Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-02-17

were alert and in vigorous life, and theIl
clubs would be found in every county ant
in every school district, and it would b
hard work to meet them and overcomt
their influence.
He then turned to
THE TARIFF ISSUE.
He was in favor of q high protective tarlff,
aud announced, amid loud applause, that
be would stick to that idea, even If thu
whole world was against him. He would
not change his views in this regard for the
votes of the entire State of West Virginia
or of the whole nation. The first Presi'
dent of the country, George Washington,
was right when he signed the first tariff
law, and the last President-eud he hoped
he would be the last Democratic President
was wrong when he argued sgainst it in
his late message. He contrasted Hamilton
and Fairchild, Clay and Carlisle, Garfield
and Yancey, Grant and Breckenridge, and
on down the list, and said he preferred to
cast his lot with those first named rather
than advocate the ideas advanced by the
last. The policy which had been advocated
by the Republican party and By Rep9bf'
can statesmen had built up the industries
of the nation, despite the efforts of Demo,
Gratis to counteract the influence so exerted,
and to keep down the manufacturing in,
terests of the country. He said the sue
cess of the Republican party wa the
only salvation OF the country. Ii Grover
Cleveland again succeeded, there would be
A LEssENED DEMAND
for farm produc s, and fire brick, and pig
iron, and lumber, and all the products Of
the loom, the workshop and and the mine.
Republican success meant stimulated man,
uflcturing and general prosperity, and
Democratic success always had, and al
ways would mean Just the reverse.
lie spoke again of the activity of the
Democrats, and said thsy were always al
the heels of the Republicans in all they
did. He had read in q metropolitan paper
this morning, that the Democratic party
was the pal ticular friend OF the public
schools. He did not blame them for this.
He did not blame them for using every en-.
dsayor to bolster up their failing cause.
But he would like to make an issue in this
State upon that little matter. He said il
was true that thu Democrats had been
rather liberal in their support Of the free
schools, but il was 50 simply because they
could not help it. They had fouad the
school laws upon the statute books when
they came into power, and they could not
do otherwise than enforce those statutes,
enacted by Republicans, and whih the
newcomers dare rot repeal. The Repab'
licans had organized the free eGhool laws,
and the Democrats were claiming credit for
carrying them out, and posing ss the
friends of the schools.
He cited
THE SCHOOL LAWS
of aati-JeHum times, and said they were
examples OF what the Democratic purity
did when it had untfammeled power. He
called up the paupsr bench of the old VIr-
ginia paid school, and said the only chance
the children of the poor a had, was to
be enrolled as paupers and given a card OF
admission enabling the pauper child to set
among those in better circumstances, lot
the equal of the others, but with the fingers
OF scorn pointed at them. He hoped God
would save even the child OF hS Demo.
cratic friend from such ignominy as that.
That was the school system of Demo-
cracy, and Republicans coald afford to
have their later method brought in on
trast with it. He was glad tn hear the
Democratic papers were approaching the
system; he believed they
really thought it vas a good thing, an idea
they often formed Of Republican institu-
tions. In this same connection he said
he Was happy to inform his hearers that
the Senate of the United States had
PASSED THE BLAIR BILL,
Great applause. He rs also happy to
add that the Senate of the Uoited States
was Republican. Applause. But the bill
had gone now to the other end Of the Cap
ital, and it would probably have a pretty
hard row 10 Zoe there. The House was
Democratic; that was the reason. But he
was glad to say the Democratic mai ority
the House was gradually coming down,
Of late years, and if the Blair bill did not
pass this time, it would next. In the
House of the Forty-ninth Congress the
had forty,Eine majority; nov
the party had but twelve. Bot the
Blair bill was IN greater jeopardy with
the twelve than it was with tie
against it, because of the
great endeavor at present to re-
iuce the tariff. The Democracy was
searching high and low to find means to
10 away with the surplus, and in doing
this. the Blair bill would have to suffer.
The surplus was a great bother 10 the
Democracy. And every time the Demo-
cracy referred to that selCsame sur
plus, they were unconsciuusly and unin-
te~ntionally pronouncing sn eulogy upon
the Republican party. A surplus was q
stranger to the Democracy. They seldom
bad such a thing to bother them, except
when it was turned over to them as the re.
suits of Republican care and Republican
He was glad there was a sur
plus. There was abundant need for il,
md he wished it was larger than it really
vas. 1t was not, in reality, as large rs it
generally stated; it vas net even so
arge as the Secretary of the Treasury in
it was. One Of the things he would
10 with it would be to build no tho
Then he would pension the sol.
liers, and build up n navy.
THE 'REGIsrER's" EDITORIAL
seemed TO worry the speaker a great deal
He referred to it several times, and said
he claim in it that the speakers, before
he Convention, had raised q false banner
untrue. He wanted TO know if the
writer had read the Presidents message,
md if he bad, to successfully deny the
made upon the floor of
he theatre. He argued that man.
fractured products were Today better aud
than they ever were, solely as the
'esult off protective tariff, and challenged
lis Democratic neighbor'' to place his
niger upon one instance when this was
lot true. He said the tariff could not be
uccessfully reduced without taking from
he returns Of labor, and he would never
a vote to bring about that result. And
he opined his hearers were not anxious to
10 so, either.
He carried his audience through the
state, pointing out the new railroads, and
mines, and manufactures, and claimed
hat every improvement wa the direct re-
ult of a protective policy. Who, he asked,
ould believe that these things would have
'een possible with free trade or g tariff for
eyenue only? No one. Men did not
'uild railroads for fun. They only built