Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-10-07

OF Ills upJ uSt fuu oPPloooA'o oJs' Tct
will give you fres whisky and tobacco. II
we can't give you cheaper clothes ana
cheaper food, we will give you cheaper to-
bacco and draught of the flowing bowl,
in which you can drown your sorrows and
forget your high taxes.
After o brief discussion of particular
features of the Mills bill, Judge Fleming
closed his address amid enthusiastic ap-
plause.
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SENATOR KENNA.
An Enthusiastic Reception, and An Flo
quent and Convincing Speech
1t was just ten minutes to ten O'CLOCK
when Chairman A. J. Sweeney advanced
to the front of the platformaand introduced
Senator Kenna to tina vast audience, which
filled every available square foot Of the
building. There was an instant Of silence
as Chairman Sweeney concluded, and then
the people burst forth into cheer which
was heard for squares, and made the arch
edIroof Of the:big rink tremble. again and
again that cheer burst forth, and it was
several minutes before it became possible
for the distinguished orator to proceed.
When he stood some chance Of being heard,
Senator Kenna said
Mr.. CHAIRMAN, MY FRIENDS AND
FELLOW CIrIzENs:-The labor I have
performed during the last two or three
weeks in this campaign, speaking often
twice daily, and sometimes making both
my addresses in the open air, admonishes
me tonight, at the outset, that if I am to
be heard by this magnificent GU pouring
of the Democracy of the city CT Wheeling,
I must crave its charitable indulgence.
We are accustomed to hearing great
deal, during the progress Of this Presiden-
tial canvass, about the new issues which
have been presented, yet if we stop and
study the situation for q moment, we will
see that the principal one now confronting
US is as ~
OLD AS HUMAN GOVERNMENT,
and now ia, as ever, occupying corspicu-
Gus position in public affairs. But We are
not, my friends, to be deluded into be-
lieving that there is but one issue before
tie people in this campaign. Ths record
of twenty five years of Republican NAL
q ADMINISTRATION not to be forgotten.
Applause. In 1865 the Republican
party occupied position of control over
q lnation which stood foremost among
those Of the earth. A vast continent
stretched out before it, boundless reeources
were at it's command, Thousands Of strong |
arms were ready to take hold and move
forward the great machinery of mighty |
party, and yet what was the result? |
In the brief period of less than
quarter of century that great political
party wa, hurled from power by the votes
Of en- int lligent and free p opls. and they |
have gone to stay. [App!ause 1t puts |
me in mind of the story Of the New Jersey |
man who went ont to New Mexico 10
grow mp with ths country. A short time
sfuer his arrival, his old mother received a |
telegram from one of her sons miner
fr;eI ds, tsying her boy was d ad. She
photographed back: Send on the remains"
The answer was: 'There amt any re-
mains. jimmy was kicked by mule"
[Applause So it is of the Republican
party. There 'ain't any remains" worth
mentioning. [Applause
WHAT WAS THE RECORD,
nv friends, of the administration of the
great affairs Of the country by the Repub-
lican party? Mr.. Lincoln, whom all men
now recognizs as o great and god man,
had inaugurated policy Of reconstruction
which would have translated rs from q
condition of war to oss of profound peace.
Bat he was no sooner gone than his wise
and humane policy was cast to the winds
The whole South was disfianchised, and
the peop'e put under such ban that here
in West Virginia girl of fourteen couldn't
teach school Until che had raised her arm
to heaven and sworn that she bad
never borne arms againtt the gov:rn-
ment. The South was lying prostrate
under the horrors Of war. If she had been
wrong, she had certainly answered for II.
Her institutions and industries were
swept away; and in her extremity, her
citizens of csp, city to conduct the affairs
of cil government we're pioscritei and
sat upon, and horde of carpst baggers was
turned loose upon her, who in few short
years added $50. 000, 600 to the alresdy
crushing burdens OF o stricken country.
Here in orr own State q lawyer coaldn't
practice law. Why, I had to wait six
months myself, altar I thought I was com.
pstsrt to take pirt In tan bark case or
def.nd man 70; assault and battery, be-
fore could 20 into court of justice and
say as much o, IF your honor please
Men could nGt 60 into q Jury box, act as
witr esses or exercise any Of the other
rights common to freemen, and all that
and much more uader the rule Of . polite
cal party which is nov asking 10 be again
restored TO power.
How did this Republican party conduct
itselfs Let me give you an example,
WHICH viii do for many things, They
make gave declarations ab,uJ the Nor
mons, and In that connection refer to the ;
Democratic platform, which some Repub- i,
licau editors do me III, hon,r to say had !
to do With. Whether tina. is
trHs or NOT, I endogseit But let rs look | ,
1t this Mormon matter little. When the ,
Democrats first said the Mormons had to
20, they were in New York, and they went.
NeSt they locate 10 Ohio, and again tho
Democrats ssi1 thsy hsd TO 60, and ores
more they moved. They went to Illira ;s,
md the Democracy said ''go,n and they
vent In Missouri the Democracy again said G
go, and once mira they travelled. taking I
ight 10 the grsst West AID hiding in the G
leptts Of tie great wilderness, where tAey ]
ocsted, pitiable handful of misguided !
Anadea The Republican party came into b
'oues, and declared that Mormonism
ould no longer exist, but therc they have
bided ever since, and the handful Of Nor
,ons WHO fed beyond the Mississippi be- 81
ne Democratic legislation have grown to nj
Q 250, GOO g determined fanatics Is this u
ountry or any other ever saw. 10
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