The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-10-15
THE DEBATE.
Continued from Firt Pagc.I

love the principles Of that party. |
have been their devotee since my youth.
Cheers So lam here to-day to meet
my distinguished opponent aud to give
Il reason for the faith that is in me.
Though ] feel my own inCapacity | rely
on the strength OF my cause, the grand
cause OF Protection, which will receive
the support OF Americans and continue
to do good long after he and are both
forgotten. LGreat cheering
At this point, MS General Golf resumed,
there were cries OF "llarrah for Wilson"
and other unscemly Interruptions. Mr..
Wilson rose and asked that no friend OF
his interrupt or treat his opponent with
discoUrtesy. This provoked applause.
CLAIMS FOR CLEVELAND.
From the Ohio Valley and the Great
Kanawha to the fertile fields OF Green
brier aud the Eastern Panhandle, have
been met with great respect by the Dem.
ocrats they will not annoy me. They
come TO hear Coli everywhere, and many
Of them will vote for Coli [cheersl; not
because lie is GoA'-Ra! But because
he stands for great and vital principle,
the principle OF Protection. Applause
Ny opponent opens and with one OF
his hops, skips and jumps across the
stage, says 1t very little about Cleveland
and his administration. Did you notice
what little he had to say about this adj
ministration? lLauGhter.l He tells
you Cleveland made the cattle barons'
move on. II Cleveland turning to Will
som did what you say, why did the cat.
tie barons' come back so soon? For
they are there yet just the same. Much
laughter. Cleveland issued fine sound
ing proclamation and then pigeOn-holed
it and the cattle barons knew ii through
seeing it in the newspapers, il they
knew it at all. Applause.
He boasts OF what his party did in
passing the Interstate Commerce law.
! and my party battled Tor that law as
faithfully us your and yours, and more
men who stand high in yourcouusels to-
day voted against it. Cheers.
Silver! What about the settlement Of
the silver question? Did Cleveland
settle it MS his party promised he would?
was a silver man; believed in silver,
and the people believed in it. But
Cleveland, after he was elected, and
before he took the oath OF Office,
wrote letter saying this coming OF sill.
yer dollars had to be stopped. Before
the election all the Democratic orators
were talking about the hard times from
the demonetixing OF silver. Cleveland
said the people were not wise. When
Judge BrannOn was running against me
Tor Congress in the First District, l
asked him how lie would have voted in
the silver question ii he had been in
Congress Would he have voted with
Cleveland or with me? And he an
swered promptly, he would have voted
with Coil. [Cheers.
He tells you that since the war the
tendency OF legislation has been TO take
the taxes of the rich and put them on
the poor. So did the junior L. S. Sena-
tor tell them that down at Huntington
when he had the Democratic COnven-
ton to talk to. Laughter, i'll which
Senator Faulkner joincd.1 Well, ! tell
them they are way OF. Who toughtto
take Off the income tax and other taxes ?
The Democrats; and my democratic
colleague, you know it! tChecring.1
When the bill finally came up the Re-
publicans voted iOr ii, because We could
do without the taxes then. Four years
before, we could not, yet the Democrats
insisted that it should be done. Mr..
Bayard voted to repeal the income tax,
aud when Mr.. Cleveland came to make
up his Cabinet, he said: 'Therc
is Mr.. Bayard; he voted TO
TO away with the income tax; will
make him Secretary OF State. Laugh.
ter and cheersl Judge Thurman isun-
other, cheering from Democrats he
voted for the repeal OF the income tax,
Which my colleague says was voting 10
take the taxes oil. the rich and put them
on the poor. ["Wc'il cheer for him any.
hOw"t
Mr.. Wilson would have you believe
this bad, iniQuitOus Republican party is
always looking around for soma way TO
hurt the people.
THE Peoples FIGHT.
] am IL candidate for Governor, my
friends, and want to he elected. want
to be elected because believe my prin-
ciples are right. This is your fght-the
peoples fight. 1t is your principles in
scribed on my banner. ! would not
misrepreSent my opponent here to-day.
He is for 4 revenue tariff; | am for a
protective tariff and high protective
tariff. believe that the protective
tariff made the country what il is to-day.
Ii we repeal it, We will go back to that
depressed, dark, unhappy period de-
scribed here by my opponent rs almost
the golden era OF this country. That,
my friends, WAS the saddcst page in all
our history, and / will prove it. Ny
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 message TO ii last win
ter. Laughter.
am for my country all the time
great applausel; 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
q chance. And | would not change for
all your votes. Every vote | ever cast
in Congress | cast for my country Zap
plauseL my flag Increased appIausel
and my ncighborI[Wild cheering.l My
brother here wants to go out on the sea
and hunt up the people there to sell you
goods and do your labor for you. | pre-
Ter to go into Ohio and into Pennsylvania
and into Virginia and into Maryland and
give my neighhors there employment,
and buy the materials their willing hands
produce.
What is the tariff, my friends? The
tariff is duty levied by law on goods or
articles produced in foreign country
when imported to this. That's all the
tariff is.
Now, why should a man who works
in Europe Lave the markets of this M
ton in preference to those who live I'M
der its flag and pay the taxes by which
our country is projected? Do those for
eigners pay taxes here in Berkeley
county? No, my friends; you bear that
expense yourselves. They are under
another flag, aud in case OF war with
that country they would fight not for
you, but against you,