |
up the black flag OF eternal war against !
the South. To such base usea has come
the confident invitation OF the Republican |
leaders to statesmanlike discussion OF
economic problems
The convention selected for delegates at |
large to the St Louis Convention, Henry |
Watterson, James 4 Mckenzie, John X.
Hendricks, John ID. Harris. AltCrnatear |
J. Proctor Knott, w. c. F. Breckenridge, |
II B. Thompson, W. q WelCh. Electors
at large, John S Ray, Claude NJ. Thomas
Alternates, John II Wclch, T. f. Hallam.