Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-29
ness and Wilson from physical exhaustion
from oyerwork on the stump in and ont Of

ness and Wilson from physical exhaustion
from oyerwork on the stump in and ont of
the State.
Gen. Golf led of. Hswss g'estsd with
cheers and the wild demon trstions of his
claquers, which he stilled by q motion.
Goff has peculiar style of speaking, and
the Gofitss stood upon their seats and
yelled and cheered whenever be emphasjz I'd
a ''pointn by vigorously stamping his foot
or by his well known and peculiar style Of
leading applause by emphaiica!ly clappiDg
his hands. :.
BE made cns of the most vigorous and
by all odds the
MOST DEMAG0GIC
speech he ever made in his life. He shout
ed all around the real issue, and devoted
much time to an attempt to prove the
tariff not o tax, by referring to some arti-
cles on which there is q tariff, but in which
there is no trust or but a weak one, thereby
proving the strength Of the Democratic
claim that as long as there is no trust or
monopoly there is little or no protection
needed. He referred, for instance, to nails.
We have rep ,atsdly used the same argu-
ment to prove that high tariff ia not
needed where there is free competition and
10 trust, and there is no tru,t in nails 10
such cases the retention of tbs tariff Is
simply an invitation for trusts to form.
He howlsd and rautei up and down the
stage for an hour and twenty minutes,
and sat down amid deafsning yells, cheers
and spplsuse.
When VIM. L. Wilson aro,e the Demo
Gratis among the audience, few OF whom
were enabled to get near the stage, OWING
to the fact that they lad no. taken the
precsution TO be there when the doors were
opsred, went wild. There were not many
of them, bnt they woke the echoss as
their brilliant young champion stepped to
the front of the stage with the notes he had
taken of Gen. Goff's remarks in his hand.
With Mr.. Wilson's speech began
ONE OF THE MOST DIsGRACEFUL SCENES
ever witness in Wheeling. The brilliant
Young Congressman started in at once to
fisy Goff alive, but at the fret point he
made Gen. Goff looked up with a derisive
smile and mol and Immediately swelling
groans and hoots, drowning Mr.. wilson's
voice, arose from a thousand throats, the
owners of which wore Golf 8 pictures on
their hats, and were packed about the
stsgs.
From this time on half of Mr.. Wilson's
brilliant speech was not audible to the
msjority of the audience, and frequently
he coald not be heard three feet away.
But they had mistaken their man. Will
liam L. Wilson is not the sort of man that
can be howled down, and the
b shavior of Gifts claquers served
but tot'spur him on to flights OF
heart stirring eloque1cs that the Republi-
can manipulstors had not counted on. de
was continually interrupted by boots and
cries and catch questions. 1t was ia an
sver to one of the la:tsr that Mr.. Wilson
out upoa piece Of oratory the
like of which we can confidently assert
has never been heard in Wheeling. It oc-
CURED in this way: Mr.. Wilson was incl
dentally demonstrating that the difference
b bstW e,n the rate of wages here and sb road
was not 20 great as it appeared on its lace.
BURNING ORAT0RY.
One of the Golf claquers WHO were con-
tinually yelling at him, shouted why
do they come over here?" It was in an
swer to this question that Mr.. Wilson took
the breath from his auditors of both par
ties and almost shrivelled up Goff as
he sat son the stage. Mr.. Wilson
,could be heard and the granduer
of his matchless elcquencs in this
particular instance was such that the Gotf
howlers were paralyzed; they sat dazed.
Every eye was fixed upon the fiery speaker
and every ear drank in his burning words.
Now the vast audience was actually silent
as death as Wilson answered the question,
"Why they came over here" 1t was
mstchless piece Of eioquence and made the
heart of every true American in the vast
audience bsat several times faster to the
minute. When Mr.. Wilson paused from
sheer exhaustion the vast audience, it
seemed, almost az one man, Democrats
and Republicans alike, rose TO their feet,
or stood on their seats, cheering with wild,
uncomfortable enthusiasm the grand and
patriotic sentiments expressed by the bril-
| ant orator in answer to the question
"Why they came over here"
The Republican managers who had not
countsd on this and WHO evidently did not
know Mr.. Wilson, were eagbsst. This sort
of thing would rot do. They set afoot
the cry of "Goff, G2ff." The claquers took
il up. Goff arose and advanced to the front
and although Mr.. Wilson had yet twenty
minutes in which to speak he was
HowLKD DOWN,
Goff never interfering but on the contrary
abettingths outrage.
Gen. Golf was entitled to q twenty
minutes reioinder. He took full half
hour and devoted it to eathusing his
audience in his usual style, but he did not
answer one of Mr.. Wilson's arguments, as
our readers can see from the verbatim
report Of the speeches given below. When
Mr., Wilson rose to rejoin the same out
rsgeous scenes inadequately described
above, were again enacted. But the plucky
little Congressman said his say in answer
to Goff, aud, though large part Of the
audience could not hear him half the time
for the noise, the stenographers "took
down" his words Uerbatim. as we'll as GeD.
Giff's, and the REGISTER this morning
prints the words of each speaker uerbatim.
Gen. Gcff wound up his side in ten
minutes speech and Mr.. Wilson closed
the disgracsful proceedings in about the
same length Of time
The comments upon the action of Gof
and his claquers was most severely COM
mented upon all over the city by fair.
minded men of all parties, and Mr.. Goff
has lost many q vote by it. Hon. George w.
Atkinson, who was on the stage, declared
priystely that the treatment Wilson re-
ceived was an outrage.
It was certainly
IN MARKED CONTRAST
to the the treatment COT received in the