Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-23
A GREAT MEETING
HELD BY WEBSTER DISTRICT DEMOCRATS,
LAST EVENING.
Addresses By Hon. =. P. Ians and Dennis Oksens-
The Thurman DsmSusFahon-hS-
esllaneous Political Notes.

"
cratic mass meeting at the Fifth ward
marktt house last evening. but on account
Of the very bad weather this was of courte
impossible, and what would have I'M
douRsedly been . large and enthusiastic
turnout WIS fpIi!el rs far as the open
air meeting was concerned The Island
club was sll ready to turn out and the
Fifth ward bandsDa club were all decked
out 10 their attractive uniforms, as was
the Webster clab, but the rain prevented
thsir turning out.
However, 0 large number of Democrat
ass mbled ut the Webster District Club
Room on Twenty-fourth street to listen te
Hon. F. P. Iams, of Pittsburg, discuss the
Issues. 1t was also intended to have had
John Howard, Esq., address the meeting,
but he was unavoidsly detained from be-
ing present.
Several hundred enthusiastic Democrats
were PRESENT, aud when the speaker Of
the evening made his apr esrance he was
loudly cheered. At o'clock P. j. Gavin,
President Of tie club, csl'ei the meeting
TO order and named John v. Meighen as
Chairman. Mr.. Iams was then introo ed
md ne talked to the audience fer
three quarters Of an hour in HE
usual plain and forcib'e manner, b:ing
chesred at frequent intervals.
Mr.. Isms said Re felt highly h1nored it
being called upon to coms into West Viz
ginia D do what he could for the Dtmo
cratic party and ta:iff reform. i am tld,
he said, this meeting is made up OF men
who labor. men who produce, men who
make the wealth of this country, but who
do not get their fair share of the general
distribution. We are assembled AZ Demo-
Gratis, and have no apology to make Tor
the Democratic party, as Its history Is tt c
history OF the nation ever since the great
Thomas Jefferson sigrei the Declaration Of
Independence. He then paid glowing
tribute to our candidates., Grover Cieye-
land and Allen G. Thurman, the mention
Of their ranes being received with cheers.
Gen. Harrison in his letter Of acceptance
said the contest was not between sched-
ules but between wide apart pIlcclPiee
This statement was taken up and dilated
upon by Republican papers and orators,
no insisted that the tariff did not need
revision, and about the time they got well
under way with this theory the Reputli-
can Senate decides that the tariff does need
revision and they proposed the ALISON bill,
They only propose 1t, and did not pass IL
That bill in some ways Is all rlght, 'ano
those ways are exactly 10 the direction Of
the Mills bill, which was passed by q
Democratic HOuse. The Senate did not
know lust what TO do so they decided to
adjourn, and adjourn they did. How is
Mr.. HarIisoa going 20 eXplsin away DIS
assertion in the face of this measure?
Now this Republican party has very
suddenly found that it loves the iaborinR
man; and the n illiOnaires who largely COM
pose that party, how they dote on the
workingmen. Of course, they are workir
for the laboriug man, when coo capital,
lists have as much wealth rs S,OOO,OOI
workingmeD, aud this sill uncer hlgh
protective tariff This shows to whose
bepefit the present tariff laws inure.
Now, want to know how aud wtere
the American lstOripg man Is protected
Not against the labor OF Europe. Foreign
labor can come in and csmpste with you
free, bat koE is it when you come to buy:
You pay a tax upon everything you buy.
The working value OF every immigrant
coming 10 this country is about is, 600 and
that much is placed into competition with
high tariff idea, IL per cent. tariff she uid DC
placed upOu this value fo7 every foreigner
who comes to America to work.
The whole fact is the man who benefits BY
this unjust taxation is the man who hives IN
the NJ ausicn, while tbs man who lives IN the
cottage aud in the poorer abode is the man
who paws the tributs. These pilliouaires,
If they elect Harrison, will do it with
money. / see where John Wanna
maker, The great Christian states
man and politician, has collected
800. 600 for the Republican can paisr
fund, aud when / was up home in Pitts
burg l learned that the millionaire manu-
fac urers up there had 50 b scribsd S4OO, COG
to the ssms fund. There is Andrew Car
negie whose income from one mill Is -. OOC
per day which he at frst denied but after.
wards admitted Pittsburg il rot good
enc ugh for him now, ard ne has built 9
mansion on Fifth avenue New York and
spsuCs his summer at his castle in Scotland,
where the past summer he entertained
that remarkable man, and the real head
of the Republican party-James 6.
Blaine
Ninety.nine men are taxed to pay the
ore hundredtb. Every stitch any man 10
this DOM has On to-I light is taxed, in many
cases the tax is far above what Vt should
be. The commoner class OF goods that the
pOor man is compelled to wear is taxed I'M
necessarily, VIII lie the better goods are
taxed much less. Why if a tax collector
should follow you around from store to
store and sxtort this tax from You on sll
tie articles you buy, the American people
would rise MP and kick him from bill top
TO hill top. They attempt TO tel as the
tar fl hiss made the country rich, never
taking into consideration that nature. who
hiss q ven Us the natural advantages To be-
come rich, hiss had hand IN the country e
prosperity.
Mr.. Iams gave figures to beck up bis
statements. and his arguments were con-
vinCing He closed by prevailing upon
the Democrats 70 turn out and forever pat
West Virginia out of the Goub fol Slater,
for, said be, n West Virginia gees this
year 50 goes the Union.
After Il e applause had subsidized, Chair
man M.ighen introduced Dennis O'Ket III,
E g., who made short but stirring sI esch,
during which he was fr queutly app suded,
At the close of his remarks, on motion CT
Frank Luiz, unanimous vote of thanks
was rendered both gentlemen, and the
meeting closed.