Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-08

went InMissouri the Democracy again said
''go," and once mora they travelled, taking
flight to the great West aud hidiog in the
depths Of the great wilderness, where they
located, pitiable handful of misguided
fanatics The Republican party came into
power, and declared that Mormenism
could no longer exist, but there they have
abided ever since, and the handful Of Nor
mons who fled beyond the Mississippi be-
fore Democratic legislation have grown to
be go, coo as determined fanatics rs this
country or any other ever saw, and pre-
senting one OF tbs grayest problems that
confront Us.
Thea they said they would civilizs the
Indian. How did they do that? II you
will take the reports Of the War Depart
ment, and examine the records you will
find chargable to the Indian wars, and to
the subsistence and support Of that part
of the army which took part in those
wars, during the last ten Year,,
prior 70 1882, an expenditure Of
$110, 600, 900. But from the time Grover
Cleveland cheers] came to the Pres;dsn-
tial chair, March 4. 1884,-from that day
to this, my fellow-citizsns, there has been
no Indians gun fred at a white man in
this country, [cheers] and for the tinple
and honest reason that at 10 time In our
National history has there there tesn so
careful a regard PAID to treaty stipulations
with the so-called wards Of the Nation.
Take our commerce Before the war
America led the nations of the earth, and
we occupied the second place. When the
Republican party went out of power we
occupied place No. -, and We only occu-
pied that place because there were only
twelve other nations on the list. APP
plause There was time when the white
sails OF Americas commerce kissed the
breezss of every sea, but that time has
passed, and to-day, under laws enacted by
our Republican friends,
WE CAN'T BUILD SHIPS
to carry our commerce, and can't import
ship upon which to place our flag and our
seamen. Republican laws say no, and l
want to say, confdentia)ly, and wsntit TO
o, no further, if James G. Blaine and An
drew Carnegie had remained in Scotland
until they could have come home in an
American ship and under the American
flag. they would have died and rotted on
foreign shores.
Look at the navy under. Republican ad-
minis ratious. Laughter Should we
forget thst? or, should we forget the p:riod
when in time of war II was the pride, of
the country, ard never knew defsa'. But
when the late war period YVES over the navy
disappeared. If ships ever c'imed poles,
they must have taken to this form OF
gymnastics few yesrs ago, for VIII the
REPUBLICAN party met in Convention, in
Chicsgo, in 1884, itsolemnly fell to denounc
ing itself, and demanded the restoration
of the American navy. Laughter. They
said somebody had got l.. Laugh.
teri Somebody had stolen l.
somebody had carried it of. l,
had been mislaid, and they wanted it back.
TApplause. They were trying in that
day and ger Grafton to gain the confidence
of the American people, Just as they are
now. My friends, the records Of the
Treasury department show that the Re-
publican party has expended $500, 600, DOC
since the war in tinkering up old hulks,
and and after all that lavish outlay OF the
people, the best ship in the American navy
was sunk in New York harbor by coal
scow loaded. / presume, with West Vir'
ginia coal. LApplause.
Mr.. Kenna excessively took up the
public land and financial records of the
Repnblican administrations, making
pois ted and pertinent abstracts from theil
unsavory records in these particulars, and
evoking round after round of applause as
he proceeded. On the subject OF taxation
he said:-
The Republican party established the
system of taxation which confronts us to,
day. And when President Cleveland,
applause, on the Sd Of December last,
transmitted his message to Congress upon
the subject Of
TARIFF REFORM,
that message, fol the first time in the his
tory of this country was transmitted by
telegraph to an American citizen in for
eign land, and upon the next day, also fol
the first time in the history OF the country,
that American citiz,n, made public, to
the world, his animadversions Oh the policy
and methods of the President of biz
native country, holding that Presldan up
10 what he hoped would be the scorn OF
mankind. He also sent to the New York
Tribune letter to terrorize capital and
friShten the labor of the country.
Mr.. Kenna referred in a scathing ye'
amusing way to the manner in which
John Sherman sought to follow Blaine's
lead in this criticism Of the message o.
President Cleveland, and after showing
how the Ohio statesman had stultified
himself for the sake of making little cap
ital and keeping up with Mr.. Blaine IL
the Presidential race, ssid that If it had
not been for the opposition OF these mer
the message of Grover Cleveland would
have been received by Congress and thu
country as a simple matter OF business
and it would have been taken hold Of in
business-like manner and dealt with IN
serious and honest way instead OF being
made a political football by the Repub
licaus for the purposes of Presidential
campaign.
Would You call that free trade mes
sage? Hear what SONS OF the more dis
tinguisbed Republican statesmen have
bad to say in this same regard -
Senator Kenns here quoted from Presi
dent Arthu-, Secretary Folger, and o.he
Republican leaders, showing that they hao
years ago, taken ground far in advances o
President Cleveland, and when he con
Guided, demanded TO know iftheIe had eve
been any sttempt to csaractsrizs .thes'
men as
FREE TRADERS.
Preceding, he said - =,
| There was in the treasury, above tn
needs of the government, after meetinI
every appropriation, and every chars
whatsoever, on September 26, 1885,
Sl33. $50, 1874. How to get that none
back into the hands of the people, fror
whom it has been neejlessly taken, 10 on
of the gravest problems now confrontin
IA Harrison says pay the debt with it.
TIE ,vsrnment don't owe dollar that l
due tonight, and thanks to the pscu
liar legislation Of John Sherman, GU
bonds have been beyond our reach, and I
obtain them, the government must 60 IN
to the ms rkets of the world, and buy then
"a it would horses or cattle. Our bont
now command premium Of % per cen
Suppose we decide ppon buting them VI
The sun wouldn't set Tomorrow Night u;
til the premium would 60 to 80 per cent
! and you would .exaus! the treasury surpi,
in the purchase of such bonds, with u
result that in the end you would owe mo