Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-10-20

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day to meet my distinguished oppo-
nent and to give a reason for the
taitI, that is in me. Though / feel
my own incapacity / rely ON the
strength OF my cause, the grand
cause OF Protection, which will re-
celve the support OF Americans and
continue to do good long after he
and / are both forgotten. Great
cheerlng.l
AT this point, as General Golf re-
sumed, there were cries off, Hurrah
tor Wilson !" and other unseemly
interrupts, us. Mr.. Wilson rose and
asked that no friend of his interrupt
ortreat his opponent with discount
e>y. This provoked applause.
CLAIMS FOR CLEVELAND.
From the Ohio Valley and the
Great Kanawha to the fertile fields
OF Greenhrier and the Eastern Pan
Handle, have been met with great
respect by the Democrats; they will
not annoy me. They come to hear
Golf everywhere, and many of them
will vote for Golf [cheersI; not be-
cause he is Coff-no! But because
be stands for great and vital prln
ciple, the principle OF Protection.
I Applause.
My opponent opens and with
one of his hops, skips and jumps
across the stage, says very little
about Cleveland and his administra-
ton. Did you notice what little
he had to say about this administra-
tion Laughter. He tells you
Cleveland made the seattle barons'
move on. Ii Cleveland turning to
Wilson did what You say, why did
the cattle barons' come back so
soon? For they are there just the
same. Much laughter Cleveland
issued a fine sounding proclamation
and then pigeon-holed it and the cat
tie barons knew it through seeing
it in the newspapers, if they knew it
at all. Applause.
He boasts what his party did in
passing the Interstate Commerce
law. [ and my party battled for that
law as faithfully as you and yours,
and more men who stand high in
your connsels today voted against
it. [Cheers.
Silver. What about the settle
ment of the silver question j? Did
Cleveland settle it as his party prom
Used he would? was silver man ;
l believe in silver, and the people
believed in it. But Cleveland, after
he was elected, and before he took
the oath of office, wrote ii letter say
ing this coinage of silver dollars had
to be stopped. Before the election
all the Democratic orators were talk.
ing about the hard times from the
demonetizing of silver. Cleveland
said the people were not wise. When
Judge Brannon was running against
me for Congress in the First District,
| asked him how he would have
voted on the silver question if he had
been in Congress: Would he have
voted with Cleveland or with me
And he answered promptly, be would
have voted with Golf. Cheers.
He tells yoa that since the war
the tendency of legislation has been
to take the taxes off the rich and put
them on the poor. So did the jun.
ior U. S. Senator tell them that
down at Huntington when he had
the Democratic Convention to talk
to. Laughter, in which Senator
Faulkner joined. Well, l tell them
they are way off. Who fought to
take off the income tax and other
taxes? The Democrats; and my
Democratic colleague. you know it
Cheering. When the bill finally
came up the Republicans voted for
it, because we could do without the
taxes then. Four years before, we
could not, yet the Democrats insist
ed that it should be done. Mr.. Bay.
ard voted to repeal the income tax,
and when Mr.. Cleveland came to
make up his Cabinet, he said: "There
is Mr.. Bayard he voted to do away
with the income tax; / will make
him Secretary Of State" Laughter
and cheers. Judge Thurman is an
other, cheering from Democrats he
voted for the repeal OF the rich and
put therh on the poor. "We'll cheer
for him anyhow!"
Mr.. Wilson would have you be.
lieve this bad, iniquitous Republican
party is always looking around for
some way to hurt the people.
THE PEOPLES FIGHT.
l am a candidate for Governor,
my friends, and | want to be elected.
| want to be elected because | be.
lieve my principles are right. This
is your fight-the peoples fight. 1t
is your principles Inscribed on my
banner. l would not misrepresent
my opponent here to day. He is
for revenue tariff; | am for pro.
tective tariff and high protective
tariff. believe that the protective
tariff made the country what it is
today. If we repeal it, we will go
back to that depressed, dark. unhap.
Ply period described here by my op.
ponent as almost the golden era OF
this country. That my friends. was
the saddest page in all our history,
and l will prove it. My brother
Wilson does not talk much about
anything but the tariff, and | do not
blame my brother much for talking
most about the tariff. President
Cleveland devoted his entire mes.
sage to it last winter. Laughter.
/ am for my country all the time
[great applause]; for the United
States of America every day in the
week; for this grand little State OF
West Virginia every week in the
year, every time / get chance. And
l would not change for all your votes