Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-11
THE SPEECH.
An Outline Of tho Grsndest Speech Of the
Present Campaign.
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An Outline of tho Grandest Speech Of the
Present Campaign.
Col. Fellows began by saying:
when, four years ago, this country
was about to engage in q campaign akin
to that now occupying our attention, the
air was char ged with grim predictions of
evil and forebodiugs Of woe, emsnaiiug
from the opposition, of dire calamities to
c ame to psss in the event of Democratic
success. To and fro throughout the land
these Jertmiads Of evil went, protesting
thst if tie people entrusted the
Democracy with power, business would
be depressed, the workingman would
be deprived of his occupation, and there
would be general and widespread distress
National disaster, in q word, was to be
consequent up>n our success. The 0usi-
ness world was to be returrei to the con
ditions existing prior to 1860; the slave of
1860 and before was to have his fetteIs
again riveted upon his limbs; the Rebe |
war debt was to Re paid; the Rebel soldiers
were to be pension i, and the loyal people
of tie North were to b, taxed for the ben
eft of those who had Re, in arms sg .int I
ne. Why, said cur Republican friends, the
great strength of the Democratic party is
in the South, and if it comes into power,
it must do Is the South dictates.
"Wsll, the people refused to believe all
this, and tbs Democratic pMtJ came into
power cheers and what was the result
Did any Of these grim predictions come
true? Not one. And now, after three
and half years Of Democratic supremacy,
we come again to ask that you o1ce more
entrust rs with the affairs Of the Nation.
Again the Republicans are predicting dis
sster, but the people, having tried the ad'
ministration of Grover Cleveland cheers
and not found it wanting in any particu'
lar, will be slow row to listen to the
prophecies Of evil we hear going up all
about as.
These Republican predictions Of ruin
to result from Democratic rule, which
presume you have heard here in Wheeling
as well ss elsewhere in the country, wha;
proportion Of them have come true? Cries
of 'uone.'l All over our country bu iusss
has been exceptionally good; in fact, it ha'
been more than thirty years sircs the gen
ersl busiuess Of the Nation was 30 satsfac
tory rs it is this night. Wages have moi
bean lowered; strikes have not been more
frequent, and the people have hal every
reason to be satisfied, and 10 have faith il
the sdmiuist; at Oh at Wasbiostn.
'swhen this administration came into
power four years ago, il was found thst
MANY millions acres CT the public landt
had, under Republican methods, been giver
outright to great corporations, in the West
Since Grover Cleveland his sat in the
White Hors,, more than 80, ,000, 900 acre:
of this land have been reclsius6, and agair
made a part cf the comm o herissgs ofoul
people, awaiting the presence OF any set
tiers who may desire to locate upon il
Think OF tAis. Il is q domain Of eurerial
extent. A territory squa, to all of New
Eogland, New York, Pe1nsylysnis and
wsst yirgiaia combined-snd bills for th'
re. ,mation of 100, 000, 900 acres more hsv
passed the House of Representatives, an:
are now tied up in the Republican Senate
GCteea
"Under the wise and humane admins
tration Of Grover Cleveland lcteer 3 jos
and D ,sceiul Indian policy ha, prevailed
This win scarcely interest you, here alop,
the Ohio valley, far removed from tn